captainclam

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by captainclam 1mo ago
I imagine a good model of the brain would contribute enormously to alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders.
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by captainclam 2mo ago
What's the tell? It doesn't seem AI generated to me but I may not be a great judge.
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by captainclam 3mo ago
I don't think the quality of discussion about social media suffers from lack of specification. Whether or not you consider HN to be social media, or wherever your decision boundary is, doesn't change that most of the conversation
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by captainclam 3mo ago
I use the firefox extension "Unhook" to completely hide suggested content on Youtube. Really effective, I kindof can't believe how much time I spent getting suckered into watching video essays that absolutely did not deliver.
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by captainclam 6mo ago
Just to be clear, your comment had a general statement about how you perceived the motivations of "people buying vinyl". That's what I was responding to. (People using VHS filters on social media is by definition social signa
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by captainclam 6mo ago
There are plenty of people who sincerely enjoy the aspects that make older tech less convenient or practical. Maybe it's an appreciation for the engineering or "comprehensibility," often it's because older tech produces
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by captainclam 8mo ago
Not asking adversarially at all here: what do you mean by resisting with "real numbers" without media campaigns, social media, or protesting? What do the vested parties actually do to secure their second amendment rights? Do you j
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by captainclam 9mo ago
Author really should have figured out a better word than "vanity."
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by captainclam 10mo ago
It looks to me like OpenAI's image pipeline takes an image as input, derives the semantic details, and then essentially regenerates an entirely new image based on the "description" obtained from the input image. Even Sam Altm
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by captainclam 11mo ago
You must not end up reading much scientific literature then.
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by captainclam 11mo ago
lol
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by captainclam 11mo ago
The two dogs I know that share this behavior are border collies.
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by captainclam 1y ago
The seahorse emoji is one of the canonical "Mandela effects". These are things that a large group of people collectively (mis)remember, but turn out to have never existed. Classic examples include the cornucopia in the Fruit of th
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by captainclam 1y ago
I've always been surprised by the official homeless population count, but it turns out there's a lot more to it. The department of HUD generates this ~771K figure from a "point-in-time" estimate, a single count from a si
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by captainclam 1y ago
Wow, there really is an xkcd for everything.
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by captainclam 1y ago
My read is that the author is saying it would have been really nice if there had been a really good protocol for storing data in a rich semantically structured way and everyone had been really really good at adhering to that standard. Is th
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by captainclam 1y ago
It's very easy to imagine a world where all these things are solved, but it is a worse world to live in overall. I don't think it is "bad" to be sincerely worried that the current trajectory of AI progress represents thi
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by captainclam 1y ago
To be clear, I'm pretty sure the half-trillion figure is the projected combined investment between SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. Not public, US tax-payer dollars. If that's not what you meant my apologies. Reason I'm qui
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by captainclam 1y ago
Sounds like there's not enough tax revenue!
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by captainclam 2y ago
This is one of the many many experiences in the tapestry of people figuring out how to use this new tool. There will be many such cases of engineers losing their edge. There will be many cases of engineers skillfully wielding LLMs and growi
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by captainclam 2y ago
Exactly. If the whole "deep research" thing pans out, and we have models that can reliably produce proper literature reviews in 10 minutes...that alone will be an enormous boon to research. Then add all the practical/mundane
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by captainclam 2y ago
Crucially, this doesn't just require noise but it requires "taste." I tend to fall back on music creation as an example of this notion. Lots of innovation in music is experimentation/exploration of "noise," (no
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by captainclam 2y ago
Especially with the proliferation of generative AI, I anticipate something of a tech backlash in the next decade, and performatively NOT looking at one's phone will be part of it. I'm sure that this already exists to some extant i
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by captainclam 2y ago
Definitely interesting, but I'm not so sure that such a study can yet make strong claims about AI-based work in general. These are scientists that have cultivated a particular workflow/work habits over years, even decades. To a si
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by captainclam 2y ago
What is dogfooding?
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by captainclam 2y ago
"Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency" from Wired https://archive.is/jyFCy This isn't unequivocal proof, but the broad goal automation lends itself pretty strongly to L
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by captainclam 2y ago
semantics shmemantics.
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by captainclam 2y ago
> This was one of the rather many areas where Star Trek failed to really consider the implications of its concepts, probably because it would simply break the world building. This is true of pretty much all scifi! It's funny seeing
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by captainclam 2y ago
Haha, I've had the same thoughts, that of course computers/AI/droids of that conversational capacity were conscious. You'd be a brute not to think that! And all of a sudden, LLMs absolutely have the command of natural la
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by captainclam 2y ago
Oh never mind then.

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