ddj231

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by ddj231 9d ago
No it shouldn’t. Low risk behaviors should equal low risk outcomes. If it’s safer on average yet causes low risk behaviors to suddenly become unpredictably dangerous, folks will very reasonably push back
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by ddj231 13d ago
the word “decades” is doing a lot of work here. Knowing that Claude is trained on human text is really the load bearing point. I can’t unsee this argument. Jokes aside, of course it’s trained on human text. The issue is that it has a specif
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by ddj231 13d ago
The second sentence is an ai generation tell. Idk why ai always tries these sort of “wow you” sentences. The tone is pretty off putting once you’ve experienced it enough times.
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by ddj231 14d ago
a bit off topic but the construction of the phrase: some word + "doing a lot of work" sounds so much like a claudism
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by ddj231 16d ago
seems like aesthetically it matches its surroundings. it doesn't seem like an outlier in the neighborhood which kind of defeats the premise of the article.
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by ddj231 19d ago
the issue with some of these quirks is that not that they are not part of the English language but rather the llms usage is unnatural. Also when you have that redundancy proliferated to millions of users it gets tiresome fast, and becomes a
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by ddj231 25d ago
> what's fundamentally different between software running on a machine compared to what's happening in our brains? In both cases you have energy flow following a pattern. Assuming we’ve scratched the surface of the complexity o
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by ddj231 25d ago
3 positives from a degree are: 1. the complete demystification of computing. If you’re writing c or assembly and working on OS concepts there’s a sort of aha moment that the computer is not a mystery. 2. The degree pushes you past the hump
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by ddj231 25d ago
My view is that these sorts of things are not possible for AI in general. Though we can create things and name them “will” and “desire”. Software deals with metaphors. Your Amazon shopping cart is a metaphor of a real shopping cart. You you
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by ddj231 26d ago
I see this line of reasoning quite a bit and it’s a strange one to me. The arguer reduces the sheer complexity of human intelligence and language by saying “we are just running statistical models in our brains” and by doing so makes the lea
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by ddj231 26d ago
Not meaningless because part of the discussion is the issue of anthropomorphizing this tech. When we use language like “intelligent” it carries hints of personhood. People begin sadly treating these things as persons. We can reap the benefi
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by ddj231 26d ago
By that logic you’d have to call other algorithms intelligent. With more basic algorithms we know that it’s clearly the human programmer and the interpreter of the outputs that are intelligent and not the algorithm itself. For some reason w
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by ddj231 29d ago
seems OP is not talking about compensation of the deal itself but rather compensation for the actual flight rather than a $100 voucher. Assuming his flight to Brazil was much more than that
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by ddj231 1mo ago
what’s the moat for lovable? you can already directly prompt these models to build you a full fledged app. Sure it saves you some db setup and deployment but is that enough of a product?
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by ddj231 1mo ago
also who knows if prolonged ai development for years actually doesn't atrophy your coding muscles so to speak such that you are fully reliant on ai programming to get things done
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by ddj231 1mo ago
Maybe what these llms open up is the ability to create personal tools to get xyz job done, rather than creating companies with polished products. Perhaps for the latter you'd still need some combination of team, timing, etc. But the qu
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by ddj231 2y ago
Isn’t it different with student loan forgiveness, because the money isn’t coming out of thin air but rather taxation?
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by ddj231 2y ago
To add to this, LLMs write pretty trite poetry, for example. If we think of code from the creative side, it’s hard to imagine that we’d want to simply hand all coding over to these systems. Even if we got working solutions (which is a major
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by ddj231 2y ago
I wonder if this has any connection to the appeal of rap music, and rap as a medium for spreading a message.
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by ddj231 2y ago
The issue is that even in your framing “…’nothing’ at any point in time…” is at odds with the Big Bang theory which says time had a beginning. How do you conceive what was there ‘before’ the universe came to existence? (In the absence of ma
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by ddj231 2y ago
The question is the launch off point for exploration. Just because a question is philosophical in nature does not mean it cannot be answered or that there’s no point in asking.
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by ddj231 3y ago
And replace it with what? The scary part of suggestions of “tear it all down” is how do we know that the replacement will be any better? In the grand scheme of things the West is in a state of abundance and luxury. Much more so than the com
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by ddj231 3y ago
The end user expects some connection between “buying a Lego” and buying digital content. We use metaphors such as “a cart” or “add to your library” that make a user think this is just like buying from a store bringing something home — it is
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by ddj231 3y ago
But in the dvd case you don’t expect someone to effectively repossess your dvd a couple years down the road without reimbursing you. You don’t own the content but you do own your dvd which allows you to indefinitely watch the content.
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by ddj231 3y ago
I know we are a bit off topic. It seems it would be more like if several prominent followers of Jesus committed mass genocide in their respective countries within a century of his teachings. Stalin is considered Marxist-Leninist.
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by ddj231 3y ago
This article gives a clear view on Marx’s vs. Engel’s view of Utopianism vs. other utopian socialists [1]. That Marx was not opposed to utopianism per se, but rather when the ideas of the utopia did not come from the proletariat. Yet you’re
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by ddj231 3y ago
It seems like an observation to me. Let’s take the Marxist utopian ideology. It led to 40 - 60 million dead in the Soviet Union (Gulag Archipelago is an eye opening read). And 40 - 80 million dead in Mao Zedong’s China. It’s hard to even wr
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by ddj231 3y ago
It seems like an endless cycle. It was said that Trump’s win was rigged via Russian collusion. Then that Biden’s win was rigged via voter fraud. So seemingly every election will be considered “rigged”
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by ddj231 3y ago
It seems this fundamentally misunderstands human value. The value of a human is not whether they provide more resources than they consume. Imagine applying this to others, or a government systematically ridding citizens that are net negativ
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by ddj231 3y ago
Interesting list. It’s striking that there are 10 rules, in a way taking the framework of the 10 commandments. I’d say this set is weaker, in that it seems to reenforce a bit of self-centeredness and says little to nothing about loving your

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