doug_durham

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by doug_durham 20d ago
Really? Did you read the article? I did. It read as quirky human to me.
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by doug_durham 20d ago
I'm still paying OpenAI $20/month for a product that has gotten massively more valuable. That's the problem. They aren't getting any more money from me for a product which is much more valuable.
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by doug_durham 21d ago
I was a hiring manager. H1B candidates got exactly the same wage as native born. There were no differences.
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by doug_durham 21d ago
It's clear you are not a hiring manager. There aren't thousands of highly qualified engineers looking for work. I can't tell if this a troll post or not.
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by doug_durham 24d ago
I want them, which violates the Universal qualifier on your statement. Discrete math for the win.
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by doug_durham 24d ago
That’s not an LLM issue, it is a human curation issue. The LLM only does what the human behind the wheel tells it to do.
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by doug_durham 24d ago
The article starts by talking about how interactive learning with Khanmingo failed, and then goes into depth about how watching videos isn’t enough. That’s disappointing. Khanmingo should be superior to passively watching a video because y
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
You can't say that. Also that isn't happening.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
This whole "nobody wants" narrative is getting tiresome. It is provably false, and is just a rhetorical tool.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
That's not how nuclear triggers work. There a multiple layers of safe guards. I would be more sympathetic to your position if you were to solve for the multiple layers of social engineering needed to fire a nuke. That is a more plaus
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
You think that the researchers in these labs are superhumans? There is zero indication that anyone is making progress in those areas.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
It's not quibbling details. The extinction argument fails to show how that might happen. AI technology has no agency. It can't control the physical world. Humanoid robots aren't going to be on the march to exterminate human
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
Because there aren't that many clusters and the ones that exist are tightly controlled. there are only a handful of data centers able to run the largest models and they're being used at full capacity people would notice if sudden
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
This paper is either written in bad faith or by people who are ill-informed. The repeated references to Stockfish and Go playing programs seems like a rhetorical tool rather than a genuine argument. The paper claims that advanced AI will
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
I don't see it being "crystal clear" that skill decline is real. People are doing work they wouldn't have been able to do before. They are getting a more broad exposure to technologies than they have before.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
No one knows the ramifications. They won't be known for many years. That's the way software has always worked. No one knew the ramifications of the internet.
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by doug_durham 1mo ago
I could not agree more. Thank you for stating this. Software Engineering is about building things. You don't do it for status, you do it for passion. There are a lot of unhappy individuals who got into CS because of the money or st
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
Most popular fiction is formula entertainment like Tom Clancy novels. Tom Clancy novels are their own industry now. I have zero doubt that AI tools can generate countless variations of good guy US special OPs going after bad guy terrorist
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
What is the purpose of copyleft when there are tools that can generate equivalent code? Copyleft keeps software free by using copyright to protect the effort of human creators. If tools can create the code is it is in the public domain t
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
Code was always expensive. Entire industries of design tools cropped up simply to avoid writing the wrong code since it is so expensive. There are entire journals dedicated to this. Organizations are fixated on making sure that the right
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
How can there be tons of evidence for a 3 year old technology? Everyone seems to think that all writers using AI are one shotting their content. A writer can carefully edit and revise their content using AI tools just as well as manual wr
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
The heuristics you are looking for are "editorial" and "curation". That's why there are things like newspapers and magazines. The world has always been awash in more low effort content than can be consumed. We re
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
That's not what the author is saying at all. You are presuming that AI is capable of generating original thoughts. The author's point is that original thought is what matters. If a skilled writer with decades of experience can
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
It doesn't have perfect traction. It stumbles in the videos. This is consistent with other wheeled robots that have come out the last few years.
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
An alternate framing for these types of "the old web was better" articles is: "I really liked the web better when only privileged, highly educated people could put up content". The reality is that there was a lot of imp
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
I so don't have time to revisit books that I've already read. I'd probably be embarrassed by my earlier naiveté.
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
The whole resource argument against AI is quickly becoming obsolete. Time to move on to a new argument.
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
Can you provide reasons other than "he's wrong"? There is no other technology that compresses so my knowledge into such a small space. A 24 GB diffusion model can generate a good approximation of any human relevant image fr
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
Most of the discussions I've read about AI is as a tool. There is a narrative being created that its all about replacing humans. I've not seen that outside of a view influencers.
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by doug_durham 2mo ago
I don't think you can make the absolute statement that there is no audience or market for these tools. I enjoyed watching all of these videos. They are far from banal crap. They are deranged. They are not intentionally deranged, it

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