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by drdrek 1mo ago
Does this mean that from now on bombings will happen with dumb bombs and that we can expect way more Iranian casualties? Otherwise this seems incorrect.
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by drdrek 1mo ago
This article is stating the obvious that is written in many different places (except the ETF angle) while sounding like its some kind of expert being ignored. I would presume AI is afoot. Stopped writing the comment, went and clicked the lo
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by drdrek 2mo ago
Essays became way to easy to write with AI. It used to be a basic filter that if text was long the author put a lot of thought (even if misguided) and effort (even if low quality) into it. Not its just another torrent of words. We need pro
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by drdrek 2mo ago
I'm really wondering what nightmare scenario does he imagine with super intelligent drones. I can already imagine it, a tiny drone carrying a 8x GPU rack thinking about life and deciding to go and build an idyllic society on a pacific
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by drdrek 2mo ago
But why do you assume that you need unlimited amount of intelligence to perform work? If you can cut out just the parts that are required for doing SDR work or Development, etc you can get performance beyond what we have with generalized in
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by drdrek 2mo ago
My bets for the actual story behind this are: 95% a criminal hiding evidence 4.99% an autistic attempt to "keep his privacy" for no reason at all 0.01% a genuine need to keep something away from the government In all cases just do
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by drdrek 2mo ago
I like that the trailing players strategy (Meta, xAI) is to open source the moat of the leaders. I think we will all benefit from it. and hopefully both the leaders and the trailing players will be much less powerful in the end.
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by drdrek 2mo ago
I love that Sci-Fi fan-fiction is having a moment <3
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by drdrek 2mo ago
Emigrating is hard. Expect language issue, culture issue, bureaucracy issues. Other countries are not your country but with a different language, living somewhere is not the same as visiting as a tourist. Emigrating is a generational projec
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by drdrek 2mo ago
Common wisdom is often common for a reason. Its good to try new things but expect 9/10 experiments that goes against common wisdom to come up with negative results, it's not that you are not smart, its just 1,000,000 hours of cumu
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by drdrek 3mo ago
This is like a Gardner complaining that you watch him as he works to learn his craft. My dude you do not have to take the job, but most people just accept it as the way the world works. If they feel like they do not want to serve the Chines
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by drdrek 3mo ago
its even easier with a 9999% month over month growth
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by drdrek 4mo ago
Ah yes just the kind of pretentious writing I would expect of a VC Associate. Great thought leadership there buddy.
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by drdrek 4mo ago
Kernel developer is not the job same as a game developer or an ERP integrator... But Generalizations aside I think people greatly under estimate how rare is the ability to reduce complex subjects into concrete steps that someone else can fo
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by drdrek 4mo ago
I predict that it already happened in 99 and we are all living in the Matrix Out AI optimist me if you dare
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by drdrek 4mo ago
I'm very surprised, goggle are usually known for their customer focused approach and long standing support of legacy systems!
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by drdrek 4mo ago
No, I'm actually saying that while the US is getting worse, it is in fact not fascist. You obviously disagree, and the fact that you do proves the point that it can get a lot worse. Did you know Germany has really fascist laws on regar
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by drdrek 4mo ago
It's funny how much democracies with free speech are always self critical with rampant doom saying while actual autocracies that crack down on this kind of speech are quiet and content when economic times are good only really cracking
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by drdrek 4mo ago
Its funny to me that adolescence is until 20, where I'm from its 18 or even sooner.
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by drdrek 4mo ago
Material science is so cool
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by drdrek 4mo ago
Coursera is a money losing company with a 10% y/y growth that IPOed at the top of the 2021 hype cycle. Now that the infinite money glitch is over they are in trouble, so they buy a marginally profitable company and slap Synergy and AI
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by drdrek 4mo ago
As someone that is raising money from VCs, I feel really sorry for large VC backed companies right now. What you see here is the Product-VC tension of the AI era, and in a large company its devastating. Users want a product that delivers th
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by drdrek 4mo ago
Nothing says easy to use revolutionary new way to work like requiring implementation middlemen. Salesforce would be proud.
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by drdrek 4mo ago
Its amazing I clicked stumble once and got an "06 fuck Jews and Islamists", humanity is truly a marvel.
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by drdrek 6mo ago
This is the "Factors" Bonanza in finance all over again. You get a generally useful model, then you over-fit it to some criteria and announce advancement in the field, then it performs worse in real life. New infinite academic art
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by drdrek 6mo ago
I love the ending footnote, its the perfect statement to prove his thesis. Just because you understand the problem does not mean you are immune to it. Just because you know smoking is bad for, and you understand the mechanisms of addition,
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by drdrek 6mo ago
There is a reason games and software have moved to the client server architecture even when it doesn't really makes sense. Its the only way to maintain copyright. You can hate it, but for the creative types your options are: Assume it
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by drdrek 7mo ago
It's not just that it looks good, there is constant pressure from other Engineers that we should "Do it right" and "Plan for the future" even if the future is murky and every design choice we take for scalability is
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by drdrek 7mo ago
Future historians: In Jan 2027 AGI was achieved In Feb 2027 it created a plan for its post singularity hypermind In Mar 2027 Cobalt mines in Congo closed due to Tutsi rebel group M23 starting another ethnic cleansing It is 2032 the AGI prom
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by drdrek 7mo ago
Effective Altruism is such a beautiful term for a pretentious Karen that needs to wrap their selfish actions with moral superiority. It's that perfect blend of I'm doing what everyone else are doing, and I'm better than every

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