edzitron

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by edzitron 5mo ago
vindication! https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-microsoft-moving-all-g...
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by edzitron 5mo ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/ wrote it up. And relatively dry too!
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by edzitron 1y ago
When you say "jammed," how do you mean?
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by edzitron 2y ago
LLMs are not making the cost of software near-zero, even by your admission! If times are changing FOR GOOD, perhaps you're right? But i'm not sure they are.
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by edzitron 2y ago
See, this is just a weak argument. This was thousands of words of hypotheses backed up with data and citation. Dismissing it as "blathering" and then demanding I make a bet based on your terms isn't an argument, nor is it a p
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by edzitron 2y ago
Exactly my point. I took great pains to not say "OpenAI will 100% die without fail," because doing so would be declarative in a way that would wall off my argument, no matter how well I researched and presented it. Instead, I want
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by edzitron 2y ago
Hi! I'm afraid you've made an assumption that isn't true. LLMs do not "bring the cost of writing software close to $0" on a number of levels. 1. The code is not 100% reliable, meaning it requires human oversight, an
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by edzitron 2y ago
I realize that these are commonly-held tropes, but where is the actual article that says this? There's the famous "the internet isn't a big deal" thing in Newsweek (and funnily enough that piece is extremely prescient in
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by edzitron 2y ago
I think you are misunderstanding my point, and perhaps I should've worded it more-precisely" "Mass market utility" here refers to its ability to sell at the scale it would need to substantiate its costs. As it stands, LL
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by edzitron 2y ago
It also got broken up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
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by edzitron 2y ago
The space race was also not something with a financial outcome at the end as its main goal. I doubt that Uncle Sam cares that much about controlling OpenAI.
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by edzitron 2y ago
Thanks for reading! I downplay it because I fundamentally disagree on the pace of innovation and the exponential increase in capabilities per dollar happening over time. I do not see the rapid acceleration - or at least, they are yet to sub
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by edzitron 2y ago
I'm afraid this isn't an accurate comparison. 1. I do not know of any article that said that Google was "DOA" or "done" as a result of the choice of a search engine as a business model. In fact, search engines
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by edzitron 2y ago
Hi! :) It appears you have some issues with my article, and I'm happy to provide some help. "Egregious errors in previous articles" is not a valid argument against current arguments, nor do I agree there were those errors. Ne
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by edzitron 2y ago
See, that's the thing. This COULD happen. I do not think it will, but the piece is written not to say "this is 100% not gonna happen," but "I am unsure how it's possible, and if it does not happen, the consequences
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by edzitron 2y ago
Sure, but the argument here isn't that it's impossible. Just that to do what they need to do, they need to do something that really hasn't been done before. I do not THINK Microsoft will put that much money into it. They coul
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Goldman on Generative AI: doesn't justify costs or solve complex problems [pdf](web.archive.org)
93 points by edzitron 2y ago|47 comments
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by edzitron 2y ago
I think that when you put yourself in the mindset of writing something with the intent of facilitating discussion you're at times drawn toward making inferior content to satisfy an imaginary person (or group of people). Some people are
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by edzitron 2y ago
I get it! But at the same time, this is opinion work - and also, what would this look like without the emotion? A bone-dry analysis of the text? Would it say "this is bad"? Not arguing at all, there're all kinds of valid anal
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by edzitron 2y ago
I think that we have some of the best investigative reporters in the world working in tech right now, but insufficient context behind things. I am obviously an opinion writer, and thus a little biased, but I think there is something very us
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by edzitron 2y ago
I'd say the latter. Though I do try and keep it polite when talking to people about my work. I think that more people should be more willing to talk about the powers that be and the way they're acting toward their users.
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by edzitron 2y ago
Please elaborate! I'm genuinely curious.
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by edzitron 2y ago
Hey all! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-man-that-destroyed... if you wanna hear this instead of read this, check out the podcast version.
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by edzitron 2y ago
No worries at all, happens to the best of us!
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by edzitron 2y ago
I am directly citing emails revealed in discovery as part of the Department of Justice's antitrust suit against Google. They're all linked in there too! And you can even see who was CC'd. It's a little confusing because
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by edzitron 2y ago
Sorry, I may have misread this - are you saying that it's "advertising" that my newsletter has a pop-up asking you to subscribe?
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by edzitron 2y ago
The author deals too much in absolutes. Anyway, [single most gratuitous absolute]
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by edzitron 2y ago
I don't run ads on social media for this newsletter. What're you talking about? Seriously, show me a screenshot of the ad.
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by edzitron 2y ago
hi! I'm the author of the newsletter. I have run ads for this newsletter on one place (Garbage Day, a tech newsletter). In the last week Facebook has sent me 261 visitors. What're you talking about?
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by edzitron 3y ago
are you ok

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