gensym

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by gensym 5d ago
> Please stop with the black and white thinking, the doomers and the e/acc people might as be the same person with a different colored hat with how uncritically they think. I couldn't agree more. You seem to have assumed that I
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by gensym 5d ago
Someone's never met the Windows File Copy dialog.
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by gensym 5d ago
"RSI" simply means the tool is used to improve the capabilities of the tool. (And then the improved tool can then, in theory, improve further, and so on, at least if we live in a fantasyland where constraints and bottlenecks do no
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by gensym 21d ago
Yeah, good point, I remember the first time I travelled to countries that default to water and wondering how to use the pitcher they had in public toilets, and I know some ultralight backpackers who just use a smartwater bottle with no atta
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by gensym 21d ago
You don't even need to shell out for one of those (though I'm sure they're nice). Bidet attachments work really well. If you have a 3D printer, you can try using a bidet very easily: https://www.printables.com&#x2F
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by gensym 23d ago
Not the original commenter, but in my view as a crusty old software engineer, the reason to learn how transistors is because they're interesting and the key to how all computation is implemented. Once you learn how transistors work, yo
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by gensym 24d ago
I hit it whenever doing anything related to security. Auditing code, probing systems, investigating suspicious user activity, etc.
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by gensym 24d ago
I would guess that it's hard to compete with Google without a consumer component. Most enterprises already have contracts and policies with Google, so anything driven from the top-down is likely to prefer Google. (And failing that, the
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by gensym 25d ago
It's all cultural. It's pretty bonkers that you can tell who someone voted for in 2024 with a high degree of accuracy just by the shape of their sunglasses lenses.
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by gensym 1mo ago
> why did you put it up for a human review at all then? This seems to be the crux of the issue. I'm guessing the most of the time, the answer is "because that's a mandatory gate to getting these changes into production&quo
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by gensym 1mo ago
I have had success with washing wool or technical garments in the sinks of hotel rooms. I don't actually do that very often but knowing that I can helps with the anxiety of running out of clothing.
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by gensym 1mo ago
For me, it was having children that really forced me to learn to travel light. We lived in Chicago and going to the airport meant walking to the transit stop to get to the airport, so I needed a way to carry luggage (I did so on my back) fo
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by gensym 1mo ago
The advantages of packing light aren't always obvious[1] until you experience them, so you can pretty much tell someone's level of travel experience by how small their luggage is. I've yet to meet someone who packs more and m
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by gensym 1mo ago
Strip malls at least offer something to the local residents. I recall from my time in Chicago that some of the best immigrant-family-run restaurants were in strip malls on the northwest side. Warehouses, though, are worse than data centers
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by gensym 2mo ago
I fear they are laying the groundwork to ban US citizens from using Chinese models, so that they can make sure that Brockman gets his money's worth.
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by gensym 2mo ago
I get what you're saying and I see that how my comment could be interpreted. I wish I had worded it better. The most vibrant places in the world (again, IME) have a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, ages, and economic status. There&
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by gensym 2mo ago
Also, IME, places with no employers tend to be populated primarily by addicts, disability fraudsters, and other criminals.
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by gensym 2mo ago
Gotta fuckin love hn, where you can't say the simplest thing without getting thrown into a well, actually. I wasn't claiming to have run a damned study. Just making an observation. The thing is, people who don't enjoy exercis
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by gensym 2mo ago
What a weird question. The amount depends on what you hope to accomplish. Want to be able to get on the floor and play with your grandkids? That's going to require a certain amount of mobility work. Want to be able to hike up Mount Wh
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by gensym 3mo ago
Favored companies get access to frontier models, which gives them a competitive advantage, starving out smaller companies. Any smaller companies that do manage to innovate ultimately get acquired by the favored companies since they are wort
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by gensym 3mo ago
Just because a policy is legal doesn't mean it cannot be disastrous.
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by gensym 3mo ago
So you think Anthropic is using internal AI assistants to pull away from competitors and the leapfrogging we've seen over the last several years is now done? That seems to me to be the most concrete and least obvious prediction in the
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by gensym 3mo ago
> I am not cynical enough to believe that Anthropic's warnings are pure marketing hype. Nor am I. I think they believe that AI poses a grave danger, and they are playing the prisoner's dilemma as an unvirtuous actor. 1. If anyo
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by gensym 4mo ago
I grew up in Illinois in the 80s and 90s, so I had a front-row seat to that gutting. Watching my dad move from factory to factory, go to night school to learn tool-and-die and then see all the tool-and-die jobs move overseas. So no, it didn
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by gensym 4mo ago
I don't understand that this argument. Why does the net improvement of the technologies listed imply that AI will also have a net improvement? Are you just arguing that there's no such thing as technology that is harmful on net?
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by gensym 4mo ago
For people worried about their livelihoods, there's value in slowing AI adoption to give our economy time to transition rather than just throwing a lot of people out of work all at the same time.
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by gensym 4mo ago
> Not a single social media restriction experiment has included people under the age of 16. We do not know how social media bans will affect the young people being targeted by them because we have never tested this with them! I've a
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by gensym 4mo ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but I find AI to be very effective. It can do nearly all coding tasks many OOMs faster than I can. And I'm able to get it to produce high-quality code in the process. Using AI, our codebase actually
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by gensym 4mo ago
The map is not the territory
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by gensym 4mo ago
It’s pretty simple. People think that AI will take their jobs and maybe murder them, probably because the people developing AI have said it’s going to take their jobs and maybe murder them. Opposing data centers is the biggest lever most pe

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