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by guelo 4d ago
If we could agree on that, no LLMs connected to robot factories, that would be a great place to start regulation. Though 1) I don't think we could agree on that 2) it's already well under way 3) we have extremist anti-regulation i
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by guelo 6d ago
This is just not true. In the olden times (pre-claude) devs were constantly asking to do full rewrites of legacy code. This kind of project is exactly the kind of work I've trained for and have loved to do for the last 15 years as a mo
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by guelo 6d ago
Bad analogy. OpenAI spent millions on compute to get their result. This is more like if a billionaire heard of your promising mathematical lead and then gathered hundreds of top mathematicians to work on it.
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by guelo 13d ago
It could be a good theoretical physicist. Actually it could be a good experimental physicist as well since senior experimental physicists use grad students for the manual labor.
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by guelo 13d ago
What does having value or interest to you have to do with intelligence?
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by guelo 13d ago
Their input and output interfaces are too different from human's and they're not nearly as smart to take our IQ tests, but both dolphins and octopuses can solve complex puzzles tailored for their environment. Those puzzles are the
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by guelo 15d ago
Now I feel justified that I started boycotting my neighborhood bar when they started scanning IDs at the door with some unknown app.
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by guelo 15d ago
For me it worked on Chrome but not on Firefox
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by guelo 21d ago
Willy-nilly terrorist designation serving as an anything-goes legal loophole is an import from Israel. It goes against all American and British legal traditions and it needs to die.
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by guelo 28d ago
You also share a professional social network which is something you own separately from any company and I have found to be very valuable and strengthened by in-person work.
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by guelo 1mo ago
I hate this attitude that ethics and philosophy are "bullshit jobs". At the same time Americans hate any government regulation and are in the process of tearing government's regulatory capacity apart. So all we're left w
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by guelo 1mo ago
Or don't swap it and live without the jack. But I have never seen a broken 3.5mm port but I've seen many, many broken or flaky USB-C ports.
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by guelo 1mo ago
There is tons of money trying to get customer support bots to sound human but they fool nobody.
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by guelo 2mo ago
Which category is it when the user asks which is the best brand for the thing they want to buy and the platform lies to them and recommends the brand that paid the most money?
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by guelo 2mo ago
I was always a fan of talk radio. In the late 80s and early 90s there were so many diverse and interesting talk radio shows. And many times they were local and accessible, I was able to get on the air several times. But then Rush Limbaugh e
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by guelo 2mo ago
James Damore won, we're living in his world. Or the Gamergate world. It makes me wonder why though, it's not as if half the country and many of the engineers don't still have the same progressive values. Honestly I think it&#
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by guelo 2mo ago
Study is from 2000-2013, their care has deteriorated significantly since then. I know because I've been a patient the whole time.
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by guelo 2mo ago
I'd call that trial and error.
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by guelo 2mo ago
I have had so many laptops and other devices with unrepairable flaky loose ports that I am no longer a fan of the standard
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by guelo 2mo ago
There's no way to know if it's a "cheap cable", not even by price.
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by guelo 2mo ago
It's a problem but I don't believe it's worse than X or Instagram or Facebook. I'll prefer human filters over biased algorithms every time.
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by guelo 2mo ago
Reddit is one of the few remaining platforms where reach is determined democratically. You demean that populous by calling it the singular "reddit", as if it's a single hive mind. But you'll probably get your way, I imag
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by guelo 2mo ago
Why was that we used to be able to ban environmental toxins such as leaded gasoline without this weird psycho-social-political analysis that has become the fashion in some circles?
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by guelo 2mo ago
One thing I learned from this article is that even though the plastic particles themselves are poorly studied the chemical additives, such as phthalates and bisphenols, are very well studied and are known toxins. So even if the tiniest plas
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by guelo 2mo ago
You can always count on management to tell it like it is /s
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by guelo 2mo ago
Ugh. Ok if you're going to push one-sided propaganda I'll push the other side. Google forced its researchers to retract an already submitted paper because it undermined its strategic and commercial story around large language mode
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by guelo 2mo ago
We elected con man so we're becoming a swindler nation. In a just world the Andreesen David Sacks types would be in jail stripped of all their money.
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by guelo 2mo ago
If we weren't busy stupidly destroying the institutions for international cooperation, it would be a UN body.
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by guelo 3mo ago
When math is so divorced from science and engineering that there's no conceivable way that it will ever be applied in the real world then it is just a complex puzzle game that a tiny group of people play. It doesn't really matter
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by guelo 3mo ago
The product manager example doesn't make sense to me. Basically all that's happening is that the work of deciding is being centralized in one person instead of distributed across the team. If there are dozens of projects going on

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