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by handoflixue 6d ago
Because it's not clickbait trash / doesn't violate the site rules? Dang is pretty good at enforcing stuff. There's a flag button and you can email reports if you're really bothered.
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by handoflixue 9d ago
Four relevant bullet points from the Hacker News Guidelines: * When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. * Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that&
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by handoflixue 13d ago
- Amazon is full of AI books, and they're clearly making money. AI has won multiple literary and artist awards. - Okay, it's not a "new company" idea, but VendingBench is all about ability to run a company - Plenty of pe
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by handoflixue 13d ago
Journalism is one particular way of trying to learn about the world. Academics are another, the scientific method is a third, and so on. Claiming that something is a better way to learn about the world is NOT the same as claiming it is usin
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by handoflixue 17d ago
Every major political party has violent off-shoots, as does every major religion. If we're writing off rationalists because of a half-dozen people, we're writing off the vast majority of the world for participating in even worse g
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by handoflixue 18d ago
Yeah, it's a bit absurd. There's so many empirically measured benchmarks where LLMs clearly exceed human capabilities and efficiencies!
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by handoflixue 23d ago
> It would be like making DVD engineering a standard part of high school curricula I fail to see how PG suggesting that a 17 year old, today, should study something... is in any way a parallel to formalizing it as part of the curriculum.
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by handoflixue 1mo ago
If you think having a particular ethnicity in charge is equivalent to endorsing genocide, you miiiiiight be a little bit racist.
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by handoflixue 1mo ago
They did that with "Talkie", a model trained on 1930 and before. It had the ability to assemble crude Python programs, but there were definitely some leaks in the training data (it knew about stuff like World War 2) so not 100% pe
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Seems a lot like you want me to accept your "unverifiable personal anecdote" about these videos...
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Fascinating claim that the scientists were removed for being "Partisan" in distributing information that disagreed with their opening speaker, but of course the opening speaker was somehow completely non-partisan in disagreeing wi
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Uh, top comment says "exactly one" so where are you getting "enough to be noteworthy"?
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Well, given that stunning list of zero opportunity costs, I'm sure forced to reconsider my stance. Very persuasive!
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
> I really hate the idea that AI can replace artists, or humans as a whole. I think it’s anti-human to its core. I've never understood this idea that art is some special, unique domain. We already replaced humans with cameras and ye
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Accuse the enemy of propaganda; insist there's plenty of evidence without linking a single source... Have you considered maybe reading this comment out loud in front of a mirror?
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
The problem is, "dozens of mathematicians have independently confirmed this, and no one in the community has made any credible objections" is actually a much more reliable source than a link to an article. It's just less legi
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Like kgwgk already said - people post the occasional horror story where they run up a huge AWS bill, either due to a run-away process or getting hacked. It seems to almost always be about Compute, not Storage.
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Realtime billing seems entirely within the abilities of AWS. "Limits except for Storage" seems even easier - I don't think I've ever heard of a storage-based billing story, although I'm sure one or two exist
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Already real: Automated scams & deepfake pornography. You can deepfake a real time video call to look and sound like someone else. If you're used to entering passwords this is easy to solve, but it's already a billion dollar i
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Curious, what revolutionary products would you cite, that existed within 4 years of the underlying technology? I feel like within that time frame, you're looking at "AOL chatrooms" for the internet, and I'm not even sure
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Thus why no one has 4 years of experience yet, yeah.
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
I guess we better go ban swimming pools: they kill people! people drown in them. What possible counter-argument can you offer to that?
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
It's hardly "changing the subject" to try and establish whether this is actually a proportional effort. Your concern should, in fact, be relative to the harm something does. A single car killing one person is not a reason to
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Oh yeah, nothing complex about a compiler, that only takes 4 years of college to understand. That's soooo much simpler than typing "make me a Tetris clone". Literally no one has 4 years of experience with LLMs, because they h
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
You might find it enlightening to look at the power draw and environmental impact of other technologies, for a sense of scale. LLMs didn't even exist when we started expressing concern about global warming, the internet still uses the
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
I don't think one could have reasonably turned the tide on agriculture, factories, railroads, or electricity - and a smart person would presumably have seen a lot of the benefits years before they materialized. There's plenty of p
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
The neckbeards that wrote C did so precisely because they saw how C was a better way to get things done, and they were probably the first people to start using compilers, because, again, they're the ones that built them. The neckbeards
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
Coders needing compilers is a hit on coding because it means coding can't be extended a lot? I'm just not following the logic at all. We build vastly more ambitious software today than we did in the 80s
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
I mean, if you actually understood the scale of AI power usage, it would make sense. A TV can run 200 watts/hour, so this is equivalent to... watching TV? Or, perhaps, watching TV in the background while you program. We are not in a po
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by handoflixue 2mo ago
"We wrap LLMs in Agent harnesses because AI isn’t enough." This feels equivalent to saying you're not a real coder if you need a compiler to hold your hand. What, a human coder isn't enough? Of course we're going to

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