jamiequint

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by jamiequint 28d ago
The important question with any AI-related news story is what is the counterfactual. Sure, it sucks if your self driving car gets in a crash or your AI scribe incorrectly transcribes something to your medical record. This is news now. What
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by jamiequint 1mo ago
Good thing you don't get to decide.
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
Ed Zitron also said that consumers were losing interest in ChatGPT in January 2024, that AI models were reaching their upper possible limits in Feburary 2024, that ChatGPT and similar products were "not particularly useful for anything
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
"Internet constellations may be mildly profitable" It's insanely profitable they did $7.2bn in EBITDA on $11.4bn in revenue in 2025.
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
Effective ads absolutely require knowing more about the user than the context on the page it's a 1-2 orders of magnitude revenue difference for the publisher per-impression.
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
except it's not? lol
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
What is worse a "hamfisted system prompt push to prod" or a system and organization built to enforce systematic bias in the name of anti-bias?
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
OK great, do you consider Gemini/Google untrustworthy software that shouldn't be used? Just making sure we're being intellectually honest here.
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
LOL, pot meet kettle for real.
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
The reality is both are likely well meaning attempts to squash model bias gone wrong. Since you happen to align with the politics of one more than the other, you are having trouble being intellectually honest about your own biases.
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-making-changes...
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
They had a bug in their model that they fixed within days is evidence they are "untrustworthy"?
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
read the top comment
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by jamiequint 2mo ago
Do you have any examples to illustrate these extraordinary claims?
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by jamiequint 3mo ago
"What exactly is there in the USA's destruction of the economic norms that have always served it" What destruction? US GDP growth has recovered to the pre-COVID trendline while EU lags behind it's already-slow previous p
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by jamiequint 3mo ago
"Fading superpower" is typical EU cope. It may help to be a little bit introspective about why one might want to oppose EU politics, or its leaders, whose "leadership" over the last decade has led to unprecedented migran
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by jamiequint 3mo ago
Called photography poor facsimiles of painting, not real art, etc.
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by jamiequint 3mo ago
Baudelaire and many others said the same thing about photography.
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by jamiequint 3mo ago
You're confusing law with ethics, they are not the same.
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by jamiequint 4mo ago
"I thought the goal was to generate tax revenue from the taxes, which wouldn't happen to the extent they end up in the hands of NYC residents." You're right, I'm saying I think it is a good tax for reasons secondary
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by jamiequint 4mo ago
"If you make the tax too high it starts discouraging the behavior you're taxing, which can paradoxically reduce overall tax revenue." I am generally against more taxes, but the structure of this one is quite good in terms of
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by jamiequint 4mo ago
Yes, envy is a bitch. There being more $10+ billionaires doesn't make your life worse when you are earning 50% more on a real dollar basis than you would have been 50 years ago.
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by jamiequint 4mo ago
And yet somehow, magically, all of these things are better than they have been ever at any point throughout human history. It's almost as if the system is working.
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by jamiequint 5mo ago
This is extreme cope.
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by jamiequint 5mo ago
I've been in Waymos that have needed teleop rescue multiple times in the last year so by that metric it's not a L4 system either.
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by jamiequint 5mo ago
In practice, Tesla on HW4 drives indistinguishably different from Waymo.
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by jamiequint 5mo ago
Anyone who thinks it is pipe dream given how it works today + rate of change is clueless, and that is putting it kindly.
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by jamiequint 5mo ago
Your claim was that the product doesn't work, and I'm telling you it works without intervention consistently and in complicated traffic situations. Any argument about how people don't pay enough attention since it isn't
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by jamiequint 5mo ago
You said: "underwriters ... doing the same thing as the credit agencies did in 2008 by giving underwater mortgage backed securities a AAA rating" That isn't what is happening at all. In an IPO the underwriters and the company
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by jamiequint 5mo ago
It's so pipe-dreamy that I used it for an hour today through SF rush hour traffic. Clearly never going to work though, right? right???

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