lostphilosopher

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by lostphilosopher 2mo ago
The excessive emojis and heavy formatting really bugs me. Microsoft copilot loves this style.
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by lostphilosopher 3mo ago
Someone could write a cyberpunk Three Body Problem with this premise.
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by lostphilosopher 7mo ago
In every discussion of AI eliminating or dramatically reducing the compensation for <some large double digit percentage> of “white collar” jobs (and probably “blue collar” too). It’s unclear to me what the end state is - the vast majo
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by lostphilosopher 7mo ago
I’ve been looking for tooling that would evaluate my prompt and give feedback on how to improve. I can get somewhere with custom system prompts (“before responding ensure…”) but it seems like someone is probably already working on this? Ide
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by lostphilosopher 7mo ago
One challenge with hiring a nanny is if they need to take a sick day (or if they quit!) you can end up in a tough spot. In contrast a day care center usually has backups built in so you don’t end up scrambling.
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by lostphilosopher 8mo ago
Food pyramid was taught when I was in school, but that was before 2011 (as mentioned by another commenter) my own children are in school now and their school lunches align with more modern ideas (veggies and proteins). Certainly could still
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by lostphilosopher 10mo ago
This seems like what should be a killer feature: Copilot having access to configuration and logs and being able to identify where a failure is coming from. This stuff is tedious manually since I basically run through a checklist of where th
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by lostphilosopher 10mo ago
I have had the experience of approaching or completing something potentially dangerous (merging on a busy street for example) and thinking I should “save” and sub consciously visualizing doing so internally. Very fleeting sensation and does
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by lostphilosopher 1y ago
I don't think this is unique to churches, or even non-profits. Plenty of non-church non-profits rely on a few large donors for much or their funding (in fact plenty are designed that way out the gate - they're founded by one very
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by lostphilosopher 1y ago
We don't really have a true test that means "if we pass this test we have AGI" but we have a variety of tests (like ARC) that we believe any true AGI would be able to pass. It's a "necessary but not sufficient"
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by lostphilosopher 1y ago
Related - there needs to be individuals and businesses that want/need and can afford upgrades and repairs. If office workers are getting replaced with AI we don't need to build and maintain offices and the ecosystems that support
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by lostphilosopher 1y ago
It's worth noting that for those edge cases all the productivity monitoring in the world won't make that employee any more effective, and you won't need those tools to see that they're not cutting it (assuming you'r
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by lostphilosopher 1y ago
I've long maintained that kids must learn end to end what it takes to put content on the web themselves (registering a domain, writing some html, exposing it on a server, etc.) so they understand that _truly anyone can do this_. Learni
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by lostphilosopher 1y ago
I don't know if AI books are or will be as good or better than human written, but to me this is the problem - "Even though artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, AI-made books are already flooding the market." There
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by lostphilosopher 2y ago
I was surprised at the time how cheap the original Pebbles were, they were nearly exactly what I wanted and I would have been willing to pay more for mine. In fact I ultimately paid more to replace mine with a watch I like less. When Pebble
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by lostphilosopher 2y ago
PhD itself is an abbreviation for "Doctor of Philosophy." The title is more about the original Greek "lover of wisdom" than about the modern academic discipline of philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by lostphilosopher 3y ago
I’m less concerned about the supply of handymen inflating and more concerned about demand falling. If AI really does replace a huge portion of the people with the money to hire handymen and plumbers and the property to need them where do th
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by lostphilosopher 3y ago
> Edit: hey, can your kids inherit your "digital content"? They can inherit your disc collection. With arrival of the holiday season I brought out my Christmas CDs and records from storage. I use these exclusively for music in
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by lostphilosopher 3y ago
Even if X isn't the right solution to my use case I still often want to know _why_ X (or my implementation of X) doesn't work. The answer to that might be a really valuable learning independent of the problem at hand.
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by lostphilosopher 3y ago
The Metal Gear Solid boss fight with Psycho Mantis is my favorite example of rarely-seen game mechanics (in this case in a video game). (Spoiler alert on a game from 1998.) https://www.thegamer.com/metal-gear-solid-psycho-ma
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by lostphilosopher 3y ago
In the US I suspect "contract to hire" fills a similar function. I see that all the time but I don't think I've ever seen an official "probation period" on an employee role. (Could also be regional or industry
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
"Show HN: I made a self-hosted UI for ChatGPT," perhaps?
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
Another possibility is that women are more likely to choose to self report their status as "in a relationship" vs. men. (Which would be an interesting finding on its own!) I'm not sure which source they pulled those figures i
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
I'm ok with not allowing multi "household" sharing in principle, but I doubt this can be enforced without causing problems for even for single household users and seems like an odd way to handle this. Thinking about travel es
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
I like the Laundry Files approach - James Bond-esque action plus Dilbert-esque bureaucratic and IT disfunction. (Also monsters.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
I think the increased prevalence of work from home is a huge factor for meet ups and urban activities in general. If I'm already out and about and likely nearby it's an easier sell to get me to go to a meet up. It's harder if
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
I'm excited for ChatGPT in video games. Especially in procedurally generated or Roguelike games.
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
Online booksellers often denote "mass market" vs "trade" paperback which does potentially give you info on the quality of the paper. "The paper quality is better as well, as most often they are printed on acid-free
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/722/
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by lostphilosopher 4y ago
Magic for Humans with Justin Willman on Netflix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_for_Humans ) has some fun demos + explanations of this if anyone's interested. What feels like a "random choice" when s

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