marcuschong

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by marcuschong 14d ago
It's hard for me to see much difference between Amodei and Sama. My guess is they're both savvy SV CEOs who will bend their message, alliances and principles pretty far if that's what it takes to get ahead. Musk and Zuck feel
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by marcuschong 25d ago
I really wanted to be a journalist when I was young, but then the PC era began and I became sort of addicted to computers and developed my first commercial website at a very young age. I remember making more money than most people in my fam
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by marcuschong 1mo ago
What's more annoying is that so many people say it with a passion. Like it's about their favorite soccer team or something.
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by marcuschong 2mo ago
I'm regularly afraid of things like that, not only for drinking too much coke but also for not having exactly the healthiest lifestyle overall. I've tried reducing coke a few times with some luck here and there, but eventually got
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by marcuschong 2mo ago
My dentist, annual consultation.
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by marcuschong 2mo ago
I've been drinking loads of coke Zero (up to 3 liters a day, these days it's about 2 liters), and my teeth are fine. I'm 40 and have been drinking it for most of my life, it started when I was about 16, with regular coke back
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by marcuschong 2mo ago
Emily Watson about the movie: "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.”
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by marcuschong 2mo ago
I really enjoyed reading John C. Dvorak's PC Magazine column when I was just getting started in tech. His contrarian style was a nice change from most tech columnists at the time. He had a grumpy but oddly likable personality, and I
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by marcuschong 3mo ago
Something I've been wondering about is whether fake news and these alternative realities people live in will eventually have a material impact on their lives. In my country, where the political divide is huge, I know people who are ver
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by marcuschong 3mo ago
I don't think my 18-month-old had any problems from watching a little Miss Rachel and Baby Einstein here and there. However, the few times my mother showed her cute animal videos on Instagram, it was a completely different story. She b
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by marcuschong 3mo ago
It's curious that the person claiming LLMs will soon skip code entirely and go straight to binary is willing to spend $60bn on Cursor.
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We're going to put Codex inside ChatGPT(openai.com)
3 points by marcuschong 4mo ago|1 comments
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by marcuschong 4mo ago
At 14:52
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by marcuschong 4mo ago
I've felt the same about Reddit subs, the few times I tried asking something. Very discouraging when you're having some trouble in life and looking for help online.
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by marcuschong 4mo ago
Plus, even if you do prefer the American way (and I could see why), it seems fanatic for people to not recognize the clear benefits of the European model.
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by marcuschong 5mo ago
Me too. I'm an active father, love my daughter and don't regret our choice. But damn I would never opt to go through this again and can't wait until she's a little older. I see parents having orderly lunches in restauran
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by marcuschong 5mo ago
And now it appears every single time I use incognito mode on my browser, somehow. I hate it profoundly.
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by marcuschong 6mo ago
Plus doing it to a hundred million followers and controlling the medium that delivers his message.
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Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL [pdf](assets.anthropic.com)
3 points by marcuschong 6mo ago|0 comments
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by marcuschong 6mo ago
That's a big problem with very specific manifestations. My startup helps customers handle regulatory compliance, also by forwarding complex questions to a pool of consultants. We've compared now more than a hundred replies to that
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Sam Altman AMA about DoD deal(xcancel.com)
21 points by marcuschong 7mo ago|6 comments
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by marcuschong 7mo ago
That's what I've been struggling with to give it a go. How to make it useful somehow if I can't really give it access to my stuff.
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by marcuschong 7mo ago
I don't disagree with the premise, but I still can't think of a SaaS that I'm paying for that I can replace. And I have many subscriptions.
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by marcuschong 8mo ago
You mentioned Google, which makes it interesting that Sundar was at the infamous inauguration photo op, while neither Satya nor Bill was.
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by marcuschong 8mo ago
I have two questions about that, with the supposition that Cook is being coerced to do that, somehow: - Isn't Cook supposed to step down from the role in the next few years? If so, wouldn't that facilitate an accelerated exit to n
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by marcuschong 8mo ago
Precisely. That's what I took from the experience as well. If that's so hard and I had no idea about it until now, maybe there are other things that I don't know, and some that I will never learn, and I should tread lightly.
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by marcuschong 8mo ago
I was incapable of the compassion you're talking about until I had a bad shroom trip and felt some horrible, hard-to-describe anxiety the next morning. It was some of the worst hours of my life until my serotonin system rebalanced itse
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by marcuschong 8mo ago
Right. A subterranean fortress in NZ is not part of the perks.
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EU and Brazil conclude agreements on free and safe data flows(ec.europa.eu)
3 points by marcuschong 8mo ago|0 comments
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by marcuschong 8mo ago
It's interesting how people I know wouldn't work for my small startup if I, as the boss, aligned myself with such people, but are happy to work for big tech companies that do that. It's amazing what 100 levels of abstraction

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