munksbeer

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by munksbeer 4d ago
In what possible manner could this be true? China produces so many of the leading minds already and they'll eventually just develop their own means of creating better hardware. People let their racism blind themselves.
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by munksbeer 4d ago
I feel the opposite. Human history is depressing overall. I imagine AI will eventually lead to less scarcity and better lives overall.
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by munksbeer 5d ago
Hold on, you've just ignored the point of the post you're responding to. What isn't being received well is hearing that others are close to publishing on a solution to a problem, so quickly using your power imbalance (million
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by munksbeer 6d ago
> If tests are hard enough and have unlimited retakes, kids will learn that practice is worth it and do it with way more focus than if it was forced. Wow, I haven't thought deeply since seeing this comment, but on the surface this i
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by munksbeer 7d ago
If the allegations are true, I can't see that collaboration lasting. Unfortunately, researches need to earn a living too, and being front run by a lab for everything you do isn't going to pay the bills.
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by munksbeer 7d ago
I don't think most people care if it does bring a few billion people out of poverty, that's the point. They don't care either way, they just want their "meaning" (well paid US tech jobs) preserved.
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by munksbeer 7d ago
How do you control the model to such an extent? How are you making Astra "not do chain-of-thought"? EDIT: Sorry, ignore me, it's in your article.
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by munksbeer 7d ago
Obviously it is a ludicrous example, but there are books for this: The Culture novels by Iain. M. Banks. I'd be quite happy as a citizen of The Culture. But, on a more serious note, or more realistic, I find it vaguely insulting that y
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by munksbeer 7d ago
People will cling to views as long as they possibly can, despite evidence slapping them in the face. Eventually it won't matter. Arguments over whether LLMs are "truly" intelligent are going to be a matter of philosophy, and
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by munksbeer 9d ago
Yeah, we don't do any of that stuff. I guess it's just luck. Well done.
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by munksbeer 10d ago
How?! Are you children a lot older now?
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by munksbeer 10d ago
I have to laugh at this, because on here I see a lot of people talking about family and meaningful relationships. As the father of two young, insanely challenging boys, a lot of the stuff on this list is non-existent and hasn't existed
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by munksbeer 12d ago
Not the person who asked, but yes, that sounds like a small lack of judgement, but hardly a huge problem. You just correct it and move on. I work on some reasonably sophisticated stuff (not inventing a new form of compression sophisticated,
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by munksbeer 13d ago
If I understand your comment correctly (and highly likely I missed something), I am very similar. Using stuff at work the AI team tries their best to ensure we don't leak our internal data or code. But for my personal use, I'm tot
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by munksbeer 13d ago
>Then you've never actually Pair Programmed. It's not "someone looking over your shoulder", it's literally two people writing the code together, one person at the keyboard and the other person saying what's
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by munksbeer 14d ago
I can understand companies not wanting to leak sensitive data or information, so not wanting their inputs used for training. But the individual level moral perspective confuses me. You object to your own input being used for training "
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by munksbeer 15d ago
Are you breaking up your tasks and spawning new sessions for each, or are you just yoloing and letting it auto compact when it blows the context many times on such a long running task?
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by munksbeer 15d ago
> a few years ago people were telling me that crypto was going to replace currency, and soon every person on the planet would be using it for every transaction. Many people believe that will still happen, but I don't think many ser
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by munksbeer 21d ago
Completely random, and not leading in any way, but where do you live currently? As in, which country, which city?
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by munksbeer 22d ago
And then grandstand on hn about how they give their children zero screen time, as is only right.
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by munksbeer 23d ago
I think you're arguing against something that is made up by doomers. They truly believe (evidence by the comments below yours) that the billionaire class are all a of one mind and want to eradicate other humans, live in cloud cities, a
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by munksbeer 23d ago
I would think the argument is more that the average worker living under a king would not even own their property, but would be renting a hovel, living in abject squalor, and having lots of children in order to bring in enough to pay the ren
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by munksbeer 24d ago
One thing to look for in the EU is free movement of people. Young people can and do migrate to regions that pay them more. It would be interesting to look at Spanish youth migration to see if the younger workers (i.e. those more likely to h
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by munksbeer 27d ago
I have a good experience too. I do the same as you. I actively want to succeed with it, and therefore put time into making it work, and I have a good experience. As do the other 80+ developers at my company (it is a fintech). Pretty much ev
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by munksbeer 27d ago
I do laugh at mathematician's (assuming you are one) explanations to laypeople.
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by munksbeer 27d ago
There is this in the post: > The final dataset contained a few hundred thousand MIDI files, representing roughly 300 million note events.
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by munksbeer 28d ago
For what it is worth, I agree with you. So there is at least one other person out there who would like statements to remain factual. When the entire topic is already so emotionally charged, it seems even more important to attempt to just st
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by munksbeer 29d ago
Yes, absolutely comfortable. Because the real world seems very different to this online world to me. The sheer volume of anti-AI sentiment here and on reddit are not even closely matched by my real life experience. All the parents in the gr
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by munksbeer 29d ago
That's not the point of my response. It is tiresome, and detracts from meaningful discourse to have the same tired anti-capitalism meme tacked onto everything. It didn't even make sense in the post I was responding to - which is e
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by munksbeer 29d ago
I've been thinking about this for a while. I'm a new contributor, long time reader on hn. I also have an old reddit account. I have always thought hn as higher quality than reddit, but lately I'm becoming a victim of my own i

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