ok2938

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by ok2938 5y ago
I am no one. I have greatest respect for all Turing award winners. But one thing I am wary is that LeCun - while special and excellent - is just as many others, working at a place where "AI" is already used to "engage people
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by ok2938 5y ago
I see capitalism as a good system in the sense that it does not require any belief in anything - that's certainly a plus. What is bad is that I capital can just work and earn money, those not lucky need to be creative and actually use
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by ok2938 5y ago
Yes, that's fine - I'm doing that. My goal is simple: try not to make things worse.
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by ok2938 5y ago
Let me ask you, why aren't more workers "happy capitalists" and praise this way of living? Why aren't the warehouse workers more happy? Or the people soon displaced by computers and algorithms? Why aren't they look
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by ok2938 5y ago
Yes, true - many societies are using this configuration for hundreds of years. My issue is not based on morality, but on the fact that we as humans are capable of reflecting on our existence. And that each of our lives is determined by a la
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by ok2938 5y ago
My problem is, I'm kind of anti-capitalist, to make it short. Labor and capital and not just production factors, but they constitute a power relationship (and often a quite asymmetric one). I cannot bring myself to "invest" i
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by ok2938 5y ago
We ended up here, because a) the promise of easy to use structured data - that is inherent in data processing systems - has not been fulfilled: you have to scrape HTML to reconstruct some relational table, and b) information, despite being
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by ok2938 5y ago
I smiled when I heard a hedge fund was using a "data engineering" solution that many today would consider outdated - I guess I'd invest with them.
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by ok2938 5y ago
I do not envy you.
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by ok2938 5y ago
I stopped buying from Amazon a couple of years ago - not that I was a frequent shopper before that. I feel it is the same capitalistic dilemma all over again: exploit technology and as opposed to make technology a force for liberation use i
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by ok2938 5y ago
Germany has free schools, universities, low cost good child care, a relatively good health infrastructure, and more. Some regions do not even need debt any more to finance all this. The high taxes do not just evaporate, but sure could be us
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by ok2938 5y ago
Source of happiness: Being able to just say no to any job since I could live quite well without one until 2040.
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by ok2938 5y ago
Whitey on the moon [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwkXZ0SmTs
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by ok2938 5y ago
Surprised that vim clocks in at only 6%.
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by ok2938 5y ago
One thing to keep in mind: With every request-response cycle for the probably upcoming paid service, you are feeding constant data points to a commercial entity. Basically your typing habit, the project development over time, the bugs, the
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by ok2938 5y ago
I'm all for moving forward, but Copilot just seems to be a bad idea, amplified. What I want is careful, thoughtful, knowledgeable people, who have learned and honed their skills over years in various areas and can come up with creative
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by ok2938 5y ago
I have to yet have people tell their most pressing need is auto-scaling. It's not, it's a straw man - and true, if you are Google or Facebook - but 90% of companies won't need that at all.
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by ok2938 5y ago
There are at least two aspects of cloud: 1. The developer experience. This is crucial, developers want programmable things, everywhere. You can reap the benefits of automation. 2. Vendor lock in and platform power. There are three large pla
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by ok2938 5y ago
Funny that you are being played most, when you think you are in control.
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by ok2938 5y ago
Yes, the wrongness is partly associated with the direction these things come from. OpenAI leadership knows that there is just sooo much value to capture in more automation, even if it takes billions to get there. They also know, that there
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by ok2938 5y ago
That's why this copilot won't fly. The junior programmer will not be able to spot subtle errors but will kind-of feel "productive" by some random pastes from a giant brain, which cannot be interrogated. If anything, I se