old_man_cato

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by old_man_cato 1y ago
A lot of engineers underestimate the learning curve required to jump from IDE to terminal. Multiple generations of engineers were raised on IDEs. It's really hard to break that mental model.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
It's pretty important! You could make a case that there's not much else to talk about. I don't love that fact and I wish it would go away but when billionaires are talking about trying to build something that will replace eve
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
I'll be sure to remind myself of that next time I wish I had more time to spend watching my daughter grow up. Sure, I may miss some seminal moments but the raise I get at the end of the year is just as good.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
No sense in responding, people. This person can't be saved. Move on.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
What approach is that? Some people like AI. They should use it, talk about why they like it and use products that leverage it. Other people don't like it. They should avoid using it, talk about why they don't like it and not use p
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
And I think a lot of people would agree with you.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
Dehumanization might be the wrong word. It's certainly anti social technology, though, and that's bad enough.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
Ok, yeah, I take the point that one illustration did not obviously precede the other but are likely the coincident result of a worldview. I don't think it changes anything but thanks for the correction.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
https://ai-2027.com/research says that: AI 2027 relies on several key forecasts that couldn't be fully justified in the main text. Below we present the detailed research supporting these predictions. You're saying
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
Well, yeah. Obviously.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind with this shit. Am I to understand that a bunch of "experts" created a model, they surrounded the findings of that model with a fancy website, replete with charts and diagrams, that we
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
I did. I also had basically unlimited access to pornography and I saw more than one video of someone having their head severed off. But yeah, I played a lot of computer games. That was fun.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
The image of a bunch of children in a room gleefully playing with their computers is horror movie type stuff, but because it's in a white room with plants and not their parent's basement with the lights off, it's somehow a wo
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
"I’m still a computer scientist, an academic, a straight-ticket Democratic voter, a liberal Zionist, a Jew, etc. (all identities, incidentally, well-enough represented at LessOnline that I don’t even think I was the unique attendee in
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
Man, you sound so young. That's not a slight or anything. It just puts into perspective who's on this site commenting so confidently.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
We don't know how to use them. That's the entire problem. They were released into the wild by corporations and no one knows how to use them in a way that doesn't harm us. That's the alignment problem.
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by old_man_cato 1y ago
"Prompt issue" is just the new "user error". Just passes the blame anywhere other than the flawed value of the tool itself.
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Ask HN: How Did You Transition Careers?
5 points by old_man_cato 2y ago|2 comments