piloto_ciego

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by piloto_ciego 2d ago
I might be a one-man optimist brigade, but the negative nancies are stupid. There are problems in the world. That cannot be disputed, but the overwhelming negativity is just intellectual laziness IMO. That and a fear of change or loss of
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by piloto_ciego 3d ago
I agree! I'm an Alaskan. I think we should be doing all sorts of stuff up here too! Let's build! I cannot stand this NIMBY nonsense!
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by piloto_ciego 3d ago
I promise you, the software is not the hard part.
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by piloto_ciego 3d ago
Because they either: 1.) Didn't, and it's more anthropic doom porn to try to scare people into investing. 2.) They did things like "hey claude, write a PID loop for this ESP8266 with this pin in for input and this pin out f
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by piloto_ciego 3d ago
They didn't prevent a damn thing though and neither will this new crop of people.
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by piloto_ciego 3d ago
I want to live in the Culture, I'd settle for having the option to move to Anarres and leave Uras behind.
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by piloto_ciego 5d ago
You're right. Side note, you mention the travails of capitalism in all this. I've been thinking that maybe that's what we get out of this. Maybe we leave it behind over the next couple years. I have ironically been joking t
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by piloto_ciego 5d ago
I don't know how much this helps you (or anyone else), but, yeah, I understand. I was a pilot. I lived flying. I loved flying. I loved flying more than myself even, and it was such a major part of my identity that the vestiges of th
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by piloto_ciego 5d ago
Our current society will certainly not survive. Read Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism. You’re right that all most works are “cooked.”
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by piloto_ciego 5d ago
That's how I read it too, Terry Tao, who has been a "pro-AI math guy" is going through the same emotions and confusion that us SWE folks are going through, "oh, wait... this might mean I'm not going to be special an
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by piloto_ciego 5d ago
Here’s to hoping it gets me where I want to be in a decade lol
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by piloto_ciego 5d ago
7 days old. This is an astroturfing campaign.
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by piloto_ciego 6d ago
Honestly, my strategy has been "building custom tools to help me cope" having lots of terminal tabs open, tmux, and hope.
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
I'd say that I am the main problem. If I was a bit cleverer, or better at time management, I'd be better at finding customers? I don't think that's an AI thing, that's a "me" thing. Still, I'm makin
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
I don't know, I was a good pilot, I'm a mediocre programmer compared to some Leet code heros or whatever, but I'm making money? And it's working? I literally see the evidence every day... that was why I responded.
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
It literally reminds me of climate denialism. “Line go up! That is bad! Planet might become unsafe for human life.” “Nuh uhh! Malankovich cycles and humans are a drop in the bucket! Krakatoa! See!” “All of California is on fire!” “Haha
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
I have literal quantifiable output that supports the claim when I make it. I've literally been building tools for a customer of mine since January, and while it started out kind of slow, it's now paying my bills entirely every mo
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
This is what I keep saying, and it feels like I'm taking crazy pills here! Is nobody else astounded by this?
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
Your account is 21 days old.
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
Is this being astroturfed? Like, to me this looks like academic slap-fighting from Bubeck and Levent. People working at OpenAI are saying, "hey, we don't have that particular data in our models," others are saying, "we
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
I've done a lot of thinking about this since I first used ChatGPT to write some BS jinja2 templates hours after I first play with it. I said to my friend then (who scoffed at me) that "man, this is incredible, I think we're
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
How can you possible say this sort of thing in context of what looks like a millenium prize being solved. I swear there's nobody blinder than those who won't see.
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
And... they found this "solution" in 88 hours or so. It's all gas no brakes now boys and girls. Hold on to your hats!
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
Man, I would love to hear more about the Stanford and Harvard research chicanery.
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
I mean, that's totally fair.
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
I'm honestly, pretty convinced that it's the opposite. I mean, people are spooled up? But I think the sentiment is entirely generated beyond the normal complaints? Like, yeah, people are annoyed, so like you say, foreign adver
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
Man... I am wondering how much of everything this is these days... This is just one instance, but the propaganda effect I think is happening strong. I think probably all of public opinion is being manipulated like this...
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
Safer than average is totally defensible, because every year the margin of what is "average" changes. I'm just pulling numbers out of my ass here, but if say, one person is killed by an automobile every 100m miles, if the n
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
Crypto never did anything is the difference? The only people it did anything for were speculative investment types. That said bitcoin is still at like $80k per bitcoin though... so while it's not a good investment IMO (and I don'
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
I mean, kind of yeah? But like, there are already people working on the chips, there are already people designing the next hardware, etc. I'm sure we're going to get to a plateau in capability soon-ish? Exponentials are actuall

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