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by placebo 9d ago
It all boils down to whether the product (code , documentation, whatever) is polished, easy to understand and works as advertised. Beyond that, I don't give a rats ass about whether the intelligence that created it was human or artific
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by placebo 16d ago
I agree with you. However that doesn't explain why people get so upset about a definition being changed - seems just as silly.
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by placebo 16d ago
I don't necessarily agree with the parent comment, but I think the angle might be one of utilitarianism, i.e: when caught, both should be put on trial and punished if found guilty, but the current focus of society to put more energy in
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by placebo 2mo ago
Agreed. Unfortunately some religious inclinations can be just as tedious as pure mechanistic rational inclinations, even if they are consistent. Fortunately, these are not the only two options available. The future that the article points t
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by placebo 2mo ago
They don't seem that way to me. I should also note that AI generated content can at times be better than some human generated content
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by placebo 2mo ago
Reader here. Thanks for creating this. Totally resonates with my own thoughts, so if I'm wrong at least I have company :-) I do have a suggestion for those who object to this line of reasoning: Follow the 5 why's to try and get to
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by placebo 2mo ago
>Like a frog enjoying a nice warm bath... Exactly :-) Call me naive but I think dark patterns are a short term strategy for winning and I'm optimistic that in the long run they will be replaced with those that are more respectful an
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by placebo 2mo ago
Agreed. I bought it at the airport for a transatlantic flight the year it came out and started reading before lift off. Completed it before landing. Best flight ever.
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by placebo 2mo ago
Isn't society made up of everyday people? While I agree that the public being informed is a mutual responsibility, placing that responsibility on the government (which in many cases has plenty of incentive to keeping people ignorant) w
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by placebo 2mo ago
If you are implying that this is the case because this is also how leaders are selected in a democracy, then of course the sarcasm is noted - but here's my real unpopular opinion: Democracy only has value when the majority of voters ar
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by placebo 3mo ago
I have no doubt it plays on the same fears - whether it was deliberately done so, I don't claim to know. My assumption was that in a discussion on AI, the comment about the terminator was not alluding to a literary metaphor but to a fe
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by placebo 3mo ago
The terminator you talk about is a movie character. It might be built one day, it might not. It is also totally irrelevant considering there is a real terminator which can be described with the same adjectives and built in to every personal
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by placebo 3mo ago
>Even the most basic questions such as put a ball in a cup and place it on a table upside down then pick up the cup and put it in a box. That reminds me - this used to be my go-to question for smaller models and on which they would alway
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by placebo 3mo ago
Wow, that was. impressive :-) A few random thoughts I had while reading this, in more or less the order they appeared: 1. The relation/connection between optimization and the hedonistic treadmill 2. That this combination of enthusiasm
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by placebo 5mo ago
I think the great advantage of AI in software is that it enables you to create code faster. I think that the great disadvantage is that it tempts you to create code incredibly faster.
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by placebo 5mo ago
I think that is a valid opinion, but don't think there is any conclusive evidence to make it a valid fact (while of course not disagreeing with "fun toy, useful technology and dangerous new problem" part). Would be happy to l
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by placebo 5mo ago
If you're old, I guess that makes me ancient. Byte is what got me hooked on the path I walk to this day, though back then it would be far beyond my wildest dreams to believe that in my lifetime it would be possible to hold an intellige
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by placebo 5mo ago
and the problem with always needing something to show is that you can never find peace...
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by placebo 6mo ago
I think what the parent comment was hinting at is that there is no absolute separator between a non-adult and an adult. It is a thousand different things and the type of game you enjoy playing is not necessarily a good indicator on its own.
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by placebo 6mo ago
You already stated the reason you think why so many people are in total denial. If indeed the reason is indeed a sense of threat to what people take themselves to be then I would be very surprised if the response would have been any differe
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by placebo 7mo ago
Grok's thoughts on the matter: "In an ideal world, I'd want xAI to emulate the maturity Anthropic showed here: affirm willingness to help defend democracies (including via classified/intel/defense tools), sacrifice
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by placebo 9mo ago
Basic on a RadioShack TRS-80. Guess I'm one of the older dinosaurs here.
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by placebo 9mo ago
The very fact that people are arguing with a non-existent author signals that whatever generated the content did a good enough job to fool them today. Tomorrow it will do a good enough job to fool you. I think the more important question is
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by placebo 9mo ago
This got me thinking: I am not about to fight windmills and the future will unfold as it will, but I think the idea of "LLM as a compiler of ideas to high-level languages" can turn out to be quite dangerous. It is one thing to rel
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by placebo 11mo ago
Even if this is true, a possible takeaway is that after the bubble bursts and the dust settles, AI's effect will be 17 times stronger than that of the Internet... Personally, I think it will end up being much higher, but that doesn&#x2
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by placebo 11mo ago
I actually did exactly that for a product back in the days when there was no open implementation. IRC, SMTP, POP3, DNS. Good times :)
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by placebo 1y ago
Really surprised there in no mention of William of Ockham - you know, the guy that made razors...
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by placebo 1y ago
Thank you. Was subscribed to it around 1981-1983. Eagerly waited every month for it to make its way across the Atlantic so I could dig into all the fascinating new technologies. I'm sure it had a great influence on my interests and eve
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by placebo 1y ago
I'm not saying this isn't the GPT-5 system prompt, but on what basis should I believe it? There is no background story, no references. Searching for it yields other candidates (e.g https://github.com/guy915/LL
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by placebo 1y ago
The correct analogy to me is that being able to run fast will not help you that much in building a rocket to take you to the moon. I'm open to changing my mind though if presented with a solid counter argument.

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