prime_ursid

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by prime_ursid 22d ago
If the climate effects don’t get you, the political fallout of a million climate refugees showing up at your borders will.
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by prime_ursid 1mo ago
Wouldn’t that be against TOS?
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by prime_ursid 1mo ago
Source: it was revealed to me in a dream
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by prime_ursid 1mo ago
The trajectory is that the LLM providers have been making prompting increasingly dead-simple for the past 2 years. Any edge a group of individuals may have in knowing how to use LLMs gets absorbed into the LLM product.
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by prime_ursid 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill's_law > What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away
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by prime_ursid 3mo ago
Nah, I disagree. I can see why you think this is another piece glorifying engineers at the expense of the business. However, as a technical founder in a former life, I saw a handful of mistakes that the engineers made. Lack of focus, lack o
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by prime_ursid 3mo ago
This is a technique called LLM-as-Judge. Well-studied at this point. Here’s a good intro: https://www.evidentlyai.com/llm-guide/llm-as-a-judge I recommend reading Hamel.dev posts. Here’s an example: https://
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by prime_ursid 3mo ago
> If you ever listen to music and sing along, even for a few seconds, the volume cuts Yup, and I also have this problem when I laugh out loud listening to comedy podcasts.
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by prime_ursid 3mo ago
> We have tolerated low quality art for far too long because we pretend mechanical dexterity is what makes art, art. Who is “we” in this sentence? A tiny subsection of metalheads? The vast majority of people aren’t seeking out the most m
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by prime_ursid 7mo ago
I felt the same way and came to the comments to see if anyone else smelled it. It's either AI-assisted writing or people are genuinely starting to write like how ChatGPT sounds. First, the structure of this satirical post is headings a
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by prime_ursid 8mo ago
And where did those people get their Masters degrees and PhDs from?
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by prime_ursid 8mo ago
Another reason: individual liberty is and has been an important value in the tech community since the 1960s.
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by prime_ursid 8mo ago
If choosing your place of employment to align with your values is a “virtue signal,” then maybe we should all be signaling our virtues a lot more.
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
This is so sad. I read this comment a few hours ago and keep thinking about it. You seem to be making a relatively good effort to understand but coming up short. Our society is so cooked, man. We don’t even realize how over it is, and even
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
If you’d trust generative AI over a physician, go in wide-eyed knowing that you’re still placing your trust in some group of people. You just don’t have an individual to blame if something goes wrong, but rather the entire supply chain that
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
“Labor power” in this context refers to unions, collective bargaining, and so on. The NLRB has been de facto shut down by this administration.
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DynaVR Paul, Killed in His Labyrinth [Satire](suboptimalism.neocities.org)
1 points by prime_ursid 1y ago|2 comments
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
A blog post from a parody of Silicon Valley productivity blogs.
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
Finally, someone in this thread says this. Thank you! This opinion column from The Hill is written by a Fox News contributor. Of course it’s going to leave out certain inconvenient facts in service of a nativist agenda. The HN community tim
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
One of the rebuttals at the end of the post addresses this. > That’s only true when you’re in a large corporation. When you’re by yourself, when you’re the stakeholder as well as the developer, you’re not in meetings. You're telling
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
How many of those users are paying users? What’s the churn rate? And how profitable are OpenAI and other providers? They’re running at a loss. The startups using LLMs as their product are only viable as long as they get free credits from Op
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
Sometimes the tradeoff is that someone gets richer / inflates their ego while most people’s lives get worse in a tangible way.
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
The way you phrased it reveals how these model providers have framed the conversation in their favor. Models don’t “think.”
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by prime_ursid 1y ago
No serious attempts yet but there are seeds being sown by high-profile right wingers to manufacture consent: https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-ca...