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by satisfice 24d ago
My son is on such medication and he swears by it. I suffer from ADHD, probably-- enough that I wrote a book about how I couldn't abide school and can't force my brain to think about arbitrary things. I developed ways of dealing wi
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This Fact About KPIs May Surprise You(satisfice.com)
8 points by satisfice 24d ago|6 comments
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by satisfice 25d ago
Productivity is not the most important thing to me— because it’s too easy to get the wrong things done.
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by satisfice 25d ago
I’m surprised that someone who claims that formal education is so important would make such a clumsy, unsupported argument. A big problem with the notion that a university degree is necessary for success— apart from the obvious counterexamp
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by satisfice 1mo ago
You just did.
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by satisfice 1mo ago
More like developers are now testers and nobody is doing QA.
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by satisfice 1mo ago
Interesting that the phrase “words do mean things” is ambiguous: it either means “words actually have meaning” or “words can hurt peoples’ feelings.”
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by satisfice 2mo ago
I’m impressed with how vapid a post can be and still find success on Hacker News.
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by satisfice 2mo ago
They got rid of test managers. Then testers. The industry said everyone should be responsible for testing— which means no one is. Now AI tests? Except not really. It claims to perform testing. It’s still up to us to review and remediate.
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by satisfice 2mo ago
It is a fact that humans are able to de-humanize each other. This is bad. But that is not an argument or reason for anthropomorphizing every inanimate object. And if you want to draw the line somewhere, so that only some inanimate objects a
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by satisfice 2mo ago
Yes. Also, LLMs are not people. They are not going to be people. And the only people who think they SHOULD be people either don't care about the destruction of humanity (they must want total war?) or can't be bothered to think abo
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by satisfice 2mo ago
Not done. I can write a BASIC program that says “PRINT ‘I do not want to die’” This does not mean it is an entity that does not want to die. But that does not matter anyway. We cannot allow informational entities to attain the same status a
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by satisfice 2mo ago
Yes, so what? Rocks are also not people. I declare it. But you think there is some problem with calling rocks not people? The fact of declaring something a non-person does not prove it is a non-person. But in the case of LLMs we do know th
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by satisfice 2mo ago
That’s not a call for slavery. Because only people can be slaves. We don’t need legislation to declare that a solid iron bar is not your mommy, but somehow not everyone is clear that LLMs are not people, and these immortal amoral simulation
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by satisfice 2mo ago
Women are real? What does that mean? They are real what? Real womeny? Womenesque?
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by satisfice 2mo ago
Bullshitting has potentially severe consequences to the bullshitter. A good reputation is worth a lot. Of course, Elon Musk makes many millions with his bullshit. I admit that.
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by satisfice 2mo ago
This has nothing to do with creativity ending. It sounds like those videos were utterly unremarkable, and the author is telling the story of people with low standards. It’s as if two guest brought food from two different hamburger chains, e
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by satisfice 2mo ago
If counterfeit or stolen cash is indistinguishable from real or honest cash, should you accept it? Should you spend it? No. Why? Because doing so erodes and potentially destroys society. Whether you agree that a con artist is only a crimina
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by satisfice 2mo ago
“AI generated” is already a slur.
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by satisfice 2mo ago
If I am asked a question, and I refer it to an LLM, that’s because I have no respect for you.
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by satisfice 2mo ago
I can’t read it. Am I AI? Bleep blorp?
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by satisfice 2mo ago
"Quality is the absence of problems" is an example of the reification fallacy, because a problem is not a fixed thing. A problem is only a problem because someone decides it is so. This is why a better definition is "quality
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by satisfice 2mo ago
Once again, Dr. Dolittle’s seminal work is ignored.
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by satisfice 3mo ago
This is inkblot test. Some will read it and see fundamental irrationality. Others will read it and say “it could have worked out if a couple of things had gone their way.” The story could be change with just a few sentences in the middle th
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Recollections of Going Up Against Microsoft(youtube.com)
2 points by satisfice 3mo ago|0 comments
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by satisfice 3mo ago
If you “get out of the way” you also lose your situational awareness and become and outsider to your own work.
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by satisfice 3mo ago
It's not a good look to start a comment with any variation of "you're being rude," either. So I guess both of us are prickly? You misunderstood my blog post in an odd way that's hard for me to account for unless you
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by satisfice 3mo ago
I bet those henchmen in Bond movies thought that the volcano base was merely a government-funded secret research facility.
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by satisfice 3mo ago
If you are serious, then AI has already begin to rot your brain. My post was much more than saying “don’t use AI.” I use AI. I even use AI adjacent to my writing. But with me, you always know that my written words are directly from me. Th
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by satisfice 3mo ago
I don’t use autocomplete, either. But if I did that would not be hypocritical. Autocomplete does not operate on the level of key ideas. The “humans are just as bad” argument holds no water. Humans have many infirmities, but you can form rel

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