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by somestag 2y ago
I'm continually shocked at how well companies can continue on despite serious internal problems. I do think it usually catches up with them though, and there are a lot of "terminally ill" products out there that are going to
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by somestag 3y ago
There is no "the consumer."
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by somestag 3y ago
I agree with your point, but I think the honest answer to your question is that people view creative jobs as aspirational whereas the other "rote" jobs that were being automated away were ones that people would have preferred to a
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by somestag 3y ago
Well, everyone is different biologically and every drug affects everyone differently, I didn't mean that there's no biodiversity between people. What I meant was that these stimulants don't function differently based on wheth
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by somestag 3y ago
I don't agree with them, but I don't agree with you either. Spreading fake science and medicine is fundamentally harmful to society, and doing it just because you want to trip legally is not a good enough excuse. This is like a te
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by somestag 3y ago
I don't agree with the parent that it's okay to lie about the health effects of a drug just because you want it legalized, but I feel like you missed the forest for the trees here. When a drug is stigmatized in the United States,
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by somestag 3y ago
Some people take psychedelics for the feeling of connectivity, and there is some talk out there about psychedelics being healthy for the brain and "helping the brain form new connections" (all of that is based on very limited ev
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by somestag 3y ago
Agree. Amusingly, the authors found evidence that the drugs work: students spent more time focusing on even the easy version of the task. The impulse to "be done" with something and stop focusing on it is one of the things stimula
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by somestag 3y ago
I think the difference in our perspectives is the type of studios we work for. In a AAA studio what you're saying makes perfect sense. But I've worked entirely for small- and mid-size studios where developers are often asked to he
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by somestag 3y ago
Yeah, regardless of hallucinations and repeating the same mistake even after you tell it to fix it, iterating with ChatGPT is so much less stressful than iterating with another engineer. I almost ruined my relationship with a coworker becau
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by somestag 3y ago
I had a friend jokingly poke fun at me for the way I was writing ChatGPT prompts. It seemed, to him, like I was going out of my way to be nice and helpful to an AI. It was a bit of an aha moment for him when I told him that helping the AI a
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by somestag 3y ago
Interesting. I also work in game development, and I tend to work on project-specific optimization problems, and I've had the opposite experience. If I have to solve a hairy problem specific to our game's architecture, obviously I&
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by somestag 3y ago
You've jumped to quite a few conclusions here. You said that ads are misinformation because they try to convince you to buy something that may or may not be in your best interest to buy. My response to this is that's a ridiculous
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by somestag 3y ago
I think I agree with basically your whole comment but I'm wondering if you could explain what you mean by "software-only AGI". Obviously all software runs on hardware, and creating specialized hardware to run certain types of
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by somestag 3y ago
I like this comment because I think it highlights the exact difference between AI optimists and AI cynics. I think you'll find that AGI cynics do not agree at all that "engineering a 10x/100x version" of what we have and
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by somestag 3y ago
Yes, 1/3 and 1/6 are quite important. Do enough making and you will run into those fractions plenty. It just turns out that in practice, as you say, easy unit conversions outweigh the benefit of clean division. Metric's impor
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by somestag 3y ago
Honestly I disagree with this pretty strongly. First, I (and many people that I know) do get upset when an ad misrepresents a product and we get burned. It happens all the time, and people complain about it constantly. You might argue this
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by somestag 3y ago
Presumably something like "a string is a sequence of characters" would be a good first answer, though it might prompt some follow-up questions. I love how questions like this suddenly become more complicated when you have a deeper
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by somestag 6y ago
To go even deeper, using your example... What counts as "injured" or "killed"? If shots are fired and the resulting human stampede kills 4 people, does that count as 4 mass shooting deaths? Obviously the shooter is at f
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by somestag 6y ago
Agreed. And to add, rebuilding is usually a faster and smoother process than building the first time, which I've found to be true for both physical and mental/emotional feats. It's very rare that all that "wasted" t
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by somestag 6y ago
There are strategies that tend to have better success rates than others—and to be clear, I think this blog post gives good advice—but I'm suspicious of any "successful" strategy that is merely the most recent in a long line o
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by somestag 6y ago
Yes, this is a huge problem throughout the industry. The tech world is gibberish. The real world is gibberish too, but the comparatively large number of tech products (because of the ease of releasing software) really exacerbates the proble
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by somestag 6y ago
I wish that were what happens. Then maybe management would learn over time and the industry would smarten up. Instead what happens is that the old developers built big things on-time so they were "good developers," and then the
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by somestag 6y ago
Sure, that's reasonable. Your original comment sounded more like, "Why do people even care?" but I'm totally onboard with the idea that actually implementing something like that is very problematic. From the customer p
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by somestag 6y ago
> verification of authenticity is, to me, something that is just completely fucked in terms of even being an idea. Do these same customers get angry when they find out the movie they just paid to see was fiction? I mean, I think they wou
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by somestag 6y ago
I just finished reading Ubik , so this is eerily timed for me. I have trouble interpreting discoveries like these because my understanding of (neuro)biology is limited. For example, this: > At the cellular level, these brains are very c
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by somestag 6y ago
> There must be differences in how people perceive lag Yeah, the only conclusion I've been able to come to is that some people are just more sensitive to lag than others. If we're talking purely about enjoyment, then being sens
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by somestag 6y ago
I think it's cool people are finding value from these game streaming services. I remember when I first tried the Steam Link and thought there was some real potential there, and these services offer an even better convenience propositio
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by somestag 9y ago
Maybe I didn't make it clear, but my point on the carpentry thing was that it's not clear to me that the average philosophy student is much better at critical thinking than the average, say, history student. My response to the c
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by somestag 9y ago
You specifically mention the second edition of the book. Is there a particular reason you would not recommend the "revisited" third edition? I'm not sure if you're actively recommending against it, or if you're just

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