thoughtpeddler

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by thoughtpeddler 5d ago
Reminds me of what happened once most people and households transitioned to individually-carried cellphones as opposed to the 'house phone' (i.e. landline). You used to have to call 'the house' before you got routed to s
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by thoughtpeddler 9d ago
Great piece. Fully agreed. We must actively fight to ensure we remain empowered and centered within this experience.
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"Intelligence curse" means promise of abundance and UBI unlikely to be fulfilled(intelligence-curse.ai)
7 points by thoughtpeddler 9d ago|0 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 13d ago
Reminds me of this post from earlier in the year (from a VC, Michael Dempsey) titled "VC-Backed Startups are Low Status"[0], which I'm inclined to agree with, having been in the industry for over 15 years now and witnessing h
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by thoughtpeddler 14d ago
For all the people here alleging that AI companies will train on your data even when you as a user explicitly opt out of training and their terms say they will respect that, etc - do you also believe that within a few years of them having h
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Why Software Developers Are Highly Unrepresentative of Broader AI Use(paulkedrosky.com)
3 points by thoughtpeddler 14d ago|0 comments
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ChatGPT Subsidy Chart reveals $3k monthly spend nets $62k API-equivalent value(aicharts.io)
1 points by thoughtpeddler 14d ago|0 comments
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My girlfriend asked me why I have 15 Codex subscriptions(hraness.com)
2 points by thoughtpeddler 14d ago|1 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 14d ago
Newport does tend to be more level-headed, but honestly, the people that have gotten AI 'right' so far (in the true technical sense of how scaling laws held, etc) had their strong convictions set back in the mid-2010s, when Newpor
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by thoughtpeddler 14d ago
Doesn't it say something about our society that (a) it's known (at least among smart people, however 'smart' is defined) that AI is going to take away jobs, and (b) the way its treated is that people gather to online d
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Smuggled Infinities (2023)(adventurecapital.substack.com)
1 points by thoughtpeddler 16d ago|1 comments
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Anthropic's Claude for Mac desktop app now has built-in browser(thenewstack.io)
5 points by thoughtpeddler 18d ago|0 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 19d ago
Not sure the larger point you're trying to make (maybe we're on the same page?), but it's a fact that AI has come from heavy long-term investments by the academic and public sectors, yet private companies are accruing most of
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by thoughtpeddler 19d ago
From my hazy recollection from law school, the US appeals courts are called "circuits" because back in the day, they weren't actual buildings but rather judges that would go around town-to-town within their jurisdiction in a
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by thoughtpeddler 19d ago
Spend a lot of time thinking about why individuals shouldn't trust large AI cos, now it's interesting getting to think about how the AI companies themselves don't trust each other. Capitalism is viciously cold and uncaring.
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A deep dive into Grok Bot(flaviocopes.com)
2 points by thoughtpeddler 19d ago|0 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 20d ago
Agree with rewriting with Gemini, but I'd characterize its output as very "neutral" and "encyclopedic", rather than "human" (contra Claude which is as of recent models "trying-too-hard-to-be-human&quo
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by thoughtpeddler 21d ago
I had a student in my class propose an "AI for emergency response" that leveraged local models. Not a far stretch from what we see here with CoMaps, plus a small Gemma or similar low-parameter model running on-device to help with
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by thoughtpeddler 21d ago
The meta on this post is that the minimalist blog design by iamwillwang.com is itself really cool. Great work!
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by thoughtpeddler 24d ago
What if it was stood up by a swarm of AIs themselves?
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by thoughtpeddler 28d ago
My experience as a practitioner and educator in the space lead me to think it might be an issue of how AI cannot be easily perceived at a 'classical level' by most humans. In other words, people are 'far from the metal'
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by thoughtpeddler 28d ago
What do you recommend people who are technically inclined enough to participate meaningfully here on HN, but do not work at the labs and cannot assist in that capacity, do to help the broader public understand this technology better and mit
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by thoughtpeddler 29d ago
GutHub, a SaaS for tracking your gut microbiome
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by thoughtpeddler 29d ago
These discussions always gloss over the reliability of delivery (i.e. is your email making it to the intended inbox or getting squashed into spam, or even shot down before making it to the recipient), especially when custom domains are used
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I don't want to work in a factory(jaspercroo.me)
3 points by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago|1 comments
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OpenAI launches Computer History to track macOS activity as memory timeline(thenewstack.io)
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
I found myself so strongly endorsing almost every remark and impression in this post - are we the same person?? AI truly is dual-use: it can lead to immense speed ups on 'research rabbit-holes' that used to take a lot of manual wo
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Lovable raises $400M Series C(lovable.dev)
167 points by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago|201 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
Great work! Love the harnessing of Apple's local inference. Wondering if you'd be willing to support the same conversational export, summarization, and search/retrieval flows but for the consumer platforms (ChatGPT and Claude
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Life on the Uncanny Precipice(nsaphra.net)
1 points by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago|0 comments

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