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by tomlue 7mo ago
That is a fair point. You could look at enterprise adoption though, also very high, and not cheap at all.
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by tomlue 7mo ago
https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/sep/rapid-ado...
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by tomlue 7mo ago
"This time is different" has been correct for every major technological shift in history. Electricity was different. Antibiotics were different. Semiconductors were different. Gen AI reached 39% adoption in two years (internet too
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by tomlue 9mo ago
how sure are you that an llm won't be better at reviewing code for safety than most humans, and eventually, most experts?
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by tomlue 9mo ago
I think maybe you missed that my response was to this comment: > How can you be grateful enough to want to send someone such a letter but not grateful enough to write one? I already said in other comments that the OP was a different situ
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by tomlue 9mo ago
I agree about the abuse, and the OP is probably a good example of that. Do you have any ideas on how to curtail abuse? Ideas I often hear usually assume it is easy to discern AI content from human, which is wrong, especially at scale. Eithe
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by tomlue 9mo ago
Yeah it can be a risk or a benefit for sure. I agree that struggle matters. I don’t think deep understanding comes without effort. My point isn’t that those hours were wasted, it’s that the same learning can often happen with fewer dead end
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by tomlue 9mo ago
Totally agree, but also, I still spend tons of time struggling and working on things with LLMs, it is just a different kind of struggle, and I do think I am getting much better at it over time. > I know that the intellectually resilient
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by tomlue 9mo ago
I think you are right that it is a spectrum, and maybe that's enough to settle the debate. It is more about how you use it than the tool itself. Maybe one more useful consideration for LLMs. If a friend writes to me with an LLM and dis
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by tomlue 9mo ago
Forgive a sharp example, but consider someone who is disabled and cannot write or speak well. If they send a loving letter to a family member using an LLM to help form words and sentences they otherwise could not, do you really think the re
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by tomlue 9mo ago
This feels like the essential divide to me. I see this often with junior developers. You can use AI to write a lot of your code, and as a side effect you might start losing your ability to code. You can also use it to learn new languages, c
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by tomlue 9mo ago
> I’m sorry, but this really gets to me. Your writing is not improved. It is no longer your writing. Photographers use cameras. Does that mean it isn't their art? Painters use paintbrushes. It might not be the the same things as wri
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by tomlue 9mo ago
This is disingenuous
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by tomlue 9mo ago
good point. My response was to the comment not the OP
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by tomlue 9mo ago
If I spend hours writing and rewriting a paragraph into something I love while using AI to iterate, did I write that paragraph? edit: Also, I think maybe you don't appreciate the people who struggle to write well. They are not proud of
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by tomlue 9mo ago
I think what all theses kinds of comments miss is that AI can be help people to express their own ideas. I used AI to write a thank you to a non-english speaking relative. A person struggling with dimentia can use AI to help remember the wo
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by tomlue 1y ago
The things that we enjoy in life are mostly driven by habit. Best to drive your habits to things that are good for you. Also, the world has changed so much in the last 5 years. It's not clear to me that radical life extension won'
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by tomlue 1y ago
you could also propagate loss into the tools themselves.
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by tomlue 2y ago
I wish I had realized this when I was younger. People overestimate raw intelligence and underestimate sheer persistence. Just staying with a problem longer—pushing past the point where most would quit—feels almost like magic. Time + focus c
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by tomlue 2y ago
Completely agree. Though I think this statement could benefit from pointing out that cars also help people go much faster, and do things they otherwise couldn't.
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by tomlue 2y ago
Where is the study? Isn't 15% huge?
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by tomlue 2y ago
I think it ends up being a sort of an evolved trait. Somebody in a full remote company doesn't show up for work one day, they notice that the next day nobody says anything, nobody noticed, or nobody cared. Over time, this leads to disc
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by tomlue 2y ago
I run a bootstrapped cheminformatics company that’s been gaining traction, and I currently own it outright. I’m genuinely interested in a model like you’re describing—something that aligns everyone’s incentives and keeps them at the top of
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by tomlue 2y ago
> We apparently get enough protein due daily consumption and the avg sporty person doesn't need protein powder. I don't know what that means. The amount of protein people get varies dramatically. Chicken is a remarkably efficie
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by tomlue 2y ago
This comment may unnecessarily discourage people from using metformin. - There is no evidence linking metformin to PSP, let alone a causal relationship. - PSP is also very rare, prevalence ~ 7 per 100,000 [1]. - Metformin is used by 100+ mi
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by tomlue 2y ago
I wasn't really trying to be negative about the original post. That last 10% can be super valuable for many people!
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by tomlue 2y ago
just want to mention that it's like a few hours to set up some google sheets scripts to set up 90% of this yourself.
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by tomlue 2y ago
weird, I've lived in the US most of my life and I think pretty much everyone washes their hands?
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by tomlue 2y ago
you should totally spend some time thinking and experimenting with the monty hall problem then. It might not be as tricky as you think.
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by tomlue 2y ago
My point was that the experts were blinded by arrogance. Even back then most ( almost all? ) statisticians were capable of understanding the monte hall problem. Yet they just assumed that a woman was wrong when she explained something that

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