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I spent three months in another country where I didn’t apeak the language very well. Hard not to see life’s brutal realities from that position

He did alright, he might have been right 20 years ago too

I was incredibly more naive and idealistic 2 years ago. Seeing the world more accurately than I did before has been quite the shock

I just will never understand how you all can have your head so deep in the sand.

LLM's are already transformative. I get thinking it isn't going to solve all the world problems, but, companies throughout the entire world are already using it at enormous numbers. Transformative means it changes the world, it already has. It does not mean it changes your life.

Indeed, I’ve heard so many people misunderstand it because of this type of wording. Like there is still some plan and series of steps we’re following - which really misses the whole point and why it’s worth knowing in the first place

What did people do 500 years ago?

That’s like, just your opinion man.

I disagree, but I think neither of us are going to benefit from continuing this discussion.

I think there are a lot of situations unaccounted for here

- people writing in a non native language

- people insecure in their writing

- people not used to writing in industry terms

- people with the curse of knowledge that are aware that they can’t write for a general audience well

Surely others too. None of those mean you have to read it, but I have gotten immense value from reading some things people have had ai write (and I’ve seen a ton of junk as well)

Nah, I used $1500 in api prices last week, after caching (8900 ignoring caching) for what amounts to $50 a week. They’re nowhere near api prices yet

The US is meeting with China to discuss the threat of AI… May be fine but, i’m wary

And yet the world still turned

Hahaha, that’s a good joke

Classic example of victim blaming. Not the company generating the ad, not the company approving it, but the person who is trying to block it, and then ACTUALLY did stop using Adsense.

One of my early programming jobs was bringing a print newspaper to the web. I was actually going through some of my emails from that time yesterday, which brought back a lot of memories. I was largely despised by most of the staff. Some told me the internet was a fad, others assumed I thought I was better than them. The editor kept insecurely saying “I know you think I’m a dinosaur and don’t want to hear what I have to say but…” the thing is… I didn’t think they were dinosaurs at all. I had enormous respect for them (it’s why I applied!), I knew the internet was inevitable and wanted to salvage as much as I could of what I loved.

The internet did change their industry and the world. Many of them did lose their jobs. That is what technology does. Efficiencies mean someone somewhere is no longer needed. That was hard for me to accept for a long time, but if you have programmed professionally long enough you have almost definitely indirectly contributed to some job loss. (And new jobs as well! But… to the people who do lose their jobs, there is little comfort in that)

I think what is worth keeping in mind though is 1) wishing something away wont make it so, so it is best to do your best to avoid putting your head in the sand, and 2) while many many people will be completely uprooted (sometimes in miserable ways) that is not at all a statement about them. The journalists of before were and are still incredible people, the brick layers too. Us doing work that wasn’t automatable before did not make us better than them, or even more creative than them.

No, but it makes sense to me that we’d need to go through this step to get where we want to go

And storing memories for every “footgun” it finds, while removing more important memories (or shortening them until they’re inaccurate or useless)

While I agree 1000 is hilariously low for this, worth is hard to quantify. Do you pay what it could theoretically cost your company? the amount the top bidding bad actor would be willing to pay?

The first time I heard of Ed Zitron was 18 or so years ago when he wrote a review of the Darkfall MMORPG. He tore it to pieces, but as someone who played the game I could tell he had never actually played it, which is what the game developers also claimed when they reviewed his logged in session, that he did nothing for 30 minutes then logged out (I might be a bit off on the details, it has been awhile). He’s always been someone who wont let the truth get in the way of his success. I really hope people start valuing accuracy over confidence

Sure sure sure

You are allowed to have an opinion on her 20k bag addiction

I start with the first word, then move on to the second and so forth, letting the overall idea of what I am reading in my mind grow as I get further and further

Good god man, get a grip

What reality are you living in?

I know large earthquakes are effectively random (ignoring aftershocks) but this feels like a lot this year, yeah?

In some circles using soap used to put you in the worst of the worst

When the consequences of the government not abusing it isn’t devastating.

By this argument, could you ever attribute suicide to anything? Nothing is ever “solely” responsible

What would you like done?

Fascism with a different name