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antithesizer

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antithesizer··on Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl
Discovering Perl made me feel like a god.
antithesizer··on Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)
Thank you for this
antithesizer··on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%
So the skill of the prompter, their domain knowledge and how they utilize it in the prompting, is a coefficient attenuating the performance of the LLM-system itself. That's not terribly surprising, is it?
antithesizer··on The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens
This is what I call self-sacrifice.
antithesizer··on What went wrong for Yahoo
What do you do when you have a product whose value will inevitably drop in the medium/long-term? Squeeze every penny out of it while you still can. There is no solution to the SEO arms race, like there was no way Yahoo's blandly curated portal could stay relevant in the era of social media. He's the right man for the job. Google search has been doomed for a long time. It is another Yahoo.
antithesizer··on Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them
It's fascinating how utterly dominated science is by economics. Even truth itself needs an angle.
antithesizer··on Rising Graduate Joblessness Is Mainly Affecting Men
Apparently they have been
antithesizer··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Reading through this comment section of people whose 'big brains' won't even allow them to come to the correct conclusion about whether or not products have declined in quality over time, I am awestruck by the fact that knowledge of anything is ever possible under any circumstances.

Truly, human beings deserve no respect. Only pity.

antithesizer··on The great AI delusion is falling apart
I'm concerned that journalism is all empty hype these days. What with their long, costly, quixotic, roll-out of endless, more-or-less identical, attempts to explain away AI, which, despite constantly shifting PR have long since plateaued in quality and ceased to wow the public.
antithesizer··on It Would Be Good If the AI Bubble Burst
You could prove it yourself if you actually care whether or not it's true and aren't just positioning yourself in an imaginary debate so you can claim "burden of proof". If what they're saying is true then it will still be true whether any proof is posted by them here or not.
antithesizer··on Is this the death of the late night US chat show?
Certainly not, as anyone with YouTube or Rumble knows. There have never been more such talk shows than there are now. But cable TV's efforts can't compete.
antithesizer··on NYC's office-to-residential conversions could create 17,000 new homes
Among other things, a culture of shoppers who know to look upstairs
antithesizer··on Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price
Well aside from the difference mentioned in the title
antithesizer··on Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price
I find your apparent faith that there might be some possibility that this isn't just a ploy to squeeze more money out of customers frankly inexplicable at this point. Were you born recently?
antithesizer··on U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation
>not even noticing how ideological the "need" to cut is

Whitey still on the moon

antithesizer··on U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation
A decade into his political career and we're still doing this.
antithesizer··on Regarding Prollyferation: Followup to "People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees"
You were basically right about Bitcoin, but tragically mistaken about the wisdom of getting in on the ground floor of the biggest Ponzi(-ish) scheme in history.
antithesizer··on I want to leave tech: what do I do?
Wow! Tech people have a really difficult time figuring out normal people's diction!
antithesizer··on The Zen of Quakerism (2016)
Buddhism is a lot less "zen" than Quakerism.
antithesizer··on There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets
The big horizon isn't just incorporating another sensory modality, it's what Heidegger called being-in-the-world, living among us as a human-like social being. That advancement depends on robotics to provide emboddied experience.
antithesizer··on Estrogen: A Trip Report
Amen
antithesizer··on Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task
>Authoring is two-thirds of the point of most communication.

Not when there's money to be made.

antithesizer··on Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis
More like hype-induced spiritual psychosis

Entirely distinct from the extremely scientific, definitely not psychotic beliefs people have about AGI, the Singularity, and various basilisks which shall remain nameless...

antithesizer··on David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
Depends which story. Every death is the end of somebody's world.
antithesizer··on David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
The bombs not dropped here today remain available to be dropped elsewhere tomorrow, so perhaps we shouldn't pat ourselves on the back just yet.
antithesizer··on The Emperor's New LLM
Your phrasing betrays your anthropomorphization of the insufferable pedant.
antithesizer··on Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?
I suspect there are many of us out there slowly but surely transforming into plumbers.
antithesizer··on You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)
You weren't meant to work a job for money either.
antithesizer··on Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy
If democracy builds supercomputers (and bombs, propaganda, prisons) for autocrats, of what good is democracy? The evidence points strongly to democracy and autocracy being friends, even "good cop, bad cop"
antithesizer··on Hollywood Is Already Using AI (and Hiding It)
Or between artists in private and artists in public
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