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That's the one thing I dislike about the ban: that it helps zuckergram

Yes. No.

(Although that No is getting a bit blurry with US social media bending over for commander cheeto)

By “this” I think they meant this moment in time rather than the ban being a result of societal scrutiny.

I left most socials years ago. Feedly for aggregation and desktop reading, and Reeder as a client for it on iDevices.

yeah it’s fun out on the wild internet! Thankfully I don’t manage something thing crawlable anymore but even so the endpoint traffic is pretty entertaining sometimes.

What would keep me up at night if I was still more on the ops side is “computer use” AI that’s virtually indistinguishable from a human with a browser. How do you keep the junk away then?

Note I said outgoing, as in the crawlers should be throttling themselves

If you’re unable to throttle your own outgoing requests you shouldn’t be making any

That’s so funny, I’ve thought of this exact idea several times over the last couple of weeks. As usual someone beat me to it :D

Meanwhile I’m reading this while I should be coding

I wish it had - I’d vote for the person fighting for my right to party

> It's right on the tin, "Feed"

+5 Insightful

musk takes Ambien; explains a few things

No. “Anti-woke” people have latched onto the “prig” aspects of social justice because being against what it’s actually about would highlight what they really have a problem with: equality.

If someone says “hey you can’t say the n-word, that’s racist” and someone’s reply is “don’t censor me!” the latter isn’t advocating for freedom of speech, they’re advocating for racism.

Defining what “woke” means in terms of the fake justifications of the “anti-woke” crowd is BS. What people labelled as “woke” want is for people to treat people better. “Anti-woke” doesn’t want that.

yeah I guess if passive means no ongoing work (beyond what it took to get them in the first place) then you're right. OP is playing a bit loose with the definition if that's what it's supposed to mean.

But you have to work to get those assets, just like building a website

Please god let it be something other than faux surprise and arrows

If there’s no border between him and the Apparatus then his is literally the face of the Apparatus.

I see what you’re saying. Maybe in a novice or learning type situation having the LLM generate code you need to check for errors could be educational. We all learn from debugging afterall. On the flip I suspect for most people course questions might be better for that however. For those already good at the craft I agree there might be some unexplored secondary effects.

What I find (being in the latter category) is most LLM code output falls on the spectrum of “small snippets that work but wouldn’t have taken me long to type out anyway” to “large chunk that saves me time to write but that I have to thoroughly check/test/tweak”. In other words, the more time it saves typing the more time I have to spend on it afterwards. Novices probably spend more time on the former part of that spectrum and experienced devs on the latter. I suspect the average productivity increase across the spectrum is fairly level which means the benefits don’t really scale with user ability.

I think this tracks with the main thing people need to understand about LLMs: they are a tool. Like any tool simply having access to it doesn’t automatically make you good at the thing it helps with. It might help you learn and it might help you do the thing better, but it will not do your job for you.

It was somewhat tongue in cheek ;) but between real, human impacting principles and made up stories about fairies I'll take the former every time.

I love that complaining about language policing is language policing

I guess you could call turning your social media site into a toilet, causing anyone with any sense of pride or morality to leave, neutralizing “wokeness”.

The difference is religion’s justification is the words of a fictitious being whereas “wokeness” stems from principles of equality and tolerance.

Surely some adherents of each use it to feel righeous/superior, but in only one case is it actually justified.

> i.e. the morality of homelessness and not having a disdain for them but empathy for them instead.

> people on the American political right see it as what this website describes it as “ A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.”

I think those are just two perspectives on the same situation. “wokeness” is realizing we should be treating people better and “anti-wokness” is people feeling called out by that.

People tend not to like it being pointed out that they are assholes, especially when they know it’s true. That’s pretty much the whole “anti-woke” thing in a nut.

I don’t know about “be nice” - Personally the expression I equate it with is “live and let live” (or maybe “quit being an asshole”)

It’s a reaction to discrimination. If there wasn’t racism and sexism and discrimination there would be no “wokeness”

So congrats righties, you got what you asked for

This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. If you could do it yourself then LLMs can be a great help, speeding things up, offering suggestions and alternatives etc.

But if you’re asking for something you don’t know how to do you might end up with junk and not even know it.

I sense a new position coming up: slop cleanup engineer

They aren't, but it's unfair from them to benefit from the tilt.

> It's just calling a LLM n-times with slightly different prompts

It can be, but ideally each agent’s model, prompts and tools are tailored to a particular knowledge domain. That way tasks can be broken down into subtasks which are classified and passed to the agents best suited to them.

Agree RE it being bruteforce and expensive but it does look like it can improve some aspects of LLM use.

The difference is with capitalism people are climbing into the pods of their own accord, having deluded themselves into believing maybe someday they’ll be the machines.

I’ll recommend Groove Salad from Soma FM (avail through TuneIn) for chill too, great station and no ads