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Right wing is not an identity either. Don't mess around with terms you don't understand. Do some research.

> I'm free to change my name at any time, is my name not considered a part of my identity?

You can change your name to conceal elements of your identity just like you could wear clothes that cover your skin color. So sure, you can hide elements of your identity but changing your name won't change your family history or ethnicity.

Growing up in a Republican family might be an identity but producing lots of blogs, videos, and commercial products within the right wing prepper lifestyle is not an identity. Just do a little research thanks

"prepper" is not an identity. I looked up this guy, he has crazy takes he's free to change at any time (so not an "identity" in any way) and id rather not read him.

Well that's why threads like this are important to upvote. On hacker news , they're angry !

yup, or "I played a first person shooter and shot lots of bad guys"

wrong! pushed buttons on your playstation in response to graphical simulations, duh

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

the best thing it could do, and once in awhile it does, is say, "hey that's really not a great way to do this and I'm not sure I could really make that work"

ive had very long sessions with LLMs that obviously didnt know how to do something where i keep trying to get it to stop going in circles, but these days I have become attuned to noticing the "it's going in circles" pattern quickly, which is basically how it communicates "sorry I dont really know how to do that".

it seems likely it's both a better model to some unknown extent and doing this "we have to give it to the defenders first" thing is super great marketing material. it seems an entirely natural marketing campaign "announce that we can't even give the model to everyone at first, it's so great!", plus there's some truth to it, even better.

unless you are an employee at anthropic and shouldn't be talking about any of this at all, there's no way to know what the model's capabilities are.

betting markets aren't "most people"

that's the absolute truth here

none of those three people will be president

The US , when finally back in control by reasonable adults, will need to offer great concessions to Iran in order to extricate from the effects of a disastrous, illegal (both from a US as well as an intentional standpoint) and of course, completely, utterly failed war. And it might be just that Iran gets to be a permanent toll collector for the global economy.

rants about AI from people who have already decided up front to never actually attempt to use the tools (which seems to be the case here from the post and the other one it links) are not really providing any value to the discourse.

There is nothing new about using machinery to automate boring / repetitive tasks, including the wall of resistance that comes up. But it should be clear that genuinely useful tooling and automation tends to become a normal part of life, from the plow, to the printing press, to the dishwasher, to digital video editing, to autocorrect, and now to large language models.

There's a lot that has to be worked out with LLMs in particular as they are now encroaching heavily upon human creativity and thought. This is an extremely important topic. But rants like these with terms like "the plagarism machine" and "the solution is that we all must vow to never use AI in any shape or form" are not really contributing.

oh, OK. You should google the term to see where it comes from. it's from someone who is essentially an anti-LLM activist and it's meant as a slur. That's likely why people consider it to be a slur, due to its origins.

All this, and yet, people are so angered by the term "stochastic parrot".

I use LLMs every day, I use Claude, Gemini, they're great. But they are very elaborate autocomplete engines. I'm not really shaking off that impression of them despite daily use .

Why not look for historical examples? There should be hundreds not to mention the obvious ones?

was the dog a stray for 11 years? or just owned by someone? I'm not following what actually happened

i cant wait until we can have these cars in the US. looks like I'm going to be pretty geriatric by that time but it's absolutely stupid how many ICE cars are still all over the place at this point

book publishers who want to charge lots of money for exposure to fine new authors is absolutely a great place for a line to be drawn. not much different from concert ticketholders furious that singers were lip syncing some years back.

the whole point of art, music, and literature is that humans love to do these things. The only reason AI would be injected into these topics is for profit-driven purposes, which is a dumb purpose. The job of the robots was always supposed to be, boring, repetitive tasks. Coding, washing dishes, folding laundry. So far we have one of those three checked off.

gotta love some Streisand effect in the morning...

not speaking for upwards failures in general, but for the extraordinary cases of convicted frauds being pardoned, the incentives are:

1. his $1.8M donation to Trump shows other felons and fraudsters that paying Trump will pay back in dividends (Trump profits)

2. By pardoning thousands of frauds, con artists and outright violent nazis (Jan 6), Trump builds himself an army of loyalists who owe him their lives

3. By putting pardoned frauds, con artists and violent nazis in charge of government functions, Trump replaces the entire US government with one that will do his personal bidding

textbook autocrat stuff

It's nuclear powered autocomplete . You can have it spit out pages of boilerplate chainsaw tests for kunernetes , fix sql queries the way you tell it to, it's enormously helpful for automating all kinds of things you previously have typed by hand 4000 times. I've put many changes from LLMs into production and there is no issue. An actual junior programmer makes way more mistakes in my experience.

coding with an LLM works if the model you are following is: you have the role of architect and/or senior developer, and you have the smartest junior programmer in the world working for you. You watch everything it does, check its conclusions, challenge it, call it out on things it didnt get quite right

it's really extremely similar to working with a junior programmer

so in this post, where does this go wrong?

> I am not your average developer. I’ve never worked on large teams and I’ve barely started a project from scratch. The internet is filled with code and ideas, most of it freely available for you to fork and change.

Because this describes a cut-and-paster, not a software architect. Hence the LLM is a gambling machine for someone like this since they lack the wisdom to really know how to do things.

There's of course a huge issue which is that how are we going to get more senior/architect programmers in the pipeline if everyone junior is also doing everything with LLMs now. I can't answer that and this might be the asteroid that wipes out the dinosaurs....but in the meantime, if you DO know how to write from scratch and have some experience managing teams of programmers, the LLMs are super useful.

oddly enough the TikTok referred to here was to be shut down in the US. But then the executive branch ignored the law while it could organize handing the company over to Larry Ellison instead. But these allegations date to when the company was fully under the control of ByteDance, and not US-regulated entities at all.

this is an incompetent, corrupt change that will be reversed when Trump leaves office in 2029. Companies should likely not change their quarterly reporting since it will only be temporary.

> While they light up and synchronize with your existing RGB ecosystem,

RAM has lights ?

wow I've been living in a cave

im required to disclose AI use in my own OSS projects on github? no, I'm not

the lesson here is dont put those comments into your commits. use the tools you want to write code and just use them. it's nobody else's business. if someone overuses AI (which is common) it's quite obvious anyway

what no AI? who will replace blurry photos of my family / the moon with stock photos so they look great?

Hegseth declared quite unofficially (on X) that any company that does business with the US military must cease all business interactions with Anthropic. If that actually becomes an official thing, that will be worth billions lost to Anthropic, whereas a ChatGPT boycott by a few million people (who probably weren't using it that much anyway) is mostly a drop in the bucket.

I still feel like I'm writing code. I tell Claude what to write and I am very specific about it. There's still tons of problems for which Claude has no particular solution and it's on me and other humans to figure out what to do. For those cases where I tell it to just go off and write a whole script that I'm not even looking at, those are throwaway / low-value cases I dont care about where previously I'd not have even taken on that particular job.