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GPerson
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Comment #49251202
This is just a random pet peeve of mine, but I simply don’t believe knowledge workers who claim to work 90 hour work weeks; this includes bankers and lawyers. I say this because I …
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Comment #49200347
Yea the wording that it was some way or another “for you” came across as aggressiveness so I responded in kind.
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Comment #49199571
When I was in grad school we talked about the Jacobian conjecture as something that would never be solved, and not really even worth thinking about since it’s impossible. There’s b…
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Comment #49199518
Ironically that would be useful data for AI labs to take. It could be used productively to make digital art training material or nefariously to make models to displace those artist…
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Comment #49198974
Programming has a lot of nice features and accurately capturing them all in a hacker news comment isn’t that easy, so maybe you could have some consideration for that in the future…
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Comment #49197731
Another strict positive I’ve had with AI is having it figure out how to deal with bureaucracy. This is dangerous due to privacy issues, but I was seriously depressed for a period, …
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Comment #49197251
I think there’s a lot of need for people to help others understand how to healthily engage with this technology. I do struggle with turning it off once I get started on it. I also …
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Comment #49197082
I actually think that’s a great use of AI, and sounds similar to some of my use cases. “And I think, to be honest, the enjoyment I would have gotten out of the programming part onc…
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Comment #49196566
That’s my experience, starting at 10 years old and trying to figure out how the the moving pictures were in the screen. I didn’t say that was the reason though. A person has a lot …
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Comment #49196451
Well I used to imagine I’d make a business out of the thing. I also would sometimes think the thing could give me professional opportunities.
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Comment #49196314
I’m not virtue signaling? I’ve shared exactly my experience. People experience reality differently and that’s not some affront on you.
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Comment #49195745
Those are some good cows.
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Comment #49195732
For me that’s a slippery slope. It’s not really clear what parts of my hobby project are the good parts and what parts are unfulfilling. When I start including AI too much I end up…
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Comment #49192953
I’ve also had menial jobs, like most people.
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Comment #49192940
Programming is nice because you have lots of different scales of structure to think about, and your program slowly comes together. You see it improving over time as a result of you…
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Comment #49183440
This is the most profound comment I’ve ever read on this website. How do we do push the culture in a direction such that productive intellectual pursuits will actually be intrinsic…
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Comment #49183348
Luckily for us all these good natured AI people will liberate us from the necessity of our own value and places like universities, which give us structured environments to particip…
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Comment #49183173
It’s almost like a place focused on improving the human should operate differently from a place building commercial products.
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Comment #49168204
The normalization process for social media involved it stabilizing in a place where a huge number of people know it’s terrible for you.
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Comment #49168170
Ironically, your post literally does nothing but virtue signal to the people who like AI a lot.
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Comment #49168152
“Everyone who disagrees with me is a hater and a snob.”
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Comment #49163284
Cows
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Comment #49162994
LLMs don’t have human-like minds in any perceptible sense though.