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I understand your point about misattribution but it cuts both ways. How about when a company is better than competitors because they executed better because they had a superior org…

Why would you assume culture is immaterial? And to make this less emotional let’s take the micro scale; don’t you think the culture of doing engineering doesn’t affect outcomes tea…

Here is where I got that impression: > once the optimizations became sophisticated enough Either way I am not trying to litigate here. Feel free to correct me if your position was …

I don't know why you'd think your analogy wasn't clear in the first place. But your analogy can't support you on the assertion that optimizations will be sophisticated and reliable…

First problem is turning engineers into accountability sink s. This was a problem before LLMs too, but now a much bigger and structural problem with democratization of the capacity…

> compilers only got better and better At no point compilers produced stochastic output. The intent user expressed was translated down with a much much higher fidelity, repeatabili…

> What got me past that point was short bursts at BPMs way past my comfort zone and building synchrony _after_ I stumbled upon more efficient motions that scaled. This is actually …

Funny how this exactly applies to instrument playing. Unearned speed only begets sloppiness. The only way to go past a certain velocity is to do meticulous metronome work from a pe…

Language is not humanness either; it is a disembodied artifact of our extended cognition, it is a way of transferring the contents of our consciousness to others or to ourselves ov…

We know from the era of data the power of JOIN. Bring in two different data sources about a thing and you could produce an insight neither of them could have provided alone. LLMs c…

> I'm always surprised how many 'logical' tech people shy away from simple determinism, given how obvious a deterministic universe becomes the more time you spend in computer scien…

My bad, skipped a chain of thought there. Since medicare pays less than private insurance, hospitals can and do shift costs (which in reality is "opportunity cost of profit") to th…

Employers paid for healthcare in 1970s too, and even for higher percentages of the workforce. If there is a premium inflation surpassed the CPI, that is still inflation, not real g…

> what are fair ways to extract value from citizens for the shared value of the state? The right question is who benefits the most from state’s services. For example if a whole lot…

It is a black box. We don’t know what happens on the other side of the RPC call; good and bad, therefore it could be any number of knobs. User has two knobs called the thinking lev…

Unfortunate that he starts with the thinking argument because it will be nitpicked to death, while bullshit and computing freedom arguments are much stronger and to me personally i…

> An objective and grounded ethical framework that applies to all agents should be a top priority. I mean leaving aside the problem of computability, representability, comparabilit…

If the motivation structure is there I don’t see an inherent reason for people to refuse cultivating themselves. Going with the gym analogy lay people did not need gyms when physic…

> AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. As much as I agree with you that this is wrong, there is a danger in putting the onus just on the human. Whether due to competi…

It might take 50 years to awaken to the abuse of power going on here. Forget individual videos for a second and look at youtube-the-experience as a whole. The recommendation stream…

Sounds like a stretch of the concept of social learning, and more like vanilla model distillation. Social learning exist to transcend the limited processing power and limited train…

Unless well separated, this will easily turn developer-hostile by some clueless management demanding high coverage and enthusiastic juniors smuggling in massive amounts of AI tests…

> I feel that's taken a little out of context Not necessarily, for one how often people really stare at the cues of a negative event, and try to suppress it versus trying to suppre…

> You can get a big dopamine hit from meditation or as a response to stress but you don’t see kids running to Buddhist monasteries in droves or rushing to the stress of public spea…

> dead people’s political documents is propaganda. Yours is no less propaganda. People do cultural learning, pretty much everything you use from technology to medicine and yes poli…