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> How can people in Hacker News still doubt AI's benefit Because what many of us are seeing is meaningless “productivity” improvements. If at the end of the day you don’t have more…

Bad argument. All countries have laws yet criminality rates varies a lot from country to country. It’s all about the culture.

There’s a huge difference between “doing more of X” and “doing only X” For someone arguing that “coding is conveying logic” seems like you need a refresher on propositional logic

Maybe it’s not a given, but it is part of the sales pitch for CEOs. A few others have announced layoffs due to AI being better and more efficient than humans. How much truth there …

> in the long run those businesses fall to leaner competitors This is not true at all. You can find plenty of examples going either way but it’s far from truth from being a univers…

> It was comparing to a hypothetical world where everything is perfectly organized, everyone is perfectly behaved, everything is perfectly ordered, and therefore we don't have to h…

People here seem to be conflating thinking hard and thinking a lot. Most examples mentioned of “thinking hard” in the comments sound like they think about a lot of stuff superficia…

Oh wow, is that what you got from this? It seems more like a non experienced guy asked the LLM to implement something and the LLM just output what and experienced guy did before, a…

> then you're doing the opposite of what the author proposes No, it’s exactly what the author is writing about. Just check his example, it’s pretty clear what he means by “thinking…

I really want to get into ocaml but the syntax is sooo ugly I feel like you need a great IDE set up to be able to be productive with it.

> In this article, being "functional" is just serving as a proxy for code quality. It is not, it is being very specific about what it means and what it is referring to

> It doesn’t really matter why it’s not working. It does, because it changes the strategy. If you think the ads are working and have 10k potential customers then you start thinking…

That’s the point, without the fraudulent clicks you would just move on to some other strategy because the pricing would not be worth it. Fake clicks give the illusion that ads are …

> Does it cease to be a good metric? Yes if you run anything other than the 100m

Would we live with the same standards today if we had never printed any money?

Value “creation” and money supply have nothing to do with each other.

Earlier today I was scrolling at the “work at a startup” posts. Seems like everyone is doing LLM stuff. We are back at the “uber for X” but now it is “ChatGPT for X”. I get it, but…

> he just changed the shape of the problem into one that was familiar to him that's a classic strategy to solve problems

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Technological merits are not the product.

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I know a lot of people (including myself) that find blockchain/cryptocurrencies to be great for international money transfers and as a way of saving money using stablecoins with be…

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