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Comment #49230309
There's certainly a grain of truth, but there's also a lot of idealism and naivete. First, there's the false dichotomy. Only psychopaths do things purely and only for the incentive…
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Comment #49226323
Hope they checked their text messages
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Comment #49154439
The median IQ of successive generations may absolutely be falling
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Comment #49147532
You realize it wasn't always that way, right? And that whole we continue to optimize this complex supply chain, there are diminishing returns. If you roll back recent computing tec…
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Comment #49143600
Clearly written by someone who's never lived without steam power (semi tongue in cheek). But seriously, your ability to expediently research just doesn't compare to the ability to …
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Comment #49143566
> thought-terminating cliché It was not intended as such, which I think you agree with. My aim was to turn it on its head here and strengthen all of our understandings of both AI a…
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Comment #49138072
Did you read the article? The man was sick
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Comment #49133422
This question is a trap. Like programming languages. There's the products everybody hates and the ones nobody uses.
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Comment #49133279
Reminds me of CGI in movies. People who hate CGI really only hate bad CGI.
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Comment #49092942
Perhaps more importantly than any of those, often people react out of fear of what they think other people will think. Maybe everyone bitches about gas prices, but we would all get…
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Comment #48802566
No, it's a specific direction to look information up in docs or online rather than relying on model training.
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Comment #48796193
If zebras cause blindness, perhaps you should consider zebras?
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Comment #48796177
That song was made popular by Sublime. Not written and never performed by Bob Marley. Great track though!
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Comment #48615461
In fairness, you could throw the most senior engineer into a brand new codebase, and they would probably make a dozen mistakes if you immediately had them pick up invasive and risk…
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Comment #48554039
I'm sure the finance market is much larger as well
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Comment #48554012
The problem then is that if you're not using Fable/Mythos, you are under threat. It's like having a single gun manufacturer. On this track, we're probably destined for a monopoly b…
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Comment #48553996
Not even. Tell the model to write a test of your code. There's your vulnerability. It's explained better in the original source. I don't agree with it, but I understand it now, but…
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Comment #48440445
And it was the dumbest and least valuable stock traders that exited the industry. The industry is alive and well today.
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Comment #48410765
Teaching is a lot like (a certain style of) management. You learn what motivates someone, make the connection between that and the subject matter at hand, and make it accessible fo…
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Comment #48368907
> active silicon This is not necessarily a functioning chip.
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Comment #48336775
The whole thing runs on survivorship bias. And if you don't agree, just wait and see.
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Comment #48307758
History bears out that cheap and satisficing soundly beats expensive and optimal every time. Until we have smarter and more prescient decision makers in leadership, the bottleneck …
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Comment #48261478
If it were really groundbreaking, I imagine it wouldn't have burned out after a little missed hype. See No Man's Sky. The other way to look at this is, thank goodness we didn't was…
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Comment #48061878
Marketing, networking, and sales are the job. Or a large part of it. If you don't have connections, knowing how to make connections is part of it. Accept that there are other skill…
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Comment #47973824
Sadly, it's more likely that people will just start talking like bots