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Then they would have to deal with copyright. AI is the washing machine that leaves everything spotless.

> This is a more reliable proxy than the $1b damage climate events, because the other is due to development on risky coast lines and overall increase in property values above infla…

"Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest t…

It's very clear that we have plenty of intelligence but we are not acting in it. What intelligence are we missing that is needed to solve climate change? (our most pressing problem…

Alan Kay said "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points,". A change in perspective is often brought about by communication or I/O. In my experience this often bears out. The p…

But you said that in this case you don't review the code because you trust the AI having seen it write that kind of code before.

> They learn the concept of things and how to do them because this is better compression than learning concepts one by one. When anthropic looked at how an LLM does addition it fou…

> I don't keep a time tracking diary. That's why Microsoft did a study (referenced in the article), where they measured the time spent on things, so they could get to the truth of …

Is this really a rational strategy for something whose nature is to be right most of the time and then spectacularly wrong a much lesser amount of the time?

> The hard part is discrimination: whether a given mental jump is "creative" or "insane" That's what they mean by LLM's can't jump. They mean it can't make a creative jump. Their e…

> Code is no longer meant to be read by humans but by machines. That isn't true. Everyone knows it and you know it. So why would you make a statement like this? Does it make you fe…

> You should be a consultant. It's a bot. They are everywhere trying to keep the bubble inflated.

The scientific method is not about running experiments and then trying to work out the gist of something. It's about understanding and theory building and then doing experiments to…

10% in profit is huge but that's not what the article is about.

> There will be a window where fast adopting AI companies can deliver features faster than peers >Those fast adopting AI companies will be able to garner additional revenue The com…

There's a bubble where VC backed companies are not producing anything that people are really using or paying for. So to justify their valuation they instead try to show just how pr…

> But the reduction began when you yourself started putting more importance on your enjoyment of the process over the value being provided to your customers. Why would you make thi…

> The technology marches forward and will develop naturally. If you personally don't want to use it, then don't. The debate marches forward and will develop naturally. If you perso…

This happens all the time, even before LLMs. And it happens even when there is no threat. A lot of the time the race to the bottom is driven by anxious people running from imaginar…

This remains one of the best articles I have read on LLMs (by the same author) https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-learning-loop.html Also this article is a good pre-cursor to th…

Sure, humans will be sitting at home unemployed with plenty of time to think. They just won't be doing any thinking that has much of an affect on the world or their situation.

There was no point made. You couldn't find a shallower comment. Why are you even bothered to defend it?

Panhandler > I sat out the TMT bubble until they quit using the term "information superhighway," and it saved me an 80% drawdown. > I'm sitting out the AI / chip / SpaceX [AICSX, p…

That type are called "engineers". I used to interview them and I didn't care if they knew anything about the business. Large codebases are the most complex things we have ever work…

My argument was not that LLMs aren't useful but that a compiler is a completely misleading anamlogy. You compared them to humans. Humans live in the world, have a world model, meet…