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joshribakoff

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    Part of the entire premise of the article is that many people aren’t being given a choice, so this is a really weird deflection. I disagree about the author not recognizing a middl…

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    Comment #49168053

    An LLM is not what the public was “sold”, they were “sold” a personified agent. That is the gap.

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    Comment #49168020

    Some people have the agent hallucinating its own meaningless tests

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    Comment #48943377

    Isn’t there a gray area between unregulated markets and regulated markets? A corrupt regulator could prohibit this for ride share industry only, to target under a pretext. Manipula…

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    Comment #48544423

    So are you implying companies should be able to essentially do fraud, and the market will just weed out bad actors?

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    Comment #48524096

    It doesn’t require all or most investors to act rational. A small percentage of rational actors still moves prices.

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    Comment #48247993

    Thats why they said they optimize for effective output at the cost of higher token use. They didn’t say they are intending to have high token use, instead thet implied its a second…

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    Comment #48163314

    While working at Cruise, i built tech to measure the latency even though they just draw a path. Latency absolutely does matter, otherwise you’re drawing that path through a crowd o…

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    Comment #48078220

    If someone has a 10m portfolio, it really is irrational to chase a higher w-2.

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    Comment #47998674

    > I’m wagering So isn’t that gambling, not engineering?

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    Comment #47992209

    I recovered ~$250,000 under beverly song act (California lemon law). (My principal and interest back for multiple vehicles) I repeatedly complained it was activating “emergency lan…

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    Comment #47988231

    This isn’t just a story about an AI logo, it’s a story about locals who feel the business they frequented was replaced by someone trying to make a quick buck. And an owner who beli…

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    Comment #47952955

    After i was triple billed in January, they acknowledged it but refused to provide a refund. I won those credit card disputes.

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    Comment #47948044

    No the magic was the community’s ability to weed out garbage so we can have meaningful conversations. Garbage is garbage no matter who wrote it.

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    Comment #47948022

    This is propaganda that appears to be intended to sway you towards “stretching the truth” about how bad the tool is, to your coworkers, by exploiting your fear of “being left behin…

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    Comment #47940728

    Check out kitty if you haven’t yet.

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    Comment #47939674

    NEE, trades like a bond. They do financial derivatives with carbon credits (sorta)

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    Comment #47901950

    Effective at what?

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    Comment #47883438

    They had like 100 devs making 600k at one point. The issue is certainly not lack of talent. More like, they insist on forcing the vibe coding narrative. Some candidates are refusin…

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    Comment #47828504

    Sure, and Anthropic would be at risk for legal fees for the defendant under anti-SLAPP laws. And would be fueling the Streisand effect.

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    Comment #47789182

    Didnt the head of their dept at tesla crash his into a wall? He couldn’t react in time either. I sold-back two vehicles under lemon law to them for FSD/autopilot nonsense, mine was…