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And any push to use 2 to build infra to make 1 easier is hard to sell when a lot of engineers think AI will be able to perfectly do 1 in some nebulous time in the near future.

It reminds me a lot of adderall's effect on people without ADHD. A pretty universal feeling that it's making you smarter, paired with no measurable increase in test scores.

I'd believe this more if companies weren't continuing to use words like reason, understand, learn, and genius when talking about these systems. I buy that there's disagreement on w…

The problem is that intelligence isn't the result, or at the very least the ideas that word evokes in people don't match the actual capabilities of the machine. Washing is a useful…

If I came up with something novel while watching a sunrise, which I wouldn't have come up with had I not been looking at it, where did the novelty really come from?

The backend has plenty of complexities, but frontend developers have to deal with something just as complex - the user. Given ramp up time, most backend engineers could build a bad…

The problem is less that those high level engineers are only good at deterministic work and more that they're only rewarded for deterministic work. There is no system to pitch an i…

Every day I am more convinced that LLM hype is the equivalent of someone seeing a stage magician levitate a table across the stage and assuming this means hovercars must only be a …

I was unclear, I meant chunks of the world becoming unlivable from climate change could easily be the catalyst for a nuclear war. So the worst case for both is the same in my mind.…

Could the recipe limitations be because of the danger an incorrect recipe could put the user in? It's probably unlikely you'd make something toxic, but a made up recipe could easil…

I'm pretty sure the worst case of your nuclear war scenario is actually the worst case of the climate change one. Chunks of the world suddenly becoming unlivable and resources gett…

My guess is that while it may not be too much effort to get a mostly accurate emulator that works well enough for hobbyist use, it'd be a lot of effort to get something up to the c…

I have pretty much the same mental image, though with the 40's and 50's having some color probably mostly from period movies about that time. What I really wonder is whether the ph…

It's weird to think that for people without clear memories of it, the 2000's might be imagined in the style of early digital photos the same way the 70's look like Super 8 footage …