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slowtrek

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    Comment #43466991

    We could always surrender the identity. Who ever said a Software Engineer should be a profession that should last hundreds of years?

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    Comment #43466832

    Nuance is needed So much so that your first reply froze me and made me think. This is not easy, it's absolutely in our nature to gate keep knowledge.

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    Comment #43466099

    Can someone please vouch for this thread and unflag it? It's kind of the main tech issue of our time ...

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    Comment #43466027

    It's not that hard. So if you want to ask questions or work with a Stephen King book, you have to rent it during your LLM session. OpenAi would make a small fee, the author would g…

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    Comment #43465998

    No need to even complicate it to that degree. A wrong begets another wrong forever unless someone stops doing the next wrong thing. That's literally what it takes.

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    Comment #43465919

    Yeah, we have a wrong conception. It's fine, society often has wrong conceptions. We are just dead wrong about ruthless capitalism. A company is a custodian of a good society, it h…

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    Comment #43465893

    The same way we can't process what a trillion dollars looks like, we can't actually process what large scale theft looks like. For shits and giggles, these people also have a trill…

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    Comment #43465858

    Why is this flagged?

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    Comment #43465847

    Not to be funny on purpose, but we are having discussions in America currently on if we should finance aid for poverty and the like. I love your idea though.

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    Comment #43465766

    So basically, we know China is never going to pay the publishers/content creators ( never ). If we hold our principles to OpenAI ( pay who you took from ), they will go bankrupt. S…

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    Comment #43465729

    Have we uncovered how crowds swarm digital content? It feels like these hidden algorithms trapped away inside Meta probably have the answer as well. Those would be meaningful resea…

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    Comment #43458207

    We need to start blogging about this, because it's been a torrent of utter filth advice being marketed to businesses.

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    Comment #43457588

    Things like humble bragging, writing styles, DMing patters, etc etc etc. This exists because there is limited courage to call this out. There are not many polite ways to tell someo…

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    Comment #43457330

    How was that society taught this? Or how did they come to know this?

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    Comment #43457325

    As in, if you are on the ship, we can absolutely find something for you to do. Here, color the fucking map, clean the sails. Why would we throw them off the ship?

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    Comment #43457011

    We got better and better models when we threw more and more compute? I gotta work on my snarkiness. Seriously, that's pretty good empirical evidence. The smaller models we get are …

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    Comment #43456842

    If we were to do this, we wouldn't just pick someone so out of the range of what's needed. So basically, if you reframe your question, would I hire a 70 average student on a team o…

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    Comment #43456339

    a) Would make a great coffee table book. b) Would make a great poster.

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    Comment #43454667

    Could a company keep a subjective poor performer on for the lifespan of the company? As in, what is the plus or minus in overall revenue or profit from this charity? What if all co…

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    Comment #43454653

    Moral of the story: Anyone that looks for the metric to find the weakest link, is the weakest one at heart.

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    Comment #43451190

    What's the takeaway?