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Data driven decisions happened. Metrics can only capture short term value. They also let us make unethical decisions with the data taking the blame. It is fundamentally dehumanizin…

I think we see things similarly about the negative potential but please be careful with the framing. AI is a printing press or a steam engine. It's not a weapon. The framing is imp…

Implied in this is a concentration of power required to enforce. No one is sold on a dystopian hellscape of fear, surveillance, and control. Each one of these would be required for…

Certainly, I agree that using AI to dehumanize - generally what companies seem to be doing with it - is super bad. And it's also what is being sold to existing companies right now.…

What these complaints always boil down to is autonomy and control. The more centralized an organization, the more it relies on metrics to understand and exert control over its empl…

Are there any reasonable analyses of the practicality of data centers in space? I know Dwarkesh Patel was interviewing Elon and brought up the fact that power cost for data centers…

This is both true and not. It's true that in a project, a novel idea undeclared as such will be shaved off quietly by an llm. You really need to be explicit about wanting to keep i…

This can be to generalized to map versus territory. People have a particular lens they see things through. And they forget that there is detail there that matters. The last 15 year…

As long as I've been an adult, hardware was a commodity, and software was where the value was. Software could capture most of the value that was in the total supply chain. Now, wit…

Like all good regulation, it would only kick in after a company has a large reach. So as to not snuff out startups and cause regulatory capture problems that are already so common.…

Engagement metrics fed into recommendations algorithms are the paperclip maximizers that feed humanity's collective poison. Europe should do the one thing it knows how to do: regul…

I feel the same way as you. But was unfortunately not surprised to see the replies you are getting here. There are a ton of opportunities available right now to make new things. An…

With my own tiny company, I used to answer questions about my code to support. Supporting the support. I remember doing that when working at big companies too. Now, my support asks…

You're correct that it doesn't answer the why. But it answers the what, how, and allows one-off features. So the guy that wrote might (or might not) still have the edge with the wh…

Software devs lost their pricing power due to LLMs but not exactly how most people think. What's missed in understanding is 'how exactly does this functionality work for this speci…

So there are two competing narratives: 1. Mythos uniquely is able to find vulnerabilities that other LLMs cannot practically. 2. All LLMs could already do this but no one tried the…

LLMs aren't nukes. They're more like printing presses or engines. A great potential for production and destruction. At their invention, I'm sure some people wanted to ensure only t…

I really wanted to like anthropic. They seem the most moral, for real. But at the core of anthropic seems to be the idea that they must protect humans from themselves. They advocat…

The skill of shooting down ideas has never been more valuable, actually. LLM's are an endless source of bad code ideas. Being able to sift through them and find the gems is the exh…

So where are they? It's been something like 3 years since people have been talking about this being a very big deal. LLMs are widely used. Claude code is run by most people with da…

They're trying for the vertical integration monopoly. The times it works, it works well for the company at great cost to society. Imagine the world we'd have if comcast got to cont…

The stars are probably legitimate. It's weird that most people in these comments are speculating fraud. Why aren't companies with real money to gain from stars gaming the system to…

I agree. A mechanism to voluntarily attach a certificate metadata about the media record from the device seems like a better idea. That still can be spoofed, though. In the end, so…

These sorts of tools will only be able to positively identify a subset of genAI content. But I suspect that people will use it to 'prove' something is not genAI. In a sense, the id…