It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

Post by roflyear » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 12:41 PM UTC

mardifoufs wrote: post #138

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Yes, of course you do. You made a specific claim. You can't find a single other investment that would have returned higher? Very different, but maybe options plays on GME? Anything like that? I'm sure there is one! You said it's the HIGHEST - very specific claim! You're also picking a date period that works for you - certainly I can pick other dates that don't support your argument!

I get your point, but options aren't usually considered an asset. They do expire after all! Though now that I think about it, I'm not sure what would be the best performing asset of the past decade. Bitcoin has skyrocketed in the past decade, but I still think that something else probably gained value even faster. Maybe pokemon cards? Hahaha.

Post by cudgy » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 6:30 PM UTC

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Yeah, more or less in this boat too. ChatGPT does things . Useful things. "Crypto" has some clever ideas, but always seemed too full of utopians and grifters and people with a solution in search of a problem. I've used Erlang professionally and like the ecosystem very much. I am a bit annoyed with myself for still not having a better understanding of how these LLM's work, because that's important, at the end of the d…

It may be that the game has already changed and people are just starting to figure out the new rules. Im looking forward to continuing to slap my forehead in these "wish i had seen that low-hanging fruit" moments. Suddenly being able to largely automate so many formerly human-only tasks using plain language instructions makes me feel like the nature of the computing experience itself may be evolving profoundly. It ha…

Post by sph » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 7:51 AM UTC

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I thought that this was me ("The industry in which I have based my entire career just doesn't excite me anymore."), but then I realized I actually am mostly just interested in programming the way some people are interested in any other skill or machine. Some people learn guitar because they need to make music and play out. Others just love playing the guitar, even and especially when nobody is watching, for its own p…

This is completely valid and I wish that were me. I'm a "maker." Although I try to bring a level of "craftsmanship" to my code, and I care a great deal about code quality, refactoring and solving problems at the code level - and I definitely enjoy the process - it is still a means to an end. It is the configuration of raw materials that contribute to the final form of something useful and tangible. The most tragic pa…

Post by Karrot_Kream » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 6:13 PM UTC

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For what it's worth, and at the risk of sounding like I'm nitpicking, traditional Luddism is not dismissal of technology as overhyped or smoke-and-mirrors. Quite the opposite; the technology is recognized as very real and very impactful. The question instead becomes, "what happens to us, the ones it replaces?". And at least in the original incarnation, given an insufficiently satisfying answer, you smash some looms u…

From a historical standpoint, you're spot on. Neo-Luddism is still opposition to a lot of modern technologies, but for a very disparate set of reasons. For example, many oppose the mass adoption of social media due to perceived mental health and social impacts. Others oppose smart phones and "screen addiction." These things can qualify as "neo-luddism" even though the opposition is not rooted in job displacement. I'v…