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We've got used to 'reasonable' society and politics in the last few centuries, but check out politics in developing nations or dictatorships, or woke, or Trump or places like pageantry. All fake news and gossip and performance, and AI just makes this potentially much much worse. It already has a name in academia I think, post-truth, or post-reality or whatever, I think it all started with the French post-modernism th…
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> The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. I don’t know the guy, but if what the person replied to is correct about how he views himself and people who disagree with him, it doesn’t matter how good he is. You don’t want to be on a team with that. You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. Let…
>You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. how many times in history does this need to be disproven? some of the most insufferable assholes in human history were absolutely brilliant once-in-an-era types. it's a chicken-or-egg question to ask whether or not the brilliance comes from the confidence or the other way around, but opinionated assholes that can't operate in traditional team settings have a proven…
So you want to employ unreformed murderers, psychopaths, rapists etc. Or do you have a line somewhere?
Better question, are you fine with not hiring assholes who aren’t brilliant?
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> The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. I don’t know the guy, but if what the person replied to is correct about how he views himself and people who disagree with him, it doesn’t matter how good he is. You don’t want to be on a team with that. You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. Let…
This logic would have prevented the Enigma machine from existing
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Or just call the theater. You can still call stores and ask them if they have something, rather than looking it up on Amazon.
Remember MovieFone? That guy with the Mr. Moviefone voice ?! Oh, man! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moviefone
Theater usher was quite possibly the best job I’ve ever had
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A very fast librarian with a select material of reference books and adept at speed reading could give the same answers as LLMs. This is called the "Chinese Room" argument, postulating that a human equipped with a Borgesian library of reference books in a language he doesn't understand and a symbolic lookup table for that language can emulate a thinking human mind without actually thinking. It was controversial for de…
> Simulated intelligence is now known, thanks to LLMs, to be indistinguishable from real intelligence. Oooff, that's quite the claim. Why don't you try to back it up? Cite some research. Last time I checked it was still very possible to distinguish "reasoning" LLMs from Real People.
The "last time you checked" was evidently 2023 or so. I suggest checking again.
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Remember MovieFone? That guy with the Mr. Moviefone voice ?! Oh, man! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moviefone
We used to record the showings listings manually at the cinemas and it was incredibly hard to do while zooted on weed Theater usher was quite possibly the best job I’ve ever had
Now these announcements were supposed to be brief and structured, but when they permitted me to make them, I couldn't resist cracking up and laughing for some reason, in the middle of recitation, and so never mastered the art of making the announcements for the store. Pretty sad.
But I do recall those days, when movie theaters had all their showtimes on tape. I know that the movie theater is a place that we would never expect to reach a human on the phone. Because that announcement would play, for as long as it needed at a multiplex, and then repeat or cut off. And you were supposed to figure out the showtimes by picking through the linear verbal announcement and choosing your favorite film. I can only imagine the teenage staff who are mostly paid in concessions, how they would get to recording that stuff!
When I read stuff like this, I think the people involved need to go outside and touch grass. I don’t mean that in a mean or reductive way. But something about this kind of assumption that things will get more elaborate and more abstract forever (when he’s talking about the future war for your inner reality) as if there are infinite resources, just strikes me as disconnected from physical reality in a way that feels p…
There's something strong to be said about it, and not in a mean way When I was laid off a couple months ago, the first thing I did was go out and mow my lawn. One hour of simple, clean labor, with clear progress, goals, and solitude. It helped me stay out of a bad mental frame, and when I finished I went inside and sent out a few hundred applications Over the next several weeks, I spent a lot of time that wasn't spen…