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It would be interesting to see some time-series sentiment analysis of HN. Subjectively it feels like there's much negativity on HN these days, I hope I'm wrong.
Bunch of software engineers are worried about their future employment prospects.
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> Frivolous use of the term World Model The term "world model" as it was once used in model-based RL can now apparently refer to anything as silly as linear regression. Then again, the RL folks probably borrowed the term from behavioral scientists before them. It's probably best to simply accept this :/ A similar thing happened to "object oriented" which has been misused by philosophers and visual artists alike.
> probably borrowed the term from behavioral scientists It's from epistemology. It is not there to refer to the subjective but to the objective. > A similar thing happened to "object oriented" which has been misused by philosophers and visual artists alike For instance?
It's incredible how negative and dismissive the comments in here are while here I am thinking the model actually looks impressively capable. But then again I heard the downers have always been the first to leave their dung comments here so let's see...
It's possible it's because some people care about the consequences of what we're doing as a society beyond the mindless satiation of curiosity. Nothing wrong with curiosity in my books by the way, but I do think isolating it the way we've done in the technical fields is a dangerous and irresponsible attitude.
Pessimistic opinions on the labor market, views about society and politics that border on the dystopian, as well as exaggerated concerns about datacenter environmental impacts, all seem like a poor fit for this website.
Sorry because pointing this is a bit tired by now, but reading already the first two paragraph thete is this unmistakable stench of LLM slop writing. Immediately disengaged.
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I don't even know anymore, to be honest. I talk to AIs more than I do with humans, these days...So who knows
That doesn’t sound healthy
These people are hiring in... Freiburg im Breisgau? Wonder how hiring is working out for them there.
These people are hiring in... Freiburg im Breisgau? Wonder how hiring is working out for them there.