A flawed solution looking for a problem.
Bored of It
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#202Counterpoint: I am not bored at all. Hyped as it is, it is important to be here to discuss its uses, misuses and implications. Some if it is fascinating, and other parts are fascinatingly bad. I understand the fatigue with it. But that it is used right (or at all) is a conversation worth having.
I was bored of it after about a day. As an engineer, there's really nothing interesting about LLMs at all to me.
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#203> The best minds of my generation I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”. I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.…
This is from Allen Ginsberg's Howl. A must read.
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#204I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the na…
"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
Terry Pratchett
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Society already is full of rogues and guess who is winning in this game? The super rich already buying themselves out of society, punishment usually only hurts the ones who already barely own anything. Whats the benefit of a "society"?
> and guess who is winning Again that is your perspective on "winning", which remains subjective (and normally faulty). Others call psychopathic achievers simply "contemptible". > Whats the benefit of a "society"? That would be the whole work of Thomas Hobbes, for example: avoiding the nightmare of perpetual conflict. It is very linear to see the benefit of being able to trust your neighbour.
Trusting your neighbor already is a mistake. Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive.
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#206Interesting. Development of the most powerful technology humans could ever hope to build, happening within our lifetimes, "boring".
> the most powerful technology humans could ever hope to build
If you're correct, that's a rather depressing thought
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Patently not true. Pokémon Go, for example, wouldn’t fit several of the points. > The inevitable, dehumanising consequence of it. > Rubbish in and rubbish out of it. > Nobody asked for it, and nobody wants it. > A thousand no’s, but ‘yes’ when shareholders start clamouring for it. > A decommissioned nuclear power station required to power it. > Not to mention millions of gallons of water required to cool it.
I and the article are talking about the serious techy hysterias that will make you BILLIONS if you only got into them in time. Not some measly free to play gambling app.
The article is clearly talking specifically about AI, you’re the one generalising it.
> A decommissioned nuclear power station required to power it.
How many tech hysterias fit that?
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#208> The best minds of my generation I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”. I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.…
Having been in IT for close to 15 years now, a lot of good minds work in IT a lot of good minds don't. But I've encountered a lot of stupid (for lack of a better word) people in IT who were convinced they are good at _everything_ just because they grokked algorithms and data structures. Not sure it's a phenomenon unique to IT, but what DOGE is doing is exactly what I mean.
This is called "engineer's disease".
You can regularly find it on this very site :)
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recently I had a convo starting with: "Maybe we can use AI to infer whether we are dealing with an experiment or a control based on the metadata of these public studies." These data are tables, people call "controls" anything from "control" to "ctrl" to "ctr" to "t0", either in the file name, a random column, etc etc etc. It worked well and I'm glad we tried it. In time I think we will derive value from deciding to u…
I mean, it sounds like you could’ve had a few if/else statements and accomplished the same thing.
Yeah using vectorization for this seems like bringing a cannon to a duel. At most I would've used levenshtein distance or something
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have children? That was a prerequisite for the question. If you do, it implies you don’t consider the relationship with your children either meaningful or beneficial, which says…a lot.
If I asked a tiger if murder is wrong i would get a different answer as opposed to a human. What kind of argument are you making.
You wouldn't get an answer from a tiger. Sorry, my lack of empathy for you is making me woefully obtuse.