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This is funny, because my personal view is that AI’s biggest pitfall is that it allows the unqualified to build what they think they’re qualified for
Yes, learning and creating should be reserved only for the licensed!
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Yes, learning and creating should be reserved only for the licensed!
It is in many fields. They're Professional Engineers, and they build nearly everything that's important to a society. Software is overrun by literally anyone and everyone because it's not a protected field of engineering
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It is in many fields. They're Professional Engineers, and they build nearly everything that's important to a society. Software is overrun by literally anyone and everyone because it's not a protected field of engineering
Hang on, my understanding of the situation is that only PEs are allowed to sign off on the design of a thing. They don't have to design it, and they almost certainly don't build it. Am I wrong?
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I'm not mistaken. For an average person, they need to: 1. Understand how to use the technology and onboard onto it. In this case the technology is whichever blockchain and cryptocurrency. 2. Convert their money into the cryptocurrency. For this they need an exchange. Then they can send money to others who also went through those steps. Thus, there must be some kind of interaction with documentation made by devs for s…
All of that is entirely besides the point of this thread of conversation, which was concerning the transfer without intermediaries. The point was that if you are in possession of the currency, you are in full control with no one to interfere(or interfere by withholding cooperation) in the way that a bank would. You also do not need an exchange. You need to find a person willing to trade whatever for your cryptocurren…
I mean, you have to onboard to transfer alternative currencies. People have cash and bank accounts. They don't have any random cryptocurrency.
> You need to find a person willing to trade whatever for your cryptocurrency, exchanges merely make this more convenient but are by no means the only option.
This isn't a realistic option that will work at scale and you know that.
LLMs are increasingly part of intimate conversations. That proximity lets them learn how to manipulate minds. We must stop treating humans as uniquely mysterious. An unfettered market for attention and persuasion will encourage people to willingly harm their own mental lives. Think social medias are bad now? Children exposed to personalized LLMs will grow up inside many tiny, tailored realities. In a decade we may me…
In a decade? You mean today? Look at ultra left liberals and ultra right republicans. They live in different universes. We don’t even need to go far, here we have 0.001% of tech savvy population that lives in its own bubble. Algorithms just help to accelerate the division.
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Sure, I took a video etc like in the deliverables. That means it’s successfully done?
Yes, it's done. You get what you asked for, or you didn't sufficiently define it.
There's nothing worse than a task where you can deliver one item and then have to rely on someone else to be able to deliver a second. Was once in a role where performance was judged on closing tasks; getting the burn-down chart to 0, and also having it nicely stepped. Was given a good tip to make sure each task had one deliverable and where possible—be completed independent of any other task.
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Would you say that dice have a preference for landing on numbers larger than 2? because I've noticed they tend to do so about two-thirds of the time.
I would. Certainly if somebody asked me which way dice have a preference to land, over two or not, I’d say “over two” and not say “that’s a stupid question because dice don’t have opinions”. But to each their own. Try explaining ionic bonds to a high schooler without anthropomorphising atoms and their desires for electrons. And then ask yourself why you’re doing that? It’s easier to say and understand with the analog…
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We're choosing to offload processing that our brain could be doing but we're too lazy to do it or the perceived value for us to do it is. I think there are consequences to this especially as we give the machine free information of how we twist and turn it into actually understanding what we mean. Interesting to consider that if our first vibecode prompt isn't what we actually want; it can train on how we direct it fu…
The majority of people seem to offload most of their thinking as is, and actively avoid things like critical thinking, confronting their own biases, seeking push-back against their own beliefs, etc. As with many other technologies, AI can be an enabler of this, or it can be used as a tool to empower and enhance learning and personal growth. That ultimately depends on the human to decide. One can dramatically accelera…
The cost tracking piece is probably more valuable though. AI API bills can get expensive really quickly
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In a decade? You mean today? Look at ultra left liberals and ultra right republicans. They live in different universes. We don’t even need to go far, here we have 0.001% of tech savvy population that lives in its own bubble. Algorithms just help to accelerate the division.
Imagine the social good we could create if we instead siphoned off the energy of both those groups into the LLM-equivalent of /dev/null! 'Sure, spend all of your time trying impress the totally-not-an-LLM...' (Aka Fox News et al. comment sections)