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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by badpun »

Gravey wrote: post #862
ath3nd wrote: post #745

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The media was saying nfts are a reasonable investment and web3 is the future, so I am not sure if they have any remaining credibility. We are at the awesome moment in history when the AI bubble is popping so I am looking forward to a lot of journalists eating their words (not that anybody is keeping track but they are wrong most of the time) and a lot of LLM companies going under and the domino crash of the stocks of…

Can I ask why you would be looking forward to the stock market crashing? Vindication?

I personally have just 20% of my net worth in stocks, as they seem very expensive right now. A crash would allow me to increase my allocation at reasonable prices.

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Post by platevoltage »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #875
platevoltage wrote: post #752

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harbor freight will take literally anything back, and put it right back on the shelf.

How? It lacks packaging and the tool could be marred up.

I'll add, "if you return it in box".

I bought a hydraulic press. It was missing bolts, has already been assembled before.

A friend bough some wheel Dollie's the threads on the castors were stripped out.

People buy things and use them once for their project, then return them.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by platevoltage »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #783
platevoltage wrote: post #746

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I deleted my Facebook account 10 years ago, and I’ve been off Instagram for half a year. I recently tried to create a new Facebook account so that could create a Meta Business account to use the WhatsApp API for my business. Insta-ban with no explanation. No recourse.

You don't have to use whatsapp api for business if all you want is simple automation. Like, there is beeper which can theoretically allow you the same but you might have to trust their cloud but they are giving options locally too in the meanwhile, you can use what beeper uses underneath its hood which is https://github.com/tulir/whatsmeow and use this for automation. I used this for some time and I didn't seem to ge…

I'll have to look into this. Thank you.

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Post by platevoltage »

tracker1 wrote: post #873
platevoltage wrote: post #740

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True. I mean, how long did it take us to get a right click button.

If you're talking apple... if you used a "standard" 2-3 button mouse, It worked in OSX from pretty much the start iirc. I always used a PC mouse for that reason.

oh absolutely. They have had support for aftermarket mice for a while. Their track pads have supported "right click" for a long time too.

Then again, they've always been way better at making track pads than mice. They have probably the best track pad in the business, and also the Magic Mouse, which everyone hates.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by platevoltage »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #774
platevoltage wrote: post #739

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I’d say that the social media revolution had a bigger effect than AI has at this point.

That is a genuinely fair take. I agree Social media was a quality of life upgrade where it wasn't promising too much, and it delivered on what it promised. (maybe a little too much) AI on the other hand just like blockchain feels like hype.

Social Media is basically what enabled me to actually be social during the Friendster/Early Myspace era. It helped me get to know people I'd met in real life, and meet other people within the city I lived in.

Now if you're not on linkedIn, people question whether you are a real person or not.

I hope AI ends up like blockchain. It's there if you have a use-case for it, but it's not absolutely embedded in everything you do. Both are insanely cool technologies.

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Post by platevoltage »

lerchmo wrote: post #850
platevoltage wrote: post #739

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I’d say that the social media revolution had a bigger effect than AI has at this point.

in the context of LLM's we are in the Friendster era

I guess we will know when we are in the Facebook era when my parents start using it.

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Post by tschwimmer »

mdemare wrote: post #815
tschwimmer wrote: post #669

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Can you provide a reference translation or at least call out the issues you see with this passage? I see "far far away in the [time period]" which I should imagine should be "a long time ago" What are the other issues?

- "they were more small than large" (what?) - "even in the thirties little had been done to them" (done to them?) - "Welgelegen Buitenrust Nooitgedacht Rustenburg" (Untranslated!) - "his father had first called it Eleutheria" (his father'd rather called it) - "just as extraordinary does not refer to the ordinary nature of the outside" (complete non-sequitur)

Thanks yeah, you’re right these are bad.

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Post by singleshot_ »

tenacious_tuna wrote: post #869
todd-davies wrote: post #843

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Many of us in the antitrust/competition law community are trying. One issue, specific to digital markets, is that the field has very few people who are both legally and technically literate. If you're a technical person looking for a career shift, moving into legal policy/academia has the potential to be quite high impact for that reason.

Gods I would love to work more in a policy space, tho my background is entirely technical. A friend of mine has been trying to get into law school for a few years; she's technically competent and plenty intelligent, but it's been hard going for her to get in, plus multiple years of education to even attempt the bar. All of that sounds like far too much sunk-cost to me to dally in and figure out if it's a path I would…

Call up TechCongress and offer to volunteer for a cycle.

Law school is the same as med school: if you can’t see yourself living life as something that requires a JD, skip it. Just do the thing you want to do; unless that’s “dispense legal advoce to paying clients and represent them in legal disputes” you can probably do it legally without a JD.

Also be aware you are a lawyer when you graduate law school and you don’t have to pass the bar unless that’s a requirement for your practice. For example, a general counsel of an internet startup might not have to be a member of the bar, but someone going into trial court to represent clients does. I would think you could be a staffer for a congressperson with a JD and without bar membership prettt easily.

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Post by lazide »

materielle wrote: post #790
olyjohn wrote: post #765

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Maybe he can work on making Facebook not be such a piece of shit. I feel like he got his one lucky break and should just give up on trying to make more money. He already has billions. Is he proud of Facebook as a product? Because as a user it feels sluggish, buggy, inconsistent, and just full of low quality trash. I would be embarrassed if I was him.

That really seems to be the defining characteristic of the 21st century elite: they’re shameless and proud of it.

Only 21st century? Have you read any history at all?
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