Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria
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Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria
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#2the dream!
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#3Bell was a goldmine of technological discoveries. Academia as well.
Now it's all be sold off to ensure next quarter's numbers are up so the execs get their bonuses.
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#4You know, the funny thing is every technically minded friend if mine would apend the evening communing with a scotch and Claude if time permitted.
There was even a depressing conversation where we all figured most people are signficantly more boring to talk to than an LLM. Its fantastic if you have the luck to be surrounded by interesting people, but that is an extreme luxury i suspect.
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Please link the RFC that differentiates the two. And thank you for your service.
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#7You know, the funny thing is every technically minded friend if mine would apend the evening communing with a scotch and Claude if time permitted. There was even a depressing conversation where we all figured most people are signficantly more boring to talk to than an LLM. Its fantastic if you have the luck to be surrounded by interesting people, but that is an extreme luxury i suspect.
It sounds like you and I share the author’s view that, for all its sparkle, Claude is a thin substitute for the company of interesting people.
What might it look like to lower the barriers to that kind of situation, to extend that extreme luxury to more people—ideally to anybody who decides they’d rather lead interesting lives-of-the-mind themselves?
(Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090 [3 days ago / 469 / 212] )
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#8You know, the funny thing is every technically minded friend if mine would apend the evening communing with a scotch and Claude if time permitted. There was even a depressing conversation where we all figured most people are signficantly more boring to talk to than an LLM. Its fantastic if you have the luck to be surrounded by interesting people, but that is an extreme luxury i suspect.
It sounds like you and I share the author’s view that, for all its sparkle, Claude is a thin substitute for the company of interesting people. What might it look like to lower the barriers to that kind of situation, to extend that extreme luxury to more people—ideally to anybody who decides they’d rather lead interesting lives-of-the-mind themselves? (Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090 [3 days ago…
Neal Stephenson had a book about that!
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#9Somewhat ironically given the relationship drawn, my understanding is that Claude Shannon spent relatively little time at the Bell Labs Murray Hill campus, instead living in the more intellectually-stimulating environment of New York City.
Though he apparently did spend enough time at Murray Hill to meet his wife, Mary Elizabeth Moore ("Betty") Shannon.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/betty-shannon...>
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#10Bell was a goldmine of technological discoveries. Academia as well. Now it's all be sold off to ensure next quarter's numbers are up so the execs get their bonuses.
Short-termism has been undermining the US for a long while now.