ploynog · HackerTrans

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No, you are just oversimplifying the issue. Of course, if you were regularly riding before and very fit and change to an e-bike out of laziness, the net effect might be negative, tho even that part is not conclusively proven.

But if you found biking way too exhausting, maybe living in a hilly area, riding an e-bike is ten times better than doing nothing. Would it be even better to ride a non-e-bike? Maybe. Would it happen? Probably not.

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Being daft on purpose? I haven't heard that using an alternative browser suddenly increases the traffic that a user generates by several orders of magnitude to the point where it can significantly increase hosting cost. A web scraper on the other hand easily can and they often account for the majority of traffic especially on smaller sites.

So your comparison is at least naive assuming good intentions or malicious if not.

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Double-blind review is a mirage that does not hold up. While I was in academia I reviewed a paper that turned out to be a blatant case of plagiarism. It was a clear Level 1 copy according to the IEEE plagiarism levels (Uncredited Verbatim Copy of more than 50% of a single paper). I submitted all of these findings with the original paper and what parts were copied (essentially all of it) as my review.

A few days later I got an email from the author (some professor) who wanted to discuss this with me, claiming that the paper was written by some of his students who were not credited as authors. They were unexperienced, made a mistake, yaddah yaddah yaddah. I forwarded the mail to the editors and never heard from this case again. I don't expect that anything happened, the corrective actions for a level-1 violation are pretty harsh and would have been hard to miss.

The fact that this person was able to obtain my name and contact info shattered any trust I had in the "blind" part of the double-blind review process.

The other two reviewers had recommended to accept the paper without revisions, by the way.

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I think the complaint is that you only get told that you require a paid plan AFTER signing up. At least on a brief look on the Play Store page and your website, it does not immediately mention it prominently.

That seems like a very dark pattern and is, honestly, pretty scummy.

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> Have you tried asking it to do something useful rather than ask it to solve gotcha word problems?

What you call "gotcha word problem", I'd compare to typical math problems where you need to understand a text, extract the required information, solve the issue, and then present your results. Maybe this is a toy-example, but compared to reading the specs of some Microprocessors, this is rather easy. These AIs seem apparently be able to solve school or even college level math problems. Shouldn't my example be a walk in the park, then? Especially since it's a large LANGUAGE model?

> You seem to be implying people are confused (or lying?) about the things they are able to get LLMs to do.

I am merely stating observations and was hoping for an explanation. What good does it me if I accuse people of lying?

> Often it comes down to prompting skill. Try to read about different prompting approaches as that may help you.

"You are using it wrong" it is, then. So how do I differentiate between a good sounding but wrong answer, whether that came to be due to my apparently lack of prompting skills or else? They all sound equally well, it just starts "being wrong" at some point.

> In general, you need to be specific about what you need, and you need to give all relevant details.

What details should I have added in the given example? The prompt was probably more comprehensive and detailed than if this task was given in primary school.

> Like the post author said, treat it like a junior programmer or an intern.

I would, if it acted like a junior programmer or like an intern. For them, you can usually see if they are unsure or making things up (if they do these things). For an AI I've yet to see something like "hey, I might be wrong about this, but this is my best effort, maybe we can have a look together."

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With LLMs I am in this strange place where I read all of these amazing things that they supposedly all can do. And I have no doubt in my mind that they probably can. And then I ask ChatGPT a simple question such as:

  Here is a logic puzzle that I need some help solving: Samantha is a girl and has two brothers and four sisters. Alex is a man and also one of Samantha's brothers. How many brothers and sisters does Alex have? Assume that Samantha and Alex share all siblings.

And I get back a very well written, multi-step response that leaves no doubt in anyones mind that:

  To solve this logic puzzle:
  
     Samantha has 2 brothers and 4 sisters.
         This means there are 7 children in total (Samantha, her 2 brothers, and her 4 sisters).
  
     Alex is one of Samantha's brothers. Since Samantha and Alex share all siblings, Alex has:
         1 brother (the other brother besides himself).
         4 sisters.
  
  Final Answer:
  
  Alex has 1 brother and 4 sisters.

Maybe it's like with Apple and I am using it wrong.

To get back to the "intern"-comparison. I could usually tell when an intern was struggling, there just were human telltale signs. When AI is wrong, it still presents its results with the confidence of someone who is extremely deep in the Dunning-Kruger hole but can still write like a year-long expect on the topic.

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> Why would I want a clock that is, on average, a half minute off?

Because in 99.9% of the cases I don't care about the seconds, it takes away space in the top status bar, and the constant changing of seconds in the top-left corner of the screen is distracting. And for the remaining 0.1% of cases, there is the clock app that shows seconds.

What benefit do you gain in daily life by having the time down to the second? The argument "so it's not half a minute off on average" seems a bit self-referential.

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You'd be surprised by the amount of brightness and color produced if you are turning things on-off sufficiently fast.

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Cool story bro. Let me tell the guys at work that we should just run .NET on our multi-core digital signal processors.

And we should also teach them not to get their delicate timing out of whack because they'll immediately stop dropping incoming samples if any of them gets interrupted by a debugger.

I'm sure everyone will be delighted.

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