viach · HackerTrans

When I checked the last time "consciousness" was not defined yet. So the title can be read as "Some things are likely not unique to earthlings"

viach

8 months agodiscuss

X -> Optimism, Optimism -> Longevity

Can't wait for a research which reveals the X.

viach

11 months agodiscuss

I think people often misread AGI as Artificial God Intelligence.

viach

last yeardiscuss

Yup. And the real danger of AI is not that it enslaves humans but in that it will bring great disillusionment and existential crisis.

Someone should write a blog post about this to warn humanity.

viach

last yeardiscuss

> 1 The tech industry has accidentally invented the initial stages a completely new kind of mind, based on completely unknown principles...

> 2) The intelligence illusion is in the mind of the user and not in the LLM itself.

3) The intelligence of the users is illusion either?

viach

3 years agodiscuss

> Be an engineer that PMs don’t hate

Easy-peasy. Always agree with their estimates, never complain, never ask for a raise, work additional hours.

viach

3 years agodiscuss

Can't wait for the battle of the OpenAI JavaScript frameworks

viach

4 years agodiscuss

Being smart is not the end of the game, software is created by teams. You could ask them to make reverse code review so that they can enjoy each others smarteness.

viach

4 years agodiscuss

Like you said "they can’t be bothered working out how to..." That's a fact which is not going to change.

viach

4 years agodiscuss

> Use stored procedures

For God's sake, please don't

viach

4 years agodiscuss

Strangely, it resonates to me in the context of finding "The Best Note Taking App" buzz. Whoa, X has backlinks! Yay, but Y is open source! At the end of the day we all open the default system notepad.

viach

4 years agodiscuss

90% of times when strangers were telling me compliments it ended up with "street scam", iukwim

viach

4 years agodiscuss

Sure, it's dead. But very wide spreaded and high paid.

viach

4 years agodiscuss

99% of analogies are correct

viach

4 years agodiscuss

The "real world" view pretty much depends on the glasses you wear and the observation point.

viach

4 years agodiscuss

You are taking it too seriously. You are allowed to make mistakes like everyone else.

viach

4 years agodiscuss

Says someone who uses white font on purple background

viach

4 years agodiscuss

If you use JSON for configuration (as it should be), why not update the whole file and get change tracked in VCS? If you use it as a database, why not Mongo then?

viach

4 years agodiscuss

> Consider mocking only as a last resort

Consider trying to write tests in a non-trivial Spring Boot app without mocks

viach

4 years agodiscuss

I think if you speak slowly any of the Slavic languages it will be understandable enough "from Prague to Vladivostok"

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