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frgturpwd
·il y a 5 heures·discuss
I believe we should.. step back a bit, and agree on what we mean by "reading books", vs "other things on a screen"; you all mean the tension between reading cumulative attention-intensive material versus discontinuous context-resetting material, right?
frgturpwd
·il y a 5 heures·discuss
It would only be an oversimplification if they had claimed that every book reader understands more than every online reader, regardless of subject matter. They didn't. Plus, in your example, this hypothetical online reader has already acquired the capacities that books are supposed to help develop, and he might be closer to a book writer.
frgturpwd
·il y a 4 jours·discuss
Exactly. Add it to the fact that the world was never particularly "fair" to deep thinkers, because said deep thinkers are often not prioritizing "production". It already rewarded people who could search for and ship a working solution before they understand it perfectly. The person who can only move after fully understanding the problem was at a disadvantage long before LLMs, almost everywhere outside academia.
frgturpwd
·il y a 4 jours·discuss
If things were so good then, how did they lead to Now?
frgturpwd
·il y a 4 jours·discuss
I don't know, the higher my TC gets the easier I find it to reduce my spending. I feel like it inflates in the beginning and then it kinda levels out.
frgturpwd
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
And what's the underlying issue, exactly?
frgturpwd
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
The world might slowly realize that a lot of generative goodness and direction is the result of our limitations and constraints as builders, not necessarily our velocity.
frgturpwd
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
I agree with everything you are saying, especially as someone whose main goal behind going into content is to understand, and have agreed with it for so long, and in my attempt to understand - ever since I was young - what people get from self-help books, I realized something. I do believe this - our - perspective neglects the difference between reading to "get a complex premise", and reading/watching something simple as some sort of lengthy ritual to get you to marinate on the idea and to allow yourself enough time to "change". Those 300 pages have the benefit of making you "stay with the idea" for however long reading 300 pages takes you, and that's what people who are into self-help like. Being persuaded.

That said, a lot of it is really filler.
frgturpwd
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Can confirm. I had to make an effort NOT to cheat. It's so incredibly easy on exams with MCQs.
frgturpwd
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Yes, it's from this textbook: https://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs147/2022/au/readings/rest...
frgturpwd
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Yeah, you can't get it out in "one session of conversation", but you definitely can under a different... context.

"Seeing the work reveals what matters. Even if the master were a good teacher, apprenticeship in the context of on-going work is the most effective way to learn. People are not aware of everything they do. Each step of doing a task reminds them of the next step; each action taken reminds them of the last time they had to take such an action and what happened then. Some actions are the result of years of experience and have subtle reasons; other actions are habit and no longer have a good justification. Nobody can talk better about what they do and why they do it than they can while in the middle of doing it."
frgturpwd
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Exactly, I am quite surprised by this thread. I always thought sokobans were just one of the niches of puzzle games (one that I am not quite a fan of, to be honest... I find it just okay.)
frgturpwd
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I was not actually defending LLM tools or casinos. Not every system with variable outcomes and ritualized user behavior is meaningfully equivalent to wagering money against probabilistic loss (slots). If the same reasoning were applied to video games or running scientific experiments of any kind, we'd end up labeling most uncertainty-laden interaction as gambling. I just did not find it particular enough.
frgturpwd
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I think this is more of a statement of human behavior under uncertainty and non-determinism rather than the tools themselves. Perhaps the ease of use brings it closer to the funny analogy you made but I think you will find this in any system where users interact with a partially opaque mechanism that produces different quality outcomes contingent on their input...
frgturpwd
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I hear you, but it seems quicker to predict whether the agent's solution is correct/sound before running it than to compose and "start" coding yourself. Understanding something that's already there seems like less effort. But I guess it highly depends on what you are doing and its level of complexity and how much you're offloading your authority and judgment.
frgturpwd
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I prefer waiting till it gets me in trouble. So far, it having access to all my .env secrets seems to work out okay.
frgturpwd
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Also, this was literally said about the technology of - what OP fantasizes as - "good ole pen and paper writing" at some point by vintage philosophers. Nothing new here.
frgturpwd
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
It seems like what you miss is actually a stable cognitive regime built around long uninterrupted internal simulation of a single problem. This is why people play strategy video games.
frgturpwd
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
It also does not help that this has ChatGPT writing signature all over it. :)
frgturpwd
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
The argument assumes a naïve pre-hermeneutic subject who could maintain a pure unmediated "self" if only they avoided LLMs. The author is nostalgic for a world that never really existed. Photography ruined painting, digital ruined film, typewriters ruined writing, audiobooks ruined literacy etc etc! This is the same lament lodged by every craft-class when industrialization hits their domain. Programmers aren't special. AI is not a fascist project simply due to the fact that different actors are bound to weaponize it differently, so this take is.. kinda tired and full of blindspots. I could have used my prejudice in figuring that out as soon as it implied that abstinence is superior, but I wanted to give it a fair shot. It ending with self-helpesque advice is just so funny.