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The Consequences of Outsourced Thinking

neilwithdata.com
3 points·by FeteCommuniste·5 माह पहले·1 comments

British Museum's A.I.-generated post sparks online backlash

news.artnet.com
3 points·by FeteCommuniste·5 माह पहले·0 comments

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FeteCommuniste
·कल·discuss
Portable desalinators exist.
FeteCommuniste
·5 दिन पहले·discuss
> Humans aren't deterministic

Thus why we replaced computers (flesh and blood people writing out calculations) with computers (silicon-based number-crunching machines).
FeteCommuniste
·5 दिन पहले·discuss
Yes. Potentially life-saving drugs in RCTs are usually compared to "standard of care," i.e. already-approved treatments, not to placebos.
FeteCommuniste
·12 दिन पहले·discuss
The two feed into each other. "Publish or perish" ups the incentive to pump out shaky papers to pad resumes. LLMs make it easier to churn them out.
FeteCommuniste
·18 दिन पहले·discuss
The sloppings will continue until morale improves.
FeteCommuniste
·19 दिन पहले·discuss
American children are pretty hefty.
FeteCommuniste
·21 दिन पहले·discuss
MRI uses RF wavelengths, which are measured in meters. Ultrasound waves are measured in fractions of a millimeter. Wavelength is not the relevant factor here.
FeteCommuniste
·23 दिन पहले·discuss
The instinct of many people (myself included, a lot of the time) is "feed the AI the problems from the domains I'm least good at / familiar with" because those ones are the most frustrating and where I'm the most likely to spin my wheels. It's easy to imagine how this feeds into a cycle of "only put forth effort at things I'm already good at" and a consequent narrowing of professional / intellectual development.
FeteCommuniste
·24 दिन पहले·discuss
The big ones (oriental, not German) unfortunately come into my house pretty regularly. Setting out poison helps but hasn't rid of us of all of them.
FeteCommuniste
·24 दिन पहले·discuss
For me it's less fear than an instant "I must kill it / get it out of here" feeling. A big spider or centipede gives me a more intense "creepy crawly" shiver but a cockroach is way higher on the disgust scale for some reason.
FeteCommuniste
·25 दिन पहले·discuss
The "writing part" is not neatly separable from the "ideas part," much as AI-writing defenders would like to pretend so.
FeteCommuniste
·25 दिन पहले·discuss
If you're outsourcing your writing to AI, I assume you're outsourcing your thinking to it as well. And I don't really care what some weighted average of all human text written on the topic "thinks."
FeteCommuniste
·25 दिन पहले·discuss
Precisely. "We're doing this with AI" reads as "we don't care enough about this to pay a person to do it."
FeteCommuniste
·26 दिन पहले·discuss
Also his "Coding Train" videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTrain
FeteCommuniste
·26 दिन पहले·discuss
Nice examples, I think I landed on that page quite a while ago. I love Processing and Perlin noise. One thing I enjoyed was using Perlin noise values to compute a "region" on the canvas and making the behavior of a particle depend on which region it was in. Examples:

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds1.png

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds2.png

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds3.png

The Processing code I wrote to make them is here: https://github.com/Brian-Fearn/Processing/blob/main/PerlinNo...
FeteCommuniste
·27 दिन पहले·discuss
Got a Monty Python vibe: https://youtu.be/79TVMn_d_Pk?si=x2yAyxKNJDow8enp&t=124
FeteCommuniste
·29 दिन पहले·discuss
I don't know, I was never one to "assign roles" to AI myself, but if it ends up working for some people in practice, then I guess it might be worth examining why.
FeteCommuniste
·29 दिन पहले·discuss
Also Black Cube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube
FeteCommuniste
·29 दिन पहले·discuss
It's from the old Tom Lehrer song, "Wernher von Braun."
FeteCommuniste
·पिछला माह·discuss
I imagined it as kind of a shorthand for "you should be spending my tokens on looking for / addressing issues like X, Y, and Z," where X, Y, and Z are the sorts of things that an expert in [insert domain here] would be likely to care most about.