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What the Heck Happened to Mountain Bike YouTube? [video]

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1 points·by operatingthetan·bulan lalu·2 comments

Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video]

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39 points·by operatingthetan·2 bulan yang lalu·60 comments

Write Your Own Copy

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operatingthetan
·3 jam yang lalu·discuss
If you follow his recent posts he's on a bit of a spiral with how he thinks about AI.
operatingthetan
·3 jam yang lalu·discuss
I find it strange how seldom the privacy aspects of LLMs come up. Some people are feeding Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic almost literally every topic they think about during the day. Those companies could just use another LLM to find people likely to commit a crime, and then you have the Minority Report in real life.
operatingthetan
·3 jam yang lalu·discuss
ok
operatingthetan
·kemarin·discuss
Yep. In my areas of expertise I can easily catch it coming up with wrong information, bad calculations etc. So laypeople are probably being led astray quite often.
operatingthetan
·kemarin·discuss
>Ironically, the audience that values all that structure the most is now LLMs.

LLMs are not people and they don't have values.
operatingthetan
·kemarin·discuss
>I'm fatigued by it all at this point.

This is the prevailing opinion of people even outside of tech.
operatingthetan
·kemarin·discuss
Yes and that can manifest in a very different kind of personal crisis.
operatingthetan
·kemarin·discuss
He's got "tech brain" where he thinks everything either serves tech or is tech. But you are correct in pointing out that he's just complaining about inconsequential cultural trends, probably because he's somewhat self isolating or something.
operatingthetan
·kemarin·discuss
Eh not really. It's more like it starts explaining to the user that they are very special, and they discovered this unique intellectual thing in the AI slop that no one ever has, then starts convincing them it's mystical or similar. Just feeding the user magical narcissism basically.
operatingthetan
·kemarin·discuss
That doesn't even mean it's wrong.
operatingthetan
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
The result is that everything in the american economy is getting squeezed.
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
I installed this a while back and honestly I almost never touch it. It turns out that for me searching my history doesn't really replace a search engine at all. The built in extractor list is pretty limited and adding them seems like too much of an ordeal for me to bother.
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
> murder in moderation, meth in moderation, punching grandmas in the face in moderation

I know these are your extreme examples but this is literally how society functions in each one.

Meth in moderation = prescription stimulants for ADHD or narcolepsy.

Murder in moderation = war, capital punishment.

Punching grandmas in the face in moderation = arrests of shoplifters or intoxicated grandmas apparently require physical restraint, lots of possible examples of violence for purported good on youtube.

Each of your hard lines are things that literally happen daily around the world, in moderation.
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
Explain what a "good generalization" would be to you?
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
All generalizations are fragile at the edge cases, that doesn't make them pointless, especially if you know they are generalizations.
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
Isn't the industry's idea that 'prompt engineering' is over and anyone can use this stuff effectively?

There seems to be a literal trap where people are too trusting of the LLM and take its word on code or whatever is being offered instead of reading it themselves.

In the context of the classroom this means teaching discernment more than ever.
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
>"Tiktok is like meth", would you advocate for moderation of meth?

This is an absurd statement. If someone is trying to talk about the middle cases, redirecting the conversation to the edge in order to dismiss their general comment is not appropriate.

'Edge cases exist' is not a lesson most people here need to hear.
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
Truisms fail when you get to the edge cases. This is well known and you aren't pointing out some massive flaw in their reasoning when it comes comes to classroom AI use.
operatingthetan
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
> I believed this so strongly that my company built an entire product around this concept. I used to tell folks that "session transcripts were the new oil," that they were more valuable than the code itself.

This is pretty funny because it's about the depth of understanding of every 'AI expert' on Linkedin. People who praise the context window as basically magic have no idea how any of this works.
operatingthetan
·9 hari yang lalu·discuss
Voting isn't some vanguard against political corruption. Voting can and is easily manipulated with completely legal means.