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Please Help Sam Angelo (Wyomingwoodturner)

2 points·by SquibblesRedux·3 mesi fa·1 comments

The Iceberg Index: Measuring Skills-Centered Exposure in the AI Economy [pdf]

iceberg.mit.edu
1 points·by SquibblesRedux·8 mesi fa·1 comments

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SquibblesRedux
·17 ore fa·discuss
In a sense, Aldous Huxley explored these ideas in his novel "Brave New World." [0] The novel describes a world were there is a rational order to human society, which has been engineered to be "optimal." A very good read I highly recommend.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
SquibblesRedux
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I was not making an argument that the economy is zero-sum, or that Musk or Bezos did not build wealth. I merely pointed out methods they used to build their empires. For example, Musk did take advantage of government incentives, sidestepped regulations, etc.

Again, I never claimed there was any sort of zero-sum transfer of wealth. I'm simply pointing out there are varied ways to build up wealth; people have various opinions about those ways. It's right to call out misconceptions or outright falsehoods, but it's also good to understand what leads people to form or accept those misconceptions in the first place.
SquibblesRedux
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Musk got a huge leg up through the government, whether it be tax credits, incentives, side-stepping regulations, etc.

Bezos ran at a loss for so long it drove out actual and potential competitors.

Most (or all?) of the recent titans seem like each has his own company town. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town )

While their activities certainly fall in the realm of capitalism, and are just blips at longer time scales, it certainly feels like capitalism has been a bit under the weather for the past couple decades.

Regarding the money invested in AI, it all gives me "irrational exuberance" vibes.
SquibblesRedux
·3 mesi fa·discuss
And don't forget:

"hi" and "hello" are not the same.
SquibblesRedux
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Sam explains the situation on Mike Peace's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrFgOMfsmM

(Mike is another wood turner.)
SquibblesRedux
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Can fully AI‑generated code be copyrightable? Is there evidence that the leaked code was AI-generated?
SquibblesRedux
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I would argue that no app/website should be selling itself to kids. No corporation should be trying to tether its ARR to children's attention.
SquibblesRedux
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> For me, AI tools act like supercharged ... search and auto complete.

I think that is a fairly good definition of what an LLM is. I'd say the third leg of the definition is adjustable randomness.
SquibblesRedux
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Just like in "I, Robot?"
SquibblesRedux
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I tend to see humans as just another animal species, subject to pressures similar to those of other mammals. Whenever disease comes up it seems like vaccinations are the only factor discussed.

Can anyone here speak to other factors (at a macro scale) that influence human health over large spans of time?
SquibblesRedux
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Well, Palantir was taken.
SquibblesRedux
·8 mesi fa·discuss
As an official greybeard who has written much in C, C++, Perl, Python, and now Rust, I can say Rust is a wonderful systems programming language. Nothing at all like Perl, and as others have mentioned, a great relief from C++ while providing all the power and low-level bits and bobs important for systems programming.
SquibblesRedux
·10 mesi fa·discuss
It looks nice. The movement is smooth and elegant. However, I really don't understand what the essential play loop is supposed to be. Is this about graphs? Calculus? Physics? Am I solving puzzles? Taking quizzes?
SquibblesRedux
·10 mesi fa·discuss
The challenge with long form texts is that they are so often picked apart, each piece quoted and analyzed on its own, without regard for how that small piece fits into the whole, often veering from a far more nuanced argument or portrait of life.

Something I very much like about poetry, is that so much wisdom can be condensed into such succinct language. We fill the gaps with our own experiences, not relying on the author to lead us step by step. And I see poetry proliferating in modern times in song. (How else is a poet to earn a living?)

There frequently are reminders of who we are, where we come from, and whence we always return. Life is a wheel. From Black Sabbath:

   They say that life's a carousel
   Spinning fast, you gotta ride it well
   The world is full of Kings and Queens
   Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
   It's Heaven and Hell, oh well
   And they'll tell you black is really white
   The moon is just the sun at night
   And when you walk in golden halls
   You get to keep the gold that falls
   It's Heaven and Hell
SquibblesRedux
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I just asked ChatGPT-5 to "give me a 16x16 PNG icon of an apple" and it did exactly that. It looks good, too.

Not that I don't recognize the inherent limits of LLMs, but there are as many edge cases covered as are found in the training sets. (More or less.)
SquibblesRedux
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Has the XDG Base Directory Specification been adopted by an official standards committee? In my previous life, calling something a standard carried a great deal of weight. For example, contracts could mandate compliance with standards.

Having built apps and CLI tools for macOS, the author's post certainly makes sense to me. Calling something a standard without backing from a standards committee seems odd, however.
SquibblesRedux
·5 anni fa·discuss
This whole situation reminds me of the movie Videodrome [1]. Without a moral compass, and with immersive AR/VR, I shudder to think were we will be in 5-10 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome