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georgemcbay
·10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I don't keep LLMs sandboxed away from executing git commands because I think it makes me a better engineer, I do it because as useful as LLMs can be for programming I still don't trust them to not occasionally attempt to burn my house down.
georgemcbay
·11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> it’s not going to cool down.

In northern Europe it actually is very likely to cool down drastically once AMOC collapses.

I'm not suggesting this fact should stop individuals there from using AC in the meantime, but even though climate change is going to cause increasingly severe weather problems they won't all necessarily be things getting warmer and warmer in every local region.
georgemcbay
·เมื่อวาน·discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XSShVAnkY
georgemcbay
·เมื่อวาน·discuss
You seem to be assuming the people proposing and making these decisions value the continuation of humanity over share prices.

What are you, some kind of a Luddite? (/s)
georgemcbay
·เมื่อวาน·discuss
> LinkedIn is totally useless at this point.

I agree, though in the context of this thread I'd add that LinkedIn was already useless before LLMs.

The site was already lost to nearly infinite corporate bro platitude posting long before LLMs started to see widespread use.

LLMs likely increased the overall amount of worthless posts on LinkedIn by a significant amount, but I don't think they changed the percentage as very nearly 100% were already worthless for a decade or so now.
georgemcbay
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Now I'm bald.

You always have to remember to tell the barber "No mistakes", just like you have to tell Claude.
georgemcbay
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Firefox on iPhone if it matters.

very possibly, I am using Chrome on a desktop.
georgemcbay
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Remember when Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick got up in court and told everyone how all these giant Xbox mergers would be good for the consumer and went after Lina Khan for suggesting that maybe that wasn't the case?

Who woulda thunk they were full of crap...? (besides everyone who didn't have a financial stake in the deal)
georgemcbay
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'm in the US and twitter videos don't play for me. I see what looks like a video control when I view the post, when I click it, it throws up a modal log in/sign in dialog. No way to view the video while logged out.
georgemcbay
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> CNN is including it in news segments as if it were the most ordinary thing in the world.

As someone who doesn't pay much attention to traditional news stations much these days, I was kind of taken aback by the over-the-top product placements they do now when exposed to it.

See for example:

https://youtu.be/9BPO-swW5eo?si=vLExNIXfeQmYHIDc&t=340

@5:40 (if your platform doesn't carry over the timestamp)

Polymarket/Kalshi are far more damaging to society than soda, but seeing this I was struck by how we've reached a point where the old Wayne's World product placement gag wouldn't even read as satire anymore, that's just how things actually are now.
georgemcbay
·5 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Collaboration and benefit for all should always be the primary motivator.

Of all the things to never happen, this is never going to happen the most.

That train left the station for good once hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars were involved.

On the bright side, in the long run I suspect the vast majority of the value of AI will not be captured by the model making labs and the vast investments in them are going to implode, so...
georgemcbay
·7 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Reads a little bit better, but still reads like a writer getting paid by the word, which I guess is fitting.
georgemcbay
·7 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
My thought process in engaging with the post was:

Reading the title: I hope this is a joke.

First paragraph in: Oh, good, it is a joke.

75% through: Ok, this is a great bit of satire, but this reads uncomfortably like many of the non-joke discussions I've seen around software development over the past year.
georgemcbay
·8 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> One of the things I have found so alarming about a lot of recent revelations is just how cheap congress goes for.

The executive branch is also available for relatively bargain basement prices!

Ask us about our unlimited pardoning power for federal offenses!

#Ad #WorldLibertyFinancial
georgemcbay
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Sure but since we're talking about pie in the sky stuff requiring tech we don't yet have to begin with, putting it into the sun is a better permanent solution.

I don't think Elon is ever going to colonize Mars, but other people may someday.
georgemcbay
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
We could fly it into the sun, the problem is that until we have a space elevator the only way we have of getting it out of the atmosphere is via rockets and a rocket explosion with a nuclear waste payload would be very bad.
georgemcbay
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Wait I'm sorry but if the policies are to cover catastrophic damage, but if catastrophe actually strikes and the insurance company becomes insolvent, What's the actual point or purpose of insurance then?

Making the insurance executives ultra-rich.
georgemcbay
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Isn’t he, like any one of us, entitled to hold the political views he wants and support the candidates or parties he wants?

He's perfectly entitled to hold whatever loony political views he wants. I haven't seen anyone calling for his arrest.

But customers are also entitled to decide whether or not to keep supporting a company for whatever reasons they choose, including the political ideology of its CEOs.
georgemcbay
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
And for anyone who treats Atlas Shrugged as a Bible, I hope you're aware that Alan Greenspan was almost surely more of a true believer than you are, and his legacy is pretty well summarized by having to admit that his practically religious belief in Randian ideology led to the most severe global economic downturn since the Great Depression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ

Of course after his admission modern Objectivists began to predictably denounce Greenspan (Ayn Rand's favorite boy) with various "No True Scotsman" arguments.
georgemcbay
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Meanwhile AI has gotten so good it can just about one shot a SaaS app.

There isn't a direct correlation between AI improvement or stagnation and whether or not the amount being spent by AI labs and the associated ecosystem will result in a financial crash.

Look into the history of railroads and the internet itself to see how massive levels of investment can result in economic crashes even when the thing being invested in produces real, widespread societal value.

One could argue that one of the nightmare economic scenarios for AI is actually that it gets too good too fast and results in a wipeout of the white collar worker that we are currently nowhere near ready to deal with given how propped up our economy is on consumer spending.