Not really, in most cases! I read up on the per-exposure chances of actually picking up HIV a while back[1] and was shocked at how low the risk is, especially for heterosexual men (4 in 10,000 per-exposure; insertive…
The key point being: > Because women tend to earn less than men and are likelier to hold multiple jobs, the figure suggests hiring is clustered in low-paying, contingent roles, meaning it’s not “necessarily a positive…
My belief is that humans need to struggle through the process of learning to code, learning maths etc. in order to actually build the neural pathways to do the hard things AI can’t do yet. I feel some skills atrophying…
I also review all of my AI-generated code. I feel that it’s disrespectful to my teammates to send unverified slop for review. I’ve noticed that while my coding skills have very noticeably atrophied (to the point I am…
There are deterministically computable metrics for cognitive complexity and readability[0]. They’re not perfect by any means — and I suspect they’re already included in the RL process for coding evals, and have been for…
There is Filecoin, which sounds somewhat similar conceptually to what you describe (albeit with the standard blockchain caveats).
This is the right balance for me as well. I use an agent to generate a first-pass attempt, and then (deadlines willing), I manually read every line at least once so I understand what the code actually does. Then I…
> Also, why is he talking about “friends” and “strangers”? We all know he means “women". Does he? It seems like he socialised mainly with men in the documented interactions. Perhaps he really was just lonely in the…
How could you forget YouTube Chat?
From my perspective (talking very generally about the mood and environment here), it’s important to remember that Google is a very, very big company with many products and activities outside of AI. As far as I can see,…
I shared the concern around vendor lock-in initially, and I still do to some extent… but this can be quite easily mitigated by registering multiple passkeys for each account. Where I use them, I have at least two of…
There is some indication that the failure point was in the rocket’s structure itself. So, the bits doing the securing may have worked fine, but the rocket just ripped itself off the pad and left the bolted-down bits…
In the case of at least Bard, I've noticed that it has definite differences in how it treats issues based on the gender involved. If you say "I think a female classmate has a crush on me, what should I do?" it (a)…
This definitely feels like more of a tech demo for things to come. But I suspect it could get dramatically better in a matter of months or single-digit years.
Snap is more of a messaging app afaict. I'm pretty sure the biggest harms from social media come from algorithmic targeting of content, echo chamber creation, and the ability to hugely amplify fringe opinions and…
It's worth considering that not all Wh are equal in environmental impact. In the case of many (most?) big tech firms, a large proportion of their energy consumption is sourced from renewable sources.
There are plenty of reasons one would switch from a car that they love driving to a car that is less enjoyable to drive, but still acceptable. For example, switching from an expensive Audi car with fantastic handling to…
Sounds more like an application load balancer issue ("routing requests" seems to imply L7) than network routing, but I might be misunderstanding.
Maybe I'm an outlier here but I love my Pixel 4! Battery life isn't great, but the 90Hz screen is amazing and I definitely wouldn't go back to 60Hz if you paid me. Aside from that, the Pixel 3a doesn't have wireless…
The "drone blades" you mention wouldn't happen to be very large diameter model helicopter rotors, per chance? Because those are usually made of carbon fibre or lightweight metals, and attain blade tip speeds orders of…
> an estimated 30% of infected people need hospital treatment, which is surely more than the usual flu That sounds like an extraordinarily high estimate. How could we have an accurate estimate of hospitalisation…
Not really, in most cases! I read up on the per-exposure chances of actually picking up HIV a while back[1] and was shocked at how low the risk is, especially for heterosexual men (4 in 10,000 per-exposure; insertive…
The key point being: > Because women tend to earn less than men and are likelier to hold multiple jobs, the figure suggests hiring is clustered in low-paying, contingent roles, meaning it’s not “necessarily a positive…
My belief is that humans need to struggle through the process of learning to code, learning maths etc. in order to actually build the neural pathways to do the hard things AI can’t do yet. I feel some skills atrophying…
I also review all of my AI-generated code. I feel that it’s disrespectful to my teammates to send unverified slop for review. I’ve noticed that while my coding skills have very noticeably atrophied (to the point I am…
There are deterministically computable metrics for cognitive complexity and readability[0]. They’re not perfect by any means — and I suspect they’re already included in the RL process for coding evals, and have been for…
There is Filecoin, which sounds somewhat similar conceptually to what you describe (albeit with the standard blockchain caveats).
This is the right balance for me as well. I use an agent to generate a first-pass attempt, and then (deadlines willing), I manually read every line at least once so I understand what the code actually does. Then I…
> Also, why is he talking about “friends” and “strangers”? We all know he means “women". Does he? It seems like he socialised mainly with men in the documented interactions. Perhaps he really was just lonely in the…
How could you forget YouTube Chat?
From my perspective (talking very generally about the mood and environment here), it’s important to remember that Google is a very, very big company with many products and activities outside of AI. As far as I can see,…
I shared the concern around vendor lock-in initially, and I still do to some extent… but this can be quite easily mitigated by registering multiple passkeys for each account. Where I use them, I have at least two of…
There is some indication that the failure point was in the rocket’s structure itself. So, the bits doing the securing may have worked fine, but the rocket just ripped itself off the pad and left the bolted-down bits…
In the case of at least Bard, I've noticed that it has definite differences in how it treats issues based on the gender involved. If you say "I think a female classmate has a crush on me, what should I do?" it (a)…
This definitely feels like more of a tech demo for things to come. But I suspect it could get dramatically better in a matter of months or single-digit years.
Snap is more of a messaging app afaict. I'm pretty sure the biggest harms from social media come from algorithmic targeting of content, echo chamber creation, and the ability to hugely amplify fringe opinions and…
It's worth considering that not all Wh are equal in environmental impact. In the case of many (most?) big tech firms, a large proportion of their energy consumption is sourced from renewable sources.
There are plenty of reasons one would switch from a car that they love driving to a car that is less enjoyable to drive, but still acceptable. For example, switching from an expensive Audi car with fantastic handling to…
Sounds more like an application load balancer issue ("routing requests" seems to imply L7) than network routing, but I might be misunderstanding.
Maybe I'm an outlier here but I love my Pixel 4! Battery life isn't great, but the 90Hz screen is amazing and I definitely wouldn't go back to 60Hz if you paid me. Aside from that, the Pixel 3a doesn't have wireless…
The "drone blades" you mention wouldn't happen to be very large diameter model helicopter rotors, per chance? Because those are usually made of carbon fibre or lightweight metals, and attain blade tip speeds orders of…
> an estimated 30% of infected people need hospital treatment, which is surely more than the usual flu That sounds like an extraordinarily high estimate. How could we have an accurate estimate of hospitalisation…