The guardrails i.e. the classifier would also fire on Fable's output and even Fable's internals (i.e. prior to the shutdown people would see it firing when Fable got angry)…
This would be a great problem to have. Most scenes don't have enough event hosts.
Realistically, lots of parts of capitalism never sleep, and having outages at night still costs lots of money, astronomical amounts if there was no one there to fix it.
The authors are basically asking the alignment problem to be well-defined and easy to model. I sympathize. Unfortunately the alignment problem is famously difficult to conceptualize in its entirety. It's like 20…
Yes, they see it as the top problem, by a large margin. If you do a lot of research about the alignment problem you will see why they think that. In short it's "extremely high destructive power" + "requires us to solve…
From everything I've heard it's less "not cool" and more "not valued by the Google promotion and advancement system".
> "I don't think it's crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work," he said. "The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for…
Once your number as high as $5.6m, is that even plausibly within the scope of early retirement? I feel like a lot of the value of getting a specific number is getting spooked by it! And then facing some real choices. Is…
Ask ChatGPT. Literally ask it to explain how to do something, and explain it a different way if that doesn't work. Not sure what my advice would be before 2022 but this supercedes it.
Lots of Azure stuff is like that. Some big services internally at Microsoft refused to use their Service Fabric product, it couldn't handle the scale & complex deployment needs.
After many years of learning this lesson over and over again, that much my subconscious works on problems, I've finally learned to trust myself to step away when I feel like I'm grinding.
This is a pretty rude generalization, though I get it. As you grow in this career I promise you'll see people with real, serious problems caused/exacerbated by their white-collar jobs. I don't think the difficulty of…
It's more like: they'll want evidence it was you who accomplished that. Not for the sake of their product but for the sake of people management.
I think when a company is as openly hostile to the interests of its employees as Amazon, you shouldn't be surprised when there's hostility in return.
Company executives all understand that not adjusting for inflation is a salary cut though. When they make this move that's what they're trying to do.
Remember in the hot 2021 hiring market when Coinbase revoked offers because of a layoff? I remember deciding they were on my blacklist after that. I thought their leadership and recruiting were too disorganized to trust…
Microsoft employs a lot of lifers who have no idea how good tooling is on the outside.
yeah there is no way they'd want that kind of traffic unless the expense knobs were turned down. you might have 10 million queries on this thing per day. if it's just 1c/query that's already $100k/day.
Yeah, personally I like to know what the team & I are being evaluated on. I've been in the opposite situation, where there are priorities and goals that aren't communicated to me until way too late, and I ended up…
And if they did complain, what then? Are you worried about the social lives they might be missing out on? About the friendships they might have had if they had a phone with Snapchat on it? A lot of social life for kids…
(Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...) A way I sometimes think about it: humans have made great technological leaps, but every day is a battle against decay. Everything that actually…
I liked the Teams video calls. But did you ever try to search for a message in a conversation, and have it give you just the message you wanted, without any surrounding context? Or have you ever tried to scroll through…
What do people do during the 10 years they have to wait in line?
I have a couple quasi-mentors like this. I'm stuck between feeling grateful for what they taught me (a whole lot) and feeling absolutely sure that I will never be that neglectful to a junior dev in my own career as they…
I recently heard that a stale index was the thing that really killed AltaVista. https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1117859464793583616 Do you have any insight into why that happened?
The guardrails i.e. the classifier would also fire on Fable's output and even Fable's internals (i.e. prior to the shutdown people would see it firing when Fable got angry)…
This would be a great problem to have. Most scenes don't have enough event hosts.
Realistically, lots of parts of capitalism never sleep, and having outages at night still costs lots of money, astronomical amounts if there was no one there to fix it.
The authors are basically asking the alignment problem to be well-defined and easy to model. I sympathize. Unfortunately the alignment problem is famously difficult to conceptualize in its entirety. It's like 20…
Yes, they see it as the top problem, by a large margin. If you do a lot of research about the alignment problem you will see why they think that. In short it's "extremely high destructive power" + "requires us to solve…
From everything I've heard it's less "not cool" and more "not valued by the Google promotion and advancement system".
> "I don't think it's crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work," he said. "The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for…
Once your number as high as $5.6m, is that even plausibly within the scope of early retirement? I feel like a lot of the value of getting a specific number is getting spooked by it! And then facing some real choices. Is…
Ask ChatGPT. Literally ask it to explain how to do something, and explain it a different way if that doesn't work. Not sure what my advice would be before 2022 but this supercedes it.
Lots of Azure stuff is like that. Some big services internally at Microsoft refused to use their Service Fabric product, it couldn't handle the scale & complex deployment needs.
After many years of learning this lesson over and over again, that much my subconscious works on problems, I've finally learned to trust myself to step away when I feel like I'm grinding.
This is a pretty rude generalization, though I get it. As you grow in this career I promise you'll see people with real, serious problems caused/exacerbated by their white-collar jobs. I don't think the difficulty of…
It's more like: they'll want evidence it was you who accomplished that. Not for the sake of their product but for the sake of people management.
I think when a company is as openly hostile to the interests of its employees as Amazon, you shouldn't be surprised when there's hostility in return.
Company executives all understand that not adjusting for inflation is a salary cut though. When they make this move that's what they're trying to do.
Remember in the hot 2021 hiring market when Coinbase revoked offers because of a layoff? I remember deciding they were on my blacklist after that. I thought their leadership and recruiting were too disorganized to trust…
Microsoft employs a lot of lifers who have no idea how good tooling is on the outside.
yeah there is no way they'd want that kind of traffic unless the expense knobs were turned down. you might have 10 million queries on this thing per day. if it's just 1c/query that's already $100k/day.
Yeah, personally I like to know what the team & I are being evaluated on. I've been in the opposite situation, where there are priorities and goals that aren't communicated to me until way too late, and I ended up…
And if they did complain, what then? Are you worried about the social lives they might be missing out on? About the friendships they might have had if they had a phone with Snapchat on it? A lot of social life for kids…
(Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...) A way I sometimes think about it: humans have made great technological leaps, but every day is a battle against decay. Everything that actually…
I liked the Teams video calls. But did you ever try to search for a message in a conversation, and have it give you just the message you wanted, without any surrounding context? Or have you ever tried to scroll through…
What do people do during the 10 years they have to wait in line?
I have a couple quasi-mentors like this. I'm stuck between feeling grateful for what they taught me (a whole lot) and feeling absolutely sure that I will never be that neglectful to a junior dev in my own career as they…
I recently heard that a stale index was the thing that really killed AltaVista. https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1117859464793583616 Do you have any insight into why that happened?