Yes, from the title referencing MMM, I had hoped this would be the angle explored. My experience is that the optimal number of engineers for most projects is currently one, as the cost of creating bespoke automated dev…
Sure, but those goalposts have shifted from "you have a conditional freedom entirely dependent on an external service". If you run an open-weight model on your machine, you are not dependent on an external service. The…
This argument would be more compelling if self-hosted, open-weight models didn't exist.
Should it be acceptable to scam stupid people? That's sort of the impression I'm getting from your framing.
It's already writing interesting magazine articles. You just don't recognize them as being written by LLMs. Correct me if I misunderstand your implication, but it seems to be "I have seen poorly-written articles with…
Media distribution companies are like health insurance companies (though not to the same degree) in that they can't stop themselves from squeezing their customers to the absolute limit. Majority opinion and the…
Unless it doesn't kill us all, but post-scarcity is paired with hoarding of most resources by the select few that control a surveillance state and autonomous police force.
Probably not exactly as worried, but given software development was the first industry seriously targeted by the labs, and given the mission of nearly every startup these days is "automate the entire workflow of X…
The former phrasing has a sense of inevitability to it, for one. It masks the fact that people created systems to exploit weaknesses in human psychology. Evolution led to a bias toward unsubstantiated pattern…
For some people, it is. There is a segment of non-religious people who do treat the current scientific consensus as gospel and moralize adherence with typical religious in-group/out-group dynamics, despite not really…
By that logic, you may as well say evolution led to TikTok. "Religion taps into human psychology" seems more accurate.
It's not a given that employing more humans is an advantage. Ignoring the expenses of salaries, benefits etc, more humans means more chances for miscommunication. When one person has a strong product sense and vision,…
You sort of get at this with your biggest question, but who's to say the new ventures will require human labor at all? It seems far more likely that any new types of jobs going forward will be designed intentionally so…
When it's not performant enough or has bugs, that user will spin up a new session and ask the AI to improve the performance or correct the bugs, with a description of what they see. The frontier models are already…
We didn't need AI to destroy those
Assuming they are the "same people" sounds an awful lot like the Goomba fallacy. There are plenty of people who are consistently against the concept of intellectual property.
The key word in the quoted sentence is "necessarily". Hard work is generally a prerequisite for producing valuable output, but you can work extraordinarily hard and accomplish nothing.
Even that is not a differentiator. LLMs are perfectly capable of following writing style guides, it's just that their default writing style has tells and clichés, and most people don't care enough to instruct it to…
Value and price are coupled because people are willing to pay more for goods and services that are more valuable. The point I'm making is that hard work doesn't necessarily lead to valuable output. Some of the most…
Hard work is not inherently virtuous or productive. Life isn't fair, but the cause in this case is that support system availability and competence at creating valuable work output vary based on factors largely outside…
featuring MC Shkreli
maybe something like "make hardware as quickly as software" would be clearer
I don't doubt they will cost more than the Pixel line, but I'm somewhat skeptical that the hardware will be higher quality. Perhaps my idea of what Motorola is capable of is outdated.
It doesn't feel intellectually honest to suggest that expert witnesses are there for any other reason than to promote the case of the side that hired them. They rarely outright lie, but "try to make facts fit a…
Doesn't the entire court system hinge upon both sides attempting to make facts fit a predetermined conclusion?
Yes, from the title referencing MMM, I had hoped this would be the angle explored. My experience is that the optimal number of engineers for most projects is currently one, as the cost of creating bespoke automated dev…
Sure, but those goalposts have shifted from "you have a conditional freedom entirely dependent on an external service". If you run an open-weight model on your machine, you are not dependent on an external service. The…
This argument would be more compelling if self-hosted, open-weight models didn't exist.
Should it be acceptable to scam stupid people? That's sort of the impression I'm getting from your framing.
It's already writing interesting magazine articles. You just don't recognize them as being written by LLMs. Correct me if I misunderstand your implication, but it seems to be "I have seen poorly-written articles with…
Media distribution companies are like health insurance companies (though not to the same degree) in that they can't stop themselves from squeezing their customers to the absolute limit. Majority opinion and the…
Unless it doesn't kill us all, but post-scarcity is paired with hoarding of most resources by the select few that control a surveillance state and autonomous police force.
Probably not exactly as worried, but given software development was the first industry seriously targeted by the labs, and given the mission of nearly every startup these days is "automate the entire workflow of X…
The former phrasing has a sense of inevitability to it, for one. It masks the fact that people created systems to exploit weaknesses in human psychology. Evolution led to a bias toward unsubstantiated pattern…
For some people, it is. There is a segment of non-religious people who do treat the current scientific consensus as gospel and moralize adherence with typical religious in-group/out-group dynamics, despite not really…
By that logic, you may as well say evolution led to TikTok. "Religion taps into human psychology" seems more accurate.
It's not a given that employing more humans is an advantage. Ignoring the expenses of salaries, benefits etc, more humans means more chances for miscommunication. When one person has a strong product sense and vision,…
You sort of get at this with your biggest question, but who's to say the new ventures will require human labor at all? It seems far more likely that any new types of jobs going forward will be designed intentionally so…
When it's not performant enough or has bugs, that user will spin up a new session and ask the AI to improve the performance or correct the bugs, with a description of what they see. The frontier models are already…
We didn't need AI to destroy those
Assuming they are the "same people" sounds an awful lot like the Goomba fallacy. There are plenty of people who are consistently against the concept of intellectual property.
The key word in the quoted sentence is "necessarily". Hard work is generally a prerequisite for producing valuable output, but you can work extraordinarily hard and accomplish nothing.
Even that is not a differentiator. LLMs are perfectly capable of following writing style guides, it's just that their default writing style has tells and clichés, and most people don't care enough to instruct it to…
Value and price are coupled because people are willing to pay more for goods and services that are more valuable. The point I'm making is that hard work doesn't necessarily lead to valuable output. Some of the most…
Hard work is not inherently virtuous or productive. Life isn't fair, but the cause in this case is that support system availability and competence at creating valuable work output vary based on factors largely outside…
featuring MC Shkreli
maybe something like "make hardware as quickly as software" would be clearer
I don't doubt they will cost more than the Pixel line, but I'm somewhat skeptical that the hardware will be higher quality. Perhaps my idea of what Motorola is capable of is outdated.
It doesn't feel intellectually honest to suggest that expert witnesses are there for any other reason than to promote the case of the side that hired them. They rarely outright lie, but "try to make facts fit a…
Doesn't the entire court system hinge upon both sides attempting to make facts fit a predetermined conclusion?