geraldalewis

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Apotheosis of enshitification.

geraldalewis

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

> rightsholders

geraldalewis

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

This seems like a parody, but I think it's not.

geraldalewis

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

> weren't just laborers

I'm trying to read that in a charitable way: you're pointing out that, to a person who is fine with being cruel to laborers, they might not be comfortable with the cruelty and humiliation if it impacts people they might find deserving of respect and decency, yeah?

geraldalewis

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

This seems to me like the apotheosis of Jef Raskin's Humane Interface - super cool!

geraldalewis

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I give this project five bags of popcorn and a little commemorative octocat keychain.

geraldalewis

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I think this glamorizes and engenders an unhealthy relationship to work. “Rock star” and “ninja coder” works the same lever Steve Jobs used in the 70s to take advantage of smart people without enough sense of self worth.

And don’t lie to people.

geraldalewis

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I thought it was interesting, but I think citations are needed.

geraldalewis

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Sorry for the meta-commentary, but I don’t think it warrants its own post: wow the Overton window has shifted right on HN. I’ve noticed it with other comment threads but this one drives it home. Not good for discourse.

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

This seems like barely-massaged LLM content and/or just a bad marketing page.

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> All I want for Christmas is a GPT-4 level model with less obnoxious RLHF, and if it heils Hitler occasionally while crapping out awk code, so be it.

What an ignorant thing to say.

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I have only seen the first two images, but Paul Bourne + something that looks like non -Abelian sand piles!

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I think the latter -- I encountered the same thing.

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Sometimes Gandalf adds punctuation unprompted!

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> For most people, performance on one type of cognitive task (e.g. verbal reasoning) is highly correlated with performance on the other types of cognitive tasks.

It's cool that that's your understanding, but you're wading into territory that gets people sterilized and killed. I have a lot of trust in science, but not here. This video was informative for me: https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo

For example, here's an IQ test; let's say its given to 5,000,000 Canadians, and 3,000 Texans (1):

  * What is the capital city of Canada?
  * Which Canadian province is the largest by land area?
  * Who is considered the "Father of Medicare" in Canada?
  * Name the two official languages of Canada.
  * Which Canadian team won the Stanley Cup in 2017?
  * What is the national sport of Canada?
  * What is the name of Canada's national anthem?
  * Name the famous Canadian dish made with fries, cheese curds, and gravy.
  * Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?
  * In which Canadian city is the CN Tower located?

I would expect a normal distribution for Canadians, but for the Texans to score in the bottom quintile (regardless of "general intelligence").

(1) I asked ChatGPT to come up with this test.

(edit: formatting)

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

He went through the trouble of citing his sources, you should too.

geraldalewis

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I think this video by `Shaun` is informative and well-researched (articles and books are cited). It's long; the creator isn't especially succinct, but it's as entertaining as the material allows, and the subject's complex enough to warrant a video that's a couple of hours long. https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo

geraldalewis

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Being scared/stressed/panicked by a nuclear attack during a pandemic is reasonable. Trying to be conscious about taking care of your mental health during a traumatic event is hard to do, but it’s important. Some people need to be reminded of that. That’s fine.

geraldalewis

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

The comments here are silly.

You can absolutely prioritize your risks, which means you’re not precluded from taking sensible precautions if you’re able to. This isn’t rock/paper/scissors. If you’re far enough away from the point of impact and the winds are right, Covid might be more of a threat than a nuclear bomb.

If you’re two states away from where a bomb goes off, and insist on open-mouth kissing strangers as they cough on you, that’s up to you. But also you can just throw on a mask and step a few feet back from folks and be a little safer.

Also, really bad scenarios can often stem from a couple of things going wrong all at once. So just be safe and use as much good judgment as the situation allows. And lean on easy, automatic, strategies to help you not compound issues.

geraldalewis

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

It's 90 minutes, but ContraPoints' videos are really great. Here's her perspective on J.K. Rowling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us