I agree. The main function of a component should describe what it does, similar to describing the algorithm in natural language. I have been following this pattern with success. It is much easier to understand things at a glance.
As if one's market value is always coherent with their skills. There are so many variables that plays a role on how much one earns: where you live, negotiation skills, marketing skills, getting competent people to evaluate you properly, micro and macro economics, willingness to deal with bullshit corporate stuff, etc.
Sorry, I didn’t want to sound too sarcastic and negative: I don’t disagree with you. But looking from a broader timescale it is clear that in general we’re speeding up our technological progress in a logarithmic scale.
I have been following closely the NLP field for over a decade and the progress is speeding up. Can it stall? Sure. But everything is pointing out that it won’t.
Why most people are blind to the most important point of those models: the progress is moving at astonishing pace.
IMO it is a useless discussion to debate about the current SOTA or economics. In two years we will certainly have some breakthrough as we have been seen for the past years. And things are speeding up.
Being honest, I am not that much concerned with what can I do as individual. If sh*t hits the fan we’re going to have to solve this at societal level, not individual.
As others already put out there: if society collapses heavily due to displacement of labour, money won’t matter much.
Unless advanced AIs are used to build weapons for those who own the capital, nothing can hold off angry mobs everywhere.
When we get to the point where human labour in general can be easily automated, that’s when capitalism like we know must be buried. We must find another way to live and prosper on this planet.
Innovation is really a weird thing. If we could show ChatGPT to people 10, 20 years ago I'm certain most people would be amazed by this technology.
Today, lots of people heavily criticize its limitations and thinks 40 bucks/mo is too much for this kind of tech.
Reminds me about newspapers headlines being skeptical when light bulb started being sold for the first time. 99% people seems to be fundamentally conservative and can't grasp innovation properly, nor understand the fast pace of evolution some things can have.
Not saying this is good or bad, just an interesting phenomenon to observe.
I agree with you. I also think it is useful to understand limits. This is not what I’m arguing against, it is affirming limits without the knowledge to do so. Until we don’t really figure out how our intelligence works we can’t say we can’t reproduce it algorithmically.
We can find plenty of examples where engineering advanced beyond our understanding: bridges, boats, tables, etc. When humanity started building those we didn’t have the full picture of our physics yet we build and used those for more than 1000s years.
Again, I’m not saying we can’t engineer something from knowledge, I’m saying we can’t affirm limits onto something we don’t fully understand yet.
IMHO this paper is speculative and biased towards our human intelligence. From all the advances I have seen so far in the AI landscape, I’m growing more and more skeptic that our intelligence is something so complex that we can’t replicate.
Sorry but your argument doesn’t make sense. Engineering/building is different than understanding how things works. Surely is related: if you build something you usually can learn how things work - and vice-versa.
Insane to me is to affirm that something has a limit when you don’t fully understand it.
I find it amusing that so many people is skeptic about general AI, trying to come up with arguments that it will never happen, while at the same time we do not understand how our own intelligence work. Go figure out.
> I do think high frequency rate monitors are a gimmick
Do you mean refresh rate? If yes, I used to think that but couldn’t be more wrong. Nowadays I have a 144hz monitor and I’m considering even going >240hz.
If you have the gear to push that much fps it’s a night day difference.
I agree with you. I don’t understand why some people get annoyed about this. Any desired life change starts with goal setting.
Easy to say “just do what you’re supposed to do” as if that phrase by itself had magic powers. It is known that motivation and habit is a fairly complex process, so I don’t get why we still get such reductionist comments around here.
We need more empathy and less criticism toward others, specially when they’re trying to improve themselves.
Interesting, we used Taiga long time ago (5 years?) and honestly it was too simple to what we needed. The UI was poor and the whole application was slow in general. Glad to see they’re still pushing the project forward though, every competition is healthy.
Lately I arrived to the hypothesis that our minds are nothing else than an illusion. Of course, a very useful one.
Why? Because I can draw an analogy to a video game character with some shocking sucess.
DISCLAIMER: I just like to overthink this for fun, I am no scientist and I am not affirming facts, just throwing some idea around at the end of my workday. :)
If you play games, think on a first-person shooter (FPS). When you embody a character on those games, it has a certain "amount of life" that can be drained or filled. If you take too much damage you die.
In case another character is shooting at me, most modern games will give you several hints that you should pay attention to take action and save yourself: the character's vision can start to fade, the sounds starts getting muffled and you will get visual hints from where you might have been getting your shots from. If you hide yourself, after some time you will start to recover your "life bar". You normally get a positive visual hint that tells you that.
Same for NPCs: if you shoot at them, their "life bar" will decrease and, if the game as a good ~AI~, the NPC will try to save themselves: hide, flank you, whatever.
Now think about our human brain and how we learned in recent years how our dopamine neurotransmitter works: it is a neurotransmitter that modulates both our "pleasure" and "pain" sensations, among many other things. If we do things that are very bad for us, we feel "pain" and we learn we shouldn't do more of those. Opposite is also true: if we do things that are nice for us, it makes us learn to do more of that.
Why those negative or positive hints we see in our screens when playing such shooter games wouldn't be conceptually the same as what we experience as human beings? When I play such games I can see superb image quality and simulated human behavior, and all that is running in a hardware just in front of my eyes with some shiny RGBs.
Why the pain I feel "in reality" would be any different than the "pain" experienced by those virtual characters? Both have the purpose to push the organism, virtual or real, to perform certain actions.
Perhaps we will discover soon that our minds are nothing but a well-constructed illusion that is being created by our brains when we're awaken. Which is nothing short of just amazing, by the way.
I am sorry to hear that. You might find very useful this EP about meditation from Andrew Huberman: https://youtu.be/wTBSGgbIvsY
It’s the first time I saw someone differentiating different types of meditation and it seems to match your experience.
Basically, we can either exercise and build up our focus to our internal state and bodily sensations OR do the same but focusing externally.
The interesting thing is that some people are biased to one or another, and if you have issues like anxiety then you should probably practice meditation to strengthen your focus and attention less on your body and more externally.
Really recommend the whole EP, I think you’ll find particularly interesting given your story.
If you have a couple years worth of your monthly expenses in your savings then I wouldn’t be so worried about it. What you have done with that is to buy you time while you figure out the situation. This is enough for most problems you would face wrt employment.
What calms me down when I’m feeling anxious like you is to write down some plans with different scenarios: good, okay and bad.
Once I have a plan for the “bad” scenario I feel way more comfortable and can chill.
Perhaps you’re just generalizing your social bubble? I use Copilot and I find it’s pretty useful. I don’t use it to write whole functions though, but the autocomplete gets it right 7 out of 10.