While writting I think there's a very fine line that separates external storage from memorization. What I mean by this is that sometime we write ideas so we can avoid forgetting and be able to come back them (David Lynch), or as we write and develop a thought or subject, we are actually creating memories.
I think the point of writing stuff down is mainly organization, storage and exploration and not a memory exercise.
Screen addiction is a funny term that made realize that it’s the perfect term for this.
I remember in a recent city blackout, me and other people , that didn't have internet or comms, would instinctively pull out their phones and open apps knowingly that there is no connection.
Most people never really developed the habit of reading.
They sure did consume the newspaper but that has now been replaced with social media. The medium changed but the habits did not.
I think author is having an existential crisis instead of the world as he wrote.
The addiction of these mediums is undeniable. But let’s not lie to ourselves; only a few people liked to read. Anything that requires deep concentration often needs incentives or real consequences to make it more compelling.
The only way out of this is elimination of the medium itself.
You wouldn’t want a cocaine addict to carry a bag of cocaine in his pocket. But this is what’s happening to us all.
So much of our information is being leaked nowadays that news like these don’t surprise me anymore…
I think everyone should understand that if they truly want something private, storing it offline or destroying it completely, are the only safer options.
Any sort of convenience to access said data, is a possible surface of attack.
The "worst" part of this comment, is that it's not even exaggeration.
In the last 6 months, my competition increased 5x. People that didn't have the skills to compete, now do. My margins will keep shrinking while hardware and servers gets more expensive.
It's a fucking miserable future for us software people.
Architecting and "good taste" won't be good enough to put food on the table next year...
I found it to be otherwise, but it was not a complete hands off experience. Which is ideal for me, I like to be specific and grok 4.3 and composer are great code monkeys.
Opus and GPT are the models you want right now, for "I have no idea how to build this, so figure it out".
careful there cowboy, we are in the golden age of ai, regulation is still catching up.
You don't want to sell guns to people without some sort of background check. The amount of exploits found in the last few months have been pretty scary already.
This is just one more layer of caution, because it reveals how little we know how these llms work. They know how to make them, but they seem to be unable to properly restrain them.
While writting I think there's a very fine line that separates external storage from memorization. What I mean by this is that sometime we write ideas so we can avoid forgetting and be able to come back them (David Lynch), or as we write and develop a thought or subject, we are actually creating memories.
I think the point of writing stuff down is mainly organization, storage and exploration and not a memory exercise.