gcanyon

I've recently created multiple software projects without writing a line of code, and I love it -- maybe that's because I've worked as a product manager for years: I'm already abstracted from the direct code. I still write code for fun (project euler, advent of code, learning new languages) but I can't imagine the slowness of creating a whole thing from scratch.

I've recently created a hard-science fiction novella. I used AI significantly for research and scientific review, but I wrote every word. I tried having the LLM write it, and the result was awful. Maybe someday (soon?) that will improve, but for now I have to do it the old-fashioned way.

I enjoy both coding and writing directly. But I can easily see a time when it's like jogging, or biking, or going to the gym, rather than being a hunter-gatherer or a factory worker -- a pleasant thing to do, with beneficial effects, but not something done to a specific end.

  - the election
  - the betting markets

Technology like this is stuck in a no win situation.

Human police officers are allowed to take action based on reasonable suspicion.

AI, if it is worse than humans, will be criticized for false positives.

And if it is better than humans, without being able to explain why it will be criticized for that as well even if it is in general better than humans, it will be criticized for the false positives.

But as the saying goes, this is the worst it will ever be. At some point this thing or something like it will have a precision over 95%. At what point will the debate become awkward because the thing is superhumanly efficient at sorting out the baddies?

Movies come from books, but people still read.

But I get the point.

> audio-like music

That's a hyphen. What's "audio-like music" -- music that is almost sound but not quite? Music made from raw audio? :-)

Giving serious Black Mirror vibes with that. Specifically Common People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

N = 1, but I wrote a science fiction novel in Wordstar on a DOS computer circa 1983.

> KIMMEL: We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

That's not assigning blame for Kirk's murder. There is no way to interpret that as saying "Charlie Kirk's murderer was MAGA." It's saying that MAGA representatives were jumping to conclusions, prematurely focusing on blame assignment. To steel man your argument, you could say that it is saying the likelihood that the murderer was MAGA is greater than what the MAGA crowd is reporting. But since they were saying the exact opposite, that reduces to "there is a non-zero probability the murderer is MAGA" -- that's not an extreme position five days after the event.

Please show where he pinned the blame on anyone.

   - they blame the left/some minority group for literally just about every violent act ever 
   - they say it in most instances, including this one, with zero evidence
   - they say it, as in this instance, not to get to the truth, but to score political points

The visitors to answers.com fell into two very distinct groups: consumers and contributors (we called them the community). It was difficult to convert consumers into contributors: most of the easy questions on answers were already answered, so one of my experiments was to present an answered question as unanswered to the consumer, asking them to answer e.g. "what kind of hat was abraham lincoln famous for wearing." Anyone who answered was encouraged to register, and our community team would reach out to encourage them back. Uptake was low.

Likewise, the community did not often consume the content on answers -- they were very used to/comfortable with going out on the internet to find information, since it's what they did to answer questions on the site.

The point here is that the people contributing to wikipedia are a small subset, and possibly significantly disjoint, from the people the article is concerned won't go to wikipedia anymore because AI is now answering their questions.

And since wikipedia has no advertising, those people's absence won't be directly felt -- possible exception: I don't know the demographics of wikipedia's periodic fundraisers. Clearly if half their funding is coming from casual visitors, then that's an issue.

There is a lot of momentum and good will behind wikipedia. I don't want to deter anyone from doing more/something to support it, but I also think reports of its imminent demise are premature.

Please point out where Jimmy Kimmel did that. I'll help, here's a transcript:

https://www.readtpa.com/p/read-the-jimmy-kimmel-monologue-th...

Please point out where Jimmy Kimmel did that. I'll help, here's a transcript:

https://www.readtpa.com/p/read-the-jimmy-kimmel-monologue-th...

1. a puzzle game with complex interplay, pieces to place, design vs. play mode, storing multiple solutions with the puzzle, and more. I've since iterated something like 200 times as I worked out the design etc., but the first iteration was 99% correct and what I asked for

2. a learn-to-read application with built-in stories (that the LLM wrote) the ability to import epub, text, and HTML, that uses the built-in speech libraries as a default, but also supports an open-source TTS library that I gave in the first prompt, tracks progress and problem workds, has multiple games to reinforce learning, and has a parental mode for tracking progress and configuring the tool overall.

Frankly I was stunned that Claude one-shotted that second app, there was a lot in the prompt, and it did it all. I fully expected to have to iterate on the first draft multiple times. But it worked out of the box.

Obviously you know better than I do, but I'm literally uncomfortable here in bed just reading about skating over ice that thin. I'm going to go think about something else now...

Well cross Japan off my list. I would not be able to produce that residence list under any circumstances.

I'm a typical HN reader (I think) and I found it interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

   1. That guy is a craven idiot
   2. This is super easy to get away with and everyone does it