ramblerman

> See the negativity of telling the boss at Theranos that the tests don't work.

That's not a typical definition of negative things. I'm not disagreeing with your ultimate point but it already feels like a mental stretch to include that in the set of negative things.

It could be that your boss is a negative entity, but the act of disclosure isn't in my world view.

Set your feed to only people you follow by recency

Then follow people that don’t post bait?

I agree it's not a uniform answer, but disagree that the majority is the second.

Imo the vast majority of companies would be better with a lot less engineers. For the simple fact that they are not setup for producing that much work.

They need time to discuss, decide what they even want to accomplish, just letting your POs throw more features at all your products on a whim is hugely detrimental.

lol - something so passive aggressive about this comment.

You could just say you don't like the excessive use of caps.

> Europeans are notoriously arrogant. It's a mockable combination.

Not a very rigorous economic argument - besides they also don't share an immigration policy, nor a single currency (Denmark)

Ah yes... the "European". From the Scandinavian viking to the Sicilian - one homogenous group that agrees on everything and acts the same.

lol. Whoosh

It sounds like you came up with a proper solution because cf didn’t support this silliness

I guess there is a bit of a realization from the laymen (and I'm speaking as a member of that group) that a lot of these problems are toy problems.

It's clear of Fermat's last theorem. But I figured that the Millennium Prize Problems (of which there are only 10) would have some real spillover into either physics or chemistry.

Yet when one of them gets solved, it seems to be that the argument is, "yeah but not like that".

Imagine if an AI solved cancer, or a vastly cheaper way to get into space, we wouldn't react like that.

Sry to be pedantic (it is german after all) but,

"responsibility table tennis" would be a better fit.

Competence in english translates to the skill side of the word

Unregulated greed in banking means taking ridiculous risks to line your own pockets at no benefit to society.

If a year from now we have a model that is 2-5x of Fable/Astra that is definitely world changing.

As per the post, this mathematician has been working on this problem for 20 years. So either he was "just" about to breakthrough and this is a big coincidence, or Astra was able to push through the remaining block of 5-10-20-never years it might have taken.

That's still a pretty big marker of competence in my eyes.

The point of controversy seems to be who gets credit

Can someone ELI5 how LLMs are manipulating environments like this? I have a similar question for when you see the blender examples online.

AFAIU the models are multimodal, so you could screenshot factorio and let it come back with some manipulation like move west 5 tiles, do that and then take another screenshot, but that seems wildly inefficient so I'm sure i'm missing something

I agree, but I also long considered llm's stochastic parrots. Then this year happened.

Opus/Sol are easily far smarter programmers than I, and this thing supposedly blows them out of the water. Once an LLM is a better doctor, researcher, biologist, chemist, mathematician, physicist than any human is that not AGI?

It didn't arrive in the form I would have ever imagined, but it's hard to say its not (imo).

I think you misunderstood the emphasis there - yes Europeans love football.

The point is that it's so blatant for such little gain, it's still a game. I.e. if he is willing to do that so openly for such low stakes, imagine what he does behind closed doors when it matters.

As a European... please no.

I'm so tired of the US trying to fight a proxy political turf war by fitting their simplistic maga/democrat viewpoints over everything.

The truth, it's pretty complicated. But since all things US blow over, the biggest help would be fix your own backyard, and then perhaps moderate discussions can again prevail.

People can come together on a project and not involve their politics in that project or their communal interaction.

And then in their own private sphere they are free to express their opinions.

The fact this is confusing to people beggars belief

> Tech needs more kindness, not less.

How is lets not talk about politics and focus on the tech counter to that

It must get exhausting keeping track of what everybody thinks to know if a project is worthwhile.

In this case, I hate to tell you - the owner of the company you work for invested a million into this.

So... you should probably quit your job, unless this is all just performative outrage...

Now maybe, but the gap is closing.

Someone answered the question with some actual examples. Please refrain from the hyperbole

> But if you're tolerant of someone in your workplace that wants to make it a monoculture, and then succeeds in doing so, will you remain glad?

Isn't that exactly the argument Örebro would make about islam and europe.

What a ridiculous strawman. OP wasn't proposing removing the police, and any charitable take would have understood that given the topic of the article.

If you think the premise and conclusion of Op's statement form a tautology then you agree with him strongly.

From the title alone I was going to comment that these tools we build are not about not procrastinating but about chasing some illusionary productivity.

My own examples

- Instead of learning a language, I can write a tool that generates flashcards for me from books I'm reading, surely that's better than "actually" reading a book

- Instead of using my morning willpower to hit the gym, surely a dashboard that shows me how many reps I did per week, with graphs of my progressions will get me better gains ... someday.

The fact you called it ProductivityProxy seems like we are on the same page.

This is a silly form of no true Scotsman, you don't create a Messi if he had been kicking a coke can around.

That's good advice to stay employable.

But I used to enjoy learning - I think most of us did. The existential crisis many are experiencing is about the lack of fulfilment in rolling an LLM slot machine all day in an already dopamine depleting environment.

Or simple economics kicks in, price/demand all that.

If hand coding pays better there will be plenty who can still do that.

> The UK doesn't support cigarettes, so the law gets passed. If someone has a public opinion poll there showing less than 50% support for this, I'd love to see it.

Isn't the impetus on the makers of this bill to show there is more than 50% support for this.

I'm not a fan of smoking but this isn't the governments job imo. Not to mention the odd precedent of do what I say not as I do, with different laws for different generations.

> ChatGPT initially responded that the earnout would be “difficult to cancel” but later at ChatGPT’s suggestion Kim formed an internal taskforce, dubbed Project X.

Anyone know how they got access to his conversation with ChatGPT? Can the court order the transcripts for a particular user, or was this leaked more conventionally - e.g. a coworker / hack?