Saw some @greenparty.org.uk canvassers outside our building earlier. One of them complimented my Palestine hoodie and I replied that I cannot WAIT for them to kick out Lammy. Must be fun being a Green Party canvasser right now, pushing against an open door.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
I love seeing your art so much. You are a real talent with a unique and compelling style. I hope things get better for you soon ❤️
An ex-colleague of mine joined Palantir nearly 8 years ago and I knew at the time that was an abhorrent thing to do. It’s not new and there’s been no excuse for a long time.
If you deep fry porridge with that seasoning in batter it’s called a “porridge supper”
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I feel like even if they tried to change tack, it’s too late now surely. They’ve shown us who they are and we believe them
Just an increasingly fascist state doing its increasingly fascist thing
Ok
I mean Donald Knuth (!) just wrote a paper about Claude solving a problem he had been working on for several weeks, but if you want to stick your head in the sand that is your prerogative. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/pap...
Ok, got it. Executives have already paid for a subscription to a slot machine and they are forcing their employees to pull the lever on threat of being fired. The slot machine doesn’t pay out but for some reason the executives don’t care. The analogy makes total sense, don’t know why I didn’t see it
I have done weeks of work in hours, and I’ve also seen it crash and burn on tasks I thought would have been easier. It is very good at some things and very bad at others, and getting a sense of when to use it and when not to will make you much more effective as a programmer.
The financials don’t make sense, it’s a bubble that will sooner or later pop, the environmental impacts are terrible, and it’s making people stupider. All reasonable criticisms of LLMs that you can make without having to pretend that they don’t work very well for certain use cases.
They’ll go bankrupt for other reasons: it takes more money to run the slot machines than they get from you in subscription costs. Normally you don’t pay a subscription to a slot machine so again the analogy has stopped being useful.
I think you’ve stretched the analogy past breaking point here. Model providers don’t have a financial incentive for you to get more bad results than you do good. They’re incentivised to make the models work well.
There’s plenty to criticise AI for, I think it just weakens your argument if you have to pretend (in the face of very obvious evidence these days) that it’s completely useless
I mean even with this analogy, if a slot machine gives you the jackpot at a level where you consistently get out more than you put in, that’s good isn’t it? It’s still a slot machine, it still risks gambling addiction, but if the payout is net positive it’s an effective way to make money.
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I did wonder at the non sequitur
Looooool
I actually haven’t played it in ages now sadly. My second ever fighting game. When I started it was Lily, then I moved onto Honda. You play? Who’s your main?
BTW when I walking about “using it effectively” I’m not talking about “prompt engineering” but things like guardrails, sandboxing etc etc.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of very valid critiques of it from other directions and it’s absolutely true it’s a variable reward system like a slot machine and addiction is a real risk.
I used to think this too but it had a tipping point in coding ability in December, the things it can now do in the specific domain of software are legitimately impressive, and software gives us the tools to build in some tolerance to failures/hallucinations.
What do you call it when you ask for feedback on your idea from ChatGPT in one window and Claude in another? Double glazing.
Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."
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i can have little a mania, as a treat
Next time someone asks you to sum up MAGA in 30 seconds or less, show them this clip of Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books.
ok so that’s confirmed the UK government are rug pulling my ILR and citizenship from me at the ten year mark. so that’s another 3 years and £3-£7,000. if you voted for Labour i hope you never sleep again 👍
I get where you’re coming from. I am just honestly not sure at this point what “work that makes you employable” is going to be in a year or two’s time! My job has already been transformed in ways I, originally very much a dismissive skeptic, never predicted could be possible.
