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Azure OpenAI’s GPT APIs I would imagine is likely more secure, and now is HIPAA compliant as well.

Is your argument that SpaceX is a failure?

Wow the slant in this entire thread. When did HN become such a fervent Elon hate machine. Honestly curious, is most of this from his actions at Twitter?

Advice is pretty much never one-size-fits-all. If it’s helpful to you, then it’s helpful to you. If not, or not at this stage in your life, then it’s not. You decide.

Are you arguing that FSD will never come? Or just that it will likely be delayed again? Or that they’re not even working on it? If you’ve seen any of their AI presentations in recent years, I’m a little confused by your comment. I know some of it is marketing but it is incredibly impressive what they’re building. I would be surprised if anyone else is even close to how advanced they are. I just think the problem, the last 5% anyway to get it fully working and reliable, is 10x+ harder than anyone thought.

Now when it comes to specific physical features on the car or something, I don’t know, haven’t been following that very closely.

People change, adapt, and adopt new viewpoints. I wonder the models in these cases weigh the “you” from e.g. 10 years ago compared to the “you” now, in order to craft a response. How does the AI handle that evolution going forward?

The spice of life with friends is the constant evolution of each of us and the unpredictability in behaviors that are evoked as our updated selves are faced with new experiences.

Presumably you are frozen in time with these AIs, unless all generated chats are fed back in to update the model. In that case it could be very fascinating to see how the AI evolves compared to how you/your friends evolve. Perhaps even monte carlo simulations to find what the most likely evolutionary path is. Super curious if there’s be any accuracy to it.

The universe doesn’t have to care about making sense to us for us to make sense of it.

I tend to think the only reasonable and scientific viewpoint is that it’s possible to make sense of everything. Anything else is defeatist.

One category of idea is a tool-in-a-toolbox idea. Many on this page is of that type. A lot of ideas in economics is this, for example. They become thinking tools that are easily synthesized into the brain as they are super easy conceptual ideas. So as you go about your day and come across a problem, your brain can pull from that toolbox to better solve the problem.

I love sites full of wisdom like this. Sometimes there’s a tool buried deep in my toolbox that my brain forgot I had and this brings it back to the surface. And sometimes there’s a new tool I can grok/incorporate in seconds. And inevitably there will be a tool I don’t care about or agree with and simply discard it. Big win for very minimal investment of time.

He makes way more mistakes than I would like as well. But he also has made a lot of fantastic decisions that IMO outweigh by magnitudes the annoying irreverence he displays.

By the way, I’m not excusing his behavior by saying this, but I’m pretty sure the irreverence is a complete response to the struggles and pain from non-stop attacks from fighting giants in the arena for years. Putting yourself out there, living in the arena, especially to the extent he has, is super hard. Most of us don’t have the courage. If you do, you’re welcome to enter it and try to be a better role model. The world needs it.

Interesting. Mind sharing how you’re doing the “training”? Search across a vectorstore all the text gets stored in?

I think the most likely case is that the properties of a system that leads to emergent behavior (part of complexity science) are very much present in the brain where the various components with a proper balance leads to the intelligence we have.

An interesting intelligence emerges from a colony of ants compared to one. An interesting intelligence emerges from the relations of the various parts of the brain. An interesting intelligence emerges from the combo of techniques that have led to GPT and other surprising AIs. Same with a human, to two humans collaborating, to tribes to companies to cities etc. And likely same by combining/integrating GPT-4 type of LLMs with other tools and with other specific purpose LLMs - a greater unit of significance will emerge. (The non-predictability of this with current science is what is kind of scary to me.)

I think you’re sidestepping the point here. The point is that the combo of these systems becomes one unit. One integrated system. That’s the new system to measure. Similarly, your prefrontal cortex without a hippocampus sucks. The combo of them (and other distinct parts of the brain that handle specific functions and have specific purposes that interact with other parts in a specific way) - that is what causes our specific type of intelligence to emerge. The brain as a whole is much more interesting and practical to measure.

It’s indeed very complicated in any case. My understanding is a vast majority of the funds to cover the depositors is/will be coming from (1) the eventual sale of SVBs assets, which is worth an unknown amount given the FDIC must sell all assets within a few years (3-5?), and (2) the $250k insured amount from FDIC’s DIF. Short term the FDIC is providing an advance dividend to cover as much of the depositors as they can.

Where the remaining amount is coming from, however much that ends up being (an unknown), is an unknown as far as I understand. It could come from a “special assessment” (a way for the FDIC to collect additional money from banks)… of which some could possibly be passed down to consumers eventually I think, indirectly, or just worse terms. If so it might be a relatively small amount of the total assets, but I have no idea - depends on the sale of SVB’s assets.

Many here seem to purely be blaming the VCs for what happened. I would think the bank has the primary blame for making unwise investments with their depositor’s money. And I get the VCs caused the bank run by wanting to protect the startups they support. I don’t blame them for reacting to the news of the failing bank. Do you blame the general population for the Great Depression in the 1920s when the bank run happened then? I don’t think so? It was a consequence of a greater issue. Just like VCs actions were a consequence of the greater issue of how the bank managed the funds.

The startups are the ones that get the funds now, right? The startup now is guaranteed to have the funds to pay their employees etc. Mark Cuban gets money if his investment in the startup is a success, and only then. I’m happy the startup can now survive. What exactly is the issue?

Interesting. I have taken it for years as well. It’s one of only two supplements that I’ve ever noticed a very noticeable positive difference from (magnesium is the other, which for me has a very noticeable ability to help me sleep deeper, ie keeps me from waking at night).

I take lions mane most nights before bed. Haven’t noticed any weird dreams, nor the other effects around libido or motivation. I’ve been a chronic bad sleeper most of my life, and regularly would wake up feeling terribly in my head (headache, etc) after a subpar night of sleep. Lions mane has completely removed that feeling - my mind is clear in the morning and ready to go. Especially on nights when I go to bed extra late, I know if I take this stuff before bed I’ll be pretty good still in the morning.

Years ago I suggested some friends and family try it and nobody has had equally noticeable effects if any, so I no longer do. These things are just super individualized for whatever reason. Cool to hear some others here have benefitted too. I’m not sure if it’s the properties where it helps with inflammation or what it is that benefits me specifically. Would love to know. Also what side effects there are from long term use.

The tombstone of humanity when AI destroys us. “All it ever did is predict the next word…”

So interesting how people can read the same thing and get completely different lessons out of it.

I read it in a much less defeatist way: A big predictor of success for your kids is to deliberately surround yourself and family as much as possible with the best people you know according to the values and ethic you want to bestow upon your kids.

I think calling it simply an LLM is incorrect also. There clearly is intelligence in these models that has _emerged_ that goes far beyond simple “it’s just doing auto-completion”.

I think in general what’s causing so many people to be thrown for a loop is a lack of understanding or consideration of emergent behavior in systems. Break down the individual components of the human body and brain and someone could easily come to the same conclusion that “it’s just X”. Human intelligence and consciousness is all emergent as well. AGI will very likely will be emergent as well.

Agreed. The book "A Mathematician's Lament" I found enlightening on this topic.

Why do you think they don't value him? Sounds like they're sending conflicting messages to him. Which is the case? Are you saying to just assume the worst? Instead of trying to get clarity first?

> It's unfortunate because in the vast majority of cases, as you describe, this isn't the case at all.

I don't have a good barometer on what is typical. I do think it's probably the wrong approach in most cases to assume malintent and not even try to have a conversation, and just leave. That's my main point. That sounds like a cowardly approach, sounds like victim mentality that will just continue into future roles unless addressed, and it sounds like it assumes the employee holds no power at all in the relationship, which is very possibly invalid in many cases including this one. The employer has likely invested a lot in the employee, the employee probably has ownership and responsibilities, and it's a pain as a manager to have to deal with someone leaving and figuring out how to cover for the loss.

I haven't worked for a FAANG or similar silicon valley giant and so maybe things are different at those places and devs are treated as a faceless commodity, but I haven't had that impression (curious to hear someone's input on this).

Not sure we have enough info to say for sure.

> "Management's charter is to extract as much value from employees while minimizing expenditures."

Burning out a valued employee that can probably do work 10x better and faster than a brand new employee is not extracting value.

The harsh reality could be that they are not happy with the op and their performance, and in a cowardly fashion not expressing it honestly to them. That could be the case and it could be worth introspecting on that.

Raised it with my manager, and he pulled in his manager/executive whom I had the real conversation with. I think my manager may have felt inexperienced dealing with this situation, plus did not have direct power to make a change himself, but wisely did realize the importance of the situation and the importance of listening and acting.

In my case I preferred my current employer despite some more money from the other.

I’m blown away by some of the other comments here. There’s no value in having a victim mentality.

Have you openly spoken to your manager about your concerns? How it doesn’t feel fair? How you feel you’re being treated? There’s a chance they have no idea. Maybe they’re not that experienced and are just working things out themselves. Or if they seem like the wrong person, is there someone above them you can voice your concerns about?

Last time I had an employer I had feelings of being treated unfairly and voiced it and they gave me a big raise and a bonus, and they expressed how they respected me that much more for voicing it. (I did also come to them with a job offer from another company that had a larger dollar amount associated to it.). N=1 here and no guarantees of course, but it’s very worth attempting to communicate.

Being on the other end as a business owner myself now, I realize how easy it is to think everything that happens at the company and how it operates is deliberate and intentional. That is very often not the case. The invisible hand reaches over and forms companies just as it does the economy, eg one person makes a decision and introduced a structure or process 5 years ago and it just hasn’t been revisited despite the fact it should have.

If they don’t seem interested after some good attempts at being transparent and honest, you’re possibly a place that doesn’t value their employees, and it’s worth looking elsewhere to find a place that better aligns with your values.

To deal with this we have multiple devsupport devs that sit with support and handle urgent issues, anything larger/multi-day goes into the sprint queue/backlog to be triaged for the next sprint.

I’m curious what options you are considering here that are comparable and don’t take 10x more technical skill and time? Sites like Squarespace or Wix? Or Webflow?

Love this comment. My company is rebuilding our EHR software right now to make it more customizable among other things. Know any good resources on making the right architectural and product decisions to protect against or prevent this eventual fate?

I would love to have a chat with you - my company is in the middle of trying to decide on what route to go right now. We’re on Zoho right now and trying to make it work. Available for a chat?