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I drive a 2008 Hyundai Elantra, and with the addition of a bluetooth adaptor, I really have everything I want in a car.

It's got no idea what's going on, and I like it that way.

I think YouTube will really struggle to figure out how to weigh lowest common denominator content that does well with personalized recommendation that satisfy some deeper intellectual curiosity. I'm already finding it's a kind of "work" to keep the geopolitical and economics content that makes me feel like YouTube is a positive for me on the front page over shorts and sports montages.

Maybe my algorithms just in a bad place right now, but it feels like there's been some kind of shift this year, and I'm wondering if others are noticing something similar.

Are you suggesting that people aren't responsible for the words that come out of their mouths?

It's this tolerance of misdirection that enables unethical practices in companies.

Shame on that spokesperson.

Don't care if it's on behalf of a company, have some shame.

Today's supercomputer is tomorrow's phone.

I really find the whole situation here fascinating:

1. Clearly cares. Does great work.

2. Industry is like "damn this guy does great work, do ours".

3. Consumers get used to the style. Begins to become a standard.

4. Becomes an expectation, almost like a seal of approval. "This is a ski resort".

I really like this explanation from Ira Glass on the gap between taste and talent and how you just need to do a ton of work to fight through it.

https://vimeo.com/85040589

The real punk rock thing is: "here's a power chord, slide it around, NOW FORM A BAND"

My guess is 80% of developers think they're above average.

Will the vast majority of houses rise in value?

Just remember, in capitalism: if you aren't exploited you aren't valuable.

Your goal as a worker is to right size that exploitation.

Somebody's basically got to go through and sort them all.

Do you think it's possible an LLM might be able to evaluate if another LLM is better than itself?

I'm here for Chaotic Good AGI.

AI dictating "I recommend you don't eat bread this Tuesday" and everything just magically works out. We wonder what eating the bread might have done, world ticks on.

What's preventing an LLM from coding a better LLM?

Very fair, thanks for the example.

What are the columns in a relational table like that?

Two is quite relevant for relationships

I'm genuinely curious how you think artists should be compensated for their work.

I am currently having the same experience

Even if they have $100,000 in furniture at each branch that's less than $2 million total, which seems like such small potatoes compared to the $200 billion in assets.

I like the "were you supplying SVB furniture" call out.

Seems so trivial compared to the scope of the rest of it.

Maybe it's just because I haven't managed that kind of money on behalf of an organization, but it seems like you would get super paranoid about that aspect of things: spread your money between multiple banks, hold low risk assets with capital you don't immediately need, possibly even hold some in a straight up vault.

Just gotta keep the goats off the panels (a real problem!)

I don't really understand why anyone would keep more than the FDIC insured amount in a bank.

Also, I'm constantly fascinated by how many smart people fundamentally don't understand the economics of banking and how these (often private) institutions create and destroy money.

The real secret sauce (as it often is) is "how do you get people to follow the standard?"

Superglue!

OK NOW HAVE THE CONTROL GROUP DRINK FLAT SODA

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I see it as these AI researchers pointing out how to attack Wikipedia, so Wikipedia is getting indirectly forced here.

Feels wrong to me.

Kind of just skimmed the paper, but isn't it weird that researchers from Google would publish a paper that's basically about how Wikipedia hasn't properly adapted to its contents being used for training data sets?

I understand there's problems with the way the gains from bonus productivity are allocated today, but I find it hard to root against bonus productivity.