ramblerman

OP brought a rational argument, you didn't. It sounds like you are defending your optimism with emotion.

> We are groking how to utilize them.

Indeed.

It moves the goalposts a lot closer for them to proclaim AGI in the near future. By that definition an autononomous car is also AGI.

> Don't marry your display code to your business logic.

> It's the reason I never went for JSX or other frameworks that put logical code into templates or things like that

That's not mixing business logic with display code, your confusing (or conflating) 2 entirely different things here.

If a hacker just went against the official narrative as a knee jerk reaction that would make them more like a rebellious teenager no?

In a sense you are agreeing that this as tragic as it is probable needs no further discussion

transactions aren't anonymous and always publicly tied to a sending and a receiving wallet.

Who owns that wallet can absolutely be an unknown - although practically with 99% people buying through coinbase this isn't the case.

indeed, hence the question.

I've seen the countless reddit threads of people rejoicing that openAI is now their therapist. Do you have any example why you believe this is effective?

My guess is it's mainly lonely people having someone to talk to, and in the less charitable case a soundboard to confirm whatever beliefs they already hold.

I'm still unsure if it's a good thing at the macro level.

Well, there is no real precedent, and that isn't what happened.

The way they set it up dicentivizes just brute forcing it with a few thousand tries and quickly builds a fatter pot. And made this more interesting I would argue.

You can still sell your house or car. The first potentially for more money.

The restaurants and broadway shows are gone.

I’m all for spending on experiences btw. But you have it backwards financially.

2 things can be true at the same time.

Op is addressing the hype that there is some linear path of improvement here and chatgpt 8.5 will be AGI.

To which people always seem to jump in with but it’s useful for me and makes me code faster. Which is fine and valid, just beside the point

> You don’t provide any data to support your premise

lol, The burden is not on the world to prove that 10 years of med school can turn anyone into a good doctor.

It's on the people that decided to not take in the best students in the first place.

> How can you want a salary increase or question big man POs decisions, when you've just been acting like a kid for the last two weeks?

I think you just provided me with a small epiphany...

> I wonder what is hard to understand

The fact that you can't understand the difference between facebook/youtube and an ISP.

An ISP would have to vet every site they open up to their users. Which would effectively incentivize an AOL like internet with just 5-10 websites.

Freedom to speak without being overheard.

Should all hard drives be monitored by the government because of what they could contain.

Also accusing someone of supporting CP in any way for supporting free speech is just a terrible, and really shitty way to try and win your argument.

I think its a cool exploration between art and engineering, with the end effect looking lifelike and emergent. It reminds me of the game of life.

But yeah the peanut gallery with 30k in hn karma probably have something snarky to say about it.

I find these types of articles (and perhaps especially in the obsidian/2nd brain space) a bit funny.

It reads almost like they are trying to convince themselves how great their "new" workflow is. Which ofc they will completely change again in a few weeks.

It's akin to the guy focusing on the perfect VIM keybindings for super fast output, who then never really ends up writing much actual code.

That's a great point I'd never considered as a guitarist myself who uses both tabs and sheet music.

I think it also explains why in my last 2 years of playing flamenco I never found tabs, the rhythm is almost as hard to play by ear as the notes.

> 1) Big piles of money 2) Enough of a moat that there's no immediate threat from competition

You just described google 10 years ago. And I would argue they have been on a downhill slop ever since.

So I think its something else, perhaps great leadership at the right time. Google certianly had the talent, but pichai has been an awful steward.

> To basically never just "git add ." whatever might just happen to be different in their work area

> I will start to commit change sets as parts of the code solidify without committing other less solid changes

I feel like you are pushing your idiosyncratic way of working on others. It's great that you have a way that works for you, but it seems rather odd to me that you would ever be working on more than one thing in the same staging area.

I always git add -a . because I'm working on one specific thing, and my tests just passed.

> I've recently started thinking that LLMs would be fantastic at being the interface between humans and computers

Join the club :) I'd say that's a pretty mainstream idea right now.

Exciting nonetheless

I think it’s funny you frame this as an information density problem.

The vast majority of people consuming YouTube need moving pictures to keep their attention engaged and sadly enough a voice to offer the illusion of social contact.

If you find chores stressful how do you handle a high stakes situation?

A mentor sounds great, but part of growing up is

- realising no one really has it all figured out, there are generally no "perfect" answers to how to tackle life

- realising you don't need permission, a masters degree is nice if it truly interests you , but after 10y in the field it isn't going to offer you much.

- be very wary of people that are very happy to give advice, or tell you what you should do. Generally judge what they do, not what they say.

As others have said here, why not befriend more peers, talk to other people that are your equals and see what they think, they are trying to figure it out themselves. Make friends in different fields.

Meh, these snarky rebuttals basically add up to, 'Other businesses already exist, and you're small, so good luck.'

It's true, but that could be used against any new idea or action in business

I think you just perfectly described how people engage in politics today.

Well I mean technically almost anything "could" happen.

But a guy promoting his book, and a lazy journalist at the Guardian mixing in some images from the zombie tv show "the last of us" does not an article make.

thanks for being honest, do you use apps for that, or just more immersive in such a big screen?

Reasonable assumption would be from now moving forward. Last release was gpt-4o.

But there is little to engage with in your comment, I'd be most curious to explore on what u believe it's capacities might be, and societal impact.

I predict

- a steady increment of GPT-n+1 every 6 months for marketing purposes.

- each will improve on the last by smaller and smaller margins.

- hallucinations won't be fixed anytime soon.

- We will hit a bit of a winter, as the hype was so big but like self driving cars the devil is in the details. The general public realizes these things are just essentially giving us averages.

- A big market will emerge around "authenticity" and "verified texts" as the internet continues to get flooded with AI generated content.

The irony is that people can’t deal with the fact that people can be both “narcissistic assholes” and “visionaries”

They want their heroes and devils neatly wrapped and separated.