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Philadelphia commented on Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

laidoffamazon · 3 days ago

I don’t understand how someone coming out of Brown or Yale would have constraints coming out. Their degree is basically free, basically any degree can get them an analyst gig on Wall Street if they so choose, and at worst they can go down the law school path.

Philadelphia · 2 days ago

You don’t become one of the wealthy just by going to school with them. You’re still an outsider, lesser, just one of the little people, not their sort.

Philadelphia commented on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/ascertain

Philadelphia · 2 months ago

People have a very poor conception of what is easy to find on the internet. The author is impressed by the story about Chat GPT telling his friend how to enable the sprinkler system for his kids. But I decided to try just googling it — “how do i start up a children's park sprinkler system that is shut off” — and got a Youtube video that shows the same thing, plus a lot of posts with step by step directions. No AI needed. Certainly no evidence of advanced thinking.

Philadelphia commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

Philadelphia · 2 months ago

It now takes four clicks to delete an app on an iPhone, and four clicks and a swipe on an iPad.

Philadelphia commented on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here hackerone.com/reports/334... · Posted by u/redbell

pessimizer · 3 months ago

I find it disturbing that many people don't seem to realize that chatbot output is forced into a strict format that it fills in recursively, because the patterns that LLMs recognize are no longer than a few paragraphs. Chatbots are choosing response templates based on the type of response that is being given. Many of those templates include unordered lists, and the unordered list marker that they chose was the em-dash.

If a chatbot had to write freely, it would be word salad by the end of the length of the average chatbot response. Even its "free" templates are templates (I'm sure stolen from the standard essay writing guides), and the last paragraph is always a call to further engagement.

Chatbots are tightly designed dopamine dispensers.

edit: even weirder is people who think they use em-dashes at the rate of chatbots (they don't) even thinking that what they read on the web uses em-dashes at the rate of chatbots (it doesn't.) Oh, maybe in print? No, chatbots use them more than even Spanish writing, and they use em-dashes for quotation marks. It's just the format. I'm sure they regret it, but what are they going to replace them with? Asterisks or en-dashes? Maybe emoticons.

Philadelphia · 3 months ago

Do you have a pointer to documentation on that, or a keyword to google? Would like to find out more.

Philadelphia commented on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here hackerone.com/reports/334... · Posted by u/redbell

throwup238 · 3 months ago

Or, you know — iOS. That’s huge marketshare for a keyboard that automatically converts -- to —

Philadelphia · 3 months ago

You can also hold down the hyphen key and select it from the popup menu. En dash lives there, too.

Philadelphia commented on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/mriguy

osnium123 · 3 months ago

Won’t this mean that companies will move jobs to India, China or even Canada?

Philadelphia · 3 months ago

Most companies, even fairly small ones, already have a substantial number of contract tech employees in India, Eastern Europe, or South America.