Didn't notice. Guess I'm legit.
Readit NewsWhyOhWhyQ commented on Elevated errors across many models status.claude.com/inciden... · Posted by u/pablo24602
WhyOhWhyQ commented on Using secondary school maths to demystify AI raspberrypi.org/blog/seco... · Posted by u/zdw
[stub for offtopicness]
(in this case, thinkiness)
A lot of the drama here is due to the ambiguity of what the word 'think' is supposed to mean. One camp associates 'thinking' to consciousness, another does not. I personally believe it is possible to create an animal-like or human-like intelligence, without consciousness existing in the system. I personally would still describe whatever processing that system is doing as 'thinking'. Others believe in "substrate independence"; they think any such system must be consciousness.
(Sneaking a bit of belief in here, to me "substrate independence" is a more extreme position than the idea that a system could be made which is intelligent but not conscious, hence I find it implausible.)
WhyOhWhyQ commented on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers vulpinecitrus.info/blog/g... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
in general the consensus on HN is that the web should be free, scraping public content should be allowed, and net neutrality is desired.
do we want to change that? do we want to require scrapers to pay for network usage, like the ISPs were demanding from Netflix? is net neutrality a bad thing after all?
If net neutrality is a trojan horse for 'Sam Altman and the Antrhopic guy own everything I do' then I voice my support for a different path.
WhyOhWhyQ commented on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) jeffhuang.com/productivit... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
It just seems like a modern academic is a middle manager.
I had to go look that up! I assume that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power ? (Not a janitor, but "a low grade Technician"?)
Hmm it could be a false memory, since this was almost 15 years ago, but I really do remember it differently than the text of 'Feeling of Power'.
WhyOhWhyQ commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca
I've experienced this too. Luckily, I switched roles, so I don't have to engage with him so much anymore, but I still get his aggressive attitude every once in awhile.
He's made woman employees cry. He's randomly shouted at others for thinking they were being "smart". He's also made me and another coworker contemplate quitting on multiple occasions. Dude has two moods: 1. Unreasonably happy. 2. Explosive anger.
When I had to work with him full-time, my mental health was getting absolutely destroyed. Imagine a whole 8 hours of someone indirectly/directly calling you stupid, shouting profanity, and just being super passive aggressive. Oh, and not forgetting the threats of being fired. He made it seem like the CTO was discussing it, but I think it was him trying to get me fired.
I felt like shouting at him the most hurtful words I could think of and quitting every single day.
I've just been working on side projects hoping one of them eventually replaces my salary (trying to find a different job in this economy is really unlikely). I don't want to work with people like this.
"1. Unreasonably happy. 2. Explosive anger."
That was exactly my experience. It was either extremely friendly and fun, or extreme anger. It was terrifying. I would usually stay up 24 hours in a row preparing for meetings because I would be too anxious not knowing what I was going to get.
I want to read a short scify story set in 2150 about how, mysteriously, no one has been able to train a better LLM for 125 years. The binary weights are studied with unbelievably advanced quantum computers but no one can really train a new AI from scratch. This starts cults, wars and legends and ultimately (by the third book) leads to the main protagonist learning to code by hand, something that no human left alive still knows how to do. Could this be the secret to making a new AI from scratch, more than a century later?
There's a scifi short story about a janitor who knows how to do basic arithmetic and becomes the most important person in the world when some disaster happens. Of course after things get set up again due to his expertise, he becomes low status again.
WhyOhWhyQ commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca
My 'boss' was an absolute pyschopath who was a direct cause in my, let's just say, poor mental health over a period of years. I'd rather say not say anything to them ever again, but horrible interactions with them replay in my mind constantly. Imagine spending thousands of hours doing your best to make someone happy just to be treated like the worst piece of garbage who ever existed. That's what my 'boss' was like.
WhyOhWhyQ commented on Deprecate like you mean it entropicthoughts.com/depr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
"DEPRECATED: i will literally kill you"
"Continuing to use this feature is a moral failure on your part and you should be ashamed, your parents should be ashamed, and dishonor will follow you wherever you go."