If we're talking about emulating users, sure, but this is supposed to be a tool that helps me get my job done.
If (i.e.) you dig into how something like copilot works, they do dumb things like ask^ the LLM to do glob matching after a file read (to pull in more instructions)... just use a damn glob library instead of a non-deterministic and known to be unreliable method
^ it's just a table in the overall context, so "asking" is a bit anthropomorphizing
> ^ it's just a table in the overall context, so "asking" is a bit anthropomorphizing
I interpreted GP as just saying that you are already anthropomorphizing too much by supposing that the models "find" new ways to fail (as if trying to defy you).
most humans do not seek out ways to defy after a certain age
I did not mean to imply active choice by "find", more that they are reliably non-deterministic and have a hard time sticking to, or easy time ignoring, the instructions I did write
I completely agree. Grok’s impressive speed is a huge improvement. Never before have I gotten the wrong answer faster than with Grok. All the other LLMs take a little longer and produce a somewhat right answer. Nobody has time to wait for that.
Completely agree. Let’s trust the experts we’ve reported on for years: put your symptoms into WebMD. Now please excuse me; according to WebMD apparently this stubbed toe means I have cancer so I have to get that treated.
Their new smart plugs finally seem reasonably sized.
I love IKEA’s smart home products, but their smart plugs (and many of their device power plugs) are comically sized in the US. Their original US version of the TRÅDFRI plugs wouldn’t even allow for two to be plugged into the same (standard size) dual wall outlet. Their more recent TRETAKT is much better, but still larger than competitors.
Does it actually make a difference?
I have an old Kindle (from 2013 I think) and I opted for the ad version. I only see ads on the lock screen, which means I never really read the ads. The few times I’ve looked at them intentionally, they were books I’d never consider reading, just from the title and cover; in other words, a terrible ad for the recipient.
Does the ad-free version not collect your data too?
I don't actually care if they collect my data in that particular case. There's really nothing of significance that Amazon gets from my reading habits that it Visa doesn't already get from my purchasing the book in the first place.
I care if I see ads, even if I "don't read them". And when it comes to other devices, like IP security cameras I might care a lot more about whether the manufacturer has access to the device once it's set up.
My goal was just to point out that there is at least one existing case where you can pick between a subsidized and unsubsidized (or less subisdized if you prefer) product, and having the choice is strictly better than not having the choice.
> I don't actually care if they collect my data in that particular case. There's really nothing of significance that Amazon gets from my reading habits that it Visa doesn't already get from my purchasing the book in the first place.
Visa knows you bought a book. That's all they know. Amazon knows that you actually read the book (or didn't), how long it took you to read the book, how many times you read it, every date/time when you opened it, what specific pages you flip to and re-read later, etc. Maybe you consider that data to be "nothing of significance", but Amazon doesn't see it that way. They spend a lot of time and money collecting, storing, and analyzing that data and it isn't because they didn't think it's worth anything.
Where on that page does it show that it is a necessity?
I haven’t been to Rocky Mountain recently (and when I did go right before
COVID don’t need one) but am an avid National Parks visitor and have never once needed a phone. You can print the timed entry codes (which I often do because of lack of cell service in some).
>"and have never once needed a phone. You can print the timed entry codes (which I often do because of lack of cell service in some)."
I mean OK, fair enough; it's not NEEDED to have a phone. But short of printing out, they heavily incentivize timed entry codes being shared by phone; either by screenshot or sharing your phone for the code.
When we do group visits to Estes Park from here in Denver, all members of the group use a phone.
>I am working on a project with ~200k LoC, entirely written with AI codegen.
I’d love to see the codebase if you can share.
My experience with LLM code generation (I’ve tried all of the popular models and tools, though generally favor Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet). My time working with them leads me to suspect that your ~200k LoC project could be solved in only about 10k LoC. Their solutions are unnecessary complex (I’m guessing because they don’t “know” the problem, in the way a human does) and that compounds over time.
At this point, I would guess my most common instruction to this tools is to simplify the solution. Even when that’s part of the plan.
>It massively amplified the nuts. It brought it to the mainstream.
>COVID was handled terribly after the first month or so, and hopefully we've learned from that. We're going to endure the negative consequences for years.
In theory, I agree, kind of.
But also - we were 10+ months into COVID raging in the US before Biden’s administration, the administration that enacted the policies the article is about, came to be. Vaccine production and approval were well under way, brought to fruition in part due to the first Trump administration.
The “nuts” had long been mainstream and amplified before this “silencing” began. Misinformation was rampant and people were spreading it at a quick speed.
Most people I know who ultimately refused the vaccines made up their minds before Biden took office.
> But also - we were 10+ months into COVID raging in the US before Biden’s administration, the administration that enacted the policies the article is about, came to be.
Google makes it very clear that these were choices they made, and were independent of whatever the government was asking. Suggesting these policies are anything other than Google's is lying.
Sure, but I'm not remotely blaming Biden[1]. A lot of tech companies took this on themselves, seeing themselves as arbiters of speech for a better world. Some admin (Trump admin) people might have given them suggestions, but they didn't have to do the strong-arm stuff, and the results weren't remotely helpful.
We already had a pretty strong undercurrent of contrarianism regarding public health already -- it's absolutely endemic on here, for instance, and was long before COVID -- but it mainstreamed it. Before COVID I had a neighbour that would always tell me hushed tones that he knows what's really going on because he's been learning about it on YouTube, etc. It was sad, but he was incredibly rare. Now that's like every other dude.
And over 80% of the US public got the vaccine! If we were to do COVID again, I doubt you'd hit even 40% in the US now. The problem is dramatically worse.
[1] That infamous Zuck interview with Rogan, where Zuck licked Trump's anus to ingratiate himself with the new admin, was amazing in that he kept blaming Biden for things Meta did long before Biden's admin took office or even took shape. Things he did at the urging of the Trump admin pt 1. I still marvel that he could be so astonishingly deceptive and people don't spit in his lying face for it.
>SEA and others are still better educated than us.
Honest question: is this true? What’s the data around this? If it is true, why are there so many people from SEA in American universities? Wouldn’t they stay in their home country or another in the area?
I’m truly trying to learn here and square this statement with what I’ve come to understand so far.
Speech generally hasn’t been restricted broadly. The same concepts and ideas removed from YouTube still were available on many places (including here).
Yet we still have so many people believing falsehoods and outright lies. Even on this very topic of COVID, both sides present their “evidence” and and truly believe they are right, no matter what the other person says.
I honestly don’t know. My libertarian foundation want me to believe that any and all ideas should be able to be spread. But with the technological and societal changes in the past 10-15 years, we’ve seen how much of a danger this can be too. A lie or mistrust can be spread faster than ever to a wider audience than previously ever possible.
I don’t have solution, but what we have not is clearly not working.
The root problem is that people don’t trust authorities. Why? Because they burned that trust.
People don’t believe the scientific consensus on vaccines because there were no WMDs in Iraq, to give one of many huge examples.
“But those were different experts!”
No they weren’t. Not to the average person. They were “the authorities,” and “the authorities” lied us into a trillion dollar war. Why should anyone trust “the authorities” now?
Tangentially… as bad as I think Trump is, he’s still not as bad as George W Bush in terms of lasting damage done. Bush II was easily the worst president of the last 100 years, or maybe longer. He is why we have a president Trump.
Wow, they are really going for that human-like behavior aren’t they?