guitarlimeo's comments

And no lol, I eat very healthy and mainly cook my own vegetarian food, had junk food last time maybe a month ago.

I can believe that unfortunately. Good regulation is hard to do without lobbyists getting what they want at the expense of people.

I can only speak from my own experience but if you want to have a healthy diet (enough protein and calories) where I'm from it costs a lot more than just buying cheap junk food. Well, the proteins cost.

I'm reading The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert and I find it shares many similar ideas. Also I've been interested by Buddhist concepts like impermanency for a while.

While I think rationally what you said is good and makes sense, at the same time it feels like it says you should forget your roots and be this impermanent being existing in the present and only the present. I value everything about my life, the past, my role models when I was a kid, my past and current skills, all friends from all ages, my whole path essentially. When considering current choices I have to make, I feel more drawn to think "What has been my path and values previously, and what makes sense now?" instead of forgetting the past and my ego and just hustling with the $CURRENT technology.

At least that's how I have thought about my ego when I have tried to approach it with topics like these. It might allow me to make more money in the present if I just disidentified with it, but that thought legitimately feels horrifying because it would mean devaluing my roots.

Interested to hear your take on this.

I would rather see regulations fixing incentives that create this problem (why does healthy food cost so much more than processed food?) than a bandaid like Ozempic that 2/3 of people can't quit (hello another hidden subscription service) without regaining their weight back.

You summed up my feelings pretty well, thanks for this counterpoint to usual comments in HN

No thank you, I like to hold on to my values which are to pay artists and creators fairly.

I liked the original title better "The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited". I think that sums up my grievances towards AI - amazing technology and certainly a booster to anyone's life, but what is the cost? Why AI companies get to download, consume and transform all copyrighted works essentially for free (I think there were some lawsuits that resulted in the companies paying), but normal people have to pay millions if they wanted to access all that data and pay to the original creators? I'm also not so ok with the workforce being displaced, but it's what happens with technological progress. But am not ok that it's displacing the writers while benefiting from their prior work without paying them a cent.

They weren't talking about their blog.

> I don't want any future children of mine, to have self loathing/pessimism or "woe is me" feelings taught by teachers or lecturers.

Except that wasn't the point? The point was to critically evaluate what value your work brings to the world and if it is positive. It emphasizes that having ethics as an engineer is maybe a better thing than being a apolitical robot who is only motivated by money.

If there was something similar to the Hippocratic Oath but for engineers, I would vouch for it.

Yeah well I don't agree that everything needs to be available to be delivered instantly. As much as it's useful, I don't like the "traditional" delivery driver industry either, just feels like going in the wrong direction to get more hours into your day doing something "productive".

> Automation drives prices down and makes all of our lives better.

As I said in other comment, this increases traffic (especially airtraffic which goes from 0 to non-zero) and it doesn't make my life better that my neighbors can order toothpaste via a drone, causing average noise levels to rise as said in the article.

Yes! Build meaningful connections which last even if you were broke. Money won't buy everything.

Have been having the same thoughts lately, and always find myself asking that am I turning into a sour conservative who doesn't like progress.

But no, there's lots of progress I like, just increasing traffic (here traffic in airspace increases from zero to non-zero) is never something I like. Plus those drones are really loud, I wouldn't want to bother my neighbors by ordering with those.

> per-token error will compound to inevitable failure.

Is why all tracks made with Udio, Suno have this weird noise creep in the more the song goes on? You can try it by comparing the start and the end of the song - even if it was the exact same beat and instruments, you can hear a difference in amount of noise (and the noise profile imo is unique to AI models).

> It is a pretty interesting thought experiment to wonder whether people shouldn't be allowed to engage in organized sports that are risky, without paying an additional health insurance premium? E.g. if you play professional football, then your league has to pay extra money into the health insurance fund to compensate for all the extra health care treatment their players need and will need.

Isn't this already in use in multiple countries? I.e. if you want to play football (european) in a league, you have to have a license and also insurance that covers playing it in an organized way - for example in a league.

So team sports are already covered by such things, but individual sports like mountain biking or skiing aren't at the moment.

You would think that the training set for the models already included enough of Mensa etc iq tests so that the model knows how to do these kinds of tests. It takes humans 2 or at most 3 examples to "get" what the test is asking for, and then they can start filling the answers to the actual questions. Meanwhile it takes hundreds of answers at least (in the public set) to train o3 to do this test.

The need for a huge training set to solve simple questions has never stopped bewildering me. I think to get a human-like intelligent model we need to figure out why humans learn from 2 examples and the models don't. But I don't mean to say that the current models aren't intelligent in their own way or aren't useful already.

I 100% like your own voice more. Don't feel discouraged of using your own voice and style, that's actually a huge part of you that matters more than if the text is 1% more readable.

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I tried LeechBlock for a while and had that 64-char random string passphrase thing on. Turns out I became really quick at typing those 64 characters to get my dopamine fix.

I got your main point from the first message, but still don't like redefining terminology like OS to mean what you did.