push-to-prod's comments

More like it does absolutely nothing to "blow up" the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, only to clearly demonstrate that Wright isn't Nakamoto. What a bunch of clickbait.

Are you using a VPN for work? It's possible that the network bandwidth is not decent enough to allow for lag free video conferencing.

When Zoom has issues system-wide, we get lag, but I'd say 98% of the time, there's no perceptible latency or bad audio quality.

My entire team is remote and we use Zoom calls regularly throughout the day. Our collaboration and morale is really good.

We meet in person once or twice a year, but the in-person experience is not significantly different.

Walking over and talking? You can just jump on Zoom for a quick chat with a coworker. Text messages are low bandwidth, but Zoom calls are not.

Everyone on my team is available for a Zoom call when they're at their laptops, which is for the majority of the working day.

Just because your workplace didn't result in an ideal result doesn't mean that it's the norm.

I've had it four times, but I've got lung issues, so it's not entirely surprising. First time was before there was a vaccine, and the successive times were half as bad as the previous time. Came very close to dying the first time, that was very unpleasant.

That's a really informative post, the ClickHouse thing sounds interesting!

Greed happened, by the sound of it.

> How much synthetic content will be perceived as true and assumed to be correct simply because we haven't had time to adapt to the fact that the rate of synthetic content is exponential now.

That will be a problem for sure. But people believe all sorts of easy to debunk things already and that list is ever-expanding, so I don't know if there's any cure for it.

As far as content goes, I think human beings writing out boilerplate anything is something that's not long for this world.

Labor is a trickier one to judge, but I'm not too worried about a large negative impact in the immediate future.

People thought that modern appliances would usher in a new age of leisure, and the truth was that while they removed a lot of drudgery, work expanded to fill the vacuum and the percentage of the week spent laboring didn't significantly decrease.

On a positive note, I think the kind of work people are subject to now is better because of modern appliances, so I wouldn't be surprised if the same holds true for all the labor problems that can be handled by neural net / LLMs.

From the last paragraph in the article:

"It is too early to say that the new AI class is an inherently antihuman technological paradigm, as social media has proven itself to be.

But it is not too early to suspect that AIs will dwarf social media in their power to disrupt modern life.

If that is so, we had better learn some new and unfamiliar ways of interrogating this technology, and fast. Whatever these entities are — they’re here." -Ari Schulman

People that mistake an large language model (LLM) for anything other than a LLM make some fundamentally broken assumptions.

Are ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc. a fundamental leap in the state of the art when it comes to allowing computer systems to understand what people mean and return something useful based on it? 100%

Is ChatGPT or the like going to become self-aware, compromise other computer systems, etc? No more than your shoe is going to take over your foot.

There's far too many people worried about "AI" that don't have enough context to realize they're fearing a non-sentient tool that has zero agency, and will not for the foreseeable future.

Somebody wake me up when the panic is over.

I wonder how many of these have realistic math in them, I suspect it'd be considerably shorter list.

Talks about how amazing the book is, provides zero overview of what's in the book :/

Thank you, paywalls are the worst.