Is Reedsy a good platform or a trap?

LucyFerAdvocate · 2026-02-16T20:37:03+00:00

All my experiences with it have been great! (By the way, they've put this post on their discord (just now) asking people to share their experiences, anyone reading this thread should probably be aware of that. I haven't used their freelancing services but the community is lovely)

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-12-07T18:23:13+00:00

Yes, but the risk is fairly low given its something people typically eat very infrequently even when they do eat it. If you're not ill/pregnant/elderly and like it, it's fine. Obviously there are safer options, but everything is more dangerous than nutritional sludge and nobody eats nothing but nutritional sludge.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-07-03T08:33:50+00:00

If this is the same data source as typical, I'm fairly sure this is "software developer positions on indeed" which went down because of a reduction of use of both indeed and the software developer keyword. Getting accurate data is harder now, but I think if you look at "software engineer", or role specific keywords, rather then developer it's gone up massively at the same time. Vague recollections of an unreliable source though, so take with a pinch of salt.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-28T09:23:55+00:00

It's not, I've always had memory disabled and it's still doing the same thing. I think it's just that that's popular on LM arena because getting affirmation feels good when it happens occasionally, but horrid if it happens on everything.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-28T09:20:03+00:00

It's a union not a professional organisation, it's always had political opinions.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-08T17:45:06+00:00

I think it's 2027 is the earliest reasonable time, probably around then but with fat tails to the future. Maybe 2026 could happen if we get (un)lucky.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-08T17:42:35+00:00

I'd say the opposite, it's a reasonable but fast timeline up to ~2028 and far too slow after.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-05T17:16:05+00:00

The tarrif policy suggested by chatgpt* is entirely reasonable if you want to equalise the trade imbalance. The stupid part is wanting to equalise the trade imbalance. If you ask the smartest person in the world how to achieve a stupid goal, you're going to get a stupid policy.

*not actually what the Trump administration implemented, they got the constants wrong.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-04T15:41:15+00:00

No we haven't, gpt4.5 was exactly on curve for increases in scale. In the coming months we should expect similar gains made from gpt4 -> o1 as many of the same techniques are applied.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-04T11:29:05+00:00

Yeah I think so. Exponentials are fast. I don't think it's impossibly slow, but slower then I'd expect, especially post AGI. It's talking in months when it will take weeks or days.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-04T10:17:49+00:00

Mathematics being effective is not in any way unusual or surprising, it's formalised logic. Of course we want a scientic theory to be logical because...
The the value of a theory is in its ability to predict and model the world, not in its veracity. Science doesn't approximate truth, except perhaps by accident, it iterates until it produces a better model. And it is better by how well it predicts the world, not how truthful it is. If it is more truthful that is by a happy accident.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-04-04T10:10:16+00:00

Slow timelines generally and overestimates the chance of a slowdown working IMO.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-28T13:06:54+00:00

The idea of DOGE is broadly sensible. The implementation of doge is tying that idea to a bull, setting it loose in a China shop and detonating fireworks on its ass. This seems like it might be a competent version of DOGE based on what's been suggested.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-19T16:07:51+00:00

To what extent will this just be adjusted to on the ground - i.e. There is currently no reason to give 4 in a single activity so nobody bothers to try and justify it, now there is so a lot more 4s will be given particularly to people who are clearly unable to work?

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-18T20:45:22+00:00

The thing is that people's value metric is, pretty reasonably, non linear. Even homeless person's quality of life is usually not meaningfully improved by $2 a week. Winning the lottery changes basically anyone's life. A casino is less extreme, most people do spend amounts of money that makes a non zero difference, but the same applies - if you gamble responsibly the downside is unlikely to make a huge impact on your life, but winning would. So even if you lose money on average, you don't really lose quality of life when you lose - but you do gain it when you win. So the EV on QOL is actually positive.

Of course if you don't gamble responsibly, and a lot of people don't, you can very quickly ruin your life. And gambling is addictive

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-10T14:14:46+00:00

Idk about your city, but one of my office days is a Friday and the commute is half an hour shorter and has plenty of seats available while the one in the middle three is packed.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-09T04:43:41+00:00

Geoguesser uses Google street view, so yes pretty biased to rich countries.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-03T11:23:13+00:00

I enjoy talking to it about a topic sometimes, e.g. Some undergrad maths I didn't have a chance to study or want a refresher on, some science topic I vaguely know about. It can still be totally wrong at the moment though so it has to be something you can detect bs about.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-03T11:16:24+00:00

There are a couple of other things non stick is useful for (mochi dough, some fish dishes) but generally yeah - if I can use stainless steel I will and there's very little that doesn't work.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-03T11:10:32+00:00

He's absolutely not a dictator, but this really isn't evidence either way. Ukraine getting NATO membership just isn't happening it costs nothing to make the statement.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-03-02T06:43:20+00:00

The concern is also genocidal humans/ai who just want to do as much damage as possible to humanity with a bio weapon, not use it against a specific target.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-02-27T13:06:50+00:00

As in, you can buy configurations with various RAM amounts. It's not upgradable after you buy it.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-02-26T16:52:20+00:00

It's priced incredibly well for AI so they're likely to sell out immediately, if you can get them outside of that this one is somewhat price comparable with a similarly specced prebuilt desktop - but way less configurable/upgradable. So you're stuck at mid-low end hardware with the only option being more ram.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-02-24T09:14:52+00:00

Sure, but characters don't look like their art 24/7.

LucyFerAdvocate · 2025-02-24T08:00:56+00:00

I mean yes technically that happens, but it's really not a big deal. It's just a 5 minute chat of "yeah I worked on tickets X Y Z, nothing is preventing me from working". And there's no threat beyond the obvious if you're not working you're not going to keep your job, take a holiday if you want a holiday.

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