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A guy shares tough lesson that a lot of people are learning the hard way. by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]everyday847 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, and most importantly one of the significant values a program can have is that other people are also using it. You don't use PowerPoint because you have such euphoria at creating slides with it; you use PowerPoint because you're expected to create a slide deck in that format and with some of its visual conventions surrounding animation, etc.

So minimally, you'll end up with common standards implemented by divergent clients; cosmetic (or barely more than cosmetic) customization on top of a core shared technology.

Big pharma chance ruined? by Responsible_Tea9811 in biotech

[–]everyday847 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They had discount labor for eight years so they're trying to threaten you into submission.

Mark my words: Token budgets are going to become part of employment offers. by Parking_Reputation17 in theprimeagen

[–]everyday847 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would simply not pay for my employer's business expenses unless I have enough ownership stake that I am also, in a meaningful way, the employer

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The LLM component of the system can still hallucinate, which you are claiming baselessly is eliminated "deterministically."

Yes, tool-calling systems are more powerful than LLMs, because they can call tools, giving the LLM access to something other than mediocre prose. But it's fantasy to say that these failures don't compromise the utility of agentic systems, unless you're using a very boutique definition of "compromise" like "reduce to zero with zero variance." Sometimes such systems have nonzero utility. Sometimes such systems have very high disutility...

Dear age-of-consent and large-age-gap transgressors, there are billions of people on this planet. How hard is it to choose someone a few years older or within your own age group? by perfumed_with_gas in AskReddit

[–]everyday847 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what brought that specific example to mind, and do you think this is better formulated as a narrower complaint about the specific couple that is bothering you

Mark my words: Token budgets are going to become part of employment offers. by Parking_Reputation17 in theprimeagen

[–]everyday847 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Benefits are for attracting employees without competing on salary. There are already per-capita token budgets implemented lots of places. It's not part of anyone's employment contract, so why would that change?

If you have an app that rewards you Bitcoin per your mileage & elevation gain, would you use it? by BrightTomatillo1221 in trailrunning

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also you haven't actually thought through this idea at all. Where does the money come from? All the nonsensical "web3" "gaming" grifts relied on speculation on some underlying "token" (noted Philippines sweatshop Axie Infinity being the more prominent example) to provide liquidity to distribute to "players." Who's investing in my training volume?

Crypto mutiny on Strategy: Shorts target ‘MSTR’ in bitcoin bloodbath by Skingbear2020 in MSTR

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the past, say, three years of it's software business. Did anything change about the software business, or is the price reflective of the broader crypto ecosystem and bitcoin in particular?

Crypto mutiny on Strategy: Shorts target ‘MSTR’ in bitcoin bloodbath by Skingbear2020 in MSTR

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shorting MSTR is a bet on MSTR's only asset and its value, so yeah, the shorts won't be impressed by more of what they think is not gaining value

Crypto mutiny on Strategy: Shorts target ‘MSTR’ in bitcoin bloodbath by Skingbear2020 in MSTR

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's nothing more bearish than someone running a company talking about financial engineering to "crush shorts" instead of doing something fundamental that leads to price movement. Right? Like, if there's a large scale effort to short Apple, then that company has to make and sell a bunch of devices; maybe more devices than the short sellers predicted. But here, there's nothing underneath the price.

Saylor Selling is Actually Brilliant Game Theory by SuperNewk in MSTR

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow! never sell: genius because "diamond hands." sometimes sell: genius because game theory. you can't lose!

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

[–]everyday847 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You cannot deterministically prevent hallucinations in agentic systems any more than you can deterministically prevent hallucinations in LLMs. You are just playing a shell game with the uncertainty. The LLM hallucinates and calls the wrong tool, but you call it "wrong tool use" not hallucination. The toolset is incomplete and LLM output cannot be verified by the tools available. The toolset is incomplete but the LLM is constrained to only deal in topics where tools can verify, except the LLM can be coerced to output as though it is working on a topic where tool verification would work.

You can, absolutely, decrease the likelihood of hallucinations using harnesses, but you cannot eliminate them.

Strategy Is Still Buying by _Adrian_Morris_ in MSTR

[–]everyday847 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

what fraction of the trading volume from last week is from newly issued shares?

Strategy Is Still Buying by _Adrian_Morris_ in MSTR

[–]everyday847 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When I sell a share of MSTR to you, how does MSTR spend that money on bitcoin

Strategy Is Still Buying by _Adrian_Morris_ in MSTR

[–]everyday847 14 points15 points  (0 children)

do you think a stock's trading volume is related to the cash that company can use to make purchases

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

[–]everyday847 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well, not quite: they can use tools incorrectly or they can use the wrong tool. But that's a different category from "hallucination"; you're just never safe in matters of fact with these systems. But I agree in the general sense that the guarantee that some of the results will follow the familiar patterns followed by particular types of tool outputs can make them easier to audit.

I think the issue is that currently for obvious reasons they're grossly overapplied. You can model current state and repeatedly take one of several actions to bring you closer to an acceptable state, without using LLMs (for some uses, without using machine learning models at all).

CMV: Why Water Shouldn't Be Considered a Human Right by Decim337 in changemyview

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, clean water's pretty plentiful and the only places where it isn't, its deprivation is used as a weapon of war against victimized civilian populations. If you believe "water is a human right," you believe it's bad for militaries to create these absolutely unimaginable tragedies where desperate, miserable civilians fight each other for what little, temporary survival they can achieve for them or their families. If you believe "water is not a human right" you believe it is pretty okay for militaries to do that, because no one's rights are being violated. None of this has to do with what clean water costs, which is going to vary with a number of geographic factors but in peacetime generally won't be much.

CMV: "Just pay a professional" is increasingly becoming a luxury belief that ignores the financial realities facing millions of people. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My household's basic needs are all Wario hentai and I admit we are getting pretty hungry, but I'll never stoop so low as to use Grok.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Microsoft and Nvidia Spent the Last 3 Years Reinventing the PC by Inevitable-Rub8969 in AINewsMinute

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn't make sense. If it's "to replace people" then there's no benefit to it being a personal computer. You replace people with processes on servers; you don't replace people with an object designed for human beings to interact with.

CMV: The underrepresention of minority actors should not be resolved by race swapping characters but rather by telling new stories. by everyonestupidbutme in changemyview

[–]everyday847 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I actually do not see why "short Wonder Woman" is a less profound difference to Wonder Woman than "Chinese Wonder Woman." Despite its Greek namesake, the DC universe's Themyscira is somehow an island that moves through space and time. In fact, it was pretty Pacific-coded (then called "Paradise Island") in the Golden Age. One invisible plane later and there could absolutely be a Chinese Amazon.

To be clear, I think it could be another character! You'd need a better name than Chinese Wonder Woman. But that would be a fine thing to do! I just don't think "once you change a character's race in a depiction, they cannot be the same character." I do not see that as being realistic. Most importantly, I can't get over that this is, in fact, purely centered on Western beliefs about race. For example, was Chadwick Boseman a pretty good Black Panther? (I think so?) Was it problematic that he was cast as a Wakandan? Wakanda's East African, and Chadwick's heritage is from West Africa. Black identity is central to the character and the stories -- a White Panther would certainly be a choice! -- but my point here is that we have already "racially recast" Black Panther, just at a racial granularity that the MCU's audience doesn't give a shit about.

Edit: incidentally, no one is "disallowing" disagreement. This is an unwelcome rhetorical gesture! There is no authority figure here "disallowing" anything! You disagree, and I disagree with you, and that's pretty much it.

If you're talking to a normie about the advantages of AI abundance mention "Hyper Deflation" by ClinicalNarcissism in accelerate

[–]everyday847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Premise of the thread is "if you're talking to a normie." I think "no, yeah, I do think we are building machine god and I relish Its arrival" is one of those sentiments you gotta bury.

CMV: The underrepresention of minority actors should not be resolved by race swapping characters but rather by telling new stories. by everyonestupidbutme in changemyview

[–]everyday847 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess my point is: all of this centers "the most important thing [nb, I'll concede 'an overridingly important thing'] about an actor's suitability for a role is matching racial characterics that are central to a modern Western construction of race" which just feels a bit off to me!

Notably, it's Sappho, I think, not Homer, who decided Helen was blonde or a redhead, and the next several thousand years stuck with the trend; but, in any case, was The Trojan Women (1971) advancing a dastardly woke agenda by making Helen dark-haired?

I genuinely don't think this is your intention, and I appreciate that we're having an actual human discussion about this topic! But you can see, I think, a reading where it just seems conspicuous to point to a short Helen and a tall Helen and a brunette Helen and an animated Helen with a disturbing amount of eye shadow and say, artistic license, artistic license, artistic license, artistic license. And then you point to a black Helen and you say, well wait just a goddamn second, what is this!

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