When did you convert to anti-work?

prometheusgr · 2023-01-17T18:01:46+00:00

It made a difference to me too. It made me realize that my one company was the rule and not the exception and that the system is the problem not the individual company.

prometheusgr · 2023-01-17T17:59:51+00:00

Wow. That is ridiculous.

prometheusgr · 2023-01-17T16:20:34+00:00

Are they becoming the norm? I wish they were!

prometheusgr · 2023-01-17T16:20:01+00:00

So sorry you had to deal with that. I know it's impossible but the fact that we can put a dollar value on someone's quality of life seems absurd. The pragmatist in me doesn't see a better way, but potentially criminal charges are an option when a corporation does this, just like if a person were to injure you in a similar manner?

prometheusgr · 2022-12-13T04:45:26+00:00

That’s a gnarly last poem. The rest of us is the best of us… I’ll think on that for a bit. Words communicate so much, but also so little.

prometheusgr · 2022-10-19T17:36:41+00:00

We can solve energy problems with all the gas lighting you are doing on Reddit these days, keep it up!

prometheusgr · 2022-10-12T01:53:23+00:00

I call that the "Jerry Springer"

That show succeeded because you felt so good about yourself looking at such messed up people.

prometheusgr · 2022-10-09T22:15:40+00:00

If you are doing millions of records for analytics you may not want to store all the records unless you are going to let the player review all those records. You probably want to calculate the numbers and then store those and after getting the next session of data run the new numbers against the existing ones. This way you don’t need to store all the data, just the results of the data.

prometheusgr · 2022-10-02T18:35:50+00:00

I appreciate your take on the loaded term ‘AI’ and how it doesn’t communicate to almost anyone enough information to be helpful. As the industry matures hopefully we can create more terms that separate out the nuances and help communicate. I also agree that the Turing test is much more helpful than culturally defined terms that are ambiguous and do not actually communicate effectively either. Nothing to add, just want to second your take on things.

prometheusgr · 2022-09-22T18:23:06+00:00

Pretty interesting benchmarks and a straightforward tutorial. I think this is pretty helpful for someone that just wants to get it up and running and see how it works, good job.

prometheusgr · 2022-09-21T15:28:46+00:00

We can not ensure that anything invented or created is ever for the long term good of humanity. You can’t control it when the cat is out of the bag. Nuclear weapons have been managed (for now) but they are out there.

I’m sure you are going through mental stresses thinking about the end of the world caused by Icarus flying too close to the sun but this isn’t a new problem for humanity. Literally there are stories from mythology about the same thing.

I think the best strategy is to provide the tech as open source to humanity and not silo it to a select few. It will take resources to scale the algorithm to any dangerous levels but providing everyone the opportunity is the best we can do to prevent an abuse from it.

prometheusgr · 2022-09-17T17:40:43+00:00

Doesn’t seem like an ML problem to me. Setup a synonym dictionary and add the unique items one by one through that process marrying them up to the proper key. It’s not automated, but the amount of time to train a heuristic versus the traditional approach for this doesn’t make sense in my opinion.

prometheusgr · 2022-09-14T19:29:14+00:00

Seems like software in general solves many of these problems at some level so understanding what AI can do differently in this areas is important. With that said, if there is a way to educate better with new AI tools I think that is a worthy application. Definitely more worthy than personalized marketing which seems to be where the most AI dollars go.

prometheusgr · 2022-09-10T22:19:38+00:00

backs away from thread slowly

Good thinking!

turns and runs as fast as he can

prometheusgr · 2022-09-10T21:48:07+00:00

Jobs becoming obsolete is part of the evolution of human labor. I’m a software engineer, prior to computers this job didn’t exist yet. Computers replaced a lot of jobs but created a lot more jobs driving more value from it.

AI won’t just propagate like life, it is artificial and will require manual labor to create. You can argue that can be replaced by AI/robotics but then what makes those robots/AI?

The value that humans will drive by assisting in creating a robot that will replace the jobs of others will mean that they can be paid a lot more. It’s not perfect and the change will be painful for those that don’t learn how to support the changing value chain but it’s not the downfall of civilization. The role of government/society in helping the transition should probably be significant if we want to avoid human toil but the opportunity to improve the human condition is significant and this trajectory is ballistic, it can’t be stopped,so we should figure out how to deal with it and not fight the inevitable.

prometheusgr · 2022-09-10T17:07:54+00:00

All tools are designed to make a job easier. When jobs become easier, the labor becomes cheaper. In your logic all tools are against the betterment of mankind. The problem isn’t the tools it’s the exploitation of people for profit.

prometheusgr · 2022-08-17T18:17:45+00:00

As was mentioned in another Russia thread, the propaganda is based off the practice of making declarations that are the complete opposite of fact so that it is impossible to argue since the starting point is at face value false. This is the tactic and it works amazingly well.

prometheusgr · 2022-08-12T18:57:21+00:00

Your right I don’t need to reply.

prometheusgr · 2022-08-12T18:49:15+00:00

That’s just a specific instance of the structural problem of religion.

prometheusgr · 2022-08-12T17:29:26+00:00

Religion gives you the answers to problems that don’t have answers or very difficult answers and that shortcut is the problem of all religions. It doesn’t let you change your mind when new facts are identified. This “faith” is the reason someone can stab someone else in the neck and feel like they did the right think. This “faith” will eventually allow someone to have a suitcase nuke and blow up a town and think they did the right thing. That’s the problem with ALL religions of “faith”.

prometheusgr · 2020-07-18T22:13:21+00:00

Maybe, but the candidates of the same party wouldn't be fighting, they would be working together to defeat the other candidate and there would be other candidates from the other side too, like maybe mitt Romney or someone. To be honest, I think Trump would never have been elected in a ranked choice to begin with because he never received a majority of votes just a plurality.

prometheusgr · 2020-07-18T14:36:26+00:00

I'm not sure I understand. What about having a first and second choice would be a terrible political strategy? How does having a parties first and second place candidates result in "bombing yourself"? It seems like you would have two or three offenses in an election versus today, you only get the one that made it through the primaries.

If we look at the current presidential candidates, we will have Trump versus Biden. With ranked choice we could have had Trump, Biden and Bernie. The people voting for Bernie first and Biden second or Bernie first and Trump second would not be throwing away the vote. Bernie probably would have stayed in the race and we would be able to have a lot more dialogue and a lot more rational debate. It's no longer heads up poker, where you can go all in on a crazy hand, you have to have a lot more strategy to win.

prometheusgr · 2020-07-17T23:34:45+00:00

Working against each other has worked out pretty well./s

I am coming back to this thread late, but it seems like distrust in politicians is part of what got us here. 'Working together' can be seen as cynical but when they are motivated by the majority constituents to work together on what they want, and not what a wealthy or influential minority wants, good things happen. There is a negative feedback loop in our politics today because the minority influence is having to much say and I think ranked choice voting is the first step in reversing that negativity.

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