i looked at the overall shape of the words and punctuation on this page and thought, oh this looks like adhd, let me scroll down... yup adhd. didnt read any of it though cause it reminds me of something that i need to do that ive never thought of before, so now i have to go do that thing
do not apologize for existing!! that was just my way of relating to the experience. and keep posting, i like how your page just does the thing it's supposed to do and isn't hostile to attention. i wish the rest of the internet was like that
Trustbusting should absolutely be included as well. One of the biggest immediate threats is the concentration of wealth into a very tiny number of companies.
> I'd be surprised if the approach is really something novel at this point. <
this is a very common reaction to people doing things with llms and i think the effects of it can be somewhat insidious. you constantly see people out there vibing their way to something that has already been discovered somewhere else, but they didn't know that and in many cases wouldn't have known how to find that thing even if they did.
the framing of "the llm tricked you into thinking you discovered something" while technically true in many cases, very strangely casts the positive outcome of a person being linked in a very engaged manner to something they wouldn't otherwise know or found out into something to be looked down on, and sort of just discourages people from trying stuff themselves that wouldn't be possible for them without something like an agent. it's okay if someone else already found the thing. for areas like science and research, it's actually a good thing if something you did repeated the work of someone else. it validates the original piece of work, and it tells you the things you were trying were on the right track to begin with.
Interesting I didn't think about it this way but it's indeed a kind of IKEA effect assuming that P-creative is H-creativity (as defined by Boden) which is totally aligned with incentives of using models.
They have to be useful, otherwise nobody comes back, and used, not just a starting point that can be bypassed after doing it a couple of time. Instead of pointing out to what exists, basically what a search engine does, it "helps" the user by building. It also gives an amazing sense of agency and power, you "do" get something that seems to come out of nothing, conveniently removing provenance and thus make the user feel quite good about the process.
This is especially poignant to me given this anecdote from a friend I shared just days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457842 showcasing how we wrote a Wacom driver, on his own, without being a developer, thanks to Claude, and how he even potentially helped others by sharing back what he "built" only for someone to suggest an already existing project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459366 .
3 months before asking for what to eat before a linear algebra exam trips the machine learning topic ban is my guess. I got flagged immediately asking why my JEPA thing breaks weird.
if for a second you believe that what apple says the regulators told them is the same thing as what the regulators told them, i have a cow farm under the titanic to sell you
This comment casts aspersions while making zero specific claims of wrongdoing. If you have something specific to say that goes beyond the vibes of "everything and everyone is corrupt and evil," that would at least be worth hearing.
For me it was probably around coding. It made me realize what future generations of models might be able to achieve, since we have already hit the ceiling of the class of intelligence these models are capable of a long time ago. I am excited at the prospect that a future generation of models might be able to write a piece of code that isn't dogshit.
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