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It's a conflict of core values, and you've demonstrated it here.

You have defined success (for a project, and possibly a person too) as solely 'relevance'.

Jarred would agree with you wholeheartedly, I imagine. Andrew would ask you to leave.

It's okay to have different values and part ways.

It's not wise, however, to project your personal values onto other people, and judge them on those fabricated merits. You'll end up frustrated and confused more often than not.

Judge their choice of values. Judge them on their alignment with their chosen values.

As an example, Andrew doesn't like Jarred's chosen 'Silicon Valley' values, but thinks that Jarred aligns himself well with those values. This feels as a personal attack to you who also holds those values. And on some level, a person intimating you core values suck couldn't be more personal.

Using an LLM as a proxy for an 'unbiased' source of personal confirmation bias is perhaps the most common 'use-case' for an LLM.

Edit: Ah, my brain's been fried by comments that say this unironically and I read this as sincere, thanks commenter below, and apologies commenter above.

Please, I'm begging you, and the people that scan across this comment: Finishing mastering reading comprehension; It will help you for the rest of your life.

I'm not snarking, this is a problem affecting 30% or more of the population here in the states, and it's getting worse because of tools like AI. I'm not judging you, I don't think you are bad or deficient people, but this externalsing of comprehension and trust is self-harm.

Worse, it will lead you astray in ways that you won't tie back to this core problem.

To use an LLM safely you must have the discernment to understand when it has fallen into sycophancy, folly, or madness.

Its an attack an Jarred's public, (un)professional behaviour. One most of us in the community have born witness too in recent months.

"Jarred, in his professional capacity, drove away many from our community, and we'd prefer to disassociate." is not 'Jarred is a bad person, privately'.

Now, in these circles, that might as well be the same thing, given how little personal life I imagine most VCs have left outside of work. But that's not really Andrew's problem.

I won't defend Andrew's style; I think he could mask some his neurodivergence more when communicating to a wider neurotypical audience. But it's his project, his community is certainly aware, and this too, is a known quantity.

It might help you though, to reread the piece with the assumption that Andrew is being completely sincere, without adding in a secondary subtext like, "Andrew is trying to assassinate Jarred's character".

And yet, history and the present moment shows that fines alone do not change behavior. They are simply incorporated into the budget. Google has revenue far in excess of the fine due to their monopolies and that will continue to unabated.

Capital be praised that capital owners are back on top.

May the low-waged ever be trodden upon and forever know their true place.

Those that died or became disabled during covid are mewling degenerates.

Their cries of 'illness', 'poverty', and 'homelessness' are precisely as useless as the wailing and lamentation of women in their menses, a farcical thing to be dismissed and ignored.

May the Fed be ever in your favor, Amen

If the gulf states are your north star, then you are straightforwardly advocating for a return of systemic wage theft, indentured servitude and slavery, all under threat of execution.

Which of those do you most prefer?

Would you also like an ethnic caste system, or should it be based solely on national origin, or a combination?

Or perhaps the original European model, where only non-christians may be enslaved?

* the primary vector of contagion is unfiltered air circulation, not touching tables and menus (which are wiped down).

* I want you to go and tell another human being, in person, that paper menus cannot possibly 'scale'. Your brain has been deeply addled by SV culture.

* HUMAN TIME IS THE POINT AT A SIT DOWN PLACE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

* YOU HAVE YOUR HUMAN EYES FOR 'SEARCH'

* QR CODE SCANNING IS NOT "GETTING BETTER" WHAT DO YOU EVEN MEAN BY THIS ASSERTION??

* OLDER PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WITHOUT SMARTPHONES WILL NOT "GET USED TO IT"

* "if demand is there" IT IS, HOW CAN YOU ACT LIKE IT IS NOT, DO YOU NOT HAVE DINNER WITH FRIENDS?? ARE YOU NEW TO THIS PLANET?

    An automated system is on 24/7 -- maybe not in the early days, technology isn't perfect, but how many people here remember the early days of cell phones, when you *called support to get refunds for dropped calls*?

    An automated system can add or remove people from the authorized list easily and remotely, and not make mistakes.

The top 1% hold 41% of all wealth on the planet, so they are still getting a discount in your contrived example.

Meanwhile at that table, 68 people are sharing 3 meals between themselves.

Would you want to eat at that table? Are you even a member of that class or are you just wish-casting?

Compilers have specifications, test suites, and teams of human beings (over decades) to ensure that what the compiler produces is nearly deterministic relative to code input. This is testable without even opening the black box.

LLMs are intentionally not deterministic, nor is their output subject to any known specification. Output is a point in a high dimensional manifold, determined by the input vector, but this manifold is unknowable in a real and intractable sense.

These are not equivalent constructions and it demeans you to conflate them.

If workers making far less than you, with far more to lose, can organize in their workplace, then you can too. Open up signal, talk to your coworkers, and find some solidarity. Now is far better than never, and you might feel less alienated at the end of it.

You are saying the companies that are planning to build structures the size of Manhattan, while claiming multiple trillions TAM, and eventual apotheosis, along with the consumers of these models can't scrape together enough coins to fund a study with a decent statistical power?

We have to settle for 'crumbs'?

Why would you say this like it is true?

The animals that produce that tallow are part of the global industrial food system too.

And tallow, by itself, is not something you eat, it's just moving the point of thermal and chemical alteration and production into your home.

Finally, most of this "eat as much animal offal as possible" movement is directly funded by the producers of these products battling it out with the producers of competing products.

You should listen to your doctors over influencers that talk about chemistry in a way that makes simple things sound dangerous and evil.

Really Walter? You know better than this.

First, pedantically, we did not share time with 'dinosaurs' in the sense you imply.

Secondly, pedantically, that kind of hunting was not the main source of calories for hunter-gatherers. It's more apt to imagine them as gatherers first and primarily.

Thirdly, and also pedantically, you are not describing the system of capitalism that I, and most educated people talk about when they use the word. That system has only been with us in the main for, generously, 250 years.

Critically, Thag and Grog both own the means of production for their spears and 'steaks' respectively. The necessary abstractions for capital accumulation, debt, and private ownership simply do not exist.

In response to a heartwarming story you did not read, you made an account on this website to advocate for harshly punishing a child or young woman acting under extreme duress for a crime committed 26 years ago?

You don't have to demonstrate this kind of ignorance of human history on main. Aren't you embarrassed? Do you value knowledge even a little bit?

When did capitalism begin? How was 'stuff' created and distributed prior to that? How do other, distinct and contemporaneous modes of production create 'stuff'?

Wow! I hear you and you're absolutely right.

It's not just short-sighted of <these commenters you hate>; It's self-destructive!

* It's the job of the consumer to correct and edit the content they consume

* Content creators have it hard enough ——— prompt-crafting and imagining transformative and disruptive new horizons in tech

* So what if the prose is 4x longer than it should be? The time value delta between real creatives and the average HN-er can't be compared —— A complete paradigm shift

* If they were real hackers they'd have their AI summarize and distill the info —— I think we can all see who the posers are

I'm excited to read content everyday... 'slop'? That's a coward's word, I see past the prose into the core of the data space, and I'm stronger for it.

Rape apologia.

81% of women have been sexually harassed, at least 20% have been raped. Yet, weirdly, that hasn't changed the allocation of capital in the United States in their collective favor.

But let's see what kind of person you actually are. Do you have a problem with suing, post-rape? What kind of society would you consider ideal?

Keep in mind that the current criminal case closure rate of rape cases is 25% and has been dropping for the last 10 years.

Staying with your rapist husband/boyfriend is the norm. He might beg for forgiveness and say he won't do it again. He might say he didn't understand you when you said no. He might threaten to kill you if you open your mouth one more time. He might do all of those in the same five minute span.

Almost every women I am close to has been raped or assaulted.

What part of this do you specifically not understand?

They weren't even against it! They were the users of the new tech. They wanted regulation and a cut of the increased productivity. They were a nascent labour movement asking for things you and I take for granted. The responses at the time was, of course, violent reprisal.

there’ll be a narrative payoff

Fromsoft is perfectly happy for you to miss all of the direct exposition. It's as they intended and most people do. The intentionality of their world still draws people in and gives the world a sense of groundedness that keeps people coming back and separates it from the pale imitations. It's more than them being good at 'Vibes'.

The environment is built on the bones of a greater ongoing narrative that is intentionally obscured, even from the player who reads everything.

Dark Souls is a world in a constant cycle of Rebirth, Decay, the struggle against Entropy. All civilizations, at the end of the series, are stacked one upon another in an endless expanse of ash and dust as you bear witness to an permanent eclipse, a fading star, as time itself dissolves and the last fire fades.

Before that heavy handed stuff though, the simple matter of the direction your character travels reinforces these motifs. Down to the deepest depths and you'll witness what remains of the first civilizations. Climb up and you see the desperate attempts by the powerful to impose a false order that they hoped could forestall the inevitable.

You can even shatter the illusion of a golden order in the first game if you find the extremely missable secret boss. It couldn't be any more clearly 'said' if you were interested in paying attention.

Adding an AI model to explain or 'improv' the story of the world would destroy the whole purpose.

I don't know how to explain in clearer terms that, for the lowest quintile of the population, who has zero or negative net wealth. They have given every dollar they have to someone else. Be it the government or a private corporation, all their dollars act as stimulus or savings for those with more. All their excess labor value, generated from their work, also goes to other people, predominantly the wealthy.

You are annoyed they don't pay income taxes, but where are the accolades for their generosity?

What social program do you think creates billionaires?

Elon Musk would not be a hundred billionaire without government contracts and vast government subsidies. Likewise for Ellison and Palantir and whoever else gets to hoover up our defense spending. So too for any entity that receives the myriad benefits of 'public private partnership' in domains that used to be exclusively government run. Deloitte makes bank on 'administering' public programs. The Multi-billion dollar retail Tax prep exists entirely because the government is bribed not to compete. Private prisons/concentration camps are 'social programs' that produces billions in private wealth. etc. etc.. etc...

Take a single parent with two school-age children who earns $11,000 annually from part-time work. The government considers this household in poverty because its income is below $25,273. But this family would qualify for benefits worth $53,128.

It would receive Treasury checks of $3,400 in refundable child tax credits and $4,400 in refundable earned-income tax credits.

... A person who make this little would not pay income taxes, so these credits cannot be realized.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF is temporary

All of these programs are difficult to retain access to. I've never met anybody among the working poor able to realize even half of these meagre benefits.

A random family in NYC would pay, on average, $20,439 annually, just on child care, per child, thus, this hypothetical single parent is contributing at least $40k in labor to produce future workers. It's not unreasonable to give them compensation for this thankless task.

As another point of comparison, Norway spends 18k per year for every kindergartener in their nation regardless of the parent's income. This is what is known as, under capitalism, an investment with a 50 year compounding return.

Starving, homeless children produce negative externalities if they are not cared for, so the return on the investment is even more potent in this case.

All this said, you've asserted that 53k, by itself, is 'lavish'. But you are speaking to someone who regularly makes that much money in between blinks on a half-decent day in the market, so I'm not really convinced that it is.

Basically any average citizen is silly for thinking their vote has an impact. Per "Testing Theories of American Politics", the preferences of the average citizen have a "near-zero, statistically non-significant impact" on public policy when the preferences of economic elites and organized interest groups are taken into account.

This is why organized, sustained political action is required above and beyond elections. So that, in aggregate, these near-zeros can create change. It's not an invitation to check out and advocate for centrist reactionary nihilistic libertarianism, which is what I have to assume your true position is.

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I can't imagine a good faith interpretation of 'women can't do physical labour'. A failing on my part I'm sure. do you have one?

Tech workers need to unionize. You aren't petit bourgeois any longer. Corps aren't even pretending y'all are not a fungible as everyone else now that they smell blood in the water.

Before I left my previous company the CEO waxed philosophical about adopting the 996, even as we had above target profits for then nth quarter in a row and layoffs rolling over every department.

Do you think your comment was any of those things?

Why are you free from the bounds of courtesy, but fall back on them the moment someone responds in kind?

Do you really believe that women cannot arc weld? Do you really believe that women cannot scuba dive? Do you really believe that women cannot lift 25kg or take out the trash?

If you do, then it's rather unkind and incurious to cast half of the human population as so fundamentally incapable, and you should bring evidence to support your assertion.

If you don't actually believe it, then the substance of your comment is unkind snark, no?

Your original comment is just a warmed-over version of "women wouldn't last a day in a real man job"

We've been hearing that repeated ad infinitum as women have continued to prove the assertion wrong.

For the record though, I don't think anyone should do a job that has a 1/15 fatality rate. Men shouldn't be cannon fodder either.

Thanks for being a big strong tall sexy garbage welder man from Europe commenting on an US specific article.

When women put on scuba gear or touch a arc welder their ovaries explode, killing them instantly.

55lbs also is well known to instantly disable women who do, in fact, labor in physical jobs.

The moment a child turns 7 and reaches that weight, women lose the ability to move the child at all, leading to tragic outcomes.

In all seriousness, just because a certain job is socialized a certain way, doesn't imply a fundamental lack of ability.

Being the only woman on a certain kind of male team sucks so so much more than having to put on scuba gear or lifting something heavy.

Employers are incentivized to hire women over men in case of equal qualification.

You can't say this, unsupported by evidence, in Trump's America, where revanchist 'white guy DEI' is the ordering of the world.

Women earn better salaries than ever before

... This is a clever way of avoiding saying that the gendered pay gap still exists, in favor of men, but has been narrowing.

What makes jobs that pay enough 'more attractive', generally, is rising fixed costs, like rent and energy, and stagnant wages.