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Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

I won't be surprised if the next gen frontier models are the last.

the last?!? I'm excited to see :) I'll take the other side of that since llms are so new

Statistics are not a license to assume.

Crime rates also statistically correlate with demographics, but if I assume a specific person is a criminal based on that stat, I would (rightly) be called racist.

Expecting people to assume 'historically black' == 'poor' similarly feels racist.

You’re conflating race with poverty.

It feels racist to expect people to assume a neighborhood is 'resource poor' just because it is 'historically black'.

Also, the OP explicitly states that lawsuits are pending. Clearly, the community was able to mount a legal defense

The phrasing 'historically black neighborhoods' feels like it pushes a specific agenda rather than just addressing the pollution.

It implies that if this were happening near a non black neighborhood, it wouldn’t be as egregious, which is a strange moral stance.

Also 'historically' is irrelevant. Pollution hurts the people living there now.

This reminds me of the quote "I know just enough to be dangerous"

I wonder how long until we have an AI on our shoulder saying "Hey why are you booking a new flight, there is a better option"

That is infuriating corp speak. I'm sympathetic if a business can't fulfill its obligations, nobody wants to fail. If they had admitted they messed up and wanted to fix it then I honestly would be okay with that.

But to try to ditch their responsibility with a technicality is so scummy. I don't have T-Mobile, and with that one line of corp speak I never will

Indentured servitude prevents switching jobs, so we can't assume its their best option. As long as workers are free to switch jobs, we can assume its their best option, that despite all of the downsides, they think its worth it.

I'm guessing Amazon pays above average and that's why people keep working for them despite their reputation. The people there have a choice. Keep making more at Amazon but be treated poorly, and that's a choice they make.

If Amazon doesn't like a worker, they can fire them.

If a worker doesn't like Amazon, they can quit.

You can hate Amazon, thats fine, you can choose to never work for Amazon, thats fine, but lets not lie to ourselves. The people who choose to work at Amazon want to work there. They all applied, accepted the job, and show up every day.

Everyone else in this thread frustrates me, but I understand it. Compassion is ingrained in us, while free market economics is not.

Nobody here is really thinking through what happens if they are successful at boycotting and destroying Amazon. What would they say to these people they're supposedly helping?

"I got you laid off! You don't have to work here anymore! You're free! Maybe you can't feed your family now but at least you can move your lips while you drive!"

I agree, in my opinion, a common misconception I've seen is people saying wealth isn't zero sum. It can be created from thin air, but as long as there are needed and scarse resources (housing, maybe medical, maybe ivy league college), the market will adapt to consume more of the wealth.

So wealth can be created but it makes everyone else slightly poorer in different ways

I was going to correct you but I was wrong

For anyone else that got tripped up... 1x to 3x is 200% growth because you don't get to count the original 1x

GPT-4o 2 years ago

Does it feed your audio directly to gpt4?To test it I said in a very angry tone "WHAT EMOTION DOSE IT SOUND LIKE I FEEL RIGHT NOW?" and it said it didn't know because we are communicating over text

GPT-4o 2 years ago

I just used the voice on my phone after switching to gpt4o and clicking the headphones in the bottom right on iphone

GPT-4o 2 years ago

How am I just hearing about this?! Aider looks cool