@dgerard is never going to run out of content for pivot, is he:
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"AI is obviously gonna one-shot the human limbic system," referring to the part of the brain responsible for human emotions. "That said, I predict — counter-intuitively — that it will increase the birth rate!" he continued without explanation. "Mark my words. Also, we’re gonna program it that way."
Risk checks for financial services: $1M saved annually on outsourced risk management
Since I doubt they had time to use the tools for a full year, this is probably just the month they saved ~85K$ from firing/ending partnership with humans involved in risk assessment multiplied by twelve.
In the long run I'm betting that exclusively using software that not only can't do basic math but actually treats numbers as words for risk assessment isn't going to be a net positive for their bottom line, especially if it their customers also get it in their heads that they could ditch the middleman and directly use a chatbot themselves.
Meanwhile on /r/programmingcirclejerk sneering hn:
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OP: We keep talking about “AI replacing coders,” but the real shift might be that coding itself stops looking like coding. If prompts become the de facto way to create applications/developing systems in the future, maybe programming languages will just be baggage we’ll need to unlearn.
Comment: The future of coding is jerking off while waiting for AI managers to do your project for you, then retrying the prompt when they get it wrong. If gooning becomes the de facto way to program, maybe expecting to cum will be baggage we'll need to unlearn.
That's about what I was thinking, I'm completely ok with the weird rpg aspect.
Regarding the second and third point though I'll admit I thought the whole thing was just yud indulging, I missed that it's also explicitly meant as rationalist esoterica.
Overall more interesting than I expected. On the Leverage Research cult:
Routine tasks, such as deciding whose turn it was to pick up the groceries, required working around other people’s beliefs in demons, magic, and other paranormal phenomena. Eventually these beliefs collided with preexisting social conflict, and Leverage broke apart into factions that fought with each other internally through occult rituals.
And if you have multiple prompts you just do a separate caching for each one?
I think this hinges on the system prompt going after the user prompt, for some router-related non-obvious reason, meaning at each model change the input is always new and thus uncacheable.
Also going by the last Claude system prompt that leaked these things can be like 20.000 tokens long.
Eight-year-olds, Dude.
Thiel is a true believer in Jesus and God. He was raised evangelical.
Being gay must really complicate things for him.
I don’t think Scott is doing anything nefarious here, it is very intuitive to think about risk in this way and then take the basic intuition and run with it.
Yeah, he's a very non provably non-nefarious well meaning guy who thinks Richard Lynn is on the money, cites Cremieux on the subject and platforms Emil Kirkegaard et al in the comments while giving money to aporia, and who will never shut up about IQ heritability, ever.
And it's not like he outright admits his article that misrepresents the data this way started out as marketing material for one of those companies, or that he picked this company because he liked the cut of Jonathan Anomaly's jib.
Edit: also, not taking your basic intuition and running with it is supposed to be the whole entire point of so-called rationalism, so what the shit?
I guess the traffic he gets from being on good enough terms with Scott to be occasionally cited as the opposing viewpoint must be worth it to him.
Nobody's using datasets made of copyrighted literature and 4chan to teach robots how to move, what are you even on about.