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Goredho

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  1. Were doing that now, specific agents for different company roles with essentially a sandbox of data and tools that the LLM can use in response to prompts. I’m looking at LM studio and local-only models for personal use, but I haven’t liked the results as much as ChatGPT.
  2. @956 Worldwide start asking it what it knows about you, especially about what it might have inferred of you through your conversations vs what you might have explicitly stated or revealed. Ask it to guess things about you based on your conversations, things like age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, political ideology.
  3. It just now occurs to me, no one has ever seen Elon Musk and @NowThis in the same room together...
  4. ...to pursue professional success on the corner where Capital of Texas Highway intersects with the 183 feeder road?
  5. Yes. Gen AI is a Mr Wonderful doll for directors and executives.
  6. > Anyway. The point is, Amodei is a salesman, and it’s in his interest to make his product appear inevitable and so powerful it’s scary. Axios framed Amodei’s economic prediction as a “white-collar bloodbath.” And Allison Morrow is a writer at CNN who needs eyes and clicks and shares. So given they are both salesmen of sorts, I'll have to rely on direct experience. This isn't in the distant future in my industry, it's happening now. I can see it with my own eyes at my company, I hear about it in the experience of my peers at other companies. I'll have to trust that direct observed evidence over the musing of a media analyst.
  7. I’m an engineer, I enjoy taking complex problems, coming up with an elegant solution, and delivering it to production in an act of creativity. That process is what I derive my job enjoyment from. I can see a day in a not too distant future where my job description would be better described as AI quality assurance tester. Where I am mostly translating requirements to effective prompts and validating the results. I am not going to like that job very much. There are others I know who are primarily product engineers, who really are only motivated by the champagne pop and mic drop moment when they get to present the culmination of their work. They take no pleasure in the day to day aspect of how they got there. They are ecstatic about AI.
  8. This is exactly right, if the problem is complex but deterministic, AI will do it well.
  9. This isn't really political, but as for living in the US in the future, I'm trying to prepare my kids to be agile. To not expect a 40 year career in a single industry. They might need 8 five year careers. I'm also steering them away from my field (computer science) as there are about to be a glut of workers for a contracting number of jobs that likely won't be returning, and generally educating them in how to recognize fields that will be similarly impacted by AI-augmented productivity.
  10. I don't disagree, but we now have something better than the best information available in 2016 that was the basis of that plan. We have the best information available in 2025 after having been through a modern pandemic on the scale of the Spanish Flu. The best possible plan could be crafted today using the lessons of COVID -- if we were collectively interested in it. We are not. Like so many things, we seem to be more preoccupied with defending our predisposed positions (or undermining those of the people we disagree with) than we are at doing anything meaningful to "get better".
  11. I totally agree that America has jumped the capitalistic shark, you won't get an argument against that from me. But there were choices to be made in how we reacted to COVID happening, and societally, we made the choices we thought best given the information available at the time. Those decisions were messy, with no real consensus achieved, and yielded results that were very mixed at best. If ever an event deserved a post-mortem, it's our response to COVID. But collectively, we don't seem interested in that. People who trusted the response just want to move on and not look back. Those who hated it want to dismantle public health entirely. Neither position will help us "get better" at responding to pandemic threats that are only going to get more likely to happen over time.
  12. One was my mother in a posh independent living facility that basically shut down all of its communal spaces and cruise ship activities and severely limited access to people from outside the facility. Sure, we talked to her on the phone and such (FaceTime and zoom were beyond her ability), and visited as we could, but she went from having a full daily life to one where she was alone, in her room, essentially having meals pushed under the door. She became unable to manage meds by herself, and the facility limited access to help. She went bananas, and I won't go into all the specifics, but suffice to say she shortened her life by a handful of years, though it was not an overt suicide. The second was a guy that lives up in the Colorado mountains. He was divorced, lived alone. Spent a lot of his time holding down a stool at a bar, and was a funny dude, until that went away when our town shut down hard. He was stuck there in his cabin with little interaction like my mom. He committed suicide barely a month into lockdowns. Sure, you can say that he was at risk anyway given his life context, but he was hanging on. But in the isolation, he decided the best path forward was to eat a bullet. Both lived alone, both relied on people outside of their personal dwelling for human connection, both fared terribly during their period of isolation, which is a vastly different experience than that of someone who is isolating with a full house. Going to SuperCuts, eating at Chilis, shooting the shit with locals at the bar, playing bridge with the other matrons on your floor may seem insignificant to you. I mean, it did to me. To some people in a vastly different living context, these insignificant social interactions are what keeps them sane on a daily basis.
  13. We're HOT Tua. You gotta put tariffs on that thang.
  14. I had the vaccine, I've had two boosters, I've had covid 3 times now, and each time I've had it, its gotten progressively less severe. I know 2 people who died directly from covid and I known 4-5 that went batshit crazy after isolation during lockdowns. Two of those people that went crazy are dead, with the isolation being a contributor to their shortened life. We'll never have an honest retrospective of the COVID pandemic and our public health response to it, and that's a fucking shame.
  15. Venezuelan mafia fo sho The OP said NO CR Greg!
  16. Elon Musk getting an RTO order is fucking funny.
  17. I am already seeing early stages of this at my company, and hearing about it at my peer’s companies. I’m glad I’m in the last 10 years of a tech career vs the first 10.
  18. Anything’s a dildo if you’re brave enough?
  19. Needs "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees playing for that walk.
  20. Hypothetically, what does selling gold look like? Like if someone had some American eagle gold coins, and wanted to convert say 10 of them to cash to finish paying off a mortgage, how would they go about it in a safe and tax-friendly way?
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