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Comment · 4 days ago
Exactly. Unions can amplify the bargaining power of labour but they don't magically delete the other variables.
Comment · 4 days ago
You seem to be the only person that got my point so thanks I guess.

I am actually pro Union but yikes the left needs to go back and actually read some Marx.

Comment · 4 days ago
Unions do not exist in a vacuum. They have to operate in the same fundamental power structures as everyone else.

If union A is like "work less let AI take the slack" and union B is like "work the same, use AI to achieve more, let AI help us win" I'm joining union B every time.

Comment · 9 days ago
Vendors will just redefine the meaning of bug if needed.
Comment · 9 days ago
The whole idea of a confidence score as some abstract thing separate from statistics is wild to me.

Asking random experts their confidence is already pretty bad most of the time.

If you want a confidence score you need a way to consistently model the system you are trying to estimate the outcome of.

Anything else is just numerology.

Comment · 11 days ago
The problem with this analogy is that we already literally shit in the actual sea so much people get sick and die sometimes and yet people are still getting in the sea.
Comment · 11 days ago
You've just decided that your level of abstraction is better than someone elses but where's the evidence it's actually better? This has been the main tension between programming philosophies forever.

Just because something makes you comfortable doesn't mean it's actually good.

Comment · 12 days ago
Models do not have durable process with skills either because every module update changes the interpretation of the skill.
Comment · 12 days ago
The main value of skills has always been to advertise ideas for stuff to do with LLMs more than anything else imo.
Comment · 15 days ago
System 1 Vs 2 aren't even Kahneman's invention. They are from Stanovich and West.
Comment · 15 days ago
I think you're probably right that's what he thinks, he's just failed to convince me to think the same way.
Comment · 15 days ago
Blow's game design philosophy seems to be mostly about repeating variations of the same idea as many times as possible regardless of whether those variations are actually that fun or interesting.

In theory I should love this, I'll happily play repetitive games like Tetris for hours. The way he does it though just feels so boring because he doesn't do it in a way that makes you feel like you're learning anything until the very end and the bits in the middle are just the same idea with some gimmick that isn't that interesting.

I'm not spending 450 hours smashing my head into a wall before I get to the good bit.

Comment · 16 days ago
You probably have the mouth bacteria that doesn't cause cavities and don't consume litres of acidic drinks every day?
Comment · 16 days ago
This isn't my experience in the UK at all. Dentists routinely try to overtreat you and second opinions consistently disagree.
Comment · 25 days ago
CodeRabbit emits LLM generated poetry in its comments so maybe more than you'd think?

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