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Comment · 2 months ago
I agree with the horror of pulling animals out of their natural habitat, but if you are using this as a blanket statement towards all living animals then you should read up on the history of the domestication of wolves (dogs). It was born of a beneficial relationship to both humans and wolves and i personally find my relationship with my dogs to be extremely fulfilling and i believe my dogs do as well.

I have no interest in a relationship with a robot.

Comment · 3 months ago
In your article you hit the nail on the head on why this should not be used for developing minds, especially between the ages of 5-7, though i would consider using your product after that.

This age range is a critical period for theory of mind, executive function scaffolding, pragmatic language development, and attentional regulation. This technology directly intersects with these maturing systems.

Comment · 6 months ago
This is an all important truth in life whether a human or a machine pretending to be one: be careful what you learn.
Comment · 6 months ago
Who the heck are you? Are you a real person? I don't understand how any human can argue that this is ok.
Comment · 6 months ago
Maybe suck less at being a parent? Just throwing it out there. You actually need to do the work.
Comment · 8 months ago
oh, one other caveat is that each request could result in the curation of system messages earlier in the chat message history, i haven't done a deep dive into prompt caching, but that could complicate things. the more i think about it, the more i wonder that the prompt caching is a patch for "dumb prompting" to try to save money when you're doing things the dumb way of throwing everything you have at it and praying it gets it right, when it'd just make more sense to keep the entirety of the prompt as lean as possible to prevent context rot and maximize signal to noise ratio.
Comment · 8 months ago
that's a good point, we haven't delved too deeply into prompt caching yet, but my understanding is that it only helps for a conversation that remains "hot", not one that a user just comes back to everyday and keep adding more to it over a longer period of time. i could see some optimization there where when the conversation is "hot" we keep the system message with the summarized index and all subsequent conversation messages that haven't been summarized intact until the conversation cools off.
Comment · 8 months ago
Haha, nice, i literally designed and built the same solution for my company last week. EDIT: to be clear, i appreciate the validation. while my solution differs slightly in the details of how it's done, i think this is overall a logical solution
Comment · 8 months ago
Will it tho? I wonder. We're on the brink of a robotic revolution.
Comment · 8 months ago
I'll save you a few minutes. Guy knew how to build web apps in .NET, had trouble keeping up with the changing ecosystem, switched to React. The end.
Comment · 9 months ago
The one thing here confusing to me is the past tense used throughout. This CVE seems presented as both past and present, yet the present evidence isn't... Presented.
Comment · 10 months ago
Because that's the only logical alternative? If this were truly the mission it claimed to be, they would capture and interrogate them obviously.
Comment · 11 months ago
This assumes there will still be a demand for software developers in 5 years. I believe we'll be out of jobs much sooner than that.
Comment · 11 months ago
Usually i am against these kinds of comments throwing a bit of shade at the community, but if ever it was justified, it's this comment right here. And honestly it's not just this post and the resulting senseless debate over whether Clippy is good or relevant. The degradation has really been noticeable for the past year at least.

There's still good content but i increasingly feel like i need curation for a curated feed. I find myself remembering moments like this more and more and consciously redirecting my attention to other things because it's starting to feel as dumb as social media.

Comment · 11 months ago
Uh.... Ok. I don't disagree with the contentions that the author has, but making some clippy profile pictures and telling people to use it isn't a "movement" and the fact that so many comments here recognize it as one says a lot about how far culture has fallen.

If you want to make a difference, then absolutely refuse to use anything from any big tech company that is mining data and go 100% open source no matter how inconvenient it makes your life. No C levels or stakeholders give a flying fuck that you set your profile picture to a goofy symbol of simpler days.

Real movements involve serious sacrifice. I actually like those goofy clippy pics and would use one if it didn't signal to me that the person using it is likely a hypocritical chump who isn't willing to make any real sacrifices for the change they wish to see.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry right now.

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