geraldalewis

Joined 16 years ago

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Dec 23
gmail : gerald.a.lewis twitter: @geraldalewis www : http://geraldalewis.com
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Comment · 11 months ago
Apotheosis of enshitification.
Comment · 1 year ago
> rightsholders
Comment · 1 year ago
This seems like a parody, but I think it's not.
Comment · 1 year ago
> weren't just laborers

I'm trying to read that in a charitable way: you're pointing out that, to a person who is fine with being cruel to laborers, they might not be comfortable with the cruelty and humiliation if it impacts people they might find deserving of respect and decency, yeah?

Comment · 2 years ago
This seems to me like the apotheosis of Jef Raskin's Humane Interface - super cool!
Comment · 2 years ago
I give this project five bags of popcorn and a little commemorative octocat keychain.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think this glamorizes and engenders an unhealthy relationship to work. “Rock star” and “ninja coder” works the same lever Steve Jobs used in the 70s to take advantage of smart people without enough sense of self worth.

And don’t lie to people.

Comment · 2 years ago
I thought it was interesting, but I think citations are needed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sorry for the meta-commentary, but I don’t think it warrants its own post: wow the Overton window has shifted right on HN. I’ve noticed it with other comment threads but this one drives it home. Not good for discourse.
Comment · 3 years ago
This seems like barely-massaged LLM content and/or just a bad marketing page.
Comment · 3 years ago
> All I want for Christmas is a GPT-4 level model with less obnoxious RLHF, and if it heils Hitler occasionally while crapping out awk code, so be it.

What an ignorant thing to say.

Comment · 3 years ago
I have only seen the first two images, but Paul Bourne + something that looks like non -Abelian sand piles!
Comment · 3 years ago
I think the latter -- I encountered the same thing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sometimes Gandalf adds punctuation unprompted!

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