kznewman

Solid agree. Hallucination for me IS the LLM use case. What I am looking for are ideas that may or may not be true that I have not considered and then I go try to find out which I can use and why.

Thanks for this memory. I had similar experience watching spring lambs and swore off mutton/lamb/etc same day.

Also wanted to foot stomp on the good writing (mean it). Glad the missing leg never held you back.

Money as "life energy" approach helps me be thrifty, but my real struggle is how do I asses risk when I want to buy an asset. If I wanted to use $500 from my work to buy a share of SpaceX, does it provide a better return than any other investment at some acceptable risk ? I don't see the life energy approach as helping this question but I need to read the book you recommend.

Note that SpaceX is not publically traded, but it represents assets I would like to own.

Its a paywall. Just I have to pay with info rather than money. It is not free.

To accomplish the goal of knowing how my congresscritter (really?) matches with me, I should not need an account. If I wanted you to contact them for me then OK but to call the site useless without an account just makes it so.

If all this is true, I would have a problem with a co-worker who would stand up and lie. By starting the meeting by being "super supportive" while knowing along with co-conspirators that you were trying to kill it, a good deal of creditability has been destroyed.

Maybe I am naive, and this is how things really get done, but regardless of which side I might have been on during this meeting, he is no longer trusted.

I think there are some visionary things here but he misses the 'consent' part. By using free services we do give consent and if we don't like the privacy policies of Facebook et al then nobody forces us to use them. Yes providers should be honest about their policies and some do play dirty tricks. We learn which ones are not really honest so if we keep using them, we can’t really claim surprise or lack of consent.

Free stuff costs. Not money but there are costs. In the future world he is imagining there will be some who want to pay for their own machines and control the software that runs on them.

Being a parasite means riding a host and giving up some critical decisions about where and how the host lives.

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My point was not meant to imply they would accept bribes. They do the job to fight fires so why agree with the idea that we should stop them when some equipment was not yet fully amortized? If they accept bribes or not, the idea you stop volunteers from doing what they want (fight fires) is wrong.

The solution of including the cost of fire fighting in the cost of owning the house itself helps fix what I see as the mistake in thinking that I don't benefit from having my neighbors house fire put out.

If volunteer fire fighters are told by the people who they protect that it is ok to watch a house burn (because necessary costs were not covered somehow) then philosophically what is to stop them from not helping when I don't slip them extra money because their labor is volunteer anyway? I think this eats at the soul of the community.

I guess it was meant to be funny? I want my 2:34 back.

So I would say your point hinges on the difference between access (information) and understanding (knowledge). Both can be true that the access is available to all, but the ability to understand and use something depends on a non-trivial amount of time that noteveryone invests.

I am coming from a similar place but not yet launched my site. I have thought about the challenge you describe, and there are many on this site with advice that can help.

Whatever size voice you might have, it is louder when you use it locally. Are you and your friends using it to help people? Are the people then helped not willing to try it?

I can’t see your site from my current location but with local and modest goals you might be surprised who the influentials are and what karma they might really want.

In the main I agree, but despite the buzzwords if the corporation really believes and acts as if "employees are the most important asset" and it truly gets that to be profitable it needs to take care of the "knowledge workers" (whatever that means) then it may be that some companies, because of their profit motive, are worthy of some loyalty. Most companies fall short of the ideal so professionalism is more than a second best in this case.

Good points about automating the processes which surround your cloud, but I don’t think the author takes it far enough.

To get the most from cloud computing I am hoping we see cross cloud automation. With sufficient metadata surrounding the both the inputs/outputs and the preconditions/effects of processes in a cloud, it should be possible to discover a service, understand what it does, then make use of it without additional development.

I won’t go far as to say this means these steps are fully automated, but I think with some automated support, this process is seconds or minutes, not hours or days.