That's a big problem with very specific manifestations. My startup helps customers handle regulatory compliance, also by forwarding complex questions to a pool of consultants.
We've compared now more than a hundred replies to that of GPT Pro, and the quality is roughly the same. Sometimes a little worse, sometimes a little better. Always more detailed. Never unacceptable.
But how to convince our customers that we have the right technology and know how to use it appropriately? We're trying, but it's not easy.
Part of that's accountability. In the event of the LLM producing rubbish, as rare as it may be, who is accountable? There is not a person and her reputation attached to it.
LLM plus human should be better than either standalone. You won’t be able to make as much money scaling out, though.
You won’t be able to scale out and make as much money though. But surely you’re not only concerned about profit, right? What’s the point of life if you’re just trying to get rich.
I have two questions about that, with the supposition that Cook is being coerced to do that, somehow:
- Isn't Cook supposed to step down from the role in the next few years? If so, wouldn't that facilitate an accelerated exit to not have to put up with this shit? He might as well have chosen someone who's willing to do that, and slowly fade away.
- Why haven't we seen the same level of craziness coming from Satya and Gates? Are Microsoft's offerings and interests so diversified that the government has less power over it?
> Why haven't we seen the same level of craziness coming from Satya and Gates? Are Microsoft's offerings and interests so diversified that the government has less power over it?
The government maybe has more direct power over Apple: it's a manufacturing company that has located almost all its factories in China. The government could completely destroy Apple with tariffs. Microsoft and Google? Not so much.
Also, to the GP:
>> Lately I've been just sickened by Apple, and particularly Tim Cook. The guy is revealing himself to be completely amoral.
Arguably he revealed that a long time ago, when he went all-in on Chinese manufacturing. It's just that now it's more obvious to some, as he's getting involved with stuff that's more obviously polarized.
I was incapable of the compassion you're talking about until I had a bad shroom trip and felt some horrible, hard-to-describe anxiety the next morning. It was some of the worst hours of my life until my serotonin system rebalanced itself.
I'm not saying it's the same thing as depression or regular anxiety, but it gave me tremendous perspective on how bad these conditions can be and you just don't have the ability to "shake it off" when things are unbalanced.
Maybe that's how my wife feels when she's off the meds. Shit. Now imagine having a douchebag by your side second-guessing your pain. Never again.
The good thing is it isn’t necessary to know how someone else feels to have compassion.:)
It’s enough to accept you don’t understand the other person‘s thought process and stop trying to tell them what they are thinking. You don’t need to fix things, you just need to listen and not make them justify or explain themselves to you.
Doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.
This comes from my own personal experience. I can’t relate to people on an emotional level. Every relationship is processed with deliberate, logical action. If I love a friend, I need to figure out what would change their internal state so they can experience that love.
From the outside, this looks like I can relate on an emotional level.
Precisely. That's what I took from the experience as well. If that's so hard and I had no idea about it until now, maybe there are other things that I don't know, and some that I will never learn, and I should tread lightly.
It's interesting how people I know wouldn't work for my small startup if I, as the boss, aligned myself with such people, but are happy to work for big tech companies that do that. It's amazing what 100 levels of abstraction and money can make you do.
> It's amazing what 100 levels of abstraction and money can make you do.
I'd say it's more like the Don Draper line "that's what the money is for", but yes ultimately it's a transaction, and rarely are people doing anything at an individual level professionally that would be worth stopping because of a vague sense of guilt by distant association.
If the connection is closer and the actions you take issue with are clearly impacted by your association with them, then there may be no amount of money that's worth it.
yet their million dollar TC ain't enough to have a bunker for their little family when the time comes. or when shit is mad max on the streets, that tech bus aint gonna protect you.
I'm using GPT Pro and a VS extension that makes it easy to copy code from multiple files at once. I'm architecting the new version of our SaaS and using it to generate everything for me on the backend. It’s a huge help with modeling and coding, though it takes a lot of steering and correction. I think I’ll end up with a better result than if I did it alone, since it knows many patterns and details I’m not aware of (even simple things like RRULE). I’m designing this new project with a simpler, more vertical architecture in the hopes that Codex will be able to create new tables and services easily once the initial structure is ready and well documented.
yeah flat, simple code is good to start, but I find I'm still developing instincts around right balance between "when to let duplicate code sprawl" vs. "when to be the DRY police".
The fake death thought is very common. My brother drowned at the beach when he was only 17. We all stood there helpless, unable to find him. His body took some time to return to the shore, and a friend of a friend of the family was the one who identified him.
I was very young, only 7, but my cousin, who was 15 at the time, spent years searching for him, convinced the body had been misidentified. Later, when I grew older, I also went through the phase of thinking, "He was too smart and strong for that. Maybe he ran away somehow."
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