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> I’ll find you a buyer…I just—enough,’ Altman said on Gerstner’s podcast.”

Hopefully nobody reading this has experienced it: these are the words of a true sociopath/addict.

"I'm mad you questioned me" is fucking classic.

I told dang I was out and I am after this. Sorry dang.


I think it's a bit out of order of Altman. $1.4tn is ~16 times the US foreign aid budget. These are significant, solve world hunger type numbers that should be analysed seriously and not done on the basis of trust me bro.


> not done on the basis of trust me bro

It's not. It's done on the basis of don't question me bro.


> I told dang I was out and I am after this. Sorry dang.

Sorry but is there some lore behind it as I feel like the last sentence has me wondering what it means. If you could share the lore, I would really appreciate it.

but overall, I agree that this is a very weird thing to say by Sam Altman


dang is the hackernews moderator

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang


Yeah, but why would it matter to us if they tell dang they’re out? That’s the missing context.


Agreed. Very confusing.


Yes, and I was asking for this thing when I had created the comment. I know who dang is, but I want to know what's the missing context.


You understand that an LLM can only poorly regurgitate whatever it’s fed right? An LLM will _always_ be less useful than a primary/secondary source, because they can’t fucking think.


Regardless of how you define "think", you still need to get a baseline of whether human reporters do that effectively.


> pondering how to tweak the rules to include more exceptions

“Hey what do you think? I dunno, what do you think? How about more tea?!”

Pondering how to tweak, unbelievable.


The alternative is that they tweak the laws without much thought...


Isn’t that the current status quo?


The GDPR has over 100k words, and those words are certainly less than 0.01% of the thought that has gone into this problem.


Agile laws might not be so terrible.


Counteropinion: agile laws would be absolutely terrible. Either people wouldn't take them seriously because they're going to change in a few minutes anyway, or people would take them seriously and be bound by law by the equivalent of late-night untested code that seemed like it should work.


Charitable interpretation of their comment: Law is implemented and then rapidly improved upon.

But yes, I think your take is more realistic as any measure that allows rapid changes also allows willful politics to rapidly make a mess.


Imagine being charged for something that you didn't yet know was a crime because you didn't watch the morning news.


I’ve never worked in such a space where the deployed environment had unfettered internet access, no access at all actually.

I’ve probably missed a huge wave of programming technology because of this, and I’ve figured out a way to make it work for a consistent paycheck over these past 20 years.

I’m also not a great example, I think I’ve watched 7 whole hours of YouTube videos ever, and those were all for car repair help.

I shy away from tech that needs to be online/connected/whatever.


I believe that the M in LLM stands for model. It is a statistical model, as it always has been.


C++11 fucking with strings also comes to mind.


C++20 too but luckily basically every compiler has added a switch to turn that insanity off, saving the language.


That was more a GCC problem, but yeah.


I have small amounts of eczema on unfortunate spots. It comes and goes usually based on stress and inflammation. Been dealing with it for decades. It stinks.

I’m half tempted to buy myself a copper plate to stand on.


Think of it as an investment. Copper is getting more valuable every day.


Going to college usually means you work the same job after college, just with a lot more debt.


The headline is flawed, nothing that exists today is relatively close to “AI” unfortunately.


The AI effect[0] strikes again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect


You’re right. Nothing resembling ”I” exists when shat out from an LLM.


The AI effect[0] strikes again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect


You’re right. Nothing resembling anything makes sense when shat out from an LLM.


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