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That site seems horrible though. Random words in the body like reddit are hyperlinks to SEO landing pages on the same site. And there must be a better (original) source for the story than this...
You should really use an ad blocker. The Internet is basically unusable these days without one. I block ad domains at the DNS level too, but the ad blocker is still necessary to remove the empty frames left, sad.
Also way too biased to humans, the fact that they poison us could just be a biochemistry coincidence, the author is operating from a very human-centric POV (like you say in (0))
Don’t worry about it - you know why? Because if the entire thing crashes, then everyone crashes with it, and there’s a million people (or more) that have a lot more skin in the game, a lot more power, and therefore a lot more incentive to make sure this doesn’t crash.
This is not your battle alone, so don’t worry like it is.
This is the problem with this, in simple cases like “you add N employees” then you can vaguely approximate it, like they do in the article.
But for anything that’s not this trivial example, the person who knows the value most accurately is … the customer! Who is also the person who is paying the bill, so there’s strong financial incentive for them not to reveal this info to you.
I often go back to customer support voice AI agent example. Let's say, The bot can resolve tickets successfully at a certain rate . This is capturable easily. Why is this difficult? What cases am I missing?
Yeah, the truth is that you need all of these things to be “good enough”
The idea has to be good enough, the execution has to be good enough and then the connections will come,
The idea that the system is rigged against someone personally is just them protecting their ego - it’s much easier pill to swallow that your failures are because “the whole system is rigged against you” than to accept the ideas and execution were simply not good enough.
And of course luck plays an element too, I’m lucky I haven’t had cancer yet, for example, there is an indisputable element of luck to life too, though luck surface area can be increased by failure resilience and brute force trying.
I don’t think the system is rigged, it’s just a way for failures to protect their ego, but as soon as the get over that and stop making excuses, they can learn, grow and adapt, and then success will come to them.
Hardly anyone reads them, and unless you are a dev tool which might require more depth, just give a bullet point list of changes. Don’t overthink it, nobody cares.
I went to the USA a few months ago and was pulled aside and questioned (I have no idea why)
and when I told them I didn't have facebook they looked at me like I was mad. They asked "why not" and I told them I was ideologically opposed to it, because I believe it encourages narcissism. They acted like I was a criminal.
I found this enourmously funny and kept laughing at them insisting there was something suspicious about me not having a facebook account, which of course made me look even more guilty in their eyes.
In the end they got frustrated and just let me through, but there was an underlying and quite theatening tone which I felt was like a presumption of guilt, I laughed at the time at the absurdity of the situation, just because I wasnt expecting it, but on deeper reflection its pretty disturbing.
But that is a bit of the issue: I see people use 'young' and 'old' platforms and it's all the same: stuck to the phone scrolling through exactly the same slob, ai or human, hours on end. Can't say I even find LinkedIn any different (which I also do not use, but colleagues send me stuff sometimes). So I want no part of any of them. What do I say then? Because I feel they will think I am some sort of unabomber haxor dude coming to overthrow the gov because I am not a happy insta scroller. Which is absolutely insane. Maybe I will hang a big cross around my neck and carry a bible at all times and no phone. Same purpose, so probably works.
You demur Facebook, they ask “what do you use then?” which is a more open-ended question with more flexible rooms to spin an answer. Making a stand by saying “I don’t use Facebook because I’m a techno-woke e-Luddite” closes all that.
But the problem is the tight coupling of prompts to the models. The half-life of prompt value is short because the frequency of new models is high, how do you defend a moat that can half (or worse) any day a new model comes out?
You might get an 80% “good enough” prompt easily but then all the differentiation (moat) is in that 20% but that 20% is tied to the model idiosyncrasies, making the moat fragile and volatile.
I think the issue was they (the parent commenter) didn't properly convey and/or did not realize they were arguing for context. Data that is difficult to come by that can be used in a prompt is valuable. Being able to workaround something with clever wording (i.e. prompt) is not a moat.
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