Is it always better to remove/replace inefficient jobs? For example if a company employs 100 people to do manual data entry, would it be better for either the economy or the utility function to fire them and automate the jobs?
I shouldn’t have used a company for my example because as you illustrated that’s not a very interesting case; if it wasn’t a company but the government (e.g. the TSA), does economic theory say those jobs will come back in a more efficient form?
Thanks! Here is the extension I made: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webblock/jeahkphmdfbddenabgndnooheiciocka
Admittedly, I copped out on the UX in a few places (motivation section, link parsing, etc...) but better to publish than wait for perfection!
Edit:
Right after I published my extension, I found these similar tools:
https://taylor.fausak.me/2012/09/04/delay-safari-extension/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/delay/fbhbfbladmbgakfkccbfjpbabagjcmid?hl=en
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delaywebpage/
See also https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/18/distraction-affliction-correction-extensio/
I actually had that as an example in a draft, but my friends told me it didn’t quite fit the mold so I deleted it :)
I think a wrench and 20 minutes of time is (1) a higher barrier than you think (not to say it justifies the lack of bidet) and (2) is an underestimate of how inconvenient installing it is. I installed a bidet a few years ago and it probably took 2+ hours and ended up leaking. When I moved, I opted not to install one again and instead follow #2 with a shower.
However, I agree bidets are great modulo the installation, and I will try to buy a toilet with one pre-installed.
A relevant experience of mine: after being vegan for ~1 year, I got my blood tested to see if there was anything I should watch out for. It turned out that my iron reserves were low, so I was told to take iron supplements. One year later I got another blood test where my iron levels came back as too high. My doctor was confused until I told him I still sporadically took iron supplements; he told me to stop immediately, and that as a male I didn’t need to supplement iron much.
Now I feel like I’m in a damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t limbo; it would be great to have some sort of framework of when/if to take iron supplements.
Whoops, I meant year. Edited.
Sure, but my point was I don’t know what dose per unit time to take.
I didn’t feel a difference; I guess because it was my iron reserves that were low, not my actual iron levels.
But yeah, if it does continue to be a problem I will do something like that.
This is awesome! I highly encourage you to write up your experience; I think this should be more normalized!
I think the hackernews comment section, though still somewhat emotionally charged, is of substantially better quality.
Also, I responded to some comments/questions there.
Awesome! What GitHub integration are you talking about?
Yeah, this isn’t something I have an ugh field around, but having portable versions of travel stuff like shampoo, skincare, and chargers ready to go is nice.
I agree that recursive self-improvement can be very very bad; in this post I meant to show that we can get less-bad-but-still-bad behavior from only (LLM, REPL) combinations.
This is probably obvious, but maybe still worth mentioning:
It’s important to take into account the ROI per unit time. In the amount of time it would take for me to grok transformers (let’s say 100 hours), I could read ~1 million tokens, which is ~0.0002% of the training set of GPT3.
The curves aren’t clear to me, but i would bet grokking transformers would be more effective than a 0.0002% increase in training set knowledge.
This might change if you only want to predict GPT’s output in certain scenarios.
You might want to clarify that, because in the post you explicitly say things like “if your goal is to predict the logits layer, then you should probably learn about Shakespearean dramas, Early Modern English, and the politics of the Late Roman Republic.”
I agree AI should be regulated, but lumping social media in with AI only weakens your argument.
Also, is it just me or does this writing style feel like a NYT op-ed?
Bloomberg reported 2 weeks ago that Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-21/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-patching-up-relationship
I am confused how to square your claim of requesting extra time for incontrovertible proof, with Ben’s claim that he had a 3 hour call with you and sent the summary to Emerson, who then replied “good summary!”
Was Emerson’s full reply something like, “Good summary! We have incontrovertible proof disproving the claims made against us, please allow us one week to provide it?”
How did you meet your roommates? I would like to surround myself with similar people (perhaps less extreme).