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(DIR) Post #ASekQriSaw1r49ogwC by seldo@alpaca.gold
2023-02-14T02:29:17Z
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Getting this weird suspicion that the people who think ML is the future of search this year are the same people who thought crypto was the future of money last year.
(DIR) Post #ASekh4uFK1bsbk3nKy by midendian@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T02:30:20Z
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@seldo I dunno money still works a lot better than search
(DIR) Post #ASemospAKHCnMSX7ya by joshsusser@neurodifferent.me
2023-02-14T02:55:59Z
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@seldo what is the generic term for these unproven tech endeavors with boundless upside? monorails? as in "ML search is this year's monorail"
(DIR) Post #ASemxbmj2zhr7YYJma by docpop@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T02:57:34Z
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@seldo after their pivot to VR didn’t work out, I’m expecting AI to be the next big thing the web3 crowd tries to latch on to.
(DIR) Post #ASeoUetYbXgkHG4U5I by rjrjr@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T03:14:47Z
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@seldo Now do self driving cars
(DIR) Post #ASeqnFhWhQETY9RDGq by bobo_of_id@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T03:40:36Z
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@seldo it has become a quiet litmus test for me. If someone thinks this is awesome some application that it is wildly unsuited for. I add extra scrutiny to all the rest of their judgments
(DIR) Post #ASey1Wfj67uHuxLibI by Elliotclyde@mastodon.nz
2023-02-14T05:01:31Z
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@seldo I do think that ChatGPT is genuinely useful for some tasks making it infinitely better than burning energy on brute force algorithms for decentralised money. So at least more effort will go towards something that might create value. But then stuffing AI chatbots search engines might not be the way to go.
(DIR) Post #ASezta2WtOI3xEM1Ym by mattdarveniza@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T05:22:36Z
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@seldo I was fully on board with ML is the new search until chatGPT straight up lied to me about how nested generics in typescript work.
(DIR) Post #ASf2asH1Awjyriu38a by emarticor@fosstodon.org
2023-02-14T05:52:49Z
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@seldo One. Hundred. Percent.
(DIR) Post #ASfD5QSHeVVd6iNZSa by SpeakerToManagers@wandering.shop
2023-02-14T07:50:24Z
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@seldoDon’t you DARE give them the idea of implementing an LLM with blockchain! 👿
(DIR) Post #ASfRsGbcSYge6jvfw8 by davidr@hachyderm.io
2023-02-14T10:35:57Z
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@seldo Galaxy brain meme in reverse, where the last square is "People who think ML is the future of software engineering"
(DIR) Post #ASfbPRD8wwgC8vNAzw by ReverendMoose@mas.to
2023-02-14T12:22:58Z
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@seldo a lot of overlap there, but a bunch of people skeptical about crypto should know better on ML search.
(DIR) Post #ASfzYYyLrO3VikL1rk by ewen@home.social
2023-02-14T16:53:20Z
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@seldo Search engines already are ML just without the lipstick.
(DIR) Post #ASgFKOhCrzFX3qaO8m by sqrtminusone@emacs.ch
2023-02-14T19:50:01Z
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@seldo Yet someone in the previous century was thinking that cars were the future of transportation, or that tanks are the future of warfare
(DIR) Post #ASgGUROtlhomIdNLHM by seldo@alpaca.gold
2023-02-14T20:03:12Z
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@sqrtminusone There were also people who thought blimps were the future of transportation.
(DIR) Post #ASgKjA9sYZRUz4cqqe by Tourma@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T20:50:45Z
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@seldo Didn't know what ML stood for until I went into this thread. What first popped in my head was "Money Laundering."
(DIR) Post #ASgRCiC9gg1yfbACpM by historian@functional.cafe
2023-02-14T22:03:17Z
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@seldo That Venn diagram is just a circle.
(DIR) Post #ASguJ7J28TVmxTmrui by opendna@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-14T12:42:12Z
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@joshsusser @seldo I like "bandwagon bubbles".They exhibit the same properties as other speculative bubbles, but the only underlying value is that all the investors' peers are into it. As opposed to real estate bubbles or resource bubbles, the underlying asset is FOMO.
(DIR) Post #ASguJ84XHrVdKo0nxI by specwill@mastodon.social
2023-02-15T03:26:51Z
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@opendna @joshsusser @seldo the key difference is that crypto didn't help the owner class consolidate more wealth, but chatbots can. The more search engines capture traffic instead of sending it out, the better for shareholder value. The more you can fire people (especially writers, maybe the c-suite's least favorite expense), the better for shareholder value.A bad user experience doesn't matter when there's no meaningful competition.
(DIR) Post #ASguJ8l4jhXLSjumGG by seldo@alpaca.gold
2023-02-15T03:29:29Z
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@specwill @opendna @joshsusser > crypto didn't help the owner class consolidate more wealthlol buddy that is absolutely what it did, it extremely did that, it was comical the degree to which it did that.
(DIR) Post #ASgwQdeaSxiVDaaDZI by specwill@mastodon.social
2023-02-15T03:53:08Z
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@seldo @opendna @joshsusser Maybe some, but a lot of big money got in on the scam too late and in the wrong place on the pyramid. And I suppose it would be more accurate to say, "crypto is not an effective engine for the long-term project of transferring wealth from wage-earners to stakeholders." I mean, if they can repair its rep enough to get retirement plans to buy in heavily again? Maybe?But nothing beats devaluing labor of any and all sorts.