it's the equivalent of the "we overestimate the impact of technology in the short-term and underestimate the effect in the long run" quote.
everyone is looking at llm scores & strawberry gotchas while ignoring the trillions of market potential in replacing existing systems and (yes) people with the current capabilities. identifying the use cases, finetuning the models and (most importantly) actually rolling this out in existing organizations/processes/systems will be the challenge long before the base models' capabilities will be
it is worth working on those issues now and get the ball rolling, switching out your models for future more capable ones will be the easy part later on.
in a negotiation where you have experts with good intuition for costs and practicalities on one side of the table and a non-technical failing-upwards-megalomaniac-kid on the other side, i doubt that's a sensible strategy
but as someone who hates subscriptions, this would actually be a really nice subscription - currently i just buy the "all samples from [year - 1]" on black friday instead but i wouldn't mind a more automated / streamlined approach
I was going to say how clever they are to have implemented a subscription without calling it a subscription! For the non-customers out there, you can buy everything for $99, then once a year there’s a deal on all the new samples for $29 or $39.
... or you could have communicated your boundaries & expectations first thing and explicitly instead of doing this weird song and dance and complain on hacker news about it afterwards?
Kinda sounds like I did and they kept ignoring them. Some of us try to approach problems like grownups, even if we leave the details out when they’d break the flow of a story.
a better strategy would be a follow-up question on how it changed their life
i'm with the parent commenter here as i find your response very much telling on how you evaluate things and frankly, more idiotic than someone's life being changed, even by the "intended" interpretation of the book
e.g. would you say that everyone who liked / was influenced by reading "mein kampf" is a nazi?
Depending on context I could see myself asking a followup question. In this specific instance, no that's enough for me personally. As I can see from the other replies the OP made my assessment was in line with my personal values.
Or even more likely, as soon as you make a point even slightly against their beliefs they call you a socialist/communist/fascist/Nazi/whatever cliche they hate the most that particular day.
you can read it - I have read portions of it - but it’s still a pretty bad book by a lot of metrics.
It’s just famous like maos red bible is famous - but both are horrible literature
Edit: so if you read and like it there is something wrong with you
Who start reading "mein kampf" beside scholar anyway?
I haven't actually started it yet, but I have a copy on my shelf waiting. Along with Das Kapital, Mao's "Little Red Book", etc.
Why? Especially given that I'm closer to a Randian than anything else (I really did like Atlas Shrugged although it's not my favorite book). Well, I feel like if you're going to reject a belief system, or feel somewhat at-odds with followers of a given system of thought or whatever, it's best to have some familiarity with that system of thought. It's just a matter of intellectual honesty.
I mean, looking back over the years here on HN and the various discussions that pop up around Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand. You can tell that a LOT of the people criticizing Rand and Atlas Shrugged have never read the book (or probably any of her other works) and are attacking straw-men.
I refrain from (most) attacks on Marx (and the specifics of what Hitler, Mao, etc had to say) because I don't have the deep familiarity with their material. OTOH, I have no problem saying I have enough general familiarity to mostly reject the thinking of those folks in a sort of abstract sense. The point being, one may read a work that you disagree with (or expect to disagree with) just so you can have an intellectually honest conversation about it, or a deeper conversation that goes beyond a superficial familiarity.
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