For someone arguing that “coding is conveying logic” seems like you need a refresher on propositional logic

How much truth there is to it we don’t know for sure. But it’s not something to be ignored.

This is not true at all. You can find plenty of examples going either way but it’s far from truth from being a universal reality

> Jobs that don't provide value for a company are cut, eventually.

Uhm, seems like Greaber is not the only one drawing conclusions from a hypothetical perfect world

Most examples mentioned of “thinking hard” in the comments sound like they think about a lot of stuff superficially instead one particular problem deeply, which is what OP is referring to.

It seems more like a non experienced guy asked the LLM to implement something and the LLM just output what and experienced guy did before, and it even gave him the credit

No, it’s exactly what the author is writing about. Just check his example, it’s pretty clear what he means by “thinking in math”

> Scientific conensus in math is Occam's Razor, or the principle of parsimony. In algebra, topology, logic and many other domains, this means that rather than having many computational steps (or a "simple mental model") to arrive to an answer, you introduce a concept that captures a class of problems and use that.

I don’t even know what you mean by this.

It is not, it is being very specific about what it means and what it is referring to

It does, because it changes the strategy.

If you think the ads are working and have 10k potential customers then you start thinking about how to increase your conversion rate thinking you could get a chunk of those 10k, you might think distribution is solved.

But if it turns out only 2.5k are real humans then your conversion rate might not even be an issue and it’s just the marketing strategy that needs tweaking.

The whole point is that they are giving you fraudulent traffic which you use as real data to figure out the next steps. If you don’t know it’s fraudulent or how much of the clicks are fraudulent then you are taking decisions under the wrong assumptions.

> You can’t stop fraudulent clicks just like you can’t stop your SuperBowl ad from playing while your viewers are in the bathroom

That’s not even a good analogy, we are taking clicks, not impressions.

Fake clicks give the illusion that ads are working and instead you have to optimize your funnel or whatever else.

Yes if you run anything other than the 100m

Seems like everyone is doing LLM stuff. We are back at the “uber for X” but now it is “ChatGPT for X”. I get it, but I’ve never felt more uninspired looking at what yc startups are working on today. For the first time they all feel incredibly generic

that's a classic strategy to solve problems

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And yes we know about transferwise and such, it would be cool if it could be used in our countries.

No, de savings are not insured in crypto, but the insurance we get at local financial institutions aren’t that safe either, it only protects up to a certain amount and years can pass before they pay you back if they pay you at all.