Hacker News: gisely

New comment by gisely in "New funding to build towards AGI"

gisely — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:42:15 +0000

I’m with you on that.

New comment by gisely in "New funding to build towards AGI"

gisely — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:41:08 +0000

Do investors still not care about revenue and profits at a $300 billion valuation? Seems like the bigger problem for them is that they are losing money on the vast majority of those WAUs with no obvious route to profitability because most them will simply stop using it if forced to pay for it.

New comment by gisely in "Arc browser built-in AI features [video]"

gisely — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:31:28 +0000

I bet my entire Beanie Baby stash that your NFT stash won't be worth anything by the time you're ready to judge this bet.

New comment by gisely in "Arc browser built-in AI features [video]"

gisely — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:24:58 +0000

The enshitification cycle is moving fast these days.

New comment by gisely in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

gisely — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:28:10 +0000

Yep. This example basically convinced me that they were unable to figure out anything actually useful to do with the model's new capabilities. Which makes me wonder how capable the new model in fact is.

New comment by gisely in "Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat"

gisely — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:23:58 +0000

What exactly does he get from people linking to a video of him being crude. He's real estate CEO not a social media influencer. He might get a thrill out of being a public asshole, but it's not like he somehow profiting off his infamy.

New comment by gisely in "The Battle over Books3"

gisely — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:20:50 +0000

How dare you profane the contributions of a literal god of AI!

New comment by gisely in "How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with MIT's Priya Donti"

gisely — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:31:00 +0000

Not according to climate scientists. As explained here, mostly believe the warming stop shortly after emissions do:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-st...

More importantly, the sooner we can stop carbon emissions the less severe warming and ecosystem harm we'll experience. Carbon capture may help a bit if we are able to massively scale it up, but there really is not substitute for ending emissions.

New comment by gisely in "Stochastic Parrot"

gisely — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:06:34 +0000

It's weird seeing comments like this that argue simultaneously: 1) LLMs aren't stochastic parrots anymore! 2) You can't prove humans aren't stochastic parrots!

It pretty clear the whole point is minimize the difference between us and AI, but it does feel like you are undermining you argument by trying to work it from both sides. It reminds me some accused of crime who say both "I didn't do it!" and "If did it, it wasn't wrong!".

Humans aren't stochastic parrots. You can't "prove" this because it's not mathematical fact, but there is plenty evidence from study how to brain works to show this. Hell, it's even readily apparent from introspection if you'd bother to check. LLMs on the hand basically are stochastic parrots because they just autoregressive token predictors. They might become less so due to architectural changes made by the companies working on them, but it isn't going to just creep up on us like some goddamn emergence boogeyman.

New comment by gisely in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

gisely — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:53:52 +0000

Not really an open market when one company has as large a share of sales as steam. Valve may have a different ethos from Apple, but both agree on principle of extracting monopoly rents.

New comment by gisely in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

gisely — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:02:38 +0000

So fun much scrolling past all the blue check morons at the top of all the replies to any popular post. No changes at all.

New comment by gisely in "GPT-4"

gisely — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:29:24 +0000

I’m skeptical. There is a lot wiggle room in “no specific training”. Could just mean the didn’t fine tune the model for any of tests. Their training data probably included many past LSAT exams and certainly included many instances of people discussing how to solve LSAT problems.

New comment by gisely in "Google over-hired talent to do ‘fake work’, claims Keith Rabois"

gisely — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:31:36 +0000

Yes such useful and constructive new ways organize Ponzi schemes. Andreessen is a member of the laptop class himself, just one of the most grating ones. Seems to think telling other people to build makes him a builder. YIMBY in his tweets, NIMBY in his streets.

New comment by gisely in "ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete"

gisely — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:18:26 +0000

Excited a future where a bullshit generator helps automate the rationalization of redlining! So great! Just like this website and community around.

New comment by gisely in "$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa"

gisely — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:58:47 +0000

Depends on how that labor is valued. Just because a project creates jobs with export value in country doesn’t mean that project is a net benefit for the people of that country. A project like a waste reprocessing facility might create exportable labor for the country that hosts it, while simultaneously harming the health or people who work in the facility and those who live around it. Does it generally make for a just system if rich countries are allowed place facilities they don’t want in poor ones?

I think the answer depends on how well labor in those countries is rewarded for working at such facilities. So I certainly hope countries that are considering hosting those projects drive a hard bargain on price, starting by acknowledging that what they are giving up is real. The land use is a real concern, yes even in the desert.

New comment by gisely in "The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation"

gisely — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:50:16 +0000

Hmm? No equating happening in my comment. The point was that just because statement is about a political group doesn't mean it's a only an opinion. Mentioning Nazi Germany is just using an extreme example to make clear that statements about political groups aren't inherently mere opinions.

New comment by gisely in "The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation"

gisely — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:23:07 +0000

What makes it an opinion? If I were to say that the Nazi party in Germany peddled in hatred and demonization of already-marginalized groups would you say that is an opinion? Just because a statement pertains to political groups doesn't make it a mere opinion.

New comment by gisely in "High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours"

gisely — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 17:36:05 +0000

You do that John Galt.

New comment by gisely in "ElonJet Is Now Suspended"

gisely — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:18:42 +0000

Yes the HN cogniscenti have such a fine sense of humor. Why share some of it lads?

Nah man, jokes are forbidden on HN.

New comment by gisely in "Elon Musk: “thermonuclear name & shame” against advertisers pulling out"

gisely — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 02:16:09 +0000

Definitely seems like more of reddit comment than a HN one. I had a laugh though so thanks and here's to more laughs until dang shows up and takes all the fun out of HN for umpteenth time.