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there’s just so much to sneer at in this thread and I’ve got choice paralysis. fuck it, let’s go for this one

everyone thinking Prompt Engineering will go away dont understand how close Prompt Engineering is to management or executive communications. until BCI is perfect, we'll never be done trying to serialize our intent into text for others to consume, whether AI or human.

boy fuck do I hate when my boss wants to know how long a feature will take, so he jacks straight into my cerebral cortex to send me email instead of using zoom like a normal person

Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

it’s a short comment thread so far, but it’s got a few posts that are just condensed orange site

The constant quest for "safety" might actually be making our future much less safe. I've seen many instances of users needing to yell at, abuse, or manipulate ChatGPT to get the desired answers. This trains users to be hateful to / frustrated with AI, and if the data is used, it teaches AI that rewards come from such patterns. Wrote an article about this -- https://hackernoon.com/ai-restrictions-reinforce-abusive-user-behavior

But you think humans (by and large) do know what "facts" are?

one of hn’s core demographics (windbag grifters) fights with a bunch of skeptics over whether it’s a bad thing the medicine they’re selling is mostly cocaine and alcohol

linked to the orange site because there's a funny contrast in the comments between paully's fans who think they've just read the greatest thing imaginable and paully's more jaded fans who want to know why he's posting this when the industry's entering a downturn

This is an infrequent sub for Silicon Valley dumbassery, Sam Altman or Paul Graham or HN reactionaries or the rest of the spawn of the Californian Ideology who aren't actually the LessWrongers.

Originally an offshoot from SneerClub, created due to off-topic orange-sitery.