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Same exact story for me.

Audiologist suggested treating it like a rock in your shoe. At the time seemed like impossible advice but now I just live with it and it’s 100% fine.

Also the idea that it is actually made worse by anxiety was a game changer for me. Literally, “don’t worry about it” is the exact right advice.


Live is also a massive time waster/cost.

Apple can pull it off, but if you’re at a mid market tech company you just sunk like weeks people’s time into choreographing a live movie. Super stressful time sync.


Austin. They’ve built more and prices have declined.


Humans are not familiar with exponential change so they have almost no ability to manage through exponential change.

Its an apt comparison. The criticisms in the cnn article are already out date in many instances.


As a developer that uses LLMs, I haven't seen any evidence that LLMs or "AI" more broadly are improving exponentially, but I see a lot of people applying a near-religious belief that this is happening or will happen because... actually, I don't know? because Moore's Law was a thing, maybe?

In my experience, for practical usage LLMs aren't even improving linearly at this point as I personally see Claude 3.7 and 4.0 as regressions from 3.5. They might score better on artificial benchmarks but I find them less likely to produce useful work.


5 years ago commercial image gen produced hallucinatory dream like blobs.

2 years ago it was cool but unreliable.

Today I just did an entire “photo shoot” in Midjourney.


Viruses spread and propagate themselves, often changing along the way. AI doesn't, and probably shouldn't. I think we've made a few movies on why that's a bad idea.


> Humans are not familiar with exponential change

Humans are. We have tools to measure exponential growth empirically. It was done for COVID (i.e. epidemiologists do that usually) and is done for economy and other aspects of our life. If there's to be exponential growth, we should be able to put it in numbers. "True me bro" is not a good measure.

Edit: typo


There's individual persons modelling exponential change just fine, and then there's what happens when you apply to the populace at large.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."


> when you apply to the populace at large

What does this mean? What do you apply to populace at large? Do you mean a populace doesn’t model the exponential change right?


Yep that's what I meant! Context clues did you well here.


“A populace modeling exponential change”. Yeah, that’s just word salad.


We can agree to disagree. After all, even you were able to figure out what I meant :-)


disagree on what? You have not put forward a coherent statement. I had to fix your sentence. ;)


Since I can’t reply under you answer for some reason I put it here.

We can have a constructive discussion instead. My problem was not actually parsing what you said. I’m questioning the assumption if populace collectively modeling exponential change is really meaningful. You can, for example, describe how does it look like when populace can model change exponentially. Is there any relevant literature on this subject that I can look into? Does this phenomenon have a name?


I understand that complex sentences can sometimes be difficult to parse for median Americans or non-native speakers, but we disagree on whether what I said was word salad prior to you rewording it by explicitly enumerating the implied indirect object. As you demonstrated, context clues were ample to determine meaning.


> The criticisms in the cnn article are already out date in many instances.

Which ones, specifically? I’m genuinely curious. The ones about “[an] unfalsifiable disease-free utopia”? The one from a labor economist basically equating Amodei’s high-unemployment/strong economy claims to pure fantasy? The fact that nothing Amodei said was cited or is substantiated in any meaningful way? Maybe the one where she points out that Amodei is fundamentally a sales guy, and that Anthropic is making the rounds saying scary stuff just after they released a new model - a techbro marketing push?

I like anthropic. They make a great product. Shame about their CEO - just another techbro pumping his scheme.


Came here to say that. Seems to solve the problem around uniformity and also chroma is basically “gray” he’s talking about.


Yeah, I can't believe this has to be said.


This feels like a pretty solid Netflix limited series.


I literally went through this exact thought process with new control center today. Absolute nightmare.


Sample size of 1.

A disc herniation caused me pain all night until it eventually destroyed my circadian rhythm. Even after it healed and the pain went away I had terrible sleep disruption. Up every 90 minutes, couldn't fall asleep until 4 am, waking up at 4 am. The works. Going on a few months.

Then I found sleep restriction.

First two weeks were brutal, but then biology takes over. And just like that, in a couple weeks, you rebuild you ability to fall asleep naturally and you're back to normal.

And in retrospect, this is exactly the approach we took to sleep training our young children. I swear by it.


> Then I found sleep restriction.

Get up when the alarm rings, no naps?

Ed: Ah, I see - mechanism is basically that - but the addition of not going to bed "too early" (compared to when you plan to get up):

> Some sleep-restriction methods involve shortening a person’s time in bed to the average amount that they actually sleep per night. Other methods delay a person’s bedtime.” For example, If a person objectively sleeps for 5.5 hours, the experts allow the person to be in bed only for six hours. A preliminary lab study in which participants delayed their regular bedtime by two hours showed that such sleep restriction can reduce the number of arousals during REM.


What’s sleep restriction?


Its basically forcing you to stay awake on a very specific schedule in order to reset your circadian clock.

If you can find a way to watch this doco it goes into the topic in detail. (RIP Michael Mosley)

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/australias-sleep-r...


I can’t access that in my country but thanks anyway. I’ll look it up on Youtube.


This is such an important point.

Finance world looks at the consumer benefit as an interesting feature of the investment opportunity, while the technology world looks at the investment opportunity as an interesting feature of the technology change and consumer benefit.

The two communities will talk right past each other like they’re speaking different languages.


>Finance world looks at the consumer benefit as an interesting feature of the investment opportunity, while the technology world looks at the investment opportunity as an interesting feature of the technology change and consumer benefit.

Boeing's cultural nosedive in so many words.


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