The author may not be as smart, educated, hot and successful as you, but the fact that today, people around the world, including students and educators, use LLMs as knowledge machines and take their output at face value shows that such critical posts are still urgently needed.
This is a good thing, accepting some stuff written some place as true and repeating it uncritically greatly contributes to human stupidity. To quite a friend of mine: But then I would have to question everything!?!
You may be interested to know that some extremist biased guts-be-more-dignified-than-cortex outlets around the world are named "The Truth" (I follow the press from many places).
The failure of education in teaching Critical Thinking around the world is massive. It would be a good idea to focus on how to exploit LLMs to improve the situation.
Also because, given the situation, the same "forces" that promote viscerality shamelessly naming it "The Truth" could have the opposite idea about chatbots and similar areas, exploiting them in their direction...
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> I imagined it to be similar to how some "blue collar" professions attract mostly men who openly discuss women in sexual ways with each other while at work and will cat-call a pretty woman walking by.
Bro if you're trying to count those responses by class you can't use those same responses to put them into the bins in the first place, and reproducing a classist stereotype for no reason doesn't make the point any more valid.
Most of my chargers came with the devices, and I assume Apple checks those pretty carefully. I have a couple bricks from Belkin or other well-known brands that have never had issues with security. I don't think most charger companies are at risk for this, but I think the very cheapest ones might. For example, the cheapest TVs are monetized by telemetry because the purchase price alone doesn't make for a sustainable business model. I would think the same thing might happen with chargers.
I rent spot instances on GCP with big GPUs on demand. It works quite well and since I'm just playing around I pay a very small amount per hour and kill it after I'm done.
How much do you think those API calls will cost you that require someone else to buy the GPU, maintain the server architecture, and also take a cut in the process? It only takes a 3-4 months to amortize if you want the instance to be up 24/7. And in the end you can still resell the GPU.
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There are some interesting points in there, but the author sounds like a bit of a narcissistic jerk.
> In many contexts, the way to get good feedback is to give people a way to provide it anonymously. Anything else creates friction by layering on social dynamics. To get honest feedback, you want to make it as comfortable as possible for people to give it. You also want to make it easy to find -- I have a link to my feedback form in my Twitter bio, and get a few comments a week through it.
> I imagine resistance from some people on the grounds that anonymity frees people to be assholes, but in my experience they rarely are. 90% of what I get in my inbox is either nonsense or nice -- I get lots of “keep up the good work!” type messages
So 10% are assholes, and the rest are "nonsense" or nice - does she get any actual criticism in her "feedback inbox" (kind of a strange concept in my opinion in itself)?
Also, all of the accomplishments she bragged about in the intro are from business. Impressive as they may be, it seems a bit narrow minded to be only focusing on that part of life when recounting what you are most proud of.
