I don’t know about curing loneliness but when I wrote our bot for doing code reviews I was quite thrown back by how positive and sympathetic the feedback was compared to my peers. It felt like my bot human than us humans!
Was it fake? Sure. I mean I instructed it to praise good changes after all. But it still felt good.
And now I’m noticing another effect, my human peers have started mimicking some its behaviours.
It still seems fake, whenever I go in-depth taking multiple turns with ChatGPT it ends up revealing its "yes-man" attitude. It just hides it better in newer iterations.
It does raise a question though of what the “right” level of positive regard is. I agree that many models can feel sycophantic, but I also think a lot of humans are too negative and discouraging by default, toward both themselves and others.
For people who are too hard on themselves, it can be useful to be reminded of the “glass half full” perspective, even if it should be taken with a grain of salt.
That’s how the market works. You avoid paying extra taxes than required right? Even though that denies the government extra funding. The only difference being one has been decided as wrong and the other is fine.
Yes, society has deemed that it’s fine to make use of the avenues that have been explicitly created to reduce your tax burden - that’s why they were created. Society is also relatively fine with using unintended loopholes for the same purpose (although it is a lot more controversial and criticized), because we don’t tend to punish people for breaking laws, rules and regulations that don’t exist. When we end up caring a lot about them, we plug the gaps
The other person was talking about straight up not paying for goods and services that are sold at a given price, which is stealing. The more apt comparison would be to tax evasion (actually breaking the law), which is a crime, widely considered wrong and punished accordingly
It isn't how the market works, and you absolutely don't take this line of reasoning when paying someone rendering services to you which is why you instead tried to analogize it with taxes.
You only use this argument for Youtube content creators because it's trivial to avoid payment and then backsplain it with unique moral justifications.
Can you elaborate on why ‘many large companies’ are choosing MongoDB over alternatives and what their use cases are? I’ve been using Mdb for a decade and with how rich the DB landscape is for optimising particular workloads I just don’t see what the value proposition is for Mdb is compared to most of them. I certainly wouldn’t use it for any data intensive application when there’s other fantastic OLAP dbs, nor some battle hardened distributed nodes use case, so that leaves a ‘general purpose db with very specific queries and limited indexes’. But then why not just use as PG as others say?
Yes and no. The aggressive marketing is successfully entrenching it to future generations so whether it’s successful with the current gen of c++ programmers or even GC languages like Java doesn’t really matter imo.
People practice personas everyday of their lives, the only difference in the post is the explicit labelling of them. The avatar I present here is different to how I behave in person, or how I engage at work, my friends, my family.
I’m sure there were many discussions that led to concluding some of the languages design decisions and how they’d be impactful for ‘coding in the meta verse’, would love to see slides on that too.
Nice idea though what happens is you manage to quickly recruit the person and then a month later the other job that they’ve been slowly recruited on, eventuates and they walk off, leaving you worse off than if you never hired them.
Personally I just try to find people that have already experienced years of pain of big companies and rejoice in the freedom most startups offers.
Was it fake? Sure. I mean I instructed it to praise good changes after all. But it still felt good.
And now I’m noticing another effect, my human peers have started mimicking some its behaviours.