Cook
8mo ago
There is an IKEA effect when it comes to LLMs, where people find the text that they prompted to be fascinating, and the text that others prompted to be boring.
Cook
8mo ago
That's the thing. SBF would gamble the entire Earth on double or nothing with 51% odds, because of the positive EV. Now he's in prison for 25 years. It's not a coincidence. He knew he was gambling, and he lost.
Cook
8mo ago
Thanks! I presume that's oral finasterise, and the topical version is less effective? And doesn't the impotency go away if you stop talking it?
Cook
8mo ago
Curious to see how Claude sonnet 3.5 (new) performs. Feels like it has more emotional intelligence than ChatGPT. You might have invented a new AI benchmark.
Cook
8mo ago
I notice the front of my hairline thinning. What can I do? Male in my 30s. I lasted this long but now my time has come.
My recollection is that there are actually effective treatments if started early? And is there a way to objectively measure thinning? Calipers? Any Gwern-esque research on this?
Cook
8mo ago
Claude also suggests furniture and art, but also a nice piano or a grandfather clock.
If I ask it to be more creative, it suggests a custom stained glass window, a commissioned illuminated family history manuscript, a heritage garden installation, a commissioned tapestry or quilt.
Cook
8mo ago
For what it's worth, ChatGPT gets this answer in one shot if you just paste your original comment into it.
Cook
10mo ago
Yes, welcome to the future. I use LLMs all the time. They excel at building prototypes, little tools, and self contained functions. It can't one shot complex projects (neither can I ) but you can still handhold it and prompt and split the complex project into smaller modules that it can reason about.
So far I have not found a good way of getting it to fix bugs in existing codebases, but I do wonder if that's just a UI issue rather than an intelligence issue, since there's no easy way for me to let it track the data flow between several files.
The more context you add, the better. This is a mistake people make. It can't read your mind and often people just don't give it enough information.
Programming will absolutely be different in 10 years time, but so will a lot of the rest of world.
From a pragmatic viewpoint, figure out how to buy index funds if you don't already know. Some questions to ponder: why do people prefer index funds over actively managed funds? Why is diversification good, and why is it bad? How do most actively managed funds perform compared to say the S&P500?
The personal finance subreddits have decent resources and wikis. To be explicit, if you are young I would suggest investing in an index fund, either US equities, S&P500, or a global tracker, and investing with the intention of staying in the market for at least 5-10 years.
First do that, then learn about calls and puts and leverage and alpha and beta and P/E ratios and all that stuff
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