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gwern's avatar

> Dan Shipper spent a week with Gemini 1.5 Pro and reports it is fantastic

Aside from the part where he was fooled by a large Gemini confabulation, however - where, per Murphy's law on irony, he was using the confabulation as an example of why you should trust Gemini and 'delegate' and not worry about problems like confabulations or check the outputs. (I assume you read the pre-correction version.)

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re: Blockbuster, I was (I guess) technically one of those jobs lost. At the time I worked at a third party company that managed their customer database and marketing. When they died - and hilariously, dumped all their debt on Blockbuster Canada - I got reassigned to the Harley-Davidson client team. As a microcosm, I think it explains why there wasn't a big uproar: almost everyone at the company had relatively marketable skills and moved onto to doing something similar with a place with a different logo - even if you were the blue shirt at the counter, there are lots of jobs that need the clerk skillset, or you were planning to upgrade to a more prestigious job anyway.

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