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>How do you know that? How do you know that the Chinese aren’t exactly as uneasy about rapidly advancing AI capability You can ask them, they live in China, not Narnia. I spend about two months in the country per year mostly for tech&#x2
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There's no evidence that these things make anyone more productive, in fact the opposite, empirical research suggests users are less efficient while thinking they're more efficient. You're invoking "AI" the same way
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What is this panic and protectionism supposed to be good for? This is open source software, there is no "AI industry", there's virtually nobody employed in this. "Domestic AI" makes about as much sense as a domestic
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>Can someone in the know please use plain layman's terms to explain what this tweet is about? The Silicon Valley people like this openai guy, high on their own supply, are convinced they are building some machine god that will eithe
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>I have to ask…why do people want a Turing complete language to configure stuff? because it lets me configure programmatically. Practical recent example, I use Wezterm which uses Lua as a config language but I tried out Ghostty and becau
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the primary motivation isn't latency but complexity. People do in some applications free or allocate collectively because they have interrupt times in mind, but most of the time when you manually manage memory the issue is mental overh
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>1) do you have children and 2) if yes, how many times have you taken your child to hospital with a broken bone yes one and never but it's not clear to me what our personal life has to do with the legal fact that the welfare of our
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because you had neither the chips or the information in 2005. You have probably on the order of 5000x to 10000x more GPU compute today than you had in 2005 and three to four magnitudes more openly available data. The first "L" in
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>why can't we just leave all responsibility to the parents? because we don't live in a 15th century peasant village. The average adult reads at a 7th grade level, 20% of adults are considered functionally illiterate, most adult
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I think we need to remove dystopian and elitist from the dictionary because at this point you can't breathe without being accused of it. Deciding who is in or out is the fundamental basis of any community, that's freedom of associ
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this is both intellectually lazy and also doesn't even apply in this case. It's not the old generation that is AI sceptic, but the young, per the article "Cece looked at her mom. “Why are you talking to an A.I.?” [...] Hold
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no they were banned because they're persistent. That's also the US position despite not being signee to the treaty. Making autonomous weapons intelligent only makes the issue worse because at least expertise was a limiting factor
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>Just out of curiosity though why do people not want smart AI weapons? When the decision to kill another human being is made that should be in the hands of a directly accountable other human being, not an unaccountable machine developed
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the even more direct analogy is the Arab Spring, where social media and phones were widely advertised as a means to bring evil dictators down, as a democratic, youth empowering anti evil old pervert technology. The tech industry obviously j
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>None of this is so important I'll need it in 10 years or so secret I can't let the cloud service see it. then you're a pretty unusual note taker because personal notes frequently cover anything from medical, financial, wo
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The one I'd highlight from the list is Hiroki Endo's Eden: It's an Endless World, it's my favorite manga. It's beautifully drawn and incredibly grounded in tone and oddly relevant. The overarching story is about a p
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>Your environment is your destiny, if your environment is littered with distractions you will be distracted. I can't remember which author it was right now but they made the point about weight loss. You will hear countless of storie
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Charles Stross has a very pithy version of this too, Singularity mania as 'duck-typed Evangelicalism'. It's really telling that if you go to China, Japan or even Europe there's virtually nothing of this. I don't thi
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I'm honestly baffled that someone who has been writing software for so long puts so much emphasis on code generation as a meaningful metric. As Fred Brooks taught us, conceptual unity, not lines of code is the most important metric for
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it can't. Any new regulation goes through the parliament and council as a legislative act. What the Commission can do, if a legislation already exists, is pass regulation that doesn't modify essential elements. There's a dire
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>Why do you need a system with seven different bodies more than one of which can make what’s effectively laws? because the European Union contains more than 600 million people and almost 30 very diverse countries (and is a supranational,
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>The drone industry was allowed to basically "do whatever as long as it works", consequences be damned Yes because Ukraine fights an existential war and at this point on both sides people just shrug when a few civilians get blo
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for a while there's been a strong cultural tendency in programming to mistrust people and trust tools (often even blindly because tools are just assumed to make no mistakes), and so expressiveness has been sacrificed for safety. There
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>Is there a good argument about why that approach could have been done in the same amount of time? as I said because it's a much smaller codebase. This is a million lines of code project. A literal Zig to Rust translation that is mo
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the thing I don't understand about this, given that the goal was a line-by-line transpilation, and the author had already transpiled it once from Go to Zig, why not write an actual transpiler? A problem is as complex as the smallest pr
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>They've outsourced nearly every critical component of a large sustainable society to the rest of the world: Russia, USA, China, India. The EU is about twice as industrialized as the US is, In the town of Unterlüß of four thousand p
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>because nobody made her feel like one I'm German. Very rarely is the issue that people will in principle treat her as foreign, there's sometimes still the stereotype that you "can never be German" but in most places
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>Would the inner circle members of CCP leadership realistically face the same prosecution and sentencing no need to speculate, it's already happened. Zhou Yongkang who was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee (the highest go
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>"Chasing the highest margins" is almost the entire point of a market based economy, and is the main selling point for capitalism That's news to the ALDI brothers and Henry Ford. Capitalism used to be about the exact oppo
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>What's different? How do we get back to how it was before? Elect people who regulate business and break up closed platforms. That's what different. Happened to TV too. In the early 1980s TV programming was regulated. Program-l

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