Dilettante_

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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
Not producing or publishing creative works out of fear that someone will find them and build on top of them is such a strange position to me, especially on a site that has it's cultural basis in hacker culture.
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
>Urgent issue Urgent issue for whom ? If there is some org relying on something you maintain voluntarily, in your free time, that seems like a "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine"-type situatio
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
By that measure, doing something for a poor person who cannot pay would be entirely worthless, while delivering food to a particularly generous billionaire would be more valuable than an entire month of an average person's work. The er
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
From the post you replied to: Maybe the genres people are creating more of don't match your personal preference
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
Hikkis will barely have their (speaking from Maslow) physiological needs met, and seldom their safety and security needs. This leaves them with very few mental-emotional resources to put into even having any creative thoughts. UBI would a
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
Is your perspective here "these things need to be useful/stable/secure, how do we make them/create incentive for them to be what we need them to be"? Because my view is more like "open source is a sprawling wil
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
(And on the flipside, nothing is owed for a bugfix the maintainer made out of their own free will. Again, a gift.)
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
>it is not okay to consider that this labor fell from the sky and is a gift, and that the people/person behind are just doing it for their own enjoyments Yes it absolutely is. That is the exact social contract people 100% willingly
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
"I'm Mister Vapeseeks, smoke from me~e!" *shudder*
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
A little calibrating correction: A vape should last more than a day unless you're a very heavy user. Around three days with a '700 puffs' one maybe, and a week wouldn't be unheard of.
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
Do you maybe have too little slack in your life? If you have too little emotional energy 'in your tank', compassion and empathy and such naturally go down as there are less 'resources' to spend on empathizing with others
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
LLM writing is bleeding back into normal peoples' styles. I've been having to catch myself from starting comments with some variation of "great point, let's drill down into that".
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
>Adams' (Adams's?) I had to look it up as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_genitive
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
>even gratis media consumption gives cultural weight to a work which is then available for monetization At a certain point you're just making the argument that any lack of action directly opposing something is "allowing it to t
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
>underplays the magnitude of the ‘issue’ That jogged me a little: The magnitude of the issue would be different in the mind of any person: The original poster of the joke and I see more of a historical fact and engage with it fairly ca
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
He very obviously disclosed that he had nano banana generate the logo. Using AI to boost himself is a different animal altogether. (The difference is lying)
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
>doesn’t mean I have to accept your distinction No, but not engaging with my argument supporting my position(about the emergency workers, though if your point is about this specific joke and not jokes about taboo topics in general I&#x
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
>downplaying the atrocities Like three times in this conversation I've explicitly differentiated between 'making jokes about' and 'downplaying' something, and every time you have failed to engage with my reasonin
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
HN is not an armenian space equivalent to a synagogue, and the original poster did not say nor imply that the armenian genocide "wasn't so bad"(in other words: make light of it). Arguably what they did was a form of spreading
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
Making a joke about something is not necessarily "making light of it". It can be a way for an individual or culture to approach and digest a topic that is too difficult or painful to engage with directly. First responders and medi
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
It'd substantially reduce the incentive for the training of new models.
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
It's ridiculous because it's a strawman: The topic of conversation was meditation.
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
This is one of the main dividing lines wrt LLM usage and dangers: Not just believing what it tells you and finding hard sources before acting. For some people this is obvious, so much so that they wouldn't even mention it, while others
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
I mean, that's Darwin in action, right?
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
Fun fact: There's a saying for this in german: 'Vorführeffekt', or 'Demonstration Effect'. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vorf%C3%BChreffekt
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
It's also absolutely going to save people. The question is what the acceptable (and the actual) ratio is.
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by Dilettante_ 9mo ago
Sure, but the person I replied to seemed quite adamant and specific in rejecting external curation. He wants to know for sure, he'll have to see for himself. That's actually one of the very useful generalizable lessons you can lea
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by Dilettante_ 10mo ago
I think the author might not have been speaking 100% with his tongue not in his cheek there.
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by Dilettante_ 10mo ago
>You’re unlikely to see a buddhist missionary asking if you’ve heard to truth about emptiness on a street corner ;) And if you do, kill him! ;)
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by Dilettante_ 10mo ago
>How do you filter out the good from the bad/useless? You try them for yourself. Accept no substitutes for this.

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