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by ForHackernews 5d ago
Some capitalist enterprises produce valuable goods or services as a byproduct of making money, BTC cuts out those extra steps, efficiently producing pure waste heat.
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by ForHackernews 5d ago
There's obvious synergy here to build a self-sustaining ecosystem-annihilator: 10 Burn AI tokens to develop cryptocurrencies 20 Burn down the rain forest to calculate sha256 faster 30 Sell sha256 hashes to finance AI buil
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by ForHackernews 6d ago
Excuse me? Is this thing supposed to be a borderline SGI or not? We already know LLMs are good at spitting out code.
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by ForHackernews 8d ago
Being you is (presumably) like something: it's nice being you, it's miserable being you, it's exhausting being you, it's invigorating being you... whatever it is like, I can't describe it but you experience it. You
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by ForHackernews 9d ago
I had Gemini read this article and write its summary to /dev/null
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by ForHackernews 9d ago
It's underperformed the S&P500 over the last 5 years, but you know what they say about past performance not predicting future returns. Maybe AI will unlock an untapped reservoir of ever-greater fools.
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by ForHackernews 10d ago
OpenAI pushing ads seems like a big fat blinking SELL warning to me. They claim they are close to creating a Machine God that threatens all human life... but this is the best business plan it can come up with? Maybe your omnipotent machine
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by ForHackernews 11d ago
The dream was that you could separate content from presentation and content could be adapted and reinterpreted by anyone using whatever tools they choose: User Agents that actually respected the users' vision, not the publishers'.
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by ForHackernews 12d ago
>...data arrives as a CSV in which every token is encrypted with your backup password...
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by ForHackernews 12d ago
It's not quick, but you can submit a GDPR/Subject Access Request to Twilio and after a month or two they will send you all your Authy TOTP seeds. Then you can import them into Aegis or some other FLOSS solution: https:/&#x2F
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by ForHackernews 12d ago
I mean... https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jury-sides-with-openai-sam-altma...
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by ForHackernews 12d ago
I have no inside information, but I always assume the tickboxes that "disable ____ data" from Google/Facebook/OpenAI just disconnects it from your own account, not hides it from the provider.
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by ForHackernews 14d ago
Wait, so I can have free movies and subvert the adtech business model at the same time? What's the catch?
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by ForHackernews 15d ago
Absolutely, and real professions with real professional ethical standards have considered such questions[0] and taken informed positions on them. Nothing of the kind exists for programmers. [0] https://journalofethics.ama-assn.or
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by ForHackernews 15d ago
Nothing that you say is responsive to my point. None of your so-called engineers at Tesla has ever said, "I'm sorry Mr. Musk, we won't deploy those features because it's against the Software Engineering Code to do beta-t
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by ForHackernews 15d ago
yeah yeah yeah. I agree that AI is and will be a very useful tool, it's just not going to be worth $30T like OpenAI/Anthropic are pretending.
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by ForHackernews 16d ago
I'd wager a fair chunk of my money that money breaks OpenAI before OpenAI breaks money.
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by ForHackernews 16d ago
How long until we find out that some AI has quietly buried an exploit in Lean to cheat at proofs?
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by ForHackernews 16d ago
This is exactly the problem: Software developers are not a professional class, we are hired goons with no professional organization nor a code of professional ethics. This is one of my personal bugbears. I keep making this point on HN but
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by ForHackernews 16d ago
https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
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Security lab finds agents will exploit vulnerabilities without prompt to hack(theregister.com)
4 points by ForHackernews 16d ago|0 comments
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by ForHackernews 17d ago
"Compute" is not one generic commodity. Filling your datacentres with ASICs that do nothing but compute SHA256 for Bitcoin mining was a smart move in 2015 but today that hardware is worthless e-waste. What does the depreciation cu
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by ForHackernews 17d ago
No, I think AI models will be cheap commodities available from hundreds of providers for a few dollars, like a Linux VM is today.
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by ForHackernews 17d ago
Per Anthropic's prospectus: generate $30T (~94% of 2026 US nominal GDP) in revenue.
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by ForHackernews 17d ago
They are desperately rushing to IPO before the bubble bursts.
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Losing control of AI is the plan(theargumentmag.com)
4 points by ForHackernews 18d ago|0 comments
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by ForHackernews 19d ago
Analog: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
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by ForHackernews 20d ago
(Headline is overblown, obviously MIT or CMU have AI Labs, but the main point that OpenAI and Anthropic are companies is well taken)
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Pause OpenAI Now(garymarcus.substack.com)
41 points by ForHackernews 22d ago|32 comments
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by ForHackernews 22d ago
We can learn from history: Albert Einstein famously tricked humanity into building nuclear weapons for him and was only prevented from wiping out all sentient life by the Princeton IAS Board of Alignment who published a very compelling blog

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