JohnFen

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by JohnFen 8mo ago
What Trump is demanding here is that when the US engages in an unnecessary and unprovoked war of aggression and conquest, other countries are obligated to join in. To agree to that would not only be deeply immoral, but is effectively saying
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
From my point of view, genAI makes real online community effectively impossible. Not only can't you be sure that you're interacting with a human, but you can be sure that anything you're saying online is being fed into the ga
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
11. Works for you rather than for the OS manufacturer.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Yes, I'm aware of zero-knowledge proofs, but they aren't sufficient all by themselves. > I imagine the problem is more economics and politics than technology. Exactly so, yes. That doesn't make the problem any less serious
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
I haven't been to a movie in a chain theater in many years, for all the reasons you say. However, I have been to see movies in small, independent theaters. They're more comfortable, the audiences are better behaved and smaller, th
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> For every "20 min max" take home assignment, there will be people who are willing to spend 4+ hours doing it to outshine candidates who have jobs, families and lives. I started refusing take-home tests a couple of decades ago
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> Is personhood verification desirable? It's hard for me to see how it could be done without unacceptable exposure. So, right now, it's the opposite of desirable to me and I would avoid using any sites that require it.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> If your potential employer is dehumanizing you before you’re on the payroll, how will they treat you once hired? For me, this is the key point. If a company can't even be bothered to show up for my interview -- when everyone is tr
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> You can tape the camara, but the mic ? I think the only option is to disable the mic in the BIOS. From my experimentation, filling the little microphone hole with blu tack is pretty effective. Not as effective as opening the machine u
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
DHS has been very upfront about the fact that they purchase pretty much all the data they can get, including from ad networks, in order to keeps records on and track people.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> “They are not held to the same legal requirements that doctors and health care institutions are,” Bitterman said of the AI companies. This is why I wouldn't touch any health provider that involves genAI with a ten foot pole. The p
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
The idea that you need to avoid knowing what's happening in the world to avoid being depressed is, itself, incredibly depressing.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
I have a few ideas, but I haven't decided yet. We'll see. One step at a time.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Conceptually, isn't this just the same as companies that won't give you any useful information unless you talk to a salesman? Personally, I find that so obnoxious that it ensures that I won't be looking into those products an
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
I do, actually, but that still means that I have to support the rest of the industry, just indirectly. Since I think the industry as a whole has become something that is harmful, even that much of a connection doesn't sit comfortably f
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
I enjoy development as much as ever. However, the industry has changed and is behaving in ways that I find highly ethically objectionable. I have come to think that, on the whole, our industry is doing much more harm than good to people and
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> Sam Altman took subtle swipes at rival Anthropic on Thursday and said he thinks it’s “bad for society” if companies start abandoning their commitment to the democratic process because “some people don’t like the person or people curren
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
My opinion of Substack just bumped up a bit here. We need at least a few parts of the web that are for people.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
This is almost always because the company gets a break on health insurance premiums for enacting such a policy.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
You could look for a position in a company where genAI use is not so prevalent. They're still very common and do very interesting work.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Thanks!
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
I think we should bring back "glassholes". I know I'll be using the term.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
What makes no sense about the question? If you're saying that it's impossible to be screwed without a contract violation, then I very strongly disagree. (Not commenting on josefritzishere's situation specifically, as I know n
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
I can't watch the video, but I'm dying of curiosity. What did they think that we think those bumps are for?
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
A new era for choice and openness that includes new restrictions on installing the software you choose on a device you own? I'm not sure that I'm using the same definitions of those terms as Google is.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
And let's not forget the whole Woldcoin thing. Altman has been objectionable for longer than OpenAI has been a thing.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Those estimates are sales messages, nothing more, and so are untrustworthy.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
What happens if you buy a century bond from a company and that company goes out of business before the bond matures? Does the bond become worthless? It seems like an important question because I can't think of any company that I am con
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Why should I believe OpenAI's statements about this, particularly when everything looks exactly like they're giving the government what it's demanding?
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
How true this is probably varies a whole lot from person to person. Very few of the things you list are things that I do primarily online (even during the pandemic), and none of those are things that I can only do online.

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