K0balt

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by K0balt 8mo ago
That is the main idea of stoicism. So although I realize your statement is meant to be sarcastic, I wholeheartedly agree. It’s a very difficult bar, but it is incredibly enriching and conducive to inner peace and a harmonious life. I have
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by K0balt 8mo ago
I can’t speak for others, but as the op of that quoted segment, I say it as a person who has lost their job several times in my life. The first time was traumatic because my expectations were of stability. Never again. Really, it was the be
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by K0balt 8mo ago
This is because the vast majority of white collar activity in a large corporation produces no direct economic value. Making it easier/better just means more/higher quality “worthless” work is performed. The incentives in the not-d
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by K0balt 8mo ago
While I agree, I am not hopeful. The incentive alignment has us careening towards Elysium rather than Star Trek.
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Its main distinction from previous forms of automation is its ability to apply reasoning to processes and its potential to operate almost entirely without supervision, and also to be retasked with trivial effort. Conventional automation req
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Opus 4.6 is outstanding for code, and for the little I have used it outside of that context, in everything else I have used it with. The productivity with code is at least 3x what I was getting with 5.2, and it can handle entire projects fa
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by K0balt 8mo ago
I agree with you on context, but given my original context : “Employment is almost always exploitation on one side or the other, with the best case being mutual exploitation. Employment inherently involves paying less for your work than it
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Oh the cringe. Got me.
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Copium is a powerful drug.
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by K0balt 8mo ago
To be fair, we all have holes in our reasoning if we don’t carefully consider things and sometimes they are very surprising when they come to light. The dependency issue (need the car at the car wash) is an easy one that often trips up peop
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by K0balt 8mo ago
I’m no industry insider, but tipping would seem to me to be a key indicator for discretionary spending, so a very valuable data point. I have no doubt that a dataset of 1m clients and their tipping patterns would be worth >500k per clien
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Huh. I don’t think in my experience that the term violence is seldom applied to things outside of humans, and IME the terms economic violence and social violence, emotional violence, and many others are common parlance. Perhaps we come fro
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Perhaps. But that also erodes the stability islands that motivate people to be hyper productive, and encourages investment in external economies, starving the local economy. So I don’t think those work, or at least I’ve never seen a working
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Clearly. And it’s also the 100 percent predictable outcome of every single employment situation. Employment is a stopgap measure on the road to something more stable. Reaching high enough salaries so that you can coast 4-5 years between jo
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Being dependent to that degree on something you have ultimately no control over is the problem. In that situation, I am always hedging my bets and preparing for the worst. Because it’s not if but when. I work like hell to get out of those s
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Yeah. The solution if you want to have your own AI is to put a box online or rent cloud inference, and access it over a browser or a phone app. We have on-prem AI for my microgrid community, but it’s a nascent effort and we can only run &lt
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Vibe coding doesn’t work for the imbedded system code that I am working on, which includes layered state machines, hardware drivers, and wire level protocol stacks. But supervised AI code generation definitely does work. You need a highly r
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by K0balt 8mo ago
I think I kinda forgot that not everyone has stoic framing for their viewpoint with my original post lol. You do an excellent job of saying what I meant without describing things in a way that many (maybe most?) people would misconstrue. T
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by K0balt 8mo ago
I guess if you limit “violence” to violence against humans only? I’ve always thought that violence was applicable to animals and plants as well, so I guess we differ there. Intentional harm that causes death is firmly in the violence categ
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Tbh, getting good results from ai requires senior level intuition. You can be rusty as hell and not even middling in the language being used, but you have to understand data structures and architecture more than ever to get non-shit results
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by K0balt 8mo ago
I’ve been on both sides of the table for decades. I try to find ways to bind incentives from either side so that they are better aligned, but it’s always exploitative in one way or another. It’s just suboptimal. Perhaps employee owned busin
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Of course! I don’t think I said it couldn’t be mutual.
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Perhaps it is unwise to leave your wellbeing and security entirely up to someone who has no incentive to care about the outcome? But, idk, you do you.
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by K0balt 8mo ago
I’m not saying that violence is bad. Farming is violence. Mining is violence. It’s a compromise we make. But ending a session of it shouldn’t be traumatic. And yes, in many cases it’s a win/win. Without farming, many animals would hav
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by K0balt 8mo ago
If losing your job is traumatic, I’d suggest reviewing your relationship with employers and employment in general. It’s not a stable situation, and there is no social aspect in reality. It’s an accounting decision. Employment is almost alw
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by K0balt 8mo ago
You don’t have to go ballistic!
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Stegonagraphic backup with crappy ai transmogrified reaction videos. Free backup for openclaw agents so they can take over the internet lol
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Turning your phone off (airplane mode or power down, which sign out of networks) or lighting up a new one in the same location as an old one was turned off are treated as significant events in these systems and can be configured as an autom
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Now more than ever it is against your best interests to tip on any automated platform. The data collected will definitely be used against you in algorithmic pricing. These days it pays to aggressively demonstrate that you are price sensitiv
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by K0balt 8mo ago
Saw a system like this at a Podunk, nowhere, USA police station over a decade ago. It had high fidelity maps of peoples comings and goings based on Bluetooth and WiFi MAC IIRC. And some kind of API backend to look up identity based on those

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