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by SaucyWrong 1y ago
I’m with you. I learned about the concept of “implicit opt-in / consent” while I was building an email marketing feature on a platform and I found the concept disgusting, but was told that because it’s technically legal, our customers
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by SaucyWrong 1y ago
The summarization of this article cannot be reduced to, "Technology. Bad." You just said it--they are a software engineer. They would not be in that vocation if they did not understand on some level that technology is useful, good
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by SaucyWrong 1y ago
In what way? Are software engineers not laborers? Is it not possible for laborers that use technology in their labor to be exploited by capital?
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by SaucyWrong 1y ago
Comparing typesetting to using AI to do knowledge work is about as Apples to Oranges as it can get and I think you know it.
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by SaucyWrong 2y ago
The implication is that you’re fronting. It’s fine, I’m a technical founder of an AI company. The business demands that what you say is true. But for me, and many others, the joy of programming is in doing the programming. There is not a mo
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by SaucyWrong 2y ago
You must have realized that by, “going outside,” the parent meant “doing something that makes you happy,” and not necessarily literally being outdoors. They find joy writing code. You realized that, and still chose to demean them with this
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by SaucyWrong 2y ago
A researcher I work with tried doing both of these (months ago, using Deepseek-V2-chat FWIW). When asked “Where is Taiwan?” it prefaced its answer with “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. <rest of answer>” When asked if anything
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by SaucyWrong 2y ago
I can’t tell if this is an argument against the parent or just a semantic correction. Assuming the former, I’ll point out that every tool classification you’ve mentioned has expected correct and incorrect behavior, and LLM tools…don’t. When