SlinkyOnStairs

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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
What you're asking is, "could someone do fraud" and "would being found out invalidate their copyright". To both of which the answer is generally, yes. It'd be a form of plagiarism, just with different consequen
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> No-one's saying this No-one was saying it explicitly . I merely took what you said and re-stated what it concretely meant in the real world. The generalization to "all computers" is an assumption, but you appear to main
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> All the money spent on regulations and regulators to cover increasingly niche opt-in services that are entirely unnecessary is a waste. That isn't what's happening. The regulations don't get little niche cases added to t
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
It's not just push from mangement; AI firms themselves really aggressively market this idea of AI replacing everything. It's not "allowed" to be a mere tool, useful for some but not other tasks, it's gotta (be able
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> I think they are not the best example of Open Source development. They're not. I'm using them as an example of the "bad" in Open Source development. But it's also not so much the individual OS components that a
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> It can be quickly regained I'm not sure what you mean with this? Sure, hypothetically e.g. any western car manufacturer could poach a bunch of BYD employees. But it's not really practical for most businesses . > The actua
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> Desktop Linux has gotten better This is on me for being a bit too snarky. So yes, Desktop Linux has "gotten better". What it hasn't done is solved any of the systemic problems . The Open Source development quirks that c
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> Do you call operating systems "malware enablers"? People were making that exact criticism of Microsoft Windows for decades . It's only really in the last decade that Windows got decent enough at security for this attitu
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
They also took out all the quality , though in pure business terms one can argue that's a kind of "slack" by itself. The beancounters have cut all the corners on physical products that they could find. Now even design and ma
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
A drawn out long change simply doesn't have the major societal upset that imminent mass-unemployment has. With how much scale AI datacenters want and how the Trump administration has made supply problems significantly worse, we'd
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
There's layoffs, certainly. But all the economic indicators suggest those are "bad economy" layoffs dressed up as "AI" layoffs to keep the shareholders happy.
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
It won't get that far. It's physically impossible to build out the datacenters required for the "AI is actually good and we have mass layoffs" scenario. This Anthropic investment is spurred on because they've alread
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
Less so "supermarkets" specifically and moreso "capitalism" and the answers to your conclusion is obviously, yes. This is why welfare systems exist. Because otherwise the system will push people to crime, especially so i
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
Sexism will play a role, but a big part of the reason why Pelosi gets so much flak is that she did nothing to stop it when the democrats were in charge, thus directly paving the way to the current shitshow.
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> Pre-training is very much a matter of scale - and scraping is merely the easiest way to get data at scale. Therein lies the problem. AI firms just bulldozed ahead and "just did it" with no consideration for the ethics or lega
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
If you end up creating something sufficiently similar, yes in fact you do. Or rather, you have done a copyright infringement and retroactive payment may be one of the remedies. This also applies to AI, just worse because: A) AI is not a hum
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
Self reply as I could've explained the SEC thing better: Anti-fraud regulators like the SEC give an inherent trustworthiness and credibility to CEOs and other market participants. You can trust that they're not lying to you, becau
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
I'm going to be a dickhead for a moment here, apologies, there's no way to say this that isn't rude to you. This is still the same hearsay "In an interview, somewhere." A bit of google searching later can get us a s
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
While $5000 is a lot, the people who rack up close or just over a thousand "API equivalent cost" are pretty common. > Most likely the subscription inference cost is much lower than you expect. This is probably not true because
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> Fortune 500s that were not already testing the waters with companies like Anthropic are rushing to figure out governance and how to use these tools across their orgs. Most of this is still structured around "find use cases for AI&
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
1) The comparison is about the perception. While smartphones did "change the world", the iPhone in particular is given outsized weight in that. The tech industry since has just been a cargo cult trying to recreate it. 2) No, actua
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> I'm an exception for sure You're not. This is a big reason why "tech" went so all-in on AI. The era of rapid innovation and rapid growth on phones is over. We hit "peak smartphone" in 2019-2020, look at a
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
It's diminished because the hard reality is that you need money to live . The end result of major tech companies sweeping in, taking everyone's creative work, outcompeting the originals with AI derivatives, and telling every arti
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
The main "sales pitch" appears to be "You can have the computer do things for you without having to learn how to use a computer" (at the cost of now having to learn how to use a massively overcomplicated and fundamentall
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
I think you're massively overestimating how much money is really accessible here. The parent comment's right that all of the easily available VC & private equity investment is basically used up. OpenAI was struggling to sell $
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
Software development is not a production line, the relationship between code output and revenue is extremely non-linear. Where producing 2x the t-shirts will get you ~2x the revenue, it's quite unlikely that 10x the code will get you
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> For some reason That reason would be the constant proclamation of such by business leaders, and these days, especially by AI company executives. Just yesterday Elon Musk was in the news again for making noise about the need for a Unive
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
The search term is the "Railway Mania", which predominant describes the UK's railroad bubble, with smaller similar booms on mainland europe. (You will have to look up French and German sources for the best info on those) The
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> You're actually arguing those highly technical engineering projects provided nothing to humanity investing labor because they were not a financial success? No. Re-read the comment. I specifically say "No return on investment
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> Makes it a little less dramatic. But also shows what a big *'n deal the railroads were! It also makes it more dramatic, consider the programs on the list and what they have in common. * The Apollo program. A government-funded scie

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