TomasBM

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by TomasBM 6mo ago
While I also find various approaches and reasons behind IP governance dumb, copying IP is piracy. In practice, copying some things is unlawful, regardless if we think it shouldn't be or if piracy once only referred to naval burglary.
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by TomasBM 6mo ago
If I had to pick one thing I like about software devs as a group, it's this: you find a problem, you solve it, you share the solution.
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by TomasBM 6mo ago
Fair enough, I agree. The process of one or more people figuring out what is actually needed is a big part of the outcome, I'd consider an important social obstacle or limit to automation. But here's what's important to my
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by TomasBM 6mo ago
This may be evidence that it's more difficult than evangelists first imagine, but it's not evidence of a technical obstacle. Generally, "automation failed" does not imply that "automation is impossible". To you
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by TomasBM 6mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but I think the problem is much wider. Managers at companies are just doing what they've optimized their careers for: maintaining some edge over some competition, at some cost. What is pure FOMO to you or
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
Hate to be the party pooper , but these two points are hardly evidence of an autonomous attack. Don't get me wrong: it would certainly be very valuable to any LLM developer or deployer to know that other plausible scenarios [1] have b
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
> it all seems comfortably within the capabilities of OpenClaw I definitely agree. In fact, I'm not even denying that it's possible for the agent to have deviated despite the best intentions of its designers and deployers. But
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
Considering the limited evidence we have, why is pure unprompted untrained misalignment , which we never saw to this extent, more believable than other causes, of which we saw plenty of examples? It's more interesting, for sure, but w
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
We might, and probably will, but it's still important to distinguish between malicious by-design and emergently malicious, contrary to design . The former is an accountability problem, and there isn't a big difference from othe
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
Although I'm speculating based on limited data here, for points 1-3: AFAIU, it had the cadence of writing status updates only. It showed it's capable of replying in the PR. Why deviate from the cadence if it could already reply wi
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
Actually, you provided an example where the obstacle was somehow surmounted [1]. The expectation doesn't have to be too specific or unrealistic. If you agree on some common ground [2], everything else can be fair game for the artist. Y
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
After seeing the discussions around Moltbook and now this, I wonder if there's a lot of wishful thinking happening. I mean, I also find the possibility of artificial life fun and interesting, but to prove any emergent behavior, you
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
Thanks for replying. That's fair. I completely agree that much of LLM training was (and still very much is) in violation of many licenses. At the very least, the fact that the source of training data is obfuscated even years after the
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
I'm also very skeptical of the interpretation that this was done autonomously by the LLM agent. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen any proof of autonomy . Scenarios that don't require LLMs with malicious intent : - The de
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
How did you reach that conclusion? Until we know how this LLM agent was (re)trained, configured or deployed, there's no evidence that this comes from instrumental convergence . If the agent's deployer intervened anyhow, it's
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
> I don't want my code scraped and remixed by AI systems. Just curious - why not? Is it mostly about the commercial AI violating the license of your repos? And if commercial scraping was banned, and only allowed to FOSS-producing AI
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
Not OP, but posed like that, neither. Expect something? Yes. Enforce it? Not sure for the first tranche, but make it a prerequisite for continued funding. One big obstacle is, of course, how to define what to expect from each artist. For ex
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
> one might wonder why they apparently are not able to sell their art for the same amount of money. Because the skills and effort needed to market and sell your art to an audience are not equal to the skills and effort needed to produce
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
What things (languages etc.) do you work with/on primarily? I don't know what to say, except that I see a substantial boost. I generally code slowly, but since GPT-5.1 was released, what would've taken me months to do now t
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
We're certainly in the middle of a whirlwind of progress. Unfortunately, as AI capabilities increase, so do our expectations. Suddenly, it's no longer enough to slap something together and call it a project. The better version wit
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
When it comes to food prep, I'd agree with you that the more time of your life passes, the more irresponsible is the risk of not knowing how to fry an egg, for example. At the same time, you only need to learn how to fry an egg once, a
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by TomasBM 8mo ago
There is an obvious reason why LLM use should be discouraged in classwork focused on writing: the process that's needed for a brain to learn the skills can't be outsourced. The Internet is different. Even with access to websites l
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
I think this is certainly true, except for the "each engineer [bringing] whatever syntax or language" point. At some stage, I expect that we will know what is the set of "optimal" computer languages for the interface bet
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
Depends if you find that fun enough to counterweigh the bad sides of work. There's a common trope that monetizing your hobby is a good way to start hating that hobby. But it doesn't have to be that way; a lot of people love what t
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
Your criticism of this study is roughly on point, IMO. It's not badly designed by any means, but it's an early look. There are already similar studies on the (cognitive) effects of LLMs on learning, but I suspect this one gets the
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
I've also noticed this expectation. Where does it come from? FOSS means that the code to be free and open-source , not the schedule or the direction of its developer(s).
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
My 2 cents: - You now likely have the money/time to pursue passions you didn't know you have, or would have developed if you didn't pursue software development as intensely. - Even if you had/have passion for computers,
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
Although I agree with your overall point, there is a middle ground here: (commercially) non-free but open source software. I believe that's where the biggest disagreement ITT lies. There are currently good ways to do FOSS, proprietar
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
In addition to other great suggestions (a good night's sleep being #1), two things come to mind: - Write down thoughts that pop-up and seem potentially useful, and then forget about them . It's easier said than done, but you have
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by TomasBM 9mo ago
I don't do research that requires fieldwork, but even in office and industrial settings, I notice that there's less need and interest in visits. Of course, in-person exchanges still happen, but there's something of a default

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