UtopiaPunk

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by UtopiaPunk 5mo ago
It's a fictional dialog that gives an account of history from a different viewpoint, from a society that was destroyed by modern civilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(Quinn_novel)
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by UtopiaPunk 5mo ago
I would humor this stance if we were also actively building a new economic arrangement that was not capitalism. Automating away the drudgery or dangerous parts of life seems inherently good. But I would argue that AI has not been awesome at
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by UtopiaPunk 5mo ago
Ishmael is a good read.
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by UtopiaPunk 5mo ago
I would call into the question the notion that an "unbiased" news source is even possible. What is that? Even in a hypothetical, entirely objective coverage an event, the news publication must decide whether to give such coverage
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by UtopiaPunk 6mo ago
That would be neat, but I really don't see it happening. In software-land, it's my sense that, if anything, AI is working against open source. AI is creating busy work for open source maintainers with a large volume of low qualit
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by UtopiaPunk 6mo ago
We must respect the Ferengi's values
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by UtopiaPunk 6mo ago
"Our AIs"? The AI models belong to giant corporations (Google, Microsoft) or are receiving millions of dollars serving giant corporations. How are they yours? A better solution is passing laws on wage transparency. For most jobs,
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by UtopiaPunk 6mo ago
I don't buy it. Executives worry about labor costs, ARR, RoI, etc. The grandest promises of AI are that executives will make a lot more money with a lot fewer employees. Of course they are pushing it! ICs worry about doing their job (e
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by UtopiaPunk 7mo ago
It's amazing Cuba has lasted so long, despite being utterly hated by their neighbor, the most powerful country in the world. Both capitalism and communism really only "work" when many countries work together. Cuba is committe
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by UtopiaPunk 7mo ago
Cuba's doctors and medical research is helping struggling countries live to see another day. They punch way above their weight. Incredible really, given they are a small island nation, living under the shadow of the biggest, most adva
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by UtopiaPunk 7mo ago
I think the headline is valid. I'm of course aware of click-bait or otherwise misleading headlines, but in this case I think it is good. It gets right to the point it wants to make. For additional context, a reader is expected to read
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by UtopiaPunk 7mo ago
Lmao, this is an extremely HN post. 10/10 on the HN scale.
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by UtopiaPunk 7mo ago
I'm reading this on Feeder, which a free RSS app I found on F-Droid. Works for me
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by UtopiaPunk 8mo ago
Kind of. But the outcomes likely do not benefit the masses. People "accessing AI labor" is just a race to the bottom. Maybe some new tools get made or small businesses get off the ground, but ultimately this "AI labor" i
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by UtopiaPunk 9mo ago
Can you elaborate?
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by UtopiaPunk 9mo ago
Ant eating crabs when??
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by UtopiaPunk 9mo ago
What is the distinction between using "AI to learn" and using "AI to aid learning?"
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
How would one possibly hope to keep the Final Fantasy series straight without knowing Roman numerals?? It's already challenging knowing them
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
I think I understand a desire for "calm" learning. I'm not especially interested in learning a language right now. However, I do generally have a distaste for "gamified" learning, and, separately, I feel distracte
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
Impossible to know if there is something like Sheol after death, so we thought, "why not make our own eternal emptiness?"
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
Mmm, kind of. Scarcity is definitely fundamental under capitalism. But what do we do in a theoretical, post-scarcity society? The digitization of information and media combined with the Internet and widespread use of electronic devices prac
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
I basically agree all value is derived from labor, but a lot of modern economists do not. There's are an interesting book called "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom" by Martin Haaglund. Part 2 of the book is reall
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
Maybe!! :D
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
I don't think it is a coincidence that the areas with the wealhiest people/corporations are the same areas with the most extreme poverty. The details are, of course, complicated, but zooming way way out, the rich literally drain w
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by UtopiaPunk 10mo ago
"It's capital that belongs to people and those people..." That's not a fundamental law of physics. It's how we've decided to arrange our current society, more or less, but it's always up for negotiation. L
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by UtopiaPunk 11mo ago
Japan is remarkably close. Cuba, also, but their economic priorities are very different.
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by UtopiaPunk 11mo ago
We can, and we should, regulate some things. AI has, quite suddenly, built up billions of dollars worth of infrastructure and become pervasive in people's daily lives. Part of how society adapts to ridiculous new situations is through
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by UtopiaPunk 11mo ago
Itch.io is great
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by UtopiaPunk 11mo ago
In what way do indie devs pay for discoverability? There's a $100 fee to be listed on Steam. Is there something else you are thinking of?
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by UtopiaPunk 11mo ago
I'd love for the cut to be smaller, but it is absolutely not a "death sentence." With traditional consoles (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft consoles, and those before them), the barrier to entry is very high. If you are an indie, i

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