aaroninsf

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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
Every time Peter Watts comes up, it bears repeating: TRIGGER WARNINGS APPLY The Rifters series, which has some spectacular images and conceits, is also author-insert misogynist sadism gratification-porn. Didn't have to be that way. Sha
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
Same
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
Thank you TIL
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
This reads like literal propaganda. Every assertion of personal responsibility (sic) in the face of billion to trillion dollar industry spending is bad faith, zero exceptions. British Petroleum invented the concept of personal climate footp
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
They're passionate about style and brand, not design and sound. I say this as someone with expertise in a domain they nominally targetted. Very "cool" looking kit, but: missing basic features, unremarkable in those provided;
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
The repetition of some phrases/statements means it's either poorly edited, machine generated, or both.
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
That definition is in fact the predominant one today in serious circles: consciousness proper is not itself inclusive of the things which consider to define a continuous coherent self. I.e. the "self" is not the same as what it
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
The conflation of concerns and synechdochal arguments are a wonder to behold.
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
Who in their right minds would trust this...? Quite objectively, the track record for management demonstrating bad faith and lying about this is deep and long.
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
On my cork board I'll paste this up and run a red string to https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05914 and put a post-it between them with COMPUTONIUM???? written on it Can we please keep it together for a modest number of
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
This. This is what I tell people (including non-programmers interested in vibe coding), the results you get are product of... process. Formal process. From this naturally emerges the other thing I tell people: domain expertise (or at least,
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
Very much agree that while it is is useful in description of motivation and inspiration, it is very non-helpful—or worse—to use this language, this way. One might as well say "need neural plasticity" which is as much an analogy an
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
Assertion: recipient owes the person asking something. Authenticity earned through proof of work: invest your neurons and time to demonstrate fealty! Context switch for me! Buried lede: much of the time the person asking could do all the
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
Some serious clipping
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
"We did solve however solve feudalism." Different problems are different. The problem of wealth concentration is not novel and it's been addressed many time. Usually in ways the end poorly for those who believe themselves unt
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
That's quite a lot of words.
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
As always, "it depends." I'm using coding tools to build a complex media-intensive application. The approach I'm taking is to build a _reference implementation_ in Python, which is in its design specifics, constrained to
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
"Everyone is saying it." Cory Doctorow's Enshittification for example. For good reason. Me, I understand this through the analogy of how drug markets go. 1. Addict people to the product. 2. Profitmaxx by reducing quality at t
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
Thank you. I'm glad to see this as the top comment. My brother was recently visiting and we were talking about software engineers, and the humanities, and manners of understanding and being in the world, and he relayed an interaction h
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
Somewhat comically IMO, the abstract very directly and literally denies the titular claim. It states: > [consciousness] requires active, experiencing cognitive agent to alphabetize continuous physics into a finite set of meaningful state
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
Ed, my friend, I've got some news for you. Economics Don't Make Sense . I mean, seriously... our current late-stage capitalist economy is the chaotic sloshing of excess capital or inverted debt in a shallow tub within which clums
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by aaroninsf 5mo ago
I'm not going to even bother trying it, but I assume that the top Google autocomplete for "lawful" is "evil"
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
If you want to downvote, I invite an alternate explanation for their behavior and the contextualizing media posture, which regularly situates what they are willing to say in print, within unsupported and click-bait-worthy speculation. Anoth
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
If realized, ... [side-eye-sock-puppet-monkey.gif]
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
I read the pre-publishing version of this paper, and there was then and still is a serious problem with their logic, consistent with if not bad faith, something akin to it: Assume for a moment their core hypothesis is correct, there were tr
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
The wildcard for our civilization that I pay a lot of attention to: will AI help us get through blockers like this? I'm out of the prediction business but my guess is: absolutely, but iff we don't collapse in some way first. Wild
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
This is a fascinating variation on the forest/trees, and false dichotomy. The AI "doomerism" taken up in this piece is one we see replicated a lot, it offers up a scarecrow: that the new risks to our civilization worth talk
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
I've been using 4.6 in a long-term development project every day for weeks. 4.7 is a clusterf--k and train wreck.
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
Telling to be down voted. Hard truths are hard. Cliché though it may be, with great power comes great responsibility. Tech culture, as epitomized by the general readership of this site, have to great degree, if of course not uniformly, abdi
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
Hot take: I assume the author wrote this with the expectation that much of the readsherp gasp, and react with "the natural horror all right thinking folk would have in response to violence of any kind." Sorry, lol, no. The appropr

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