advael

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by advael 4mo ago
AFAICT hacker news is only slightly less positive on AI than the average tech industry gathering, which is still like two standard deviations more positive than any average gathering of random people in a city. I think the culture of silico
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by advael 4mo ago
In a way, we're doing the same maneuver to avoid discussing the subject, deflecting to base insults involving psychoanalysis of the speaker based on their stated position rather than object-level engagement with the position per se. I
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by advael 4mo ago
So we've gone from "anyone who expresses this preference is a snob" to "actually what matters is the preferences of some imaginary audience, who I can also speak for" Fascinating
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by advael 4mo ago
Aye, and the comment above mine was engaging with the line in a way that begged for mockery nonetheless
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by advael 4mo ago
Yea definitely, anyone with different preferences from you is just virtue signaling and/or trying to flex on you. Seems super reasonable to me
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by advael 4mo ago
For most of 2024, my main daily driver laptop was a little pink chinese laptop from 2019 I bought on amazon for roughly $200. It was marketed toward communication students. I put arch with cinnamon on it and it was pretty damn adequate for
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by advael 4mo ago
They've got a documented history of trying to strongarm everyone they can
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by advael 4mo ago
Smacks of collusion honestly. Maybe Microsoft offered them some kind of deal
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by advael 5mo ago
I can't currently completely describe the US as a country with a free press, but I do speak english and not (yet) mandarin, and a lot of the information I was able to find about the guy was in fact from the english-speaking press. I wa
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by advael 5mo ago
I have to say, while I can't seem to escape constant articles about the drama of OpenAI and Anthropic, about Altman and Amodei and at various times other figures in these companies, I had to look up Liang Wenfang and frankly what I do
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by advael 5mo ago
I had heard the folk etymology "stalker fan"
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by advael 5mo ago
I've already stated what I expect
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by advael 5mo ago
I'm pretty much at I need very strong justification to own something I haven't wiped and installed a clean and open operating system on. I'm certainly curious if this is easy to do with this device, but I suspect the intentio
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by advael 5mo ago
Sure, it's a tool that I think that's not a particularly compelling use of. Like I can at least see an endpoint of slop code where the right guardrails and model improvements create a means by which people can ask their computers
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by advael 5mo ago
Wouldn't know if I'm a smart writer, but I see little value in writing with a model if that's what you're asking. Language models are good for searching, getting alright at structured outputs like code, and trash at mean
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by advael 5mo ago
Well, in our current world, one species of apes has, by banding together into coordinated groups and allowing individuals to specialize in building various skills and knowledge, discovered numerous complex mechanical properties of the unive
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by advael 5mo ago
In general, hypocrisy is a pretty weak argument. It's an annoying personality trait, but consistency is a thing humans often fail at, and humans failing at holding consistent opinions is a failure of those humans, not the claims they&#
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by advael 5mo ago
A lot of comments can't help but mention the constant looming threat of potentially permanent destitution that pervades our society. It's increasingly hard to understand the position of people who think that this is a feature, exc
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by advael 5mo ago
Right, but it's hard not to claim those people would likely get more out of an OS they could customize more, and also that it's considerably more exploitative of those people across the divide of corporate product versus community
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by advael 5mo ago
It fascinates me to speculate about who this is for. At least among people I've talked to, the ones who still want windows (instead of the obvious alternatives) cite wanting things to "just work", often claiming that they &qu
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by advael 5mo ago
Hard to overstate the sunk-costness of it all
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by advael 5mo ago
Multiple independent and credible sources including documents from within the DHS show a deliberate strategy of terrorizing and harming civilians who have done nothing illegal, and numerous serious and sometimes lethal cases of violence aga
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by advael 5mo ago
Really the hill to die on is that the first amendment should preclude any content-based restrictions for anyone. If you believe children shouldn't be exposed to certain materials that's between you and your kids, and should not in
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by advael 5mo ago
I tend to set people up with a chat interface, which is pretty good for asking for commands or scripts that the user will then copy into their terminal. Most people I've gotten to try linux do pretty well with just a wiki, but once the
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by advael 5mo ago
I will say, an underrated use case for even small, local LLMs is making command line tools drastically more accessible to laypeople I now know zero people I don't think should use linux, and people I know seems to run quite a gamut of
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by advael 6mo ago
I don't think we disagree on anything about that, but it does take some recognition of the problem that advertising isn't just lending political, but also technical cover to surveillance
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by advael 6mo ago
No, but surveillance is profitable outside of advertising, and advertising provides a perfect cover for surveillance: It's hard to make things that can separate third-party content from surveillance from third-party content for adverti
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by advael 6mo ago
Partially a contracting real economy following overhiring early in the decade, partially trying to discipline labor, partially a pretty profound disconnect from both market pressures and concrete metrics that comes from a business model mor
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by advael 6mo ago
It's insane to trust a company in the way you trust a person. Companies can change their terms of service, their policies, or even their entire ownership or leadership at any time. We have seen over and over again that companies are se
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by advael 6mo ago
The opposite is true. Open source barely matters to attackers, especially ones that can be automated. It mostly enables more people (or agents, or people with agents) to notice and fix your vulnerabilities. Secrecy and other asymmetries in

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