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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Exactly the same on the other side though. If we believed that Dario Amodei or Sam Altman really knew how The Economy in its entirety worked, which is what they’re constantly pretending to do, then we should give them the central planning k
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I know they are because they called me for service at the 10k km mark, but at least they’re not charging me for the pleasure.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
The thing stopped being so needy when I neutered its internet access. Maybe it’s still exfiltrating data but at least it has stopped making me anxious that I may need to consult a civil rights lawyer every time I saw their EULA.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Business idea: a signal-jamming cover for your 65-inch TV. It looks like shit, is difficult to install, and costs an arm and a leg, but at least it prevents egregious privacy violations from your average chaebol or CCP-intervened corporatio
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I drive a Cupra (a Spanish brand, a spinoff of SEAT, owned by Volkswagen) and when I was driving my car out of the dealership I had to tell the salesman I was not interested in signing up for the free app they were trying to foist me. He wa
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I also had to take this approach with my LG TV. The OS actually had its use for a while but Apple TV has become my driver. I no longer wish to consent to LG’s EULAs which are starting to look like the legal corpus of a small nation. I’m als
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I guess more than a tautology it is an inversion of observed causes and effects?
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Untrained people are producing utter garbage. I am 100% in on AI coding and haven’t typed into the IDE in months but the craft remains pretty much as challenging as ever.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Everyone is starting to make AI a moral question one way or another. So your moral view is progress must march on unimpeded by private actors? I find that pretty original. I think progress will march largely unimpeded. I would be wary o
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
At least there’s a paragraph. I’m starting to see people use them to write two-line comments on LinkedIn. I am not exaggerating. I’m also dumbfounded by this rise of the AI foister. I can understand a scammer, but a normal person using it t
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
In Spain EULAs cannot infringe upon the law either.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Maybe both, and possibly other causes too, but allow us a moment to revel in the schadenfreude of AI code slop at hyperscale, will you?
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
In Spain books include a copyright notice explicitly prohibiting reproduction and digitalization and alluding to article 270 of the Spanish criminal code.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Holy emdash, you real?
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I haven’t typed a line of code in like six months but I still review all production code and stay very connected to the codebase. I don’t feel my skills have withered at all.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I am pretty sure non-technical people are not going to be able to compete in any meaningful way with technical people.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
If the habit's not there I would always recommend starting with readings that are immediately pleasurable, like you mention on the post. But for me increasingly challenging myself has been an important part of the process, and I never
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I literally couldn't focus for more than five minutes. I would try to start books and leave them unfinished. The help consisted in talking in some depth about why I was consuming more digital media than I really wanted. Then I layered
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Reading makes me feel addicted to life. I was a decent reader as a kid, then for the longest time I couldn’t read. I got psychological help to recover my attention, and gently started reading 10 mins of something easy after waking up. Now I
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
LLMS are terrible at writing in terms of style, and in terms of content or creativity they couldn’t come up with a short story any better than what you’d find at an amateur writer workshop. To declare we have reached AGI in textual media se
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I work in tech for Executive Search, which is often (way) lower volume than generalist recruitment, but scheduling is still an issue. Keeping an eye out on this - best of luck.
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
Bro, it reeks of AI.
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
I get instantly turned off by a mere whiff of AI when reading something, and consequently I refuse to foist such garbage on my fellow human beings. But by god if I read another two-line (!!!) comment with an emdash on LinkedIn, I'm goi
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
Please.
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
I am seeing similar dynamics at work, but also in my graduate studies. I am currently doing the OMSCS at Georgia Tech and taking Machine Learning (7641) which has always had a reputation for being difficult. I don't mind a challenge, b
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
A question I've been asking myself and which I honestly want to put out there - and I apologize in advance, because you will see me repeat it in other threads, out of genuine curiosity: Does your life have so much friction that you ne
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
I take him to be a good programmer on top of a pioneer venture capitalist and entrepreneur but Hackers and Painters contains some pretty bad predictions and takes on programming, and if he didn't have that good foresight then , it h
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
The article is hard to read, paywall notwithstanding, and tells us very little about Herzog's book other than that the critic didn't like it. I really appreciate Herzog as an artist. I think Grizzly Man is a unique piece of art,
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
"Calvinism makes pretty lofty claims for a religion who has yet to demonstrate soul salvation anywhere near Lutheranism if they're leaning into the reformation angle" - Someone in the 16th century, probably
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
I feel the same. I can't believe the amount of shit I am throwing at Codex for a measly 20€.

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