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by ai_critic 5d ago
Perhaps a bit ahistorical, but I'm put in mind of the quote "Not even Masada began as a suicide attempt." Interesting times indeed.
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by ai_critic 5d ago
The current success of red team and Trump in the US is an excellent example of this from the last decade--one can make the argument that blue team failed to recognize the actual pecking order, and pushed too far and too hard, and now have g
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by ai_critic 12d ago
Open source, where anyone can compile it and use it as they want must be destroyed. It's not open when the "openness" is used against you. We must be in charge, we must be those who decide who can use the fruit of our wo
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by ai_critic 12d ago
Let us assume this goes through. China and other countries are unlikely to enforce it or extradite. However well-intentioned, unilateral disarmament is always a sucker's bet.
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by ai_critic 17d ago
...making a kitten tangled up on a networking cabinet was fun. Some of us find opportunities for the small joys that help offset the background radiation of despair.
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The Machine (1968) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ai_critic 19d ago|0 comments
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Computer Science Achievement and Writing Skills Predict Vibe Coding Proficiency(arxiv.org)
6 points by ai_critic 20d ago|0 comments
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by ai_critic 21d ago
It doesn't work like that, especially in the US. Look into A2P and 10DLC and The Campaign Registry. tl,dr; SMS is undergoing the same regulatory/spam problems email faced two decades ago.
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by ai_critic 21d ago
"If you owe the bank a million, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a billion..." etc. And the US owes trillions.
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by ai_critic 22d ago
Can we not encourage the same strip-mining and ad and SEO bullshit that previously ruined the last decade+ of the Internet? A large portion of the utility of AI is the barren ad-driven growth-hacked hellscape search has become. Don't e
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by ai_critic 22d ago
Hi. I appreciate that you need to make rent, but if your business is basically "we do growth hacking and SEO tricks on models and get them to use products that aren't actually best for the job", you are scum. You are perpetua
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by ai_critic 24d ago
Luu kinda has a reputation for knowing his shit, for over a decade now. He's not a checks notes games journalist larping as economist, but he does all right.
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by ai_critic 24d ago
Sometimes it really is sufficient to say "This person is a grifter and from that all else follows".
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by ai_critic 25d ago
For anybody who hasn't had the pleasure of this delightful bit of English: London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the w
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by ai_critic 1mo ago
> To me it just feels like you want to be a manager not an engineer A manager has access to a larger, sloppier, and more powerful API than an engineer.
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Americans see EU Tech [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ai_critic 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ai_critic 1mo ago
Git was already decentralized. That's the whole point of different upstreams.
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by ai_critic 1mo ago
> Because we actually can afford it. Can you, though? And for how long? With the current policymaking and demographic and economic trends? There is an argument to be made that the European social experiment has largely been indirectly fu
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
Prior art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5X3cu1B87k
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
I've long wondered if the RLHF to make these AIs more human-like in their speech is the equivalent of a memetic allergen for folks on the spectrum.
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
The incredibly obvious play here is teleoperation and low-latency robotics, and then selling that capacity to whoever handles the bot hardware. It remains to be seen if public investors are as ambitious as the engineers.
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
If only they could ask for history lessons from an LLM! (To your point...having knocked out CORBA and DCOM, perhaps we may next look forward to SOAP.)
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Nixpkgs has a due-process problem(domenkozar.com)
2 points by ai_critic 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
It is amazing that folks getting paid several hundred thousand dollars a year...reinvented RPC-over-HTTP/JSON. You too, fellow web developers, are smart enough to work at Anthropic. I would love to see a proper engineering post-mortem
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Claude-for-Hardware(github.com)
2 points by ai_critic 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
That's a cable subscription, or a carton of cigarettes, or a couple of bar tabs, or a tank of gas.
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The Kremlin's Cap Table: How Russia Builds War Tech Without Venture Capital(medium.com)
1 points by ai_critic 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
Fun bit of statistics there, and some neat charts. The punchline--if I read it correctly--isn't that marriage magically makes men better earners, but rather that it seems to be a good milestone of overall maturity and that that correla
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
Whatever you might think of the fellow's politics, his issue here is an important one if you care about these tools being used as tools instead of restraints. It is intellectually dishonest to cheer on a model that has been aligned awa
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by ai_critic 2mo ago
> I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on that. In a saner timeline I'm right there with you. Certain types of policy and cognitive errors, though, remove the floor on communication decency--some popular conceptions are

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