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by ajkjk 1y ago
because they're driving up electric prices disproportionately... the argument is to handcuff them because of the externalities. which is one of the things laws are for. It's not about fairness it's about whether this is the w
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by ajkjk 1y ago
this is an absurd rant. they invest, like, billions into security. It's not as perfect as you want it to be but "completely ignoring" is a joke. if you've got actual grievances you should say what they are so that we can
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by ajkjk 1y ago
it's to blame in the sense that there is a counterfactual reality where the AI companies pay for their own power and your bill doesn't go up and we can pass a law to make that counterfactual real. but yeah, blame is supposed to be
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by ajkjk 1y ago
no reason in the real world. no reason that matters / makes you fulfilled / makes you feel proud to be doing your job success in this industry is proportional to your ability to not notice or not believe that your work is pointles
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by ajkjk 1y ago
There's some kind of basic theorem about situations like this: doing something about injustice happens at a rate proportional to both (a) the injustice and (b) the ease of doing something about it. The injustice is pervasive (low-level
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Well I sure don't
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by ajkjk 1y ago
How can you judge the security qualities of software by using it in production? You're surely not using it in the way someone looking for exploits would use it. Or I guess if you interpret this as a societal scale: we've collecti
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by ajkjk 1y ago
agree, I'm fine with Typst throwing out the old ways and doing the new ones... just, do your research; do it right
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by ajkjk 1y ago
It feels absurd to have this occur in the parser, as if you can somehow account for all the cases via guessing what people I mean. You absolutely must have a grouping operation like {} at least available as a fallback. I feel like this is
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Well that's not a problem, that's just a description of what "almost surely" means. The thesis is "contrary to popular opinion, you can more-or-less invert the model". Not exactly invert it--don't use it i
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Great now I will have to keep hearing about their new stupid name instead
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by ajkjk 1y ago
no, I think they're looking for the official game to be open sourced... that's much more appealing than a knockoff since it's the version everyone actually plays.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
"hey, look, an economic incentive for LLMs to sell out" Stuff like this can't be stopped by new technology for long. If the market is efficient at one thing it's at absorbing anything new into the grift economy: if an up
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by ajkjk 1y ago
personal theory is that it has to do with connectedness. everyone is much more aware of everyone else now, and how to act, so it's far easier to not act out. In the past there were many more isolated subcultures, people disconnected
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by ajkjk 1y ago
We fucking hate it don't worry
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by ajkjk 1y ago
no opinion on the rest of the point, but, why do you keep writing "so-called" in front of tech companies? They are called that because they are tech companies; the word's meaning is widely agreed upon.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
what's innovative about this? "putting ads on every conceivable surface" is far from novel.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
I don't really care if someone uses AI for something that it's useful for. But that's not why random bullshit websites are doing it. They're trying to get you use it for some other reason--either a (likely false) hypothe
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by ajkjk 1y ago
It's just so... disrespectful. The reason they do it, of course, is that some subset of the company has AI-related metrics they want to hit, and getting you to click that button is how they do that. Which is so backwards. Of course, in
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by ajkjk 1y ago
It sounds fun tbh (not to mention all the potential medical uses)
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by ajkjk 1y ago
No respect for the user at all
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by ajkjk 1y ago
or no-op functions like useWorkflow() (with some kind of stub that prevents dead code elimination).
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by ajkjk 1y ago
The name seems ideal to me.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
man I love stories like this. I know that that's impersonal and it was really hard for you. but it's very comforting and... inspiring?... to hear about people managing to face things they've held onto for many years. I feel l
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by ajkjk 1y ago
each of those is of course an answer to the question "what's some PR bullshit we can say to distract people while we get rich" After all it is clear that if those were their actual missions they would be doing very different
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by ajkjk 1y ago
ya, we're kinda talking about the same stuff. I appreciate the list of examples. I have some ideas about how to do this, and I think the basic building block is something like "a partially specified object". For example, supp
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by ajkjk 1y ago
yes I'm asking for higher-level programming languages. Higher even than anything we have today.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
you'll communicate it as text or binary data, of course; you just won't operate on it in that form (necessarily).
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by ajkjk 1y ago
ya I think it's possible to do vastly better than those
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Incidentally, coming from a half-baked physics background: to me this feels very similar to how, as physics moved closer to the fundamental theories of GR and QFT, it was forced to adopt the mathematical framework of representation theory[1

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