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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
The nuclear physicists were not banking on getting a trillion dollars invested in them by speaking out, for one. "Nuclear weapons are probably going to kill us all. For that reason, we need you to give us as much money as possible so w
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
You are the only one who brought up that distraction from the fact that he routinely violates the first definition you mentioned.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> The philosophical burden of proof lies on the person making empirically unfalsifiable claims. You appear not to understand what a prediction is. "I believe X will likely happen because Y" is different from an assertion of fac
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
This is a grevious misuse of Russell's Teapot. You realise your assertion, if followed to its logical conclusion, is that because civilization has existed for this long, it can never collapse no matter what. > In that quote, the aut
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> Here, I describe the one I took and why, measured against three properties I use as a yardstick throughout Nope nope nope. LLMs helped you do something cool, great. You can still speak for yourself. Stop outsourcing your humanity to a
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Yes, I read that part, thanks. The article then goes on to characterize the first group as desperate, in denial, and reliant on the argument that "AI can't love or laugh", essentially asserting, baselessly, that it is a fact
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> the people who are grasping for some indication that AI can’t do everything have become increasingly desperate. If you push hard enough, the answer is inevitably something like “the AI simply cannot [dream, love, laugh],” Dogshit straw
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Anthropic happily paid billions to settle a lawsuit for pirating books. It's a trivial cost of doing business. If you're lucky you'll get a pittance after the fact by suing them, but a contract doesn't prevent them from
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> and if you search online you can see many top executives and Automatticians supporting him as well,” a company spokesperson shared Did anyone else think "what the fuck did I just read" after this sentence? Did Matt write it h
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
"I'm not defending claudeslop, but <defends slop>". People obviously know this. The problem is that using a dramatic rhetorical flourish every third sentence for completely un-dramatic things is fucking tiring . And
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
"Had to go". Past tense. It's not ambiguous. The only correct interpretation of that sentence is they did get rid of it.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> The black card being brandished will be the final part of a three-step process. In the first instance, the referee will temporarily suspend the match and ask coaches to speak directly to its team’s supporters and parents, while an anno
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Sell me on this. Why would you want to change it? What good can actually come of allowing foo and Foo to coexist in the same directory?
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
ZDR is based on the exact same pinky-promise as training opt-outs. There is no technical barrier to OpenAI, or whoever is running your compute, retaining your prompt after they run inference on their servers. If you don't control the h
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Update: this tool allowed me to almost immediately diagnose a compile time mystery I encountered yesterday that I hadn't yet been able to identify with my own tools. Great work!
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> Open Source never meant having to give your software away for free, it was always free as in speech. Sure, sure. And how exactly is software not also free-as-in-beer when any consumer can just download it themselves? > if there hadn
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Because that void is filled by open-source software that, even if it is not itself enshittified, is controlled and funded by big tech. Take languages and compilers, for instance. It is almost[1] impossible to make a living developing langua
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Open source caused this, as much as anything else did. When you demand that software is free, you kill the market for paid software, leaving only enshittified software to fill the void. This has the dual effect of being worse for both dev
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Excellent write-up, love to see profiling work on compile times. I have some rudimentary tooling I threw together myself but nothing that looks as comprehensive and insightfully presented as this, I'll be giving it a try!
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
The problem with technology is that the people who have it conquer and kill all the people who don't, essentially ensuring a destructive race to the bottom. You would need a mutual international alliance of nations who not only renounc
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
First you run a program (training framework) to generate a database of values. Then you run a program (inference engine) which performs calculations against the database of values. To put it in ELI5 terms: run a program against a book, coun
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
It's impressive technology but not revolutionary. Revolutionary technology would have resulted in, you know, a revolution in software quality. Instead quality keeps going down.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> in fact more specific than usual. At which point you might as well write the code yourself and get a deterministic result faster, better and cheaper.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> you would keep on making and listening to music you like, and you wouldn't care It becomes harder to find and therefore listen to music you like when every avenue of discovering music is drowned out with 1000 AI-generated songs fo
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
It's being handed an infinite slop machine, drowning out genuinely good content and making it harder than ever to discover. As it becomes harder to discover, fewer talented creatives are able to make a living. We are destroying our own
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> This is an excellent reason to choose Rust. The whole point of Rust's technology is to enable you to encapsulate the tricky difficult part of the problem so that people don't blow their foot off working on the mundane parts o
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
Severe financial liability for security breaches, severe enough that, for instance, companies which leak 1m+ user data are driven to bankruptcy [yes, this would also get rid of the previous generation of 1000-JS-lego vibers]
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
You have completely misunderstood what I was saying so badly I can't even formulate a response other than to suggest you read my reply again. I was not suggesting that LLMs are programmed with print statements, for fuck's sake.
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> And yet you still fail to demonstrate good understanding of the topic Or you simply misinterpreted my words, seemingly intentionally so because pedantry is a comfortable fall-back for not having a logical argument. > Saying (derisiv
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by applfanboysbgon 1mo ago
> Much more knowledgeable than you or I are Speak for yourself. I work for an LLM startup that was successfully bootstrapped and is now highly profitable with 8-digit revenue and zero outside investment. Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, we d

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