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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Why? In the end it's a patch's quality that counts. LLM patches tend to be significantly harder to review. Mostly because LLMs let people who don't know what they are doing get much further. It might be an unfair heurest
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> but often I also don't want to be an asshole to my community & reject all their changes. I know its difficult, and i have no easy answers. I'm bad at it too. But sometimes saying no is the most valuable thing you can do a
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by bawolff 4mo ago
If we are extending this metaphor, given the property passed through many hands, i feel like the equivalent would sort of be like giving a friend a gift, the friend eventually dies, their children sell it when dealing with the estate becaus
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> replied to objections with LLM-generated justifications that eventually overwhelmed the maintainer into merging the fix In open source projects i participate in, "overwhelming" the maintainer gets you banned. It doesn't
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by bawolff 4mo ago
When you put it that way, i disagree. A gift is a gift. Once you give it to someone its their's to do with as they please. A gift with strings is not a gift. This story is different though, the farmer sold the land for cheap in exchang
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Umm so if the deed had a legally binding condition on it, why is that condition being ignored? The article doesn't say what the rationale was. Was the condition not legally binding in texas? Is there some time limit on it? Something el
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I personally think sanctioning the ICC judges is a disgusting act. However ultimately all sanctions are decisions to refrain from trading with someone, so it is in a sense a trade policy. I think what you're getting at is that usa is i
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> move somewhere more willing to respect international law? Some of these sanctions are required by international law (i.e. sanctions imposed by UNSC). For the other ones, international law generally lets countries have whatever trade po
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> To your first point about lying, surely that’s not the bar you’d like to set? Its literally the dictionary definition. > Misleading investors is pretty much the greatest talent of all of history’s greatest capitalists - were they al
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> What’s the line that separates grift from speculative investment? Are they actively lying to people in concrete ways? Not just, we think this is going to be big, when that is questionable, but do they say AI can do X right now, when ob
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by bawolff 5mo ago
That is a very misleading summary of what happened.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Is it really a grift when everyone knows? Its not like they are keeping their financials secret. Heck, the main AI companies aren't even public yet, so its largely sophisticated investors getting "grifted". Normally a grift i
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> Take any stock index, remove AI stocks, what do you see? That's right! Nothing... I mean, do you know what the value of those stocks would be if AI didn't exist. Maybe they would be much more negative. Maybe we would be in a
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> his message, which is, broadly, that the tech industry is deeply morally corrupted If that's his message, why is he going on about ecconomic sustainability? Whether or not you have a coherent business model has nothing to do with
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Fwiw, i think wikimedia commons has some really good help pages on what is and is not public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Public_domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I know this is a joke, but just as a note, in some european countries, the person who digitized the artwork may have a copyright. It varries a bit by country.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Conspiracies are always possible, but also keep in mind that parking a ship in the middle of a war zone is always a bad idea. In modern conflicts, significant casualities come from friendly fire incidents. If armies cant even consistently n
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I mean, they did just start a war with iran as a joint venture with trump. I could understand why anyone who starts a joint venture with trump would be nervous about trump selling them out. It is trump after all. Probably is a logical thing
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I think part of it is we often notice bad AI usage. The llm generated "art" by someone with bad taste, or the patches to open source projects by people who cant program at all and are teerrible. If the use is half decent people ju
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> So you’re saying that being a Nobel laureate is a counter signal for scientific credibility? A very mild one, but yes. Particularly for things outside the field they got the nobel for. I think this applies to fame in general. > I me
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I'm disagreeing with the notion that someone "who won the Nobel Prize knows more than us". History suggests otherwise. Surely you must appreciate the irony when your primary argument is an appeal to authority, while on the ot
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by bawolff 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I'm not sure i agree witb the ratio. I think its much more lopsided. E.g. 100,000 artists in, one trillion dollar work of art out. (I'm counting indirect value. e.g. All the people who read Dune or a silent spring and become envir
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> But that's basic arithmetic, and we have calculators to do that. I would disagree. How to minimize a function, how to calculate interest, first derrivative are all pretty useful in finance, and a bit beyond basic arithmatic. >
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> Art, while cool to look at and experience, has a pretty low efficacy in terms of "motivating people to do work, or removing obstacles, to carry society forward" Idk, the soviets didn't invest in socialist realism propaga
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I think a lot of kids can be motivated for that by having a game out of counting in multiples (e.g . Have them count by 4s, 5s, etc). Which is good enough for practical purposes.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
So? People can decide if they want the job enough to participate in the degree or not.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
That was very unconvincing. Like if you want to go from history - yes the make a giant artillery piece thing didn't work. You know what did work? A surprising application of quantum physics known as nuclear bombs. I'm not neccesar
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Meh. Not everything is hard scifi. Just because the author posits a universe different than our own does not mean they screwed up. Its holds up the same way all fiction holds up. Its no different than how lord of the rings has elves and stu
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> Doesn’t mention anything about quantum there though Because the book was written 2 years before it was discovered quantum computers had applications to cryptanalysis of RSA.

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