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bayarearefugee
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bayarearefugee
4mo ago
> "but dur CCP get all ur data" The funniest part of this is that people are often talking about how LLMs are now writing 100% of their code, then also saying that they don't want to expose their code to foreign government
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5mo ago
This is why you can't be replaced today. I'm not sure you can rely on that remaining true for very long. And this goes for the vast majority of us. To be clear, I'm also not saying LLMs will definitely displace a lot of us
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5mo ago
> There definitely shouldn't be deals to avoid taxes while lying about job creation. The people making those deals are physiologically incapable of not attempting to benefit from socialized externalities to make obscene levels of
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5mo ago
> Why doesn't the data center bear an extra cost for the added infrastructure? In some states (like Oregon and Virginia) they do, but in a lot of states the regulations for rate structures are flat among all users so when there'
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bayarearefugee
5mo ago
Just another day for Meta in terms of embarrassing outcomes, and yet the company makes hundreds of billions of dollars per year because the only thing that matters anymore is shoving increasingly scammy and worthless ads in front of as many
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5mo ago
But AI is better for them because people might file HR complaints against you... or anyway I guess this is something of a concern for Marc "sniffles" Andreessen... wonder why. https://youtu.be/PHQvb10vKyk?si=pJTUqD
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5mo ago
> What are you saying, you want to type? Nah, they want to think beyond the superficial prompting level. A lot of real programmers feel exactly the same. It is hard to notice this sometimes on HN because this site is rife with the ver
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5mo ago
If a real AI job apocalypse hits there will be no escaping it for anyone. Even people whose job can't be done by AI will be impacted because there will be far less demand for their services (everyone whose job IS directly AI replaceabl
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5mo ago
> My employer has an agreement that our code will never end up as part of Claude's training data. Bit of a tangent but it is funny to me that so many companies talk about how some large percentage (sometimes 100%) of their new code
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5mo ago
Similarly, I know several scientists who were born in Europe but were long-term residents of the US running university labs here who already moved back to Europe last year, when it became pretty obvious where this was all heading.
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bayarearefugee
5mo ago
They (Republicans in Congress) are all terrified of Trump, with some good reason (not that this excuses their dereliction of duty in any way). It doesn't matter how aligned you are with his worldview, how much you vote alongside his wi
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bayarearefugee
5mo ago
Not exactly the start of major corruption. The Trump 2.0 administration was already easily the most corrupt in American history well before these rules were proposed. To their credit(?) they don't even try to hide it, they are just ful
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5mo ago
> You can pay a spider some bugs, I don't think a human would be happy to receive just food as a payment method. Maybe not today, but give it a couple more years of increased data center build outs and AI job displacement and maybe
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5mo ago
I can see the charm in hiring a cleaning person you trust, but I personally wouldn't extend that to paying a faceless corporation to send a robot to do it. I'd much rather pay a nice human significantly more money than have it don
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5mo ago
Good luck with that. The industry already tried to make everything a live service game in the 2020-2022 period and it was financially disastrous because gamers rejected it. Gamers have made it clear that they don't want a market full o
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5mo ago
> we can do better than this In theory we can do better than this, in practice we can't. 40% of the people in the US would rather starve to death themselves than live in a world where people they hate for their skin color get anythi
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5mo ago
> great deal of open-source software and hobbyist knowledge sharing has never been driven by financial reward anyway and people will continue to do it anyway. A lot of open-source software was supported by developers having stable well-p
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5mo ago
> The psychopaths that are pushing it will be arguing over who gets to be president of the world in 2044. This arguing will not be done in any public forum, but over a grouptext. I don't think arguing will be the method that decides
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5mo ago
(Brought to you by) Lenz...? a crummy commercial...? ...son of a bitch
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5mo ago
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5mo ago
> Does their LLM "die" if it can't perform the function described? If you don't periodically clean the context, an LLM effectively goes insane in terms of outputs. If the LLM were fully controlling a physical system (
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5mo ago
> The end of driving as a profession is going to hit the economy hard. They should just learn to code! /s > I don't see either American labor or American government being anywhere near strong enough or capable enough to fac
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5mo ago
He's a billionaire. Based on available data deep contempt for working people should be assumed until proven otherwise, even for billionaires who are 'self-made' by way of a lot of right-time-right-place luck.
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5mo ago
The vast majority of tech workers in the US make nowhere near FAANG-money and have never had meaningful equity. Also the fact that people in group $X are getting screwed more than people in group $Y is no reason not to fight to not get scre
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5mo ago
Meanwhile tech workers in the US spend all day online defending billionaires who wouldn't piss on them to put out a fire and arguing about why we can't have unions because blah blah blah rugged individualism.
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5mo ago
> How does a company even consider this while the CFO is privately saying the books / revenue accounting are not ready for public scrutiny? Perhaps they will just tell a lot of lies. In the past people would generally avoid this whe
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5mo ago
Another thing related to the Trump administration/family that only really makes sense if they don't expect to lose power in the future. Almost like the creeping fascism is a real concern.
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5mo ago
If anyone does invent ASI then everyone else will shortly after even if its entirely independent because all of the players in this space are just making incremental upgrades by throwing more compute at the problem. There are no magic leaps
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5mo ago
You really think the President of the United States would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
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5mo ago
> No credit for the art direction and inspiration? Brogue? In the age of LLMs the "author" might not even know where the art direction and inspiration came from!
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