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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Most people here would be interested in Rob Pike's opinion. What you quote is from someone commenting on Rob's post. The way that Rob's opinion here is deflected, first by focusing on the fact that he got a spam mail and then
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
"Simon Willison REACTS to Rob Pike's unfiltered opinion on AI". We must have the proper spin.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
This is really getting desperate. Markov chains were fun in those days. You might as well say that anyone who ever wrote an IRC bot is not allowed to criticize current day "AI".
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Of course, give people Soma so that they do not revolt and only write meek notes of protest. Otherwise they might take some action. The Greek philosophers were much more outspoken than we are now.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Guilt-tripping people into providing more fodder for the machine. That is really something else. I'm not surprised that you don't understand ethics.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
There is a difference between providing a useful service (web search for example) and running slop generators for modified TikTok clips, code theft and Internet propaganda. If he is currently at Google: congratulations on this principled st
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The annual report of this org is pretty underspecified. There are numerous directors. Are they getting paid under "ops & admin" (11%)? Is "advancement" (12.3%) marketing? Prossimo gets 6.8%. Does that money go to pro
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I'm sure that an insurance company would reject larger premiums and make itself obsolete, assuming that claims you make are true. Hint: Normies outside the tech world are not hell bent on making themselves unemployed. That phenomenon o
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
MSVC mostly generates slower code than gcc/clang, so maybe this trick reduces the gap.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I would make a movie about UBI recipients wearing shock collars that are supervised by Optimus robots and pluck almonds or apples. Perhaps we need a euphemism for UBI: Let's call it "level-1 rich".
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
There are also neighborhood self-help groups who try to "stack" the Waymos into alleys so that they can sleep: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/us/santa-monica-waymo-bat...
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
They want the Trump Jr. and Chamath connections to be forgotten by the time the media and YouTubers get active again after New Year. It's a standard media tactic.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Trump Jr. entered at $7 billion. In the meantime Nvidia got permission to sell GPUs to China. All-In pundit Palihapitiya is invested in Groq as well. It is going well for friends of David Sacks.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
China has been more cautious the whole year. Xi has warned of an "AI" bubble, and "AI" was locked down during exam periods. More censorship and alignment will have the positive side effect that Western elites get jealous
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
A human driver does not have to call a remote operator if the traffic lights are off. This situation does not require a sophistic argument that we are not autonomous because we rely on the sun. If a child walks alone to school without askin
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
That is a sad state of affairs, I hope it does not make it into the printed edition. The same applies to "autonomous drones", which are the most remote assisted machines imaginable. But of course the advertising departments want t
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Definition in the Oxford dictionary: "Of, pertaining to, or characterized by autonomy; self-governing, independent; free of external influence or control." Self-driving car advertisers like Musk or Waymo just want to co-opt this t
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
If you think you are right, shouldn't you tell them to wake up? They would be the ones promoting their irrelevance.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Before LLMs, “perfect software” was largely a myth. We know, your blog is the first static webpage in existence. Third, it brings back autonomy. This is the new talking point. Musk claims that cars that are always connected provide &quo
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
So far there are mainly horrible "AI-coded" websites that look like they were produced by the Bootstrap framework in 2014. They use 100% CPU in Firefox despite having no useful functionality. It is the Mc Donalds version of progra
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
If you need links for the "substance" part. Investments of Sacks: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/cannabis-logistics-startup... https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/13/tel
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
He already uses $82 billion in stock as collateral for his borrowing: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/larry-ellison-365-billion-fo... This is another $40 billion guarantee. Imagine he gets a margin call if OR
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Everything is about "AI", "crypto" and substance grifting. There is no place for real science or useful economic activities like building houses. Here is the latest fake poll that the Crypto/AI/Substance czar p
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
It is nice that he speaks about some of the downsides as well. In many respects 2025 was a lost year for programming. People speak about tools, setups and prompts instead of algorithms, applications and architecture. People who are not conv
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I can't help you if you repeatedly misinterpret me. Once you made the first response in this subthread, 4 or 5 of my comments went from 1 to 0 or -1. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc? Maybe. I'll design a system for the senate that enable
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Ah, so you just went through my history and downvoted everything in sight! Thanks for confirming.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The authors' (there are two) position is that yes, people are already stupid enough, but it will get much worse: "We may soon look back on this era of TikTok, Love Island and Zack Polanski as an age of dignity and restraint."
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
> Much more important also is that LLMs don't try to scam you, don't try to fool you, don't look out for their own interests. They follow their corporations instead. Just look at the status-quoism of the free "Google
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Karpathy uses the term for all of this in the exuberant paragraph 5. of his blog post.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
> Here we go again. Indeed, he said the same as a reflection on 2024 models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561151 It is always the fault of the "luser" who is not using and paying for the latest model.

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