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by bgwalter 1y ago
Why do you ask me? One of the top comments assumes that it would be crazy to assume recklessness on the part of a16z. I point out that they are insulated from the consequences on multiple levels.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Andreessen Horowitz is not gambling with their own money: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/andreessen-horowitz... Moreover, if some banks will fail in the aftermath, they'll be bailed out at the expen
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The exact same sin? It seems that you don't go off message even once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568811
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by bgwalter 1y ago
No, but software engineers for example have more power, even in an employer's market, than Luddites. You can simply spend so much time on meticulously documenting that "AI" (unfortunately!) does not work that it will be quiet
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by bgwalter 1y ago
There are all sorts of numbers floating around: https://www.theverge.com/openai/640894/chatgpt-has-hit-20-mi... This one claims 20m paying subscribers, which is not a lot. Mr. Beast has 60m views on a single video
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Smartphones are different. People really wanted them since the relatively primitive Nokia Communicator. "AI" was introduced as an impressive parlor trick. People like to play around, so it quickly got popular. Then companies start
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Misanthropic wants to get the foot in the door, like the others. The majority of people hate chatbots and surveillance is the only viable path. It won't fix the lack of NATO 155mm shells though.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"You are using it wrong!" This is insulting to all pre-2023 open source developers, who produced the entire stack that the "AI" robber barons use in their companies. It is even more insulting because no actual software o
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This author is an apologist for the slander of Tim Peters: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1f00qdo/no_vote_of_... He cites Glyph Lefkowitz to support him, who now gives advice on lunch vs. dinne
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by bgwalter 1y ago
What is their product though? It will turn into surveillance or military applications, which would explain the interest of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Airlines would certainly try to surveil regularly, but if the video data is only sent to the sealed FDR, they'd need to tamper with the system. Additionally, footage could be encrypted with the NTSB having the keys. Or simply make it a
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Not precisely the electrical malfunction, but dual engine shutdown has occurred, fortunately after landing: https://www.aerosociety.com/news/ana-787-engine-shutdown/
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Does the Flight Data Recorder consider the physical position of the fuel switches or does it get the information from some fly-by-wire part that could be buggy? The conversation would suggest that the switches were in CUTOFF position, but t
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by bgwalter 1y ago
He built it without LLMs in 2014 and now he is selling LLMs for coding to the young. That is the entire point of this subthread.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The video's description is about building startups through vibe coding, not using "AI" like self-driving or chatbots in startups. Additionally, Baidu wasn't a startup when he joined in 2014.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I thought Grok was trained on Erdogan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/01/turkish-presid...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
We have heard variations of that narrative for at least a year now. It is not hard to use these chatbots and no one who was very productive in open source before "AI" has any higher output now. Most people who subscribe to that na
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If SoftBound+CETS has the best results, why does Fraunhofer not sponsor the creation of a Debian package? It is unmaintained: https://github.com/Fraunhofer-AISEC/softboundcets
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Copyleft of course is of limited use since the FSF slept through the desktop to Internet service transition and now sleeps through the "AI" transition. GPLv4 should be AGPL+no-AI if it is supposed to have any effect.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They were a German company before being bought by Novell in 2004. I think the popularity dropped after the takeover in Europe. Now that they are completely disentangled again, let's hope they restore the popularity. It is a good distri
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by bgwalter 1y ago
According to the promises of the Faster CPython Team, the JIT with a >50% speedup should have happened two years ago. Everyone knows Python is hard to optimize, that's why Mojo also gave up on generality. These claimed 20-30% speedu
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by bgwalter 1y ago
As the saying goes, mathematics is not a spectator sport. The same applies to programming. If you don't do the lower level work, you are a spectator that is rearranging other people's laundered code, or even their laundered archit
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The Iranian nuclear program disagrees. There could be treaties and the analogue of the IAEA for "AI".
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Here is how individuals are treated for massive copyright infringement: https://investors.autodesk.com/news-releases/news-release-de...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They have limited resources because the inner circle chased away most active people in order to secure their own corporate positions (which hilariously failed since companies caught on and fired some of them anyway). So the remaining people
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The article has 877 likes (on its own page, not here). I think most of those are not technical. Marsha Blackburn's amendment to remove the "AI legislation moratorium" from the "Big Beautiful Bill" passed the Senate
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This article is spot on. There is a small market for mediocre cheaters, for the rest of us "AI" is spam (glad that the article finally calls it out). It is like Clippy, which no one wanted. Hopefully, like Clippy, "AI" w
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> The "detrimental" claim is also void of any reason or substance. Thanks for the compliments! Detrimental for development speed, not for the users.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Also, xAI bought X: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/29/elon-musk... And now xAI gets refinancing: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/elon-musk-xai-raises-10-bi

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