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by bgwalter 1y ago
The Nobel prize is said to have been created partly out of guilt over having invented dynamite, which was obviously used in a destructive manner. Now we have Geoffrey Hinton getting the prize for contributing to one of the most destructive
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by bgwalter 1y ago
After the use-after-free hype article I tried CoPilot and it outright refused to find vulnerabilities. Whenever I try some claim, it does not work. Yes, I know, o3 != CoPilot but I don't have $120 and 100 prompts to spend on making a p
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This was the Centaur hypothesis in the early days of chess programs and it hasn't been true for a long time. Chess programs of course have a well defined algorithm. "AI" would be incapable of even writing /bin/true
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I do have a reply, but I'll save it for an article that stays on the front page so people will see it. This interesting article has dropped to page 3 within minutes.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
He says that when he was invited to Google to discuss the matter, they said: And Google gave us a clear and unequivocal apology. Google said our sites didn’t deserve our shadowbans, and that it wasn’t our fault. Whether Google itself used
816.
by bgwalter 1y ago
Stealing other people's output and then cutting them off from discovery isn't a right either. Since politicians do not protect us from these criminals, we are fortunate that no one except for CEOs under the influence of cocaine wa
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Given the use in conflict zones and the prevalence of military bloggers from all sides, Telegram is already one of the most surveilled apps out there. Grok relaying your queries to certain agencies won't add much, but it will be intere
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by bgwalter 1y ago
No, I've never heard of someone getting into a unsafe situation because of using paper maps. When there were only paper maps, people managed. Then there is this Google Maps accident: https://www.independent.co.uk/tv&#x2
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Mostly if they are manufactured in Asia and if there is real competition (which is the case in Asia). Much hailed privatization and automation of the postal services in. e.g., Germany has not led to lower prices. 30 years ago mailmen were
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Stereotypical anti-luddite quotes are not thinking. Automation in construction has not led to lower prices, on the contrary, prices are exploding. Automation in car manufacturing has not led to lower prices, cars are still expensive. Automa
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by bgwalter 1y ago
These trucks will also not form unions or start trucker protests like in Canada. They'll centralize and monopolize yet another middleman's dream and create the physical Internet, with vast opportunities for rent seeking and wealth
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Software worked quite well before the plagiarizing chat bots. This is just a new fad like agile, where the process and tool obsessed developers blog and preach endlessly without delivering any results. For them "it works". The res
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Are you paid by OpenAI?
824.
by bgwalter 1y ago
Oh yeah? Where is all this new great software written by the prompt geniuses? There is none. All they do is steal from real software developers and blog about the half finished garbage they produce and that no one uses.
825.
by bgwalter 1y ago
The press is the same on any issue. First, they deny any adverse predictions, then they backpedal, after three years they write the opposite and claim that they have always said so. There are also special issues like Russia sanctions on whi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"will keep pushing" is future tense. The entire sentence is correct and has a well defined meaning.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is astonishing that a CMU professor can sink so low. Then again, he also invented reCaptcha. Of course, DuoLingo is superfluous. Watching movies in the target language with subtitles in you own language is more fun and has quicker result
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Except if you lose your 2FA one day before you need your plans. Or are all plans public? Any local notebook, including pencil and paper, is better.
829.
by bgwalter 1y ago
What does your link prove? That article is rambling nonsense that is pushing AI. It confirms the NYT quote.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Then one wonders what the agenda of the NYT is here. Does this also misrepresent Willison's writing? And just as the proliferation of factories abroad has made it cheap and easy for entrepreneurs to manufacture physical products, the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Amazing. What has Harper Reed written? Does he have any significant output? This is frankly the most idiotic statement I have heard about programming yet.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They are reliable allies in the sense that their significant US assets can be frozen, the US can favor a crown prince and that the Wahhabi people in Syria that are being used against Iran are currently the best friends of the West. Also, po
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by bgwalter 1y ago
There were many more throwaway accounts before (I think) the new moderation efforts. Many people cannot speak freely on this topic.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Contraction of "information" and "electronics" according to this site: https://grodiko.fr/informatique?lang=en German site claims that "Informatik", which is practically the same, is a contract
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This strawman worked in 2020, not in 2025.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Nonsense. Literally the first random example I chose: https://geizhals.eu/supermicro-h13ssl-n-bulk-mbd-h13ssl-n-b-... Cheapest price: EUR 675 Amazon price: EUR 875 The vendors with the cheapest price have good cu
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by bgwalter 1y ago
There isn't much open resistance because most of open source developers are bought and paid for. So they continue the path of destruction in the hopes that they will not be obsolete. This is naive of course. Once you have identifie
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by bgwalter 1y ago
For the EU, use this search engine: https://geizhals.eu/ Amazon is not nearly the cheapest or most reliable one for hardware.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The solution is a no-commercial use enhanced GPL license. Corporations are actively using our open source against us, so we have to fight back. All these narratives about user freedom, for any purpose etc. are just propaganda these days.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Amazon is going down. 20 years ago they had excellent customer service, now they are violating EU laws and cheat the gmp developers out of a CPU replacement: https://gmplib.org/ Granlund's gcc optimizations probably sa

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