bgwalter

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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Hey, I am bgwalter from the anti-AI industrial complex, which is a $10 trillion industry with a strong lobby in DC. I would advise you to use Natural Intelligence, which will be in higher demand after the bubble has burst completely (first
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
"The most popular modern secure messaging tool is Signal" As Mike Waltz had found out. And Snowden used gpg and I haven't heard of a single message of his having been decrypted.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Pure nepotism. Trump also recently softened on cannabis. Who is involved in cannabis (and Adderall) startups? David Sacks, "Crypto and AI czar" and YouTube pundit. We were promised a better economy, better job chances, and better
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I have tried the models and in domains I know well they are pathetic. They remove all nuance, make errors that non-experts do not notice and generally produce horrible code. It is even worse in non-programming domains, where they chop up 10
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Not that I expect any rational thought from Disney, but the race to the bottom has started. If anyone can make a video with Disney characters, their value goes to zero. Maybe there is something more behind this deal that is not reported? Fo
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
"If LLMs are watching, humans will be on their best behavior". Karpathy, paraphrasing Larry Ellison. The EU may give LLM surveillance an F at some point.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The "provide value" argument can be used for anything. Modern software politics and foundation sponsorship pressure are so complex that this argument may not even be true. It may be true in this case, but certainly you have seen c
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I'm sure that submitting a PR to a Rust project to rewrite parts in Ada/SPARK would be met with great enthusiasm.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The Unix/C people wrote their own kernel in the 1970s instead of invading an existing one.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Yes, the insiders wanted to let him in, but he refused: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufak... He’s in Washington for a meeting with Larry Summers, the former US treasury secret
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Is the Linux Foundation basically a dumping ground for projects that corporations no longer want to finance but still keep control over? Facebook still has de facto control over PyTorch.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Bitcoin has had the fortune of being one of the settlement methods for sanctions evasion. Its price has almost certainly profited from the Ukraine war. Renewed interest by the Trump clan with Lutnick's Cantor & Fitzgerald handling
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
That is X propaganda. The U.S. actively prohibits additional EU states getting nuclear weapons and does not really want a super strong EU. The U.S. profits from the military strength and "protection" with an overvalued dollar and
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
You are absolutely right and I apologize for the error! Would you like me to generate a chart that shows the amount of essential products that the EU produces vs.the U.S.?
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I keep hearing this, especially on X which now hates the EU because it has fined X. People need to understand that U.S. "tech" is barely considered tech in the EU as far as social media platforms and search engines go. You could c
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Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending(finance.yahoo.com)
363 points by bgwalter 10mo ago|423 comments
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Well, in this case corporations stop buying people and just fire them instead of letting them retire. Or an army of Tesla Optimi will send people to the glue factory. That at least is the fantasy of these people. Fortunately. LLMs don'
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
"I was one of the first researchers hired at Anthropic." The article is a Misanthropic advertisement. The "AI" mafia feels that no one wants their products and doubles down. They are so desperate that Pichai is now talki
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
This is how it is done openly with clearly Grok-edited or written comments: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1997307084853870793#m One can only imagine the amount of covert promotion.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I'm not saying they will cease to exist. I'm saying that the Internet bubble of 2000 had valid tech whose growth was (deliberately) overestimated. They can write it off and move on to other things. But that is not what the new wil
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
It is worse than in 2000 now. Amazon, Microsoft all had good products back then. Amazon was in fact better than it is now. "AI" hardly has any working products. Vibe coding is foisted upon companies by CEOs who want to promote the
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Also for those interested, here is Bryan's take on criticism of Sun: https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/kissedagirl.html He wasn't fired or canceled. It is great to see Gen-Xers and Boomers ha
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Joyent took funding from Peter Thiel. I have not seen attacks from Cantrill against Thiel for his political opinions, so he just punches down for street cred and goes against those he considers expendable. What about Oxide? Oxide is funded
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Cantrill jumps on every bandwagon. When he assisted in cancelling a Node developer (not a native English speaker) over pronouns he was following the Zeitgeist, now "Broadly speaking, LLM use is encouraged at Oxide." He is a long w
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The BBC says the hoaxer should consider the effect on other people. Should Sir Keir, who wants to "turbocharge" "AI", perhaps consider the effect on other people? So far we have almost no positive applications for the IP
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
They were in Afghanistan and the U.S. would have no problems with setting up other EU countries as proxies against Russia in order to get Russia out of countries like Syria and Venezuela (as has now happened, courtesy of the Ukrainians). Th
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Arpanet was supposed to be decentralized. Now everyone wants to centralize everything so in a war it is sufficient to strike 100 data centers and the whole tethered economy collapses. That is called progress. EDIT: You can downvote the trut
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
It is from Oct. 3rd, otherwise the author could have integrated OpenAI's "code red" and the absence of successful training runs since 2024 as well. The article accurately reflects opinions in YouTube comments and opinions of
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
It's an age old rhetorical construct, the Antithesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antithesis "AI" surely overuses it but this article didn't seem suspect to me. I agree that "AI" speak r
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
FSFE stooges downvote because they do not want to be reminded of their real mission. Interesting.

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