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by caconym_ 4mo ago
This comment doesn't seem obviously AI-written to me.
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
Seems like a fairly long winded and poorly written article to state the obvious: that you can in principle have one really rich guy enjoying a lifestyle similar to what he might enjoy today as a billionaire/trillionaire, except that in
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
This is a very imprecise way to think about it. What is the difference? It's easier to make money with the AI you get at each incremental step toward potentially destroying human civilization (though, of course, it's debatable whe
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
(I wrote a longer comment originally, but I think it would have fallen on deaf ears.) > The only variable of disagreement is around AI doom. The source of our disagreement seems to be your belief that somebody can either a) believe &quot
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> It's not just America. I'll mention again the nuclear analogy. It is, believe it or not, possible for great powers, and even adversary great powers, to agree to limit the development and proliferation of dangerous technologie
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> I don't know why you state this as if it's evidence against the concerns lol. Someone being concerned about the incentives of a situation doesn't de facto make them immune to those incentives, obviously. I think you&#x27
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
Even if you believe the concerns have merit, it's hard not to be cynical about people (e.g. Anthropic leadership) paying lip service to those concerns while so obviously leveraging their power and wealth (which depend, by the way, on
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
Yeah man, it's the cyclists who are the problem, right? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39986875/
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> If I want to hear someone's voice, I'll watch YouTube. I'm sure that in your head this is a witty rejoinder, but it really is quite a wild thing to say: that you place no value on the individual variations in how differe
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> ofc, I used LLMs to help reformulate some sections This is not really meant to single you out, since there's a lot of this going around, but I really don't think this should be a matter of "of course". Why should it
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
If they were really worried, they probably would have diverted, yes. But ditching in the north Atlantic is something no pilot is going to do unless they are 100% sure there is a bomb that's going to go off, because people are probably
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
Everybody's going to have their own experience, but I haven't found this to be true at all. I've played a lot of games on my Deck and only really had UI visibility issues with a handful of them. For the rest, it didn't e
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I run Syncthing in a hub-and-spoke topology where the hub is a headless VM with a volume hosted on my NAS. This is half for my sanity wrt remembering what's peered with what, and half because it works much more consistently across netw
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I actively don't want this feature and its appearance in Dropbox is one of the major factors that drove me to look for an alternative. Needing to constantly stay abreast of feature churn to make sure I understand how and where my files
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
It's working well for me (as in totally hands off for months or even years at a time) at (I think, roughly) a few hundred thousand files but probably significantly fewer directories. Overall I'm really impressed and happy with it.
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I think they're squeezed between bigcorps offering consumers products in ecosystems they're already bought into, and independent-minded techies more willing to roll their own solutions. I paid for Dropbox for a long time specifica
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
Yeah I think that's substantially more than I paid for my JP market version. I will say it is a really nice device, probably the all-around best of the dedicated writing devices I've owned and/or researched over the years. Bu
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
In my original comment in this thread, I said this: > American conservatives may not hate immigrants, but they sure love a guy who fervently expresses his hatred and disdain for immigrants every chance he gets. They've voted him int
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
Whatever man. Do you remember his comments last year about Ilhan Omar ("garbage") and Somalis? > I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, OK. Somebody will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t ca
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> bound to the vendor data service for any connected functionality. This is why I don't own a Freewrite. It should be such a simple device, but they found a way to make it complicated and lock it into their proprietary ecosystem. No
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
The Pomera line of devices from the Japanese company "King Jim" (yeah, I don't know) are really nice from a features point of view: limited enough to stay out of your way when you're writing, functional enough to enable
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> No conservative I know "hates immigrants." Consider what the policy intends to do rather than blanket-blaming it on hate. If you look at the rhetoric from the Trump people over the years, they absolutely and clearly do hate i
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I think copyrights held by individuals on intellectual property they created themselves should expire when they die, maybe with some minimum period of a decade or two to cover cases where royalties etc. could support next of kin. For copyri
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> What data makes you think it's low? Observations of fellow readers, conversations with self- and traditionally-published authors, and some knowledge of the market? But what is low , anyway? For the sake of argument I could believ
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> Disney did not create Snow White, Bambi, Robin Hood, or Peter Pan. I believe I stated above that I support reducing copyright periods (to the lifetime of the original author would be appropriate IMO, if the copyright is held by an indi
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
What percentage of books read by Americans in 2025 (or choose another relatively recent year) were pirated?
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> Yes I do, in part because the difference between fan fiction and fiction, is that one has the blessing of the copyright holder while the other doesn't. This is a really odd thing to say. You can just go write your own fiction, rig
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
No, I don't really think it is.
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
Cool. Let me know when the government is willing to pay me to write full time---I would love to quit my job and do that instead. I think it's a great idea!
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
Piracy is illegal and most people don't do it. In a world without copyright, I can stand up a slick 100% legal website (and apps, etc) and distribute electronic copies of every single book (or whatever) straight to normies' phones

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