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by caconym_ 8mo ago
At this point, do you really think any of these "labs" would give up competitive parity or advantage just because they're already making life worse for a lot of people and (by their own admission) stand to make it much, much,
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
If you classify Pete Hegseth as a person, then yes, apparently. Or perhaps he's only into the domestic surveillance angle---IIRC those are the two things Anthropic doesn't want anything to do with.
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
> if I read a thought-provoking, original, enriching comment on HN, do I really care if it was actually written by a dog? I would rather just read the thought as it was originally expressed by a human somewhere in the AI's training
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
Wow, thank you for this incredibly valuable perspective. I guess I should just be happy I can still own my computers!
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
Does this mean I will be able to buy RAM for the NAS build I left too late (stupid me assuming I could rely on some basic modicum of price stability)? I assume not. I have the disks but only random old gaming PCs to put them in. I think I&#
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
The fact that the federal government is unwilling to restrict guns and other real causes of ongoing public health crises (such as massive passenger cars and trucks) even as the deaths pile up does not mean that any level of government shoul
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
So what? I haven't named any names. You can imagine whoever you like having control of it. If you think that control will be wrestled from the execs in some kind of internal power struggle, that just puts new people in the position to
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
I'm going to assume this is meant as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043601 but my answer is the same: why (in this hypothetical scenario) are you assuming the AI owners aren't members of all thr
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
> sociopathic trillionaire brains > men with guns and a very thin technocratic class Bold of you to assume these are disjoint. In the US we're spiraling toward oligarchy with a billionaire president whose primary goal in office i
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
"Class privilege" doesn't go far enough. If the class war is a war then AI may be its Manhattan project: a weapon that destroys the value of, and the ruling elite's need for, labor. I continue to be shocked by the way pe
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
> So it's not actually an architectural issue I mean, maybe? It's not obvious to me that Zulip is just as easy to develop a third party client for as Matrix. > in practice What's true in practice is all that matters to
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
I've been using desktop Linux for 20 years in various capacities. I most recently picked Bazzite for my gaming/desktop VM because it's simple to set up and works better than other distros I've tried to game on in the rec
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
Thanks for the input. I'm working on setting up an instance, so we'll see how it goes!
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
> The federation of Matrix seems risky to me to the person self-hosting. I don’t want to host random people’s content. I’ve read some interesting articles about the design flaws of Matrix that led me to believe that it’s not a good optio
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954896
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
Nothing, but there already exist many other Matrix clients (shitty as they may be at present), as well as (IIUC) an Element PWA that uses web push (which is IIUC supported by Synapse) for notifications. Synapse also (IIUC) can be configured
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
> Can someone explain to me why we should do engineering work to build features where the stated objective is to help corporations use our product without paying for it? I'm not sure what you mean by this. I am looking for a replace
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
Thanks for the response. I'll discuss it w/ my users. > That said, I'd like to push back on the idea that charging businesses for a tool that's an important part of their daily work "breaks the seal". Organi
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
I'm sorry, would you rather I had framed this post as an aggressive critique of the Zulip developers without addressing my own context? I think anyone who has seriously tried to use Matrix as a chat app rather than a chat app but also
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
Yeah. This is exactly my worry: as soon as solutions to technical problems like this start going in the direction of "we'll offer a monolithic solution and charge users for access to it" instead of "we'll make it as
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
I understand that (IIUC in Matrix the client decides what push gateway to use, and the Element client just hardcodes matrix.org and lets anyone use it for free), but it doesn't really do much for my practical concerns. I'm looking
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by caconym_ 8mo ago
I'm asking because I hate Matrix and actually want you to convince me: why should I accept the risk of migrating my friend group from Discord to Zulip, which has already "broken the seal" of restricting features behind a mont
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by caconym_ 9mo ago
Yeah. I keep running into LLMs in customer service functions where I would previously have been talking to a human, and in literally every case they're beyond worthless and I end up talking to a human anyway.
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by caconym_ 9mo ago
Both my late model Japanese cars have two systems capable of steering the car toward the middle of the lane. One is an always-on (unless disabled) passive safety system that only kicks in when you actually appear to be drifting off the road
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by caconym_ 9mo ago
> the biggest problem with prediction markets is not the gambling or dumb people losing money. Its the fact that it gives very powerful people a vehicle to make lobsided bets on outcomes they control This is quickly becoming the point
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by caconym_ 9mo ago
How is having cameras on every street corner that identify you based on your face and height and weight and gait and the clothes you're wearing and anything you're carrying, or the car you're driving by its license plate and
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by caconym_ 9mo ago
a) The vast, overwhelming majority of regular gamers who could potentially be convinced to try gaming on Linux truly do not give a shit about whatever line you're trying to draw here. b) Driving widespread adoption of gaming on Linux i
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
> incorporation of AI art toolsets into commercial art workflows and a higher value placed on 100% human art I don't even really believe serious artists need to totally exclude themselves from using genAI as a tool, and I've he
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
> How much room for creativity is there with a camera? Angle, lighting, F-stop, film type, film processing? How many subjects exist in the world to be photographed? How many journeys might one take to find them? How many stories might ea
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
I think it's actually quite apt to look at all of "AI art" as a single piece, or suite, with a unified argument or theme. Maybe in that sense it is some kind of art, even if it wasn't intended that way by its creators. S

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