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by caconym_ 10mo ago
It is more useful to think about it in terms of what that effort actually entails. If you haven't ever written a novel, or even a short story, you cannot possibly imagine how much of your own weird self ends up in it, and that is a hug
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
> they'll quickly be wondering if ChatGPT is worth this cost They should be, and the answer is obviously no—at least to them. No political or business leader has outlined a concrete, plausible path to the sort of vague UBI utopia th
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
There's also potentially a substantial opportunity cost re: parity with China in the near to mid term even if we don't actually end up cancelling the next gen destroyer in favor of this thing: https://youtu.be/qvUb
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
Private entities surveil you to make money off you or protect their property. Law enforcement surveils you to arrest you and charge you with crimes. These are not the same, and that's why some people care more about surveillance by law
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
Conjecture on the functional similarities between LLMs and humans isn't relevant here, nor are sophomoric musings on the nature of originality in creative endeavors. LLMs are software products whose creation involves the unauthorized r
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
> you shouldn't have given away your work for free. Almost none of the original work I've ever posted online has been "given away for free", because it was protected by copyright law that AI companies are brazenly ign
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
They are welcome to do so! I encourage anyone who finds this scraping problem interesting to approach it in whatever way they find the most rewarding!
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
True if you think the images have no value, nor the time I saved by "outsourcing" the work, but writing the kind of trivial web scraper I've written N times before somehow does. Personally I would disagree!
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
I don't know what he did, but I gave gemini-cli the url and asked for a script. The LLMs are pretty good at this sort of simple but tedious implementation.
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
Releasing anything as "GPT-6" which doesn't provide a generational leap in performance would be a PR nightmare for them, especially after the underwhelming release of GPT-5. I don't think it really matters what's un
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by caconym_ 10mo ago
People who believe in baseless conspiracy theories have to convince themselves that people who don't are operating in the same epistemic mode, picking and choosing what to believe in order to reinforce their prior beliefs, because the
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
> Be curious to hear what specifically your company is doing to give people agency. Wrt. AI specifically, I guess we are simply a) not using AI as an excuse to lay off scores of employees (at least, not yet) and b) not squeezing the empl
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
> Do you think those non-techies are sympathetic to the Microsofties and Amazonians? As somebody who has lived in Seattle for over 20 years and spent about 1/3 of it working in big tech (but not either of those companies), no, I don
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
It kinda seems like you're conflating Microsoft with Seattle in general. From the outside, what you say about Microsoft specifically seems to be 100% true: their leadership has gone fucking nuts and their irrational AI obsession is put
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
> I think this is a pretty black and white and simple view of things, fault is not always 100% clear, and CLAIMING fault is different from explaining what happened _from your perspective_, and letting the other driver do the same. But I&
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
If you believe you are at fault in a collision where police, insurance, etc. are involved, they are going to ask for your statement, and at that point you will be forced to choose between lying or admitting fault. If you're glad th
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
Why do you think potentially self-incriminating self-surveillance is "crazy" when you also think lying to the cops and other involved parties about what happened is bad? If you believe it's important to tell the truth in thes
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
The US has antivaxxers in charge of health policy now, and they have specifically targeted mRNA vaccines with funding cuts. They seem likely to hinder rather than help any near future vaccines development program in response to a pandemic.
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
I explicitly addressed this in my comment.
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
The issue is specific to Apple! IIUC they're the only mainstream cloud storage provider that provides E2EE, and I'm sure many of their customers chose them over their competitors for that reason.
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
The issue is with Apple specifically in the sense that they have been offering a superior E2EE cloud storage service that will soon be denied to UK residents (IIUC, E2EE isn't offered by their competition e.g. Google, Microsoft). But
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
E2EE cloud storage is not some kind of magic that only tech bigcorps can provide. I de-Dropboxed a few years ago, replacing it with Syncthing running on a local NAS with e2ee backups in Backblaze and Wireguard VPN out to my mobile devices.
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
> So, a UK-only advice So what? > it strangely assumes that any other service in UK wouldn’t be bound by the same laws. From the linked article: > I’m not going to tell you where to move your stuff other than to say that if you’re
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
No, it doesn't. If I get up in the morning and say "time to get out of the house" I am not blaming my house for anything; I am simply articulating that I want or need to be somewhere else, for whatever reason.
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
> its history of installing backdoors If TP-Link is known to have intentionally installed backdoors in its products, that is news to me. Can you provide a source for that claim? Vulnerabilities have been found, of course, but that is har
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
First DJI, now TP-Link. What is the endgame here? What will the American consumer technology market look like after all the best and cheapest products have been banned because they are Chinese, or have alleged links to the Chinese governmen
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
Another interesting comparison: the Emma Maersk can carry ~154,000 tons of cargo, vs. this vessel's ~5,800 tons (if i'm juggling my tons and long tonnes and tonnes correctly).
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
This is what I always say about Valve. They are not morally unimpeachable, but at the end of the day I've been a regular customer for over 20 years and they've never fucked me over. I don't think I can say the same about any
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
There are well established legal standards for what is copyrightable and I believe written literary criticism trivially qualifies (as it should). Stuff you yell at the supermarket doesn't, IIUC, as it isn't fixed in a tangible for
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by caconym_ 11mo ago
What does that comment have to do with confidentiality?

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