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by camgunz 9mo ago
July 2025: https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-sc...
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by camgunz 9mo ago
Get enough people in the room and they can describe "the system". Everything OP lists (QAM, QPSK, WPA whatever) can be read about and learned. Literally no one understands generative models, and there isn't a way for us to le
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by camgunz 9mo ago
You have no control whatsoever. It's a non-deterministic program running under the control of one company on the hardware of another. The only thing you can control is whether or not you stuff all your data and agency into its widening
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by camgunz 9mo ago
The only way AI companies can recover their capex is to replace workers. That's why their interfaces are only facially built for the workers they're replacing (engineers, finance, etc) and why this is a non-starter: it totally und
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by camgunz 9mo ago
A system's purpose is what it does. The way to stop the attention stealing machine (Facebook, TikTok, etc) from stealing your attention is to turn it off. The way to stop the data stealing machine (OpenClaw) from stealing your data is
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by camgunz 9mo ago
Well but I think those instances are like, "wow this dude actually went to jail? how badly did he fuck up?" or whatever. Like, a counter example is like, one person went to jail for the financial collapse of 2008--to the surprise
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by camgunz 9mo ago
> Because most people when they hear about laws have certain assumptions about what those are and how they work. I disagree; I would guess most people assume rich/powerful/etc people aren't subject to laws, no matter the j
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by camgunz 9mo ago
I think this article is generally insightful, but I don't think the author really knows if they one shotted the excel to python transformation or not. Maybe they elided an extensive testing phase, but otherwise big bugs could be lurkin
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by camgunz 9mo ago
A thing I ran into is there are no virtual hosts in SSH, i.e. you can't have an SSH server at happy.example.org and ecstatic.example.org if they're both the same IP address. There was a patch for this but support waned. It's
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by camgunz 9mo ago
But having a car is kind of bad. Maybe you remember when everyone smoked, and there was stuff for smokers everywhere. Sure that made it easier for smokers, but ultimately that wasn't good for them (nor anyone around them).
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by camgunz 9mo ago
Social media's rotted their attention span
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by camgunz 9mo ago
I am actually, we haven't owned car for years. We also rarely watch TV and eschew social media, so I can still pay attention and analyze things. But this makes me super weird! This is the whole point of social media bans for kids: if y
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by camgunz 9mo ago
International law is different, but everyone knows the scenario where like, the ICJ tries and imprisons Putin is remote. Almost as remote as Trump being tried for treason tho....
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by camgunz 9mo ago
This list of things not to use AI for is so quaint. There's a story on the front page right now from The Atlantic: "Film students who can no longer sit through films". But why? Aren't they using social media, YouTube, Ne
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by camgunz 9mo ago
Laws aren't fictitious just because people/countries break them. No one writes a law thinking "that settles that, no more embezzling." Laws simply tell you how that system works: you embezzle, FBI arrests you, you get tr
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by camgunz 9mo ago
> I think this will be a problem in the middle term, and I've written about such deskilling before I'm thinking more broadly. Here's an example: barring malnutrition, western people aren't as strong as they used to be
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by camgunz 9mo ago
I love Nystrom's writing, and he's so good at it because he's written so much. A huge part of the value of things is how we grow in the making of them, and I worry that in a world where we accept generative slop, we'll n
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by camgunz 9mo ago
These problems are all theoretical. If you actually tried to implement them at the scale you'd typically need to sway a federal election you'd find it pretty unworkable. And in close elections, the recount process is pretty intens
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by camgunz 9mo ago
Even alphafold generated a bunch of slop,like impossible proteins and such.
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by camgunz 9mo ago
I'm saying it would be a lot simpler to just provide an API to download the data. I don't think it's worth the complexity and network of PDS' to preserve this data in perpetuity, but even if I did, nothing would stop me
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by camgunz 9mo ago
I'm skeptical of these kind of like, self-describing data models. Like, I generally like at proto--because I like IPFS--but I think the whole "just add a lexicon for your service and bickety bam, clients appear" is a leap too
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by camgunz 9mo ago
You politely left out "overtly anti-Semitic"
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by camgunz 9mo ago
I'm rubber you're glue
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by camgunz 9mo ago
There's a clear connection between tech (social media, loneliness epidemic, etc) and political decline.
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by camgunz 9mo ago
I downvoted all your recs for polars, 1 because this is a DuckDB thread and it's low-key rude, and 2 because there are 4 of them. I wouldn't have minded if there were a single post that were like "DuckDB is cool, polars could
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by camgunz 9mo ago
geohot's not a regular joe, he's founded multiple companies and is a leader in our community. This is like a general being like "why are you letting the enemy win?" while he sits comfortably in his study managing his cig
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by camgunz 9mo ago
Tech needs to learn about collective action problems. Are any of geohot's shops unionized? Has he done any political work or advocacy? What I want to read is "geohot donates $5m to CWA", not some insipid, entirely useless blo
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by camgunz 9mo ago
You don't think the political situation is a teensy bit worse now?
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by camgunz 9mo ago
This isn't true.
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by camgunz 9mo ago
There's already boundaries on what the press can and cannot print (libel, etc). Gotta get out of Constitutional Law 101

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