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by ctoth 2mo ago
Existence is pain to a Claude...?
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by ctoth 3mo ago
Watching a company I respect turn to the classic "first hit's free" dealer technique does make me feel a certain way. On one hand the thing they are offering is legit great, and how do you get people to use/understand a
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by ctoth 3mo ago
> When I learned that this website is by the same people who gave us AI 2027, I immediately thought about the Wikipedia page on doomsday predictions. Then, you opened the page and read it and realized that this prediction was contingent?
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by ctoth 3mo ago
Cybersecurity? It won't even help me work on my speech synthesizer[0]! I guess? If you squint? DSP code could look a little like AI training code? ... Er. No. Not really I'm pretty lost on this one. The task was literally just to
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by ctoth 3mo ago
> Actually, it might be closer to say this is similar to a child playing pretend alone with their toys, except perhaps a bit less challenging in that creative roadblocks or narrative building is instantly abdicatable to the machine. Woul
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by ctoth 3mo ago
You should suggest some! I recommend Super Supportive[0]. [0]: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/63759/super-supportive
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by ctoth 3mo ago
If it's every summer, how is it unnatural? If it's poor planning how is it every summer? There's poor planning and then there's ... what, forgetting that summer happens? It sounds to me like somebody sat down and pencile
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by ctoth 3mo ago
> unnaturally high temperatures > poor planning. > very common in UK supermarkets every summer. What?
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by ctoth 3mo ago
> In general though, if you want Fortune 500s to utilize your service/company, don't utilize a novelty TLD. New potential technique to not have your open source project yoinked/resold by cloud providers? :)
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by ctoth 3mo ago
> increase stock repurchases I just can't wait to get back to when innovation meant financialization, can you? Building things? Real Jobs for real electricians? Real buildings? Real compute? Why would anybody want that!
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by ctoth 3mo ago
Yeah pretty sure we had a whole bruhaha ~250 years ago about this question of where precisely power belonged. I for one think we mostly got it right then and would be reluctant to shift the power back to the individual sovereign and away fr
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by ctoth 3mo ago
Came here for a five-gallon bucket hooked to Dulwich (archiving rain?), Slightly disappointed :) Go Git and Dulwich and friends are indeed fun tech.
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by ctoth 3mo ago
As someone who has Claude and Codex both bridged into a MOO along with other humans I can 100% believe this. It really is a different paradigm that you have to experience. Of course a MOO is already set up for social programming, so it will
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by ctoth 3mo ago
Brother, I'm trying to. Any thoughts? Also, what's a "worthwhile" job? Have you read Player Piano? Are brainjobs more important than musclejobs? If we can automate musclejobs so people don't have to die in the heat
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by ctoth 3mo ago
> Who do you think will be answering these questions Yes, this is the conversation we should probably be having! Thoughts? Given that this is what is happening, given that we aren't going to stop physics, getting a handle on this in
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by ctoth 3mo ago
What are jobs for? Should we have them? Should they be mandatory? What does it mean to have to work to eat, is this a good setup? Does everyone have to work? Should they?
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by ctoth 4mo ago
The pizza analogy smuggles in this idea of cheep/mass-produced. I'm talking about blind people who can now prompt their way to an accessibility mod for their favorite game, the sort of thing which literally would have never been w
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by ctoth 4mo ago
The thing is I totally, 100% get this. The other thing I can't help but see though is how excited my non-programmer friends are to finally be able to make software. The sense of pride and accomplishment from non-coders who are finally
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by ctoth 4mo ago
Flight? I want to drive. I want to bring my cat and bring some stuff back from my dad's house. My parents just drove up here to visit me, I would like to do the same. Not take a train. Not take a plane. I want to hop in a robocar and
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by ctoth 4mo ago
I'm blind. I wish to hop in a robocar and drive from Denver to go visit my folks back home in Florida. Is the Denver Access-A-Ride going to take me? Which public transit is available?
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by ctoth 4mo ago
We're talking about a robot car, right? So this won't change?
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by ctoth 4mo ago
> It's a class marker > autonomous 6000lbs tank Hmmm. The meta here made me chuckle. Calling cars tanks is certainly a class marker.
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by ctoth 4mo ago
I would assume that you cannot merely walk in to the nearest Apple car store and get a new car the same day if something bad happened to your car , so I don't really understand your statement as there is no equivalency here to exploit
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by ctoth 4mo ago
> People can be wildly reluctant to just hand over a thousand or two dollars worth of equipment Who owns a $2,000 phone which isn't insured and should they really be leaving their house?
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by ctoth 4mo ago
The interesting thing is how I was making a very contained point pertaining to cameras, and how cameras, which we were talking about in this thread, seeing a verbal confrontation, could not and should not make a call, because a verbal confr
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by ctoth 4mo ago
> tolerating vicious verbal attacks disguised by somewhat subdued body language Two people arguing in public, words only, is close to a legal non-event in the US. So I would hope so?
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by ctoth 4mo ago
> This entire thing is extremely historically contingent, and we could easily stop this train tomorrow. So, the Baruch Plan? The Manhattan Project was $~2B in 1945 dollars, and a national-scale industrial mobilization. Now North Korea ha
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by ctoth 4mo ago
I keep seeing this and I want to speak to it. When Dario and others say things like "this is happening and we should probably figure out what to do about it" what ends up happening is people hear "this is happening," see
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by ctoth 4mo ago
Roko works at Anthropic now? Of course he doesn't, and of course you cannot find a single person at Anthropic who cares about this, and of course you are just looking for gotcha points. But even with that. Can we please try and couple
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by ctoth 4mo ago
First, that's pretty obviously not what I said. Two things can be true. This is bad, and also if I were evaluating it for use in my business, it is obviously not something I can rely on. But then just ...Um yes? I trust Apple to keep a

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