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by deaton 5mo ago
Thats the thing; the "increase in productivity" isn't being felt by the general public, the end user. If your "increase in productivity" just means more money being shifted around at the corporate level then it is m
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by deaton 5mo ago
Bigger than that, they have to contend with open weight local inference. Open weight models right now haven't caught up to the frontier models of right now, but they're as good as the frontier models of not too long ago. If open w
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by deaton 5mo ago
Not ideal but better a couple thousand bucks than cancer... but seriously, especially if they actually found something worrying like polyps, the insurance shouldn't even get a say.
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by deaton 5mo ago
Kinda annoying that the minimum age is 45 and its explicitly not for high risk individuals though. Like you would think having a non-invasive test would be incredibly important for that.
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by deaton 5mo ago
StackOverflow's extremely strict moderation was probably the #1 reason it turned into a high quality resource rather than a dumpster fire like reddit.
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by deaton 5mo ago
Definitely not better off. SO was fairly mean spirited, but nowhere else has such a vast trove of high quality answers to common software problems been collected. SO likely trained many of these models with its answers, and I don't kno
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by deaton 5mo ago
Oh so finally someone is calling a spade a spade.
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by deaton 5mo ago
I don't think the Church really needs to consider those questions at all, because Church tradition very much holds that: - No, machines cannot have a soul, as the soul is something we receive as beings made in the image of God. We cann
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by deaton 5mo ago
Generally speaking, a lot of western values are built on top of Christian ethics. Particularly, most of what we value regarding freedom and individual choice and whatnot comes from the englightenment, which is a direct result of the protest
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by deaton 5mo ago
Goodhart's law strikes again. Stop giving your engineers token-burning quotas or they'll burn tokens.
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by deaton 5mo ago
I think this is honestly the #1 best use case for AI in development. If you use it right it can be exactly the annoying junior who questions every decision you make that you need.
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by deaton 5mo ago
And people do do those things out of passion, and many of them are happy to share it so you can listen to it for free. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't own the right to control what happens to what they made.
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by deaton 5mo ago
Accumulation of capital is the engine by which this stuff runs. You aren't going to get a staff of full-time writers, actors, set designers, costume designers, composers, and editors to create something great off of passion alone. Thes
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by deaton 5mo ago
Exactly, it is the difference between creating as a hobby and creating as a profession. The latter is only possible when there are IP protections in place to ensure compensation.
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by deaton 5mo ago
Open source software is unique in that it takes little to no capital investment to create. People post free art too. It doesn't mean that Game of Thrones didn't cost anything to produce.
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by deaton 5mo ago
This is an incredibly naive view of intellectual property. If you cannot own things you create, there is little incentive to create and share those things. Do you think any of your favorite movies and TV shows ever get made without copyrigh
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by deaton 5mo ago
Both being infamously long
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by deaton 5mo ago
Its fine to hate work, whatever. But you wouldn't quit your job today, so why would you want to be replaced by an AI today?
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by deaton 5mo ago
The IP considerations, environmental considerations, "lol we're gonna destroy the world and get you laid off" considerations, and of course the big middle finger given to artists of all types, from authors to musicians... The
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by deaton 5mo ago
"Steal an apple and you're a thief. Steal a kingdom and you're a statesman." - Literal Disney villain
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by deaton 5mo ago
Its simple: they have deals with all the big banks who issue the popular cards with all of the rewards, so those are the cards people get.
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by deaton 5mo ago
As interesting as this is, it kinda sucks that on Android this is supposed to be locked behind DroidGuard, meaning that you are effectively still stuck with the duopoly unless you are willing to run an unmodified phone or microG happens to
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by deaton 5mo ago
What you gain? Nothing, but they and other AI companies have decided not to respect your robots.txt
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by deaton 5mo ago
No but Anthropic and OpenAI are very much trying to use their positions to destroy everyone's ability to do things without their product, make AI essential, and then jack prices. Thats the only way this becomes profitable.
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by deaton 5mo ago
Tale as old as the word "startup" even. Uber/Lyft did it with taxis. DoorDash did it with food delivery. You run at a loss for years while destroying your legacy competition by just outlasting them, then once you have cornere
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by deaton 5mo ago
This makes sense, since their business model is built on Steeling everyone's data and feeding it to a monster.
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by deaton 5mo ago
I mean it seems to make good money
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by deaton 5mo ago
Makes sense. Usually if you want a 99 cent registration, .xyz is whats available.
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by deaton 5mo ago
This is pure guesswork, I am not a security researcher, but my guess would be that AI is increasing the amount of low quality exploitable attack surface available, while simultaneously providing security researchers with an accelerant for t
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by deaton 5mo ago
If he's our representative in the era of superintelligence, we are all screwed.

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