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by disqard 6mo ago
Wow, looks like you've put a lot of thought into this! I skimmed the breakdown, and you've inspired me try something along these lines... Thank You For Making And Sharing :)
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by disqard 6mo ago
I was trying to figure out why this article got flagged. Thanks!
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by disqard 6mo ago
Why are your comments often Russian novels? Do you have 1 hour to compose and write down your thoughts?
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by disqard 6mo ago
You might enjoy this piece by Charlie Stross: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo... (Spoiler: Corporations are AI)
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by disqard 6mo ago
From a POSIWID perspective, you are right. From a "we live in a civilized society" perspective, I can see why some people are outraged about his killing. Finally, looking at the balance sheet of his accomplishments, I can also see
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by disqard 6mo ago
> Across several stores, salespeople reported doing dozens of demos without closing a single sale. “We sell maybe one a week,” Barrett said in late May, two weeks after the union had voted to authorize a strike in order to make a final p
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by disqard 6mo ago
I appreciate your nuanced reading. Yes, it's possible that it came from a place of wanting to help. And, after the offer was spurned, the kindness was immediately replaced with wrath, at "how dare she turn me down?" So, both
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by disqard 6mo ago
Indeed, one of the epistemological lessons for me when confronting the power of LLMs is that a sort of "intellectual capability" can emerge in any system, from sheer scale/complexity alone. If you're interested, check ou
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by disqard 7mo ago
But the Dow is over 50,000 right now!!!1 (actually, 46,565.74 right now)
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by disqard 7mo ago
I think what you're expressing is also known as "the Bitter Lesson".
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by disqard 7mo ago
"...and when everyone's super, no one will be" I think this is starting to play out. When I personally see a blog post which didn't need an image, but still does have an AI-slop image banner, I mentally check out. I mi
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by disqard 7mo ago
Excuse me, it's an "excursion", not a war.
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by disqard 7mo ago
You are more confident about this than I am. Let's revisit this comment in December. I truly hope you are proved right by history, but I'm concerned.
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by disqard 7mo ago
...as you should, because if you don't, the wrong lizard might be in charge!
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by disqard 7mo ago
OTOH, yes. However, the person is also sufficiently self-aware to share their thought process (and candid about its shortsightedness). To me, that made it worth reading (even though it has a sad message).
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by disqard 7mo ago
How did you realize you were shadowbanned? I'm curious because I sometimes wonder, if that happened to me, would it affect the way in which I engage with this website? FWIW, I often lurk, but sometimes engage (like right now). Perhaps
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by disqard 7mo ago
I appreciate you building this and putting it on github -- I used it to build a simple offline gallery viewer. Thank You For Making And Sharing!
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by disqard 7mo ago
Does your comment pass that bar?
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by disqard 7mo ago
I think you're failing to recognize that we essentially live in a post-Truth world. Two opposite statements can be uttered by the same person on the same day, and it won't matter.
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by disqard 7mo ago
Your assessment is spot-on! These entities have been on shaky ground for a while, and AI is a convenient scapegoat for justifying their unavoidable downsizing.
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by disqard 7mo ago
Your comment made me think of something: this might be Meta buying it to kill it off.
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by disqard 7mo ago
Thank you for articulating this point! I've tried self-hosting, but found it underwhelming at the second category.
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by disqard 7mo ago
"Bobby Tables" in github edit: can't omit the obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/327/
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by disqard 7mo ago
> AI is a threat to the “enshittification economy” because it lets us route around it. This is prescient -- I wonder if the Big Tech entities see it this way. Maybe, even if they do, they're 100% committed to speedrunning the curren
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by disqard 8mo ago
I'm with you. I thought the title captured and represented the OG article accurately. What's going on?
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by disqard 8mo ago
If it quacks like a duck...
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by disqard 8mo ago
I came to HN after seeing Claude chat fail to load. I think I ran into it right around 8:30pm PST as well.
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by disqard 8mo ago
> the most selfish people become the most selfless You reminded me of this Stewart Brand quote: > Computers suppress our animal presence. When you communicate through a computer, you communicate like an angel.
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by disqard 8mo ago
A worthwhile question. Also, worth keeping in mind how posts that are "unrelated to technology itself" could arguably trigger the hard-core contingent here. So, just like how Trump's or Elon's bloviations get flagged her
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by disqard 8mo ago
Thank You For Making And Sharing, a_e_k!

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