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by dogleash 8mo ago
It's weird because one of the main selling points for the principled position against surveillance is your inability to control which use-cases are allowed. The way to avoid masked gestapo thugs is to ensure that not even your preferre
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by dogleash 8mo ago
>My read of the recent discussion is that people assume that the work of far fewer number of elites will define the patterns for the future. Even if we assume that's true, what will prevent atrophy of the skillset among the elites w
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by dogleash 8mo ago
People have been comparing tech - the status games, power brokering, need to juggle context-dependent sets of morals, etc - to working in Hollywood for as long as I can remember. Under that mental model, the only thing surprising about this
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by dogleash 8mo ago
> In most cases in software and especially devops I have found it means "pay for this product that constrains the way that you do things so you don't shoot yourself in the foot". It's not really a "practice"
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by dogleash 8mo ago
> if you use AI as a draft generator [...] you're spending your cognitive budget on the high-value parts (ideas, structure, voice I don't follow. If you have the ideas and a structure to give to an AI you already have a workin
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by dogleash 8mo ago
And not born in Edinburgh, either.
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by dogleash 8mo ago
I usually stop reading any article that brings up the dopamine hits in short timescale iteration loops (or lack thereof). We're professionals, we have to detach ourselves from that part of our brains when we think at day, month, year,
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by dogleash 8mo ago
Is this generated? In either case it's a lot of yapping that's trying to be taken seriously while throwing warning flags not to take it seriously at all.
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by dogleash 8mo ago
I’m throwing shade at Facebook and google era not the dotcoms.
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by dogleash 8mo ago
> HN AI booster excitement about LLMs as therapists simultaneously hilarious and disturbing > The big AI companies have not really demonstrated any interest in ethic or morality. You're right, but it tracks that the boosters are
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by dogleash 8mo ago
>Try using it for a few days. We've been using this internally at Anthropic for about a month now, and found that it took people a few days to mentally switch over to the new UI. Once they did, it "clicked" and they apprec
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by dogleash 8mo ago
> otherwise we would have heard complaints about the last 200 paradigm shifts in the industry over the past thirty years. We have though. And they all received some version of "piss off, geezer." Have you not noticed how the h
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by dogleash 8mo ago
>> False, he is forcing Flock on EVERYONE >> No one has permitted themselves to be surveilled > As much as I dislike Flock, this is bad logic. There's no such thing as opting out of surveillance in public spaces. You&#x2
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by dogleash 8mo ago
Corollary: building a benign system that doesn't make the levers of control as small and close to the user as possible, is inviting someone with ulterior motives to use those controls.
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by dogleash 8mo ago
> voices of the government supporters are not heard here...So they just flag and move on, not even trying to defend their position Why are you're assuming flagging indicates support of the government? Maybe they're flagging bec
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by dogleash 9mo ago
Every now and then I get the suspicion hacker news is used to practice sophistry for the workplace without the risk of making yourself look like a jackass at work. Of course it would break the rules about civility here to directly accuse so
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by dogleash 9mo ago
> Where did we go wrong Driving character out of the software world. Spotify couldn't whip the llama's ass even if it wanted to. And it doesn't want to. Spotify is a boring office worker that we're professionally co
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by dogleash 9mo ago
>What a horrible thing to do. So sorry I wasted my own personal time on this. People like you drive others out of open source. Pot, meet kettle.
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by dogleash 9mo ago
I think you're on to something about bad categorization. Sentiment analysis as practiced is almost always pseudoscience. (And that's a hedge. I've never seen it done right but I'm not outright discounting the possibilit
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by dogleash 9mo ago
>Even if you hate it, the vibe of that is completely different. It's so mealymouthed my internal sentiment analysis grades it as insanely toxic. Nobody actually talks like this. And if they do they have a terrible office culture.
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by dogleash 9mo ago
Come to think of it, AI Stans do remind me of people bending over backwards to justify how their Soylent farts made them more skilled at living life.
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by dogleash 9mo ago
>I used to work for an ad tech company (which I know already makes me the devil to some around here) everyone sets the bar below what they do >even I think that they crossed a line with this everyone sets the bar below what they do &g
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by dogleash 9mo ago
Don't ask Hacker News. One of the biggest challenges in life is building a set of contacts worth listening to about life. HN can only intermittently put proper context and nuance around statements regarding software. Forget about an
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by dogleash 10mo ago
>If it's actually a mental health crisis If? The institution you use to socialize your youth results in some attempting to murder their co-participants. Even if you took away the guns so they couldn't follow-through, why are yo
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by dogleash 10mo ago
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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by dogleash 10mo ago
It's the content mill blogspam voice. The machine generated slop looks a lot like the artisan hand crafted slop.
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by dogleash 10mo ago
>Why are we sensitive about the word "resource"? It's simple dehumanization. It's not outlandish or anything, it's just really easy to notice. And the sophistry to try make them equivalent terms is also easy to
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by dogleash 10mo ago
>I'm wondering if at some level we always knew it would end up like this. Everyone always knew. The criticisms get lumped in with with the unreasonable nay-sayers because it makes them easier to dismiss. The honest people I know wor
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by dogleash 10mo ago
I'm downvoting exclusively for your comment about downvotes.
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by dogleash 10mo ago
> can actually be pretty useful. It indicates somebody already minimally investigated a thing Every time this happens to me at work one of two things happens: 1) I know a bit about the topic, and they're proudly regurgitating an LLM

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