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by drooby 4mo ago
There is a class of human output that will retain value regardless of AI capability: art and sport. People care about the creator. The source defines the work, the awe, and the emotional response. But almost all output outside that space is
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by drooby 4mo ago
I can't tell if this is satire
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by drooby 5mo ago
"Augustine of Hippo was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of Antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence. He is a saint of the Catholic Church, and his authority in theological matters wa
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by drooby 5mo ago
At what point will we create micro tolls that AI must pay?
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by drooby 5mo ago
Foucault is taken seriously because his ideas are politically empowering
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by drooby 6mo ago
I think we’re agreeing. The point of the sleep parallel is exactly that the content doesn’t matter, and it’s the filtering process that does the work. Brains replay noisy, sometimes incoherent patterns during sleep and the value is in how t
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by drooby 6mo ago
Fascinating... This feels eerily similar to sleep consolidation or synaptic pruning
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by drooby 6mo ago
GraphRAG is for LLMS... markdown is for humans.. humans that exist in the meantime
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by drooby 7mo ago
A leading theory in neuroscience is that human brains are fundamentally prediction machines too, constantly predicting sensory input, other people’s behavior, the next word in a sentence. “it’s just prediction” isn’t the gotcha you think it
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by drooby 7mo ago
This is a great point. The Netherlands is the cautionary tale of what happens when you don't do what Alaska and Norway did. A massive resource boom without proper public management hollowed out the rest of the economy. If a handful of
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by drooby 7mo ago
Nobody is proposing that AI companies track down individual contributors and pay them based on their specific contribution. That's not how any of this works. The Alaska Permanent Fund doesn't pay Alaskans based on how much oil was
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by drooby 7mo ago
Addition: Also worth knowing: collective intellectual property already exists. ASCAP and BMI have been doing exactly this for decades. Individual songwriters can't enforce their rights every time their music gets played, so they pool t
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by drooby 7mo ago
That's not snarky at all, that's exactly the point. They did get it both ways. The comment I was responding to argued that ownership of non-physical things is basically a "polite lie" and that information is just entropy
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by drooby 7mo ago
Well, two things worth considering. First, training isn't a one-time event. These companies are continuously scraping new data, training new model generations, ingesting new human output. Every new model is a new extraction event. The
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by drooby 7mo ago
No offense, but this comment makes virtually zero contact with reality. Our entire civilization runs on your "polite lie" of owning non-physical things. Patents, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing agreements, NDAs. Trillion doll
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by drooby 7mo ago
Alaska and Norway aren't communist. They're capitalist economies with thriving private sectors. Oil companies still operate, still profit, still compete. The public just gets a share of the value extracted from a collectively owne
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by drooby 7mo ago
I never said AI companies are evil or that $20/mo access is bad. You're arguing against a position I don't hold. AI can be genuinely useful AND the people whose collective output made it possible can deserve a share of the we
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by drooby 7mo ago
Fair point, data isn't scarce like oil. Nobody's losing their forum posts. That part of my analogy is weak. But you're answering a question I'm not asking. The question isn't "was something taken from you.&quot
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by drooby 7mo ago
A tax takes a percentage of value that someone else created. A royalty collects payment for access to something you already own. When Alaska collects from oil companies, it's not taxing their profits. It's charging them for extrac
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by drooby 7mo ago
The same way Alaska taxes oil extraction. Alaska doesn't track which molecule of oil came from which acre. They don't audit every drop. They tax the extraction operation and collect royalties on the resource being pulled out of th
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by drooby 7mo ago
if you assert ownership over physical infrastructure, the data centers just move to another country or eventually to space. But the model is built on us. You can move the server anywhere you want. You can’t escape the fact that everything i
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by drooby 7mo ago
The training data commons is to AI what oil reserves are to petroleum economies: a collectively generated resource of immense commercial value. Every book written, every forum post answered, every photo shared, every line of code contribute
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by drooby 7mo ago
I'm currently in the hiring process.. and my head is spinning.. 1. Interviewing is becoming more difficult. Many skills we valued two years ago are genuinely becoming less valuable. 2. The skills we tested 2 years ago were in-part a p
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by drooby 8mo ago
I just vibe coded a my own NaturalReader replacement. The subscription was $110/year... and I just canceled it. Chatterbox TTS (from Resemble AI) does the voice generation, WhisperX gives word-level timestamps so you can click any word
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by drooby 8mo ago
Same. Claude nailed both questions, with the slightest hint of "... u serious?" I pay for the $100 Opus 4.6 plan... maybe that makes a difference?
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by drooby 8mo ago
Exactly this. I’m starting to believe that people who think AI-generated code is garbage actually don’t know how to code. I hit about 10 years of coding experience right before AI hit the scene, which I guess makes me lucky. I know, with hi
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by drooby 9mo ago
While I whole heartedly agree with your conclusion.. It's worth noting that much of the frustration stems from expectations. I don't expect an AI to learn and "update their weights".. I do however expect colleagues to le
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by drooby 9mo ago
Special treatment for big players. I have seen full blown porn on instagram too. Ads. Porn ads. They look exactly like porn ads on porn websites.
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by drooby 9mo ago
It's been about a decade years since many thought full-self-driving cars were "just a couple years away". Reality is that FSD was/is a "few decades away" Same for programming. We can take our hands off the stee
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by drooby 9mo ago
Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder (OCPD) is actually way more common than people realize, but it barely gets talked about compared to other mental health issues - and it may even be more of a root cause of things like anxiety, depre

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