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by dsign 4mo ago
I'm currently working in a cool hardware project (an "audiogame console" in a stealthy form factor), and I when I read this I had to go through the rabbit hole of comparing the hardware of the N64 with what I'm planning
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by dsign 4mo ago
Say what you may of Temu, and I do think more vetting of certain goods is a good idea, but they fill a very real need. In the part of Europe where I live, the choice is only between intermediaries for the same products coming from China. Th
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by dsign 4mo ago
Well, of course. Of note, this region in question has a problem with a dearth of young people and specially young people wanting to take those jobs, and if it voted right-wing and populist, you don't need me to tell you what kind of so
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by dsign 4mo ago
I would bet, 55% chance, that in 15 to 20 years that region will be filled with autonomous farms. Companies mostly run by AI, and labored by agricultural bots. Not an outcome that, even then, people will want. But we rarely get what we want
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by dsign 4mo ago
Human biology is such a horror...I've been through it with enough loved ones that I've been left with two obsessions: a) a dignified way to go when my time comes, and b) we should either fix human biology, go post-biological, or
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by dsign 5mo ago
Yaii! Nice. I liked this one, and I hope the popes keep at it. I'm not in bed with Faith, but there is a point in life when one must accept certain things. Mine, now, are that we are in a time of cultural decline. Not because lack of a
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by dsign 5mo ago
> Amazon has a really odd viewpoint when it comes to the people who work there. They view almost all employees as “fungible”. Hardly an Amazon-only thing. In fact, enterprises need this mindset, because people moves on, retires, or just
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by dsign 5mo ago
I can't help but wonder how could, Bambulabs or the Chinese government, actually mine that data? In my mind, 3D models fail into two categories: artistic and utilitarian, though there's a continuum between those two. With the arti
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by dsign 5mo ago
During the last few years, I’ve been exploring Svealand, the central part of Sweden that contains Stockholm and some other provinces. The region contains many historical places, but I walk the countryside, away from the main tourist attract
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by dsign 5mo ago
Cool as they are (very), I'm not enthusiastic about the Flipper Zero form factor, nor the Flipper One's, though I understand that's because I'm not their target audience. However, I applaud their goal of opening up thing
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by dsign 5mo ago
So it's really good, and we have reason to believe, never again, anything that happens in a video. Unless there's a super-product somewhere to authenticate footage?
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by dsign 5mo ago
> And absolutely no one seems to be interested in answering the question of “okay, then what?” I don't think those speakers have anything kind, useful and meaningful to say, otherwise, smart people that they are, they would say it.
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by dsign 5mo ago
I would say "AI psychosis" is a very healthy disease to have. I mean, how should people react to seeing a clump of hardware produce coherent text at a level many actual humans cannot? The spread of reactions we are seeing in peopl
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by dsign 5mo ago
Tangential: movies are not necessarily the best medium for cautionary tales about super-intelligence, with their penchant for hiding educated reasoning and their need for showy visual effects that always age poorly but get all the viewer&#x
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by dsign 5mo ago
My own bet is end of that decade: somewhere between 2045 and 2050. Ofc "full labor automation" has a certain spread of meaning. A sliver of population will always find ways to hold to a job or run one or many businesses. But there
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by dsign 5mo ago
We did hit the sigmoid's plateau on airplane speed, but the applications of airplane speed are still coming (how fast can a Chinese company airship the PCB you ordered three minutes ago?). I expect the the same will happen with LLMs, t
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by dsign 5mo ago
> Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in brain complexity. I have this theory th
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by dsign 5mo ago
Urban spaces can be kind or unkind, and benches are a good way to judge. A week ago I decided to explore a new part of town. I mean, I've only lived in this town for a few years, but I'm not into big cities, and I live in a countr
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by dsign 5mo ago
Ha! I came here to say something similar. Anyhow, I'm happy that US has found a combative way to combat climate change. I'm also disappointed.
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by dsign 5mo ago
> Are you serious when you connect anti-AI sentiment to anti-science sentiment? I don’t believe that the current state of things represents peak-AI problems. AI is for now weak both in its capability and its impact, and also just new.
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by dsign 5mo ago
TL;DR: there are brainrot farms with help from AI. But I saw this one coming three or four years ago. Actually, I've been listening to AI-generated brainrot music. I prefer it to some human-generated brainrot music (there's "
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by dsign 5mo ago
Is that an Espressif logo in the photo? I'm seriously impressed with their products. To me, they are like the Toyota of microcontrollers, specially after having to throw in the trash an Arduino Giga that never worked and not only was e
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by dsign 5mo ago
This is bad. I need to start Monday warning my team about this and installing validation hooks in our repos that catch any commits with this. We don't have a non-AI policy, but we have an "approved AI" policy due to data secu
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by dsign 5mo ago
Oh but it will get worse. Legislation to force companies to install survtech in their devices/apps is already being pushed left and right. We are still screaming a little about it, but I think it's a matter of time before it gets
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by dsign 5mo ago
I envy those countries on Earth that have democracy and generally have it so good that they are picky about who cleans their toilets and drives their busses and tends to them at the hospice. Speaking of the latter, they must have already ta
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by dsign 5mo ago
Public writing that must conserve anonymity is either going to disappear or going to require witnesses, notaries, or web-of-trust truestees, i.e., "flesh buffers." In a world with LLMs, every piece of writing that can't authe
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by dsign 5mo ago
Hm. It only takes a life of study and a lot of pain to understand that #2 is the thing. But most of us get to experience the latter without experiencing the former, so for most people #1 is the preferred option. #1 leads to theism and offer
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by dsign 5mo ago
Can you imagine going to a football match and second-guessing which are the players who look human, but skin-deep are actually androids made at a factory? This is what it feels like with music and literature right now with so much AI. There
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by dsign 5mo ago
It's not just politics. A while ago, as an experiment, I wrapped some teleological[^1] questions in a small story of a demon offering a slightly ambiguous bargain to a person. Then I had a lot of fun having the frontier models evaluate
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by dsign 5mo ago
I wonder if something similar/equivalent--a multiplayer game--could be used to become fluent in a musical instrument and music...

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