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by ethin 5mo ago
Right, but I never said it was a first-or-nothing scenario to begin with. Given that both AGI and ASI are so ambiguous as to be nothingburgers, talking about them is just a performative thought experiment IMO. An interesting one, certainly,
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by ethin 5mo ago
This is also assuming that AGI is even possible. So far there is no evidence that this is actually doable over anything but billions of years (and even then we have no idea how nature really managed it). Edit: Meant to say AGI (superintelli
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by ethin 5mo ago
Honestly, if GH keeps getting worse I may need to migrate away to Forgejo or something. The problem is GHA... Does anyone know of a service that is better and doesn't charge me an arm and a leg for runners (particularly MacOS ones)? I&
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by ethin 5mo ago
The sad thing is that I expect this to rise as time passes. Most vibe-coders, from what I've seen, are exactly like this guy: they have no idea of trademark or copyright law and think that they can just... Do things like this without c
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by ethin 5mo ago
Because people believe that they know everything about humans and how they work (or they hedge it). This is the exact same reason I don't trust supposed "experts" claiming AI will replace all these jobs: those same experts ha
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by ethin 5mo ago
Yes, but that doesn't mean AI increased their revenue. Is there definitive proof that AI/LLMs caused this increase?
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by ethin 5mo ago
This is extremely naive. If you are in Germany and I am in the US and you get a default judgement against me (which would cost you money to get), good luck getting it enforced internationally. Hint: it's way, way harder than you think.
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by ethin 6mo ago
I also got randomly invoiced $5.00 for absolutely no reason on the 28th. I don't have auto-reload enabled, nor did I explicitly buy extra usage.
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by ethin 6mo ago
Isn't this illegal/fraudulent in many places? Pretty sure just randomly charging a customers payment method without their consent is definitely illegal.
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by ethin 6mo ago
Can you back this up with actual data, or is this "I believe it to be true" vibes?
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by ethin 6mo ago
This editor sounds awesome, but it's sad they didn't make the UI accessible.
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by ethin 6mo ago
You do know that calling people who don't like AI for any reason Luddites does you no favors, right? It just makes you look like your a part of a cult.
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by ethin 6mo ago
Even now they are insanely ambiguous with respect to their usage limits. They don't from what I know openly disclose them anywhere, so them saying "5x increase" is utterly meaningless, alongside "20x" or "10x&q
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by ethin 6mo ago
The fundamental problem with these "agreements" is that they are utterly nonsensical as written. Google has one idea of "lawful" and what it means; the Pentagon most definitely has a vastly different interpretation meani
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by ethin 6mo ago
In my personal experience, Msys 2 would work great until it didn't. Unless this has changed, from what I remember, Msys2 compiled everything without PIC/PIE, and Windows does allow you to configure, system-wide, whether ASLR is us
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by ethin 6mo ago
The author did change some things to try to pass the LLM test. For example, they removed the apostrophe from I've. The problem, of course, is that this isn't enough to actually pass it, and the author would need to practically rew
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by ethin 6mo ago
This looks really really AI-generated even if the author did try to hide it by making some grammar elements improper. Idk if that diminishes it's accuracy though.
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by ethin 6mo ago
I mean, the signs have been there that the costs to run and operate these models wasn't as simple as inference costs. And the signs were there (and, arguably, are still there) that it costs way, way more than many people like to claim
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by ethin 6mo ago
> and they are right. We never saw that before. That's why we all fear it. Please please please tell me this is sarcasm. Because if you are serious, I think a lot of people have a long list of bridges to cell you.
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by ethin 6mo ago
Huh? I've been seeing the "hopelessly doomed because of AI" trope practically since ChatGPT came out. It wasn't even remotely as bad as it is now, but it's been there all along.
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by ethin 6mo ago
But why? It would ruin the illusion they're trying to make you see, because 99 percent of it (if not all of it) is human driven.
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by ethin 6mo ago
I think you might be confusing Backblaze reading files and how Dropbox/OneDrive/Nextcloud/etc. work. NC doesn't enable this by default (I don't think), but Windows calls it virtual file support. There is no avoiding
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by ethin 6mo ago
This "let's not back up .git folders" thing bit me too. I had reinstalled windows and thought "Eh, no big deal, I'll just restore my source code directory from Backblaze". But, of course, I'm that kind of
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by ethin 6mo ago
This is exactly why random corporations need to be gone from government. Or copyright needs to be abolished, one of the two. No corporation (no matter how beloved) should ever have this kind of power. IMO the more powerful an organization b
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by ethin 6mo ago
This distinction is good in academic circles and similar (like on here). But the public (and ordinary people who aren't people who regularly visit Hacker News -- or even know that Hacker News exists) don't care. To them, AI == ine
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by ethin 6mo ago
I would happily switch to it in a heartbeat if it was a lot more well-documented and if it supported even half of what CMake does. As an example of what I mean, say I want to link to the FMOD library (or any library I legally can't red
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by ethin 6mo ago
I prefer Godot over Unity honestly. Not just because the engine feels better but because it's accessible, which is what matters to me. Unity isn't and probably never will be, so meh. Sure you can make accessible games in it but th
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by ethin 6mo ago
IMO (not the GP) but if Anthropic were my friends I would expect them to publish research that didn't just inflate the company itself and that was both reproduceable and verifiable. Not just puff pieces that describe how ethical they a
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by ethin 6mo ago
Then fix the court system? Create more courts, hire more judges/clerks... I mean, I know it isn't "as simple" as that, but that's the proper solution instead of creating a half-legal half-favoritist system where a c
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by ethin 6mo ago
Honestly, I would be all for outright abolishing arbitration. I have yet to see anything actually good come out of arbitration other than a ruling that protects the entity that forced arbitration in the first place.

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