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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I don't see which of those he violated? Also from the guidelines: "HN is for conversation between humans." Granted, it's under comment guidelines, but I think it's acting in the spirit of the rule to point out AI ou
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Perhaps it's gotten harder to determine by eye, but Google will still point you towards trustworthy brands in 2 minutes. The problem is people don't care or can't be bothered to Google.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Police prioritizing responses to violent crimes where lives may in danger seems reasonable to me.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Sorry, I removed that line from the comment because I realized it wasn't really in line with the rest of the point I was making.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Security researchers always having a model one generation newer than the general public would still achieve the stated goals.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
The opportunity from the early days of the American frontier is not typical. Instead, it's the brief burst of unrestrained growth as a better-adapted organization (the US, software companies) expands into, and expands, a niche--canniba
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Turns out I misremembered. Incas never fully united, and even though Spaniards had a huge technological advantage in some battles, the war as a whole was more evenly matched. Technology, disease, and infighting ALL played a part in their vi
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Don't forget horses, armor, and steel weapons. It seems like Incan weapons had a lot of trouble penetrating Spanish armor, while the reverse was not true. Also, the Incas didn't just lack cavalry; they lacked the weapons and tacti
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Actually this is another good counterexample! As I recall, Incas lost battles against the Spaniards where they had something like 100x the numbers. It's true that they were initially divided, but they quickly united against the Spanish
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Right. I am not saying diseases were a factor in every conquest. Just refuting parent saying that conquest is "only possible" through infighting. It's not - overwhelming technological advantage or disease are also sufficient
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
> internal competition and in-fighting of the natives. What about diseases which killed up to 95% of the population? I think you are basically correct, except for the historical analogy.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
I'm sorry that you experienced that. I understand the importance of listening to abuse victims. However, if child sacrifice did happen, it seems unlikely to ever be proven. I do not think that the case against Epstein or his associates
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
From the article you linked, child sacrifice allegations came from an anonymous FBI interview in 2019 and are not confirmed by any credible evidence. There are no cannibalism allegations; the word "cannibal" only appears in innocu
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Seems like only two of the individuals were related in any way. I'm not convinced that 8 sudden deaths/disappearances is above the base rate for "people involved with aerospace?" That's a pretty big group, I'd
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Agree if the animals are treated well; but I have a very high bar for that. I would also accept eating animals which died of old age if it could be done safely. It's easier to just round this to "vegan."
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
First answer: If you haven't, give it a shot on whatever you already have. MoE models like Qwen3 and GPT-OSS are good on low-end hardware. My RTX 4060 can run qwen3:30b at a comfortable reading pace even though 2/3 of it spills ov
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
qwen3:0.6b is 523mb, what model are you talking about? You seem to have a specific one in mind but the parent comment doesn't mention any. For a hobby/enthusiast product, and even for some useful local tasks, MoE models run fine o
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Agree directionally but you don't need $50k. $5k is plenty, $2-3k arguably the sweet spot.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
No moat: yes. Cooked: no. It's a race. Why assume they're going to lose? It relies on (2) which is only true if AI usefulness plateaus at some level of compute. That's a huge claim to be making at this stage. (3) AI has lots
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Hot take: people get angry about veganism because they suspect, deep down, that vegans are right and feel guilty about eating meat. (Not taking the moral high ground here - I have put approximately zero effort into reducing meat intake at a
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Beaver dams change ecosystems. The Earth has oxygen due to cyanobacteria. Pedantically, all living beings change the Earth. But it certainly seems like we're the ones making the biggest changes at the moment.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation. This protects them from legal pressure from shareholders. Doesn't really help with market pressure/value drift though.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Anthropic has two principles they're willing to stand behind, even when it costs them. That's not a lot, but OpenAI only has one principle: look out for number one.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
My model is that Anthropic was founded by OpenAI engineers who self-selected for safety-consciousness. However, it's still subject to the same problem: power corrupts. I think they are better than OpenAI but they are definitely sliding
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Luanti had an annoying habit of regenerating terrain while I was still walking on it. In my book it is very much still "minecraft but worse." I was on a very weak ARM device though.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead: Like Dwarf Fortress but post-apocalyptic survival horror. Endless Sky: top-down space shooter inspired by Escape Velocity SuperTux: inspired by Super Mario SuperTuxKart: inspired by Mario Kart https://
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Congrats, you just found the answer to the Fermi Paradox!
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Sounds like you mostly agree. We're not a monoculture. Mainstream culture is a compromise - consists of things that many people like, but not many people's favorite. It's a little silly to say "mainstream is crap! Why do
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
I don't see a publication date, but first archive.org snapshot is April 2021.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Not of the same quality, just that the objective parts of quality have been mastered by many people. What sets art apart beyond that is individual taste. "Newness" is definitely subjective; it depends on what you've seen befo

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