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by fyredge 1mo ago
Very much in agreement. It's the reason successful states have good social security, which provide opportunities. Can't cultivate an Einstein if he can't choose to learn Physics over Farming. The scientists we learn about in
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by fyredge 1mo ago
Agency. Humans don't seem to need a markdown to decide what to do next. Without agency, it's all tools. I guess that's why a 'tool' is sometimes used derogatorily.
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by fyredge 1mo ago
This is not the way. You can't legislate away gray area content to children, what you can legislate is algorithmic recommendation of such content. Regulate algorithmic recommendation, revert back to chronological timeline of people &#x
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by fyredge 2mo ago
It's... not? He's describing how to cultivate founders in university. I'm saying that it's not what a university should be focused on. A startup is not a technical project, it's an organisational endeavour. They don
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by fyredge 2mo ago
It depends on the book. This style of reading is suitable for textbooks and journal articles, but does not work for fiction, where reading order can be quite important.
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by fyredge 2mo ago
I disagree with the underlying assumption that it's the universities responsibility to cultivate founders. Universities were initially built to further the knowledge of specific fields, for the sake of its own advancement, producing ph
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Perhaps so. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to extend an old phrase to "we are what we read". I have seen far too many LLM related discussions break down into politics, philosophy and one too many anecdotes that amount to
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by fyredge 2mo ago
I find it very interesting that in a website that is ostensibly made up of the curious minded, the top level responses are everything but. From accusations of religious rhetoric, to outright dismissing the argument because they are 'ol
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Technically, it's still slop. The first example is just slop that you recognise as slop. For reference, see gell-mann amnesia.
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by fyredge 2mo ago
I will stand by my view that AI cannot be "conscious" until model.train() and model.eval() is combined into one. Going further, it will only manifest when the underlying model, not just the weights, but the layers and the nodes an
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Paraphrasing from Plato's The Republic, when the rulers and their auxillaries raise children with proper balance in the body and soul, there will be no need to deliberate on what is the right legislation, for the legislators themselves
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Based on rhetoric from open ai and Anthropic, i don't think this is reasonable. If anything, their miracle of an AI should be able to solve the job market and economic bubbles. Deploy their agents on it, set up automated hedge funds, d
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Good read. Both your and Andy's articles remind me of why Socrates (allegedly) derided books as a lower form of education. When we lose the ability to question literature, we lose the capacity to build knowledge models. In compulsory s
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by fyredge 2mo ago
My takeaway is not that the author is spoiled, but has not had the opportunity to see the fuller picture. More often than not, we see only the surface of another's life. More importantly, we see the things we want from others while not
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Do we say the same for age restrictions of tobacco sales? There must be a better way than "we can't".
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Right, but that's typical company behaviour. "Hey I have a product, use me!" Does not seem to be the dystopia level action that the previous commenter implied, unless we know that they are willfully selling the data to third
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Here's what I think: > Similarly, I do not understand the willful ignorance and bootlicking attitude of those who want to support coercing others into sharing orivate information. I
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Is this [AVPA]( https://avpassociation.com/ )? As far as I can tell, they are a group that benefits from age verification because they directly provide the service. This is typical lobby behaviour? I was not aware that Meta i
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by fyredge 2mo ago
I simply do not understand the optaphobia of the tech literate. Social media already tracks it's users with or without laws. The general populace simply will not wish to anonymize themselves on the internet. So ID Laws only serves as a
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by fyredge 2mo ago
When irresponsible parents raise irresponsible children, the effects will not be limited to themselves. I don't want to go back to open smoking, causing increased rates of cancer to everyone just because some people want their freedom
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by fyredge 2mo ago
The same reason you pay taxes. Not everyone is law abiding, taxes pay police to uphold order. Child laws improve upbringing, reducing chance of future criminal acts. We live in a society, you wouldn't be on HN otherwise.
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by fyredge 2mo ago
Don't worry too much about it. For what it's worth, you made the sponsorship disclaimer abundantly clear up front and the comparison was fair. I went through the whole thread of this conversion, and as the old adage goes, don&#x27
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by fyredge 2mo ago
By fighting back in court. Better yet, by organising with others. I believe that it is in the interest of many to hold powerful people to account. Seek them out, share resources, organise a defense. It is not easy, and nothing good ever is.
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by fyredge 2mo ago
There is a malaise permeating modern culture, where social action does not enter the mind at all, possibly because it does not provide instant results. Collective action and organising local communities has always been the solution to socia
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by fyredge 3mo ago
> Most countries—and, more specifically, the majority of their citizens—have not yet reached this stage of civilizational development. While I do agree, I don't believe that the reason is barbarism. My view is that the general publi
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by fyredge 3mo ago
The solution then seems to be holding people in power accountable, no? Digital ID or not, the situation won't improve until we get actual representation that works for the people.
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by fyredge 3mo ago
One of the upside I can foresee is the return of single payment software. No one is going to be paying subscriptions when they can LLM themselves, but paying someone else to LLM for them would let them shrug off accountability for malfuncti
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by fyredge 3mo ago
This argument kind of illustrates why consumption tax is better. It's easy to advocate "lower taxes for everyone!" giving rich people most of the benefit, but it's much harder to advocate for "lower yacht tax!"
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by fyredge 3mo ago
I was initially skeptical of removal of income tax, but it's replacement with consumption tax makes sense. Currently, income is "discouraged" through financial instruments such as Securities-Backed Line of Credit (SBLOC), whi
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by fyredge 4mo ago
Ones that prevent the scaling itself: No algorithmic recommendation. No mixing between known users (friends, followers etc.), recommended users (swipe feed) and advertised content. No publication of user content. It's social media, not

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