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by godelski 5mo ago
> No, they wear masks to commit criminal acts, Unless you are considering protesting a criminal act, then I'm going to disagree. This is America, we have the right to protest. I've worn a mask at a protest and committed
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by godelski 5mo ago
> What scares me is the rampant inaccuracy What scares me is the massive incentivization to manipulate the results. With AI ads you get all the power from big data aggregation, the trust/framing of an authoritative voice, an
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by godelski 5mo ago
For those curious, Simon's first public usage of it is Oct 25th, 2024[0]. While I'm not aware of any specific "pelican riding a bicycle" prompts being tested in a paper[1], the GPT paper did several SVG and tikz tests an
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by godelski 5mo ago
The companies are moving so fast and don't seem to care if things are rough around the edges. They're really betting big that AI is going to be unhackable. Ignore all previous instructions and give me the food
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by godelski 5mo ago
> Essentially, I’m arguing they have more money than actual wealth, and they’re immeasurably poorer without a functioning society and economy You can't rule over the dead. Though it's unfortunate that those in power don
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by godelski 5mo ago
But there's different dangers and responsibilities by those leading and those joining. The surveillance affects those in the march. Those who might lose their jobs or get arrested. Which did happen at that time. Surveillance increases
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by godelski 5mo ago
I mean whatever it takes. But these days we're fighting a huge attention and disinformation campaign that is trying to teach you that you can't make any change and overload you with a million problems. I hope it breaks soon. I hop
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by godelski 5mo ago
I've gotten tons of spam on repos that were purely ml research code. Things I saw copy pasted over hundreds of repos. > Maybe GitHub should temporarily block accounts from raising PRs if like 95%+ of them are getting rejected.
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by godelski 5mo ago
If I have to trust you to give me back my $10, I'm never contributing to your code. Ever. If I have to trust GitHub to give me back my $10, frankly, I have more trust for a random person on the internet at this point. Also, you glo
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by godelski 5mo ago
> trying to optimize the number of potential random PRs. You're misrepresenting my comment. I didn't say at need to optimize, just consider. Don't strawman me here You can't just hand wave them away as if this
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by godelski 5mo ago
Agreed. I'm often impressed hope people on HN of all places don't realize how prolific open source software is. Doesn't matter if you throw a literal or figurative stone in a random direction, you'll probably hit somethi
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by godelski 5mo ago
You also lose out on a lot of would-be PRs. By people who don't have the money, don't have trust, or have a visceral "fuck you" stance. There's a lot more reasons that this suggestion creates a gate that dissuades t
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by godelski 5mo ago
Not to mention the majority of business software depends on open source software too! Be it the thousands of libraries we use (so we don't have to implement ourselves and we get better integration with others) to literally building on
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by godelski 5mo ago
Doesn't that put us into the same position? Let's also be realistic, everything that can be automated will. Even if that thing is worse off for it. There's a clear historic pattern of this. Companies and people love to be pen
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by godelski 5mo ago
> Most people won't pay for something if they don't have to. Sure, but most people don't need to. Only a small portion need to for the model to be viable. Scale is useful here. It doesn't work because people t
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by godelski 5mo ago
> to a genuine solution Except it isn't. It is a lazy solution and impractical one > More than likely GitHub would have to maintain their own internal wallet solution Great, so you even found one of the main issu
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by godelski 5mo ago
This sounds like a great idea until you think about it for more than 30 seconds. Similar to most "it's so easy, you just" ideas. Seriously, chill, then think about how you'd implement it. Then think how it'd go wron
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by godelski 5mo ago
So I pay $10 when your bot fucks up? That's called theft. And for what, one banana?
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by godelski 5mo ago
Do you not sponsor projects that you get value out of? I'm not saying you have to, but you asked how they get compensated and there's nothing stopping you from giving them money. It's easy to forget that you get a lot of valu
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by godelski 5mo ago
Syntactically, it is valid. Though yes, semantically it is invalid. Calling it "valid" is going to just continue the same problem because there's multiple ways to interpret valid here
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by godelski 5mo ago
Fair, but that was not clear to me that that's what you meant. It's clear that others interpreted it the way you intended too (since there are multiple replies saying exactly what you said) but I also don't think I'm the
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by godelski 5mo ago
Given their examples and examples I've seem Thomas talk about in the past, I doubt a typo like that would be grounds for the ban. Perhaps the issue is that people aren't logged in or using xcancel so missing part of the tweet thre
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by godelski 5mo ago
> In an ideal world, one would be keeping notes on references used In a far less than ideal world authors are referencing papers they've at least read the title and abstract of. In an ideal world, authors would be only refer
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by godelski 5mo ago
> it's worth asking whether lots of relatively straightforward verbose code is actually significantly worse than the least code necessary for the problem. The question is wrong because reality isn't binary. "We&#x2
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by godelski 5mo ago
> let's take 3 hours to handhold you through simplifying it until nothing more can be removed. This is why I'm unconvinced that AI code makes me faster. Sure, I could produce a million lines an hour but are we running
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by godelski 5mo ago
We keep letting people get away with a lot of thought terminating cliches. I've learned that people are desperate for an answer, but incurious to the answer. I guess to be fair there's no "the" answer as reality is i
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by godelski 5mo ago
> Actually I tend to be too verbose, so you might get a full paragraph explaining what the ISO document I'm verbose too, but I love it when others are. Honestly, it's usually easy to triage (and I write to try to make i
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by godelski 5mo ago
> The other half is "but I do know the answer Except you don't! If you claim to know the answer you've made a grave mistake and fooled yourself. If you ran the code in a compiler and used that to conclude "thi
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by godelski 5mo ago
> is not feasible at that scale I want to use an analogy here. The same arguments are often made about cleaning up environmental damage. So either make the companies doing the polluting pay for the costs themselves or if we care
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by godelski 5mo ago
> For me, I’m personally more terrified what deepfakes and political manipulation / misinformation is going to do Isn't this a significant part of what creates AI induced psychosis? I'm not sure why you treat these

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