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by gspr 4mo ago
No reasonable person would find a system's annoying behavior on its own manipulative. It could, however, be considered manipulative if it was made that way on purpose.
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by gspr 4mo ago
There's a story (apocryphal or not) that does the rounds among mathematicians: two young PhD students in differential geometry (or topology in some variations) on the way to their first conference. They're eagerly discussing as th
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by gspr 4mo ago
Really? Could you share your techniques that get you there? Inspired by https://github.com/scosman/cursed_browser , I have a little art project going where the CPU of a virtual machine is entirely LLM-powered. But even
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by gspr 5mo ago
You know exactly what the intent of the lawmakers was.
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by gspr 5mo ago
So you're saying AI models should be allowed to freely "manipulate human behavior"?
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by gspr 5mo ago
> i guess it really depends... look at claude code itself, terrible code but rakes in the money dunnit I don't know. Does it? Also: Maintainability is a property for which the associated costs don't show up right away.
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by gspr 5mo ago
Fair point. Also: > ToiletOverflow.com Applause!
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by gspr 5mo ago
Would you like to elaborate on why you think the outcome described isn't among the more likely?
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by gspr 5mo ago
> What I'm mostly concerned about is not even economic, it's psychological. With nothing to do, people will not have purpose, and bored people are a gunpowder keg. I'm not so sure about this one. The powerful in a society
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by gspr 5mo ago
I don't think the reason that most people don't DIY plumbing is a lack of accessible information. Any physical craft like that requires practice, so I think there's a real moat there.
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by gspr 5mo ago
That kind of thinking might work if 1, or 5, or 10% lose their income. If 50% do, there's revolution. And that's not great for anyone, including plumbers and doctors.
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by gspr 5mo ago
I feel the same as you. But at the same time: do you not think your CEO will be proven wrong? Maybe I'm delusional, maybe I'm just rationalizing, but surely code quality, and code understanding, does matter? And if your CEO is r
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by gspr 5mo ago
I've tried it, too. Loved it. Was nearly ready to pay for it. Then I learned that they source their data from Yandex. To hell with that! I'll rather get my search results on paper via carrier pigeon than support the rape of Ukrain
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by gspr 5mo ago
What do you think this will do to the production of novels going forward?
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by gspr 5mo ago
> Taking your car deprives you of your car. Taking your idea lets civilization advance. Copyright is at the heart of the matter here, so let's focus on that. Copyright does not protect ideas. Wanna rephrase so that we stay on topic?
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by gspr 5mo ago
Is there any usable search engine out there that actually does just search?
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by gspr 5mo ago
This is a strictly worse world in almost every sense. It's as if we abolished physical property rights and suggested people arm themselves to keep what is (was) theirs instead. Civilization, gone.
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by gspr 5mo ago
This is insane. How will any intellectual or artistic work be sustainable in this world? As a teenager I used to proclaim that "you can't own bits, maaaan" all the time. I've since grown up. Intellectual property is esse
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by gspr 5mo ago
So if you pour your heart and soul into writing a novel over the course of years, and it becomes modestly successful earning you a little money in return for your sweat, I should be allowed to just copy it, give it away for free (hell, even
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by gspr 5mo ago
Lots of people on this site seem to be of the opinion that "AI is tech, you can't hate tech, only its use". That may be true, but I bet there'd be a whole lot less AI hate in society if: (1) The proponents would just CHI
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by gspr 5mo ago
> The optimal loss rate is not zero. Fine, but surely if the achieved loss rate is projected to fall below the optimal one, then the optimal way to compensate is something else than crashing planes at airshows? Like, I don't know, d
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by gspr 5mo ago
> The more we learn, the more destruction seems to follow. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the author, but I don't follow this (quite popular) line of thinking at all. No doubt there's large amounts of destruction and cruelty i
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by gspr 5mo ago
> Consider the subset of natural language that has strictly defined semantics. This would include, for example, talking in about the arithmetic of real numbers. Does that exclusion feel different in the natural language case? Why? Not re
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by gspr 5mo ago
Nobody seriously interprets "the C programming language" as "parseable C". Of course there's parseable, undefined C, and of course it's very imprecise. It's not relevant. Now consider sound, in-spec C. Ver
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by gspr 5mo ago
Could you please explain why you feel that having UB makes C less precise than asm? To me, the notion of precision isn't in any way related to whether any given statement is sound. It's about the behavior of the language for sound
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by gspr 5mo ago
When I say "best part of any programming language" I obviously mean "best part of the in-spec defined parts of any programming language". Your suggestion that because languages have specified undefined behaviour, they ar
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by gspr 5mo ago
> Plenty of people leave countries all the time. Yes. I've done so myself. The fact that people do this all the time doesn't mean it's the best thing to do when your country has problems. People also move houses all the ti
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by gspr 5mo ago
This is actually my biggest gripe with vibecoding. The single best feature of any programming language is that it is precise. And that is what we throw out?! I favor of natural language , of all things?! We're insane!
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by gspr 5mo ago
Are you seriously suggesting that that's a feasible, go-to solution for a problem in your country? For most normal, well-adjusted people?
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by gspr 5mo ago
I _love_ Rust and use it whenever I can. I still find the comments in here to be quite appropriate. Async Rust leaves me with a (subjective!) feeling that something isn't quite right. Not that I know how it _should_ be, but that feelin

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