ikrenji

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by ikrenji 6mo ago
the entire US economy rides on AI. no ruling throwing a wrench into the multi trillion engine is ever going to be permitted to happen
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by ikrenji 6mo ago
all this techno surveillance should just be straight out banned by law. the little extra security it might offer is not worth the huge costs in privacy and other unforeseen impacts
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by ikrenji 6mo ago
people that get their music from AA would never buy it or pay spotify for it, so the "loss" is completely imaginary. same goes for movies, videogames etc
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by ikrenji 6mo ago
that's kind of optimistic. for example a misaligned super AI might engineer a virus that wipes out most of the 7 billion humans. that would put a damper on the adaptability of the human race...
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by ikrenji 6mo ago
feels somewhat dystopian, no? the big brother is watching everywhere you go. no way this can go tits up
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by ikrenji 7mo ago
tesla is not competitive vs chinese. they can remain afloat wherever the chinese are not allowed to sell, that's about it
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
well yeah. the pentagon wastes 1 trilly per year. a lot of stuff can be paid for with that kind of money.
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
excuse me? the government's job is absolutely to maximize its ROI. I'm not paying taxes just for the money to be wasted
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
he was saying the state should be paying the school free lunches, what are you on about
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
why produce less PhDs instead of fixing funding? in what world does the pentagon need 1 trillion dollars while NIH gets 10 billy or so?
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
why? state of the art therapies eg genetically reprogramming patients own immune cells to hunt cancer are curative in cases that were previously a death sentence
42.
by ikrenji 8mo ago
maybe not starve, but should scientists live in poverty?
43.
by ikrenji 8mo ago
the driver and the pedestrian both
44.
by ikrenji 8mo ago
I suspect they have a long tail problem with FSD. It might work fine 99% but that's simply not good enough.
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
elon/tesla is not the only EV manufacturer, so idk why you are insisting on framing elon/tesla as some kind of climate messiah... in fact elon helped elect the most climate change denialist president in recent history so one might
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
elon could just as easily be producing EV cars as a single digit billionaire
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
what labor issues and regulatory roadblocks? the man is halfway to becoming a trillionaire. if anything there wasn't enough labor legislation and more regulation to spread the wealth a bit
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by ikrenji 8mo ago
I call your Frank Herbert machine dystopia and raise you the Ian Banks machine utopia...
49.
by ikrenji 8mo ago
the "protect da kids" narrative is just a veil to make us give up more privacy and freedom for "security"
50.
by ikrenji 8mo ago
a simple this seems odd / messy / un-pythonic is often enough
51.
by ikrenji 9mo ago
I mean China is not exactly a poster child for a benevolent hegemon - tibet / taiwan / uyghurs to name a few
52.
by ikrenji 9mo ago
Is commit history that useful? I never wanted to look up anything in it that couldn't be solved with git log | grep xyz...
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by ikrenji 9mo ago
it's not just newspeak though. names matter. an advanced civilization, which USA being the richest country on Earth is, should not strive to get into offensive wars...
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by ikrenji 9mo ago
frameworks are irrelevant. if someone can work in angular they can pick up react as they go and vice versa, especially if assisted by AI. the problem is hiring practices where resumes are discarded if the keywords don't much...
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by ikrenji 9mo ago
having the power to destroy a government agency that provides aid and actually going through with it is not morally equal to not donating a few dollars of your income
56.
by ikrenji 9mo ago
Someone's model says that if you detonate a nuclear bomb in Manhattan, millions will die. There is no hard evidence tho.
57.
by ikrenji 10mo ago
I never had any trouble setting up or working with venvs. I don't even feel the need to learn what uv is because it's such a non problem for me.
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by ikrenji 10mo ago
I only use Firefox over Chrome because it has adblock. So where does the $150 million comes from if people won't use it without adblock? Seems comrade didn't think this through...
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by ikrenji 10mo ago
Human brains might not be explained by the same type of math AI is explained with, but it will be some kind of math...
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by ikrenji 10mo ago
bro described the perfect LLM prompt that would have got him the right diagnosis instantly. instead he put in some garbage and got garbage back

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