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by keybored 6mo ago
What’s the next phase? Billionaires manage to seize the means of bunker protection and remote-control the commoners into the wilderness?
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I thought that Ghostty was a company that had partnered with GitHub. But no it’s a popular open source application. So they will move their CI and issue tracker somewhere else. And this will be largely a springboard for “people are leaving
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by keybored 6mo ago
LLM discourse inspires me to do a cleaning of my browser tabs every hour.
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> I see, so people in the non-HN universe aren't abandoning the em-dash where it's actually appropriate, due to massive over-use by chatbots? Are they? Do I know what “““people””” are doing? But I thought they couldn’t write it
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> An interesting point to consider: an author that goes out of their way to hide any LLM influence may actually be degrading the signal. Because in that case, you'll not see the LLM's etchings, and misattribute skill to the aut
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“It’s a shame” is a very neutral way to criticize an editorial/authoring choice.[1] It conveys that they might have enjoyed it under different circumstances. Really no different than someone saying that it’s a shame that someone publis
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> Regarding the cherry-picking of fragments of an LLM: of course an LLM (in fact several!) were used to stitch together those disparate blog posts into a more coherent whole. And they certainly left an imprint in places. Otherwise, as a
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That’s similar to unions in general, but of course workers unions was the first thing out of the hat.
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Your last sentence claims that he should appreciate how lucky he is. But this is a different question from what, at face value, the statement that life is meaningless or absurd is about. The two choices (first being operative in this thread
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Thinking. The user says “make not mistakes” instead of the more usual “do not make mistakes”. This is a playful use with grammar in the New Zealandian language. Playful means not serious. Not serious means playtime. The user is on playtime
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It is quite telling that so many comments here are about UBI as a solution. UBI is a billionaire proposed solution, or distraction. Yeah, of course they want to keep control of the surplus and just have a sustenance spigot for the former wo
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In that sense the general public is less superstitious than many technologists. Some of the general public might anthropomorphize too hard. Which is pretty tame compared to the belief of the alien AI intelligence sprouting and killing us ac
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What a blessing that they don’t have an Obama frontman for their schemes.
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Okay you’re right. In some sense of the word it is straightforward. But I still think it is not straightforward compared to most things. I can get more muscle mass at the gym. That is straightforward. Only a few things makes it not easy. Bu
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I don’t really think that’s the case. I think that any deterioration is temporary. They can get back on that horse with some starting issues.
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> The first is the fear of job loss, and I feel like this is the most straightforward to deal with. Personally, I think the solution should be to share the productivity of AI with society at large, in particular since AI owes most of its
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by keybored 6mo ago
Weird to have these threads and then fifteen minutes later there will be a 350+ comment, 500+ votes thread about some 200 USD/month AI subscription service which is now the I Have Seen The Light moment and My Beautiful Side Projects Ar
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Not an insignificant amount of ink has been spilled on this over the centuries. So I guess you will never be convinced otherwise.
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> If some new slow method of societally expensive suicide hit the market, it would get banned quick smart. Cigarettes have only stuck around so long because of legacy and well funded lobbyists and PR / marketing types that have been
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I get the apparent logic of phasing cigarettes into unlawfulness over decades. But considering this is so one-sided in terms of curtailing liberty for one generation,[1] it would have been interesting if they also got a privilege that us o
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Taxes as they currently exist are a bandaid on wealth inequality. Getting rid of rich people parasitism would be a better way to balance the budget than either right-libertarian principles or taxing commoners for their stress relief like to
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Plain text coupled with non-deterministic interfaces (AI) is not great. It’s like a hybrid: some of the best of old school tech coupled with the most sketchy high tech. I will now get to have Kafkaesque conversations with computers in MarkD
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Getting in on the astounding action before the world turns to shit. Who could call me a starry-eyed idealist? I have invested in bunkers.
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I’m going to ignore the whole socially-agreeable aspect. Take a thousand subjects. I’m going to be wrong about 990 of them. Because I know just enough about it to think I might have a clue. You could probably read up on something for five h
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> The window to retool is now open, while the models are capable and the costs are low. That window will not stay open forever. Or the window to get hooked is now? Or do they have an open model backup plan? > We believe the companies
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You can ban things for minors just fine. It’s already a thing. When are we ever going to get beyond raising awareness/educating bad/arguably-bad things? All of these manufactured wants, needs—totally synthetic. The business model
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> I would have expected better of HN. On a very dark night I would have expected worse. > I agree that wealth and power accumulation are a problem. But the conclusion obviously isn't to have everyone forcibly DIE. If anything, th
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People don’t want revolutions because they are pleasant. Edit: they want revolutions because they are peasant...

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