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by krapp 2mo ago
>Why don't I see the anarchist/left-wing crowd protesting for OpenAI/Anthropic to release/open-weights their models? Because the bigger problem is the existence of these companies altogether, the violent neo-reactiona
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by krapp 2mo ago
It's wild to me that this is even a question, because of how AI brained the entire world has become. I mean, you have a tool that you know works, and a tool that you know doesn't, but you still feel the need to find a way to make
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by krapp 3mo ago
Some are more mainstream than they were (anything now owned by Disney certainly is) but all of them have been a part of "nerd" culture for a long time.
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by krapp 3mo ago
> Since when was being a nerd about consumer preferences? Being a nerd has almost always been about consumer preferences. Everything from baseball cards to anime, comics, D&D, video games, all of the staples of nerd culture are also
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by krapp 3mo ago
All of it was "being a nerd" back in your day. "Comic book nerd" was a stereotype that predated the internet by a generation. People forget that "nerd" was just an insult, it wasn't an identity. It's
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by krapp 3mo ago
No. If anything the more real it gets, the harder people put the hammer down on it. Makes them feel bad, see, and people don't come to HN to feel bad.
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by krapp 3mo ago
Given the size of the observable universe, I think the most likely answer for the Fermi Paradox is "all of the above, and a secret nth thing." Life is rare, intelligent life is more rare, intelligent technological life is even m
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by krapp 3mo ago
I'm honestly more interested in the sociological and anthropological study of the phenomenon than I am the actual claims made because to be it's obvious folklore. But I remember when "the truth" was nuts-and-bolts saucer
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by krapp 3mo ago
But they wouldn't need to false-flag an excuse to capture and privatize resources, they could and would just do that openly. The government can just take whatever it wants through eminent domain.
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by krapp 3mo ago
We don't follow "rules" in war anymore, according to "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth. We show no quarter and take no prisoners, we pursue "maximum lethality, not tepid legality." That's American polic
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by krapp 3mo ago
There's a reason the Singularty was called "the Rapture for nerds" before LLMs were even a thing. You can find a lot of neo-religious behavior within the AI accelerationist community. Cults coming out of rationalism and fear
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by krapp 3mo ago
There are already tons of specialist non-AI tools for writers to be able to keep track of story elements, research, etc. Writers (older genre writers particularly) tend to be a bit behind the technological curve, and they stick with whateve
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by krapp 3mo ago
How can you tell the difference between "actual teenagers" and "illegal immigrants?"
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by krapp 3mo ago
OK I assumed it was a SWAT team, I didn't read the article closely enough, my fault. I'll take the hit for that. But if it had been... the result still would have been the same. American police aren't trained to de-escalate,
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by krapp 3mo ago
>Why are there so many guns in this God-forsaken country? Surplus arms after World War 2 led to the creation of the gun industry in the US, and thanks to the Second Amendment and the power of the gun lobby, its relationship with the Repu
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by krapp 3mo ago
>Unreal Engine allows the widespread deployment of applications catering to a tightly bound framework - a system, upon which standard operations can be completed. This isn't the definition of an OS, it's the definition of liter
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by krapp 3mo ago
There's an n-gate bot posting to Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@ngate
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by krapp 3mo ago
I hope you step on a Lego every day for the next ten years. I hope it's the same Lego piece and that every time you throw it away it respawns like a demonic imp manifested from pure petty spite. And I hope each time it stabs a differen
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by krapp 3mo ago
I kind of feel like maybe we can dispense with the electoral college at this point, as the issue of keeping slave-owning states in the union by ensuring rural votes outweigh urban votes no longer seems relevant.
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by krapp 3mo ago
Every time I say HN doesn't permit jokes, someone pipes up and claims it does, but then often I see a joke it results in downvotes, flags and tedious lectures about how jokes aren't allowed here. I honestly don't think humor
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by krapp 3mo ago
>Why the downvotes? Probably for calling open source developers sad low-class beggars. Also probably for the presumption that OP should be trying to hustle an income from a fork of an open source project that no one would be willing to p
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by krapp 3mo ago
Depends entirely on the subreddit and the subject matter.
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by krapp 3mo ago
I'm a layman but as I understand it Hawking radiation (which is what we seem to be discussing) is a consequence of quantum mechanics and uncertainty - it isn't actually possible for a black hole to capture all of the energy that
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by krapp 3mo ago
Check the Delta Quadrant.
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by krapp 3mo ago
I want to differentiate between "game engine" and "framework" here, even knowing the distinction is subjective. To me a game engine includes UI elements that package the entire process of game development into a coherent
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by krapp 3mo ago
Unreal engine isn't an OS. It is installed and run on a computer already running an OS. Windows is not a game engine. Being able to play games on Windows doesn't make it a game engine.
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by krapp 3mo ago
>Viewing the continuance of our race as only the responsibility of parents is pathological. That seems to be a uniquely American pathology. Everywhere where else in the world, and in non-white American subcultures, the community taking a
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by krapp 3mo ago
Name a game engine that became an OS, and name an OS that became a game engine.
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by krapp 3mo ago
Maybe but at that point we're arguing the definition of a free market.
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by krapp 3mo ago
No capitalist actually wants free and fair competition. A pure free market isn't the most efficient and productive means of making a profit, and they're in business to make as much money as possible. What gets aspired to under the

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