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by kypro 1y ago
> Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it. Just as a slight correction – the only "Reform MP" that voted for it is James McMurdock, but he's no longer a Reform MP and I'm not sure why he is
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by kypro 1y ago
No? I linked what I was referring to... The UK government has announced a new "squad" who will check social media for anti-migrant sentiment. Even if you are not "anti-migration" (whatever that means), I think we can agr
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by kypro 1y ago
> just mentioning increased immigration gets a lot of people's backs up This significantly underplays the situation here. The UK state views "anti-migrant" views as extreme: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/poli
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by kypro 1y ago
We did it for all the working class jobs though? Plus the media says all economists agree that protectionist policies are bad... I read that paying workers first-world salary to make things in first-world countries will increase product and
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by kypro 1y ago
Indiehackers was the place that finally made me realise trying to bootstrap a tech product is almost always pointless. There's almost always a far better way to allocate your time.
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by kypro 1y ago
Isn't this good? I thought outsourcing meant we get cheaper goods like iPhones and laptops. Now we can outsource middle-class service jobs for cheaper services?
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by kypro 1y ago
I thought this too, but I think we misunderstood the extent to which various calls for censoring and regulating the internet where driven by a lack of understanding of the technology... The scary thing about the UK regulators is that they s
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by kypro 1y ago
Most people in the UK are very pro-regulation like this though. We would vote for it if we could.
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by kypro 1y ago
My GF works in schools helping children who have special needs. It's really sad some of the things she tells me. Many parents of these children will spend all of their child's DLA on giving their hair or nails done. Kids regularly
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by kypro 1y ago
You also have no human rights in British Airports. The state can just randomly decide to question you. They'll force you to hand over passwords to all electronic devices and slap you with a terror offence if you don't comply. You
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by kypro 1y ago
HN has flipped so quickly on saying how AI produces unreliable slop, to most people using it to replace junior devs at their org – something I was heavily criticised for saying orgs should be doing a few months back. Progress doesn't e
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by kypro 1y ago
I think the term "bubble" is far too presumptuous. You can only know if something is a bubble with hindsight. There have been examples where things look like a bubble to some market participants, but turn out to be more or less a
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by kypro 1y ago
Interesting theory, and I'd probably believe it if it didn't do it in the free version too.
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by kypro 1y ago
It could be true, the primary issue here is that it's the wrong metric. I mean you could write 100% of your code with AI if you were basically telling it exactly what to write... If we assume it isn't a lie, then given current AI
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by kypro 1y ago
I know this is only tangentially relevant, but as someone who lives in the UK the inhuman and process driven nature of the way the state operates today is terrifying to me. Several times in recent years I've had people significantly fi
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by kypro 1y ago
I use Audacity a lot and it hasn't really changed much over the last 2 decades I've been using it. It's probably the oldest piece of software I still use at least weekly. It's simple and just works, plus I can use on my
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by kypro 1y ago
I find the "what is intelligence?" discussion a little pointless if I'm honest. It's similar to asking a question like does it mean to be a "good person" and would we know whether an AI or person is really &quo
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by kypro 1y ago
Some other UK cat history, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-66665613
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by kypro 1y ago
100% agree. The framing that explicit material is bad for kids, while probably true, is besides the point. Lots of things a parent could expose a child to could be bad, but it's always been seen as up to the parent to decide. What the
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by kypro 1y ago
Sam comes across as an extremely calculating person to me. I'm not suggesting he's necessarily doing this for bad reasons, but it's very clear to me the public facing communications he makes are well considered and likely not
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by kypro 1y ago
> Just an example - the Spitfire was wholly made in the UK in the 1940s with 200 companies subcontracted from big cities to small towns across the country. Not the best example given the UK was a manufacturing powerhouse back then. We ca
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by kypro 1y ago
Genuinely curious – what do you think the solution is? Personally I think labels like "nationalist" are unhelpful, but regardless what you label it what I do believe is that there needs to be a genuine conversation about whether i
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by kypro 1y ago
To be clear, currently I think it's likely within the next 10 years we'll have ASI. But I think it's also quite possible that we won't have ASI for 20-30 years, and it's quite possible that moderate advancements in
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by kypro 1y ago
No – I like this. Most people who talk about AI risk, do not take it seriously in my opinion. I've been having nightmares about AIs since I was kid and these have only become more frequent and more realistic the older I've gotten.
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by kypro 1y ago
I agree, but I think you're assuming a certain type of person who understands that a detailed prediction can be both wrong and right simultaneously. And that it's not so much about getting all the details right, but being in the r
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by kypro 1y ago
As someone in the P(doom) > 90% category, I think in general making overly precise predictions are a really bad way to highlight AI risks (assuming that was the goal of AI 2027). Making predictions that are too specific just opens you up
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by kypro 1y ago
- Put best 30% into a pile - Arrange 10min screening call with 20% (randomly selected from this pile) - Use the screening call to verify the individual can convincing speak to the experience on their CV, and that they are a real person from
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by kypro 1y ago
There are few things I hold strong opinions on, but where I do if they're also out of step with what most people think I am very vocal about them. I see this in rationalist spaces too – it doesn't really make sense for people to t
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by kypro 1y ago
I know we've had thought leaders in tech before, but am I the only one who is getting a bit fed up by practically anything a handful of people in the AI space say being circulated everywhere in tech spaces at the moment?
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by kypro 1y ago
I think part of the problem is that code quality is somewhat subjective and developers are of different skill levels. If you're fine with things that kinda working okay and you're not the best developer yourself then you probably

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