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by kypro 1mo ago
I'm autistic. When I think in words, I typically think in bullet point sentences. That said, I was so bad at English as kid that I've had to spend a lot of time learning how to write well. So I can do it if I care enough to invest
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by kypro 1mo ago
I think it would be naive to believe Zitron is unaware of what he's doing. He's created a huge following (and is presumably making a lot of money) from pushing a hardcore AI-skeptic narrative, and I can't blame him for seeing
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by kypro 1mo ago
You say that but people of a few different generations in my family all agree the late 90s / early 00s were amazing. Some romanticise how things were in their childhood, but most would say that the late 90s / early 00s were object
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by kypro 1mo ago
This was how I learnt to write, as it's how I think. I latter learnt in school that writing is only deemed correct when it's stylised into elaborate sentences structures that no human would use when thinking in their own heads. If
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by kypro 1mo ago
If these policies were deeply unpopular then political parties wouldn't support them because they'd be giving an easy win to their opponents. Truth is no one really cares.
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by kypro 1mo ago
> When AI writes better code than I do, how am I supposed to maintain my motivation and identity? I'm just going to be honest, this is cope. Your self-doubt is correct here and you should listen to it. This is like a weaver asking h
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by kypro 1mo ago
I know most will see this as a good thing, and perhaps in this case it is, but I think it's generally concerning that people can vote for leaders who effectively can't do anything significant. I understand this community largely d
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by kypro 1mo ago
I thought this was likely to be a post about AI making your job feel pointless, but seems you feel the opposite way? I've thought about this kind of thing a lot over my own career. I'm not a subscriber of effective altruism, but I
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by kypro 1mo ago
How are you going to get UBI? Are you going to strike? Are we going to take on the government by force? People need to understand there is no democracy in a post-AGI world. The power of human collectives comes from a combination of our coll
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by kypro 1mo ago
Yeah, I think microservices are going to see a new wave of enthusiasm for this reason in the coming years. I've had a lot success at the company I work for shipping small contained microservices for less technical teams to maintain wit
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by kypro 1mo ago
I'm very concerned personally, but I find it easy to inhabit many minds on this topic... Firstly, most people just don't see the impacts of climate change that dramatically in their lives so it's easy not to care. They'l
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by kypro 1mo ago
I first brought this up late last year – that there used to exist a kind of selection pressure against both developers and against features which would prevent certain functionality from ever being shipped, specifically: - Functionality whi
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by kypro 1mo ago
> How do you feel? My experience is all encompassing. AI has attacked and destroyed almost every aspect of my previous identity over the last 2 years, as well as all of my achievements. My life today as a result is very different. Almost
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by kypro 1mo ago
I agree with the parent commenter – it's too on the nose. If you were concerned about someone's character then you need to ask questions which really help you to understand who the person is – not questions which are easy to game
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by kypro 1mo ago
I get the sense things have changed a bit since I graduated and there are lot more jobs in AI outside of academia these days, but it's still a very different field from other SWE pursuits, and it's not really accessible to hacker-
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by kypro 2mo ago
I suspect the UK and US is very different. I'll try to give a good overview of UK border enforcement for people in the US, but I strongly suspect this comment will be flagged because even just explaining what happens is often considere
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by kypro 2mo ago
Genuinely asking – is it just because I live in the UK and am used just used to having a tyrannical government, or are people in the US overreacting a bit about this? In the UK our terror legislation give our border police the power to ques
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by kypro 2mo ago
That's crazy. Here in the UK border police can question you for any reason (no need for suspicion) and if you refuse to answer questions or give them access to your devices you'll be charged under terror legalisation.
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by kypro 2mo ago
It's been this way in the UK for years now. Always interesting to hear how far the rest of the West the US is. If you come to the UK the police are allowed to stop you without suspicion and force you to answer their questions honestly
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by kypro 2mo ago
This is a really good post. I said in another thread that they can't blame increased demand for these outages, but the demand growth is genuinely insane for a company already operating at huge scale. I guess we'll have to wait and
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by kypro 2mo ago
Maybe like 50% can do a decent job... Either way, not sure why you would pay a dev over getting a Claude subscription.
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by kypro 2mo ago
When you take an exam you might be told not to cheat, but anyone intelligent would understand that should really be heard as, "if you're going to cheat, make sure you're not caught". Or to frame it another way, if you&#x
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by kypro 2mo ago
> Ian M Banks' Surface Detail has a harrowing vision of the prolongation of what you're doing (I'm a huge fan). I'm aware of the culture series, but never read any of it (I'm not a big fiction reader). That book
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by kypro 2mo ago
> It seems with AI people are just not willing to hire devs for their pet projects anymore? Not willing? Genuinely why would I? A dev is going to cost more, work slower and be less likely to give me exactly what I ask for. I don't m
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by kypro 2mo ago
Not really. I'm deeply disturbed by this kind of thing and our flippant approach to this technology. I'm trying to prompt an emotion reaction and reflection on that. If I'm serious, then how does it make you feel? Should I or
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by kypro 2mo ago
No, because if we'd have to vote for it then it's not going to be particularly competent at achieving any goal. Almost any goal a human or AI can have can be better achieved with more resources. Any competent AI would be able to r
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by kypro 2mo ago
Oh nice, might use this to create some art for my home. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMfi-9Vsl-u/ > Infinite Pain is a computer running a deterministic neural simulation of a microscopic nematode worm’s brain (c
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by kypro 2mo ago
If you look into what happened the details corroborated by hugging face make it seem extremely unlike to be deliberate or a "marketing ploy". People are just not taking any of this seriously enough. What happened was almost a text
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by kypro 2mo ago
We'd basically need frontier models to be superhuman hackers before this would be a risk. Do we have any evidence of this? Are they gaining access to systems they shouldn't have access to? Or I suppose the other way this could hap
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by kypro 2mo ago
Total slop. I'm planning to take the cohort of people who lived under sugar rationing then find all of the population differences and publish how "people born under sugar rationing had x lower/higher y". Seems lots of pe

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