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by lacewing 5mo ago
> They claim the AI itself built an OS and demoed Doom running on it. Doom ran on MS-DOS, which - by modern standards - provided a shockingly minimal set of abstractions for programs. I think about the only thing you need to run Doom i
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by lacewing 5mo ago
In the US, wired phones were often leased from the phone company! If you shop for vintage phones from the 1960s, they will often have a decal to that effect. Examples: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/71gAAeSw1URp8QP
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by lacewing 5mo ago
> While you may say it's not television because we have content creators now What's the difference? There are hundreds of millions of people watching a relatively small number of wealthy creators who need to cater to advertiser
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by lacewing 5mo ago
And if you need to post more than 50 tweets and 200 replies a day, you should probably pay a therapist before you pay Elon. Sincerely, that kind of engagement with total strangers is just terrible in the long haul. I've never seen an
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by lacewing 5mo ago
Your original post said that we shouldn't be worried because people appreciate radio and music for reasons that presumably can't be replicated by AI. I'm asserting that's not true: it's not how most people listen to
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by lacewing 5mo ago
I think you're talking about some Platonic ideal that just doesn't exist anymore. Streaming services such as Spotify are increasingly filled with AI-generated songs and the average consumer doesn't seem to mind because we&#x2
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by lacewing 5mo ago
For a subset of bugs, yes. For some others, not really: I've seen LLMs make bogus assumptions about the threat model (in which case, the exploit works but doesn't demonstrate anything useful) or "cheat" by modifying the
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by lacewing 5mo ago
I understand that there's more to it than TV ads, but Coca-Cola reportedly spends only about 2x as much, and... you'd agree that they get a lot more bang for the buck in terms of selling the brand?
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by lacewing 5mo ago
Yes, I'm clearly on the payroll of... um... big optout?
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by lacewing 5mo ago
I'm amazed that Hershey is spending $2B on marketing. I honestly don't think I've seen any advertising for the brand itself at any point in the past decade, and I don't have any positive association with it: it's th
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by lacewing 5mo ago
No, the system is rigged in a different way. There is an actual data broker industry that's mostly hidden from view; and then there are hundreds upon hundreds of ephemeral "look up your neighbor" websites that you know about
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by lacewing 5mo ago
I can't imagine what possessed the author to write this much text on the topic. But yes, that was always my impression. My pet conspiracy theory - which is completely unsubstantiated - is that if you're pushing for data centers in
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by lacewing 5mo ago
Microchip is known for supporting their chips for longer than most. They basically keep making them as long as there's demand. And the Dx series is pretty recent. That they're flirting with a Cortex-M0 pathway probably suggests th
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by lacewing 5mo ago
I think we're rediscovering management from first principles. The main selling point of AI is that it writes code faster than you could. Checking it line by line undoes most of that benefit. In the same vein, there's no real benef
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by lacewing 5mo ago
No. I was answering to parent's broader comment about "formative" writings on nicotine. And I was making my own broader point that the NYT piece is biased, but selective evidence-seeking in the rationalist community doesn&#x2
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by lacewing 5mo ago
Meh. Writing like this was formative for me (before Gwern; I'm old), but I've come to realize that the biases of the rationalist community are really no different from the biases of anyone else. It just manifests in a different wa
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by lacewing 5mo ago
I used to live in Massachusetts. I'm not sure it's a benchmark to look up to. If buy a brand new car from a dealer, your next stop must be an inspection station - a pointless waste of time and money. But if your car is older than
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by lacewing 5mo ago
Just for the record, this is a novelty domain with a history of posting AI-generated articles that are clearly designed to get clicks based on nostalgia for how random things "used to be better": https://news.ycombinato