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by lucianbr 2y ago
As a user, I've had to jump through a lot of hoops like captcha, credit card number, phone number check, dns domain check etc. I've been told these are to prevent scammers making 1000 accounts. Now they tell me "well we can&#
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by lucianbr 2y ago
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/07/02/w... https://www.ftadviser.com/investments/2024/07/03/ai-will-tak... https://www.businessinsider
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> We will have to wait I seem to remember something about "justice delayed". Sure these things are complicated. But coming to a just conclusion sooner rather than later should also be a goal, not just dotting Is and crossing Ts
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Honestly I'm having a really hard time arguing that regular joes are not on the same footing with megacorps as related to "legal gray areas". It's like asking me to prove the sky is blue. Whereas of course, anything you
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by lucianbr 2y ago
So in which sense was it "hammered out"? Since not many people got in trouble for it, is it now legal to torrent copyrighted content, and to block ads? If you're claiming it's still legally questionable, then it was not
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Your position is that it can't be measured or distinguished. My position is that it can be distinguished: there's not much return on investment from ai, because it's not really intelligent. If it was able to reason generally,
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Anyone who has ever trained a model, or finetuned a model, is likely using other people's data. This is universal. It is almost everyone. Citation needed. The whole reason there's no legal trouble is that it cannot be proved
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by lucianbr 2y ago
People did get in trouble for pirating content. That you don't know any of them personally is irrelevant. I don't personally know anyone who got radiation poisoning, so I suppose radiation is not toxic? Anyway, you downloading tor
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Even if there was an LLM or something else able to do this, you also need resources, you know? Compute, storage, bandwidth etc. If you're Google or Schmidt you can afford it, but most of us not really.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
As a regular joe, try to do something legally questionable against Oracle, and then "have the lawyers hammer it out". See how much of a good place the world is in this case. The problem is this stuff is highly asymmetric. Things a
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I hate the term "serial entrepreneur". You don't call someone who makes one breakfast "chef", and if they make several breakfasts "serial chef". If you are qualified for something, you can do it any number
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Whatever 'real' reasoning is, it's more useful than 'fake' reasoning. We can't measure the difference, but we can use one and not the other. Multiple articles pointing out that AI isn't getting enough ROI
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Blaming Stallman for that is some olympic-level mental gymnastics.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It's funny how this guy, as most rich business types, thinks he actually knows everything, and he's an expert in all domains. What the hell does he know about war? He's not a general or admiral or something. Of course he imag
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Maybe? Every day it seems clearer that Stallman is right. Mouse subscription? Windows displaying ads in start menu and recording everything you do? How many devices have become useless when the servers shot down, or games became unplayable?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> architects should be replaced by a competent employee who will do actual work To me this sounds like "police should be replaced with citizens not breaking the law". It would be great, except it's impossible.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Delivery deliver deliver, all the time, features forever. This is the mindset, and a huge problem. But Agile does not cause it. (Or solve it, of course.) Money causes it. Features bring money, more than other things, most of the time.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
All I said was that blaming "bad managers" is not a solution. The rest of "my thinking" is just imagination on your part.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Control systems are a special case, where there is indeed no constant change. And there are more special cases like this, of course. But for most software, the customer keeps changing his mind and requesting new or different things. This in
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> This meme that "Agile is evil", needs to die. No, people, you've just had really bad managers If the bad managers are outliers, then fine. If the bad managers are the norm, then we need a way of working that fits the ave
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> making money is not equal to building good product I think in most cases, building a good product makes money in the long term. In the short term it might be possible to make money despite having a bad product, but as soon as the short
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Evolution has no further use for him, so his life is forfeit. In fact, survival of the progeny may be advanced by getting rid of the old folks. I think this shows that in species where the male does not die promptly after mating, there
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I'm sure I read multiple times that the universe is finite. Both in space and time. Not that I agree with the "infinite life destroys all meaning". Just nitpicking.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Do people really think that death is optional, and the problem is that we're opting into it?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Sounds like the sympathies of the majority of the voters play a significant role, and not only the "advocates", as the other commenter suggested. Or at least as I understood it.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
But why are the homeless "advocates" such a force? Don't the rest of the people living and voting in the city outnumber them by multiple orders of magnitude?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
There's a theoretical limit of 1400 villages in the entire country at that size, and that's assuming zero population in cities. I don't see how it can be true. If a village has 1 mil, then China is probably entirely made up o
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by lucianbr 2y ago
This definition of Turing-completeness is useless, as nothing in the universe is infinite. Well, maybe the definition can be used for some Hilbert hotel kind-of-stuff, but I would any day prefer a definition that distinguishes some software
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> No, that's a meta-democratic vote, not a democratic vote. Now whoever decides which votes are democratic and which are meta-democratic is the de-facto ruler of the country, and elections are just a show. Any time you don't li
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Bad things happen all the time. US school shoothings are a regular occurence.

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