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by martin-t 2y ago
Should new languages artificially restrict themselves based on the restrictions of their main competitor even if it's possible to serve a wider range of usecases? Dynamic can be implemented in a compile-to-native lang. Contexts with di
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by martin-t 2y ago
The amount of scripting languages _for Rust_ is a symptom of how Rust fails to satisfy the need to write code with less strict requirements. It makes perfect sense to use Rust as the main language for your application but have areas which a
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Non-AI Software Licenses(github.com)
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The elephant in the room with LLMs is that they're used to launder GPL code, reuse it without giving credit to the authors and without giving users their rights to inspect and modify the software. This repo does not yet have a NON-AI G
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by martin-t 2y ago
I fully support targeted use of violence against oppressors and aggressors but it needs to be said that materialized (as opposed to threatened/implied) violence only works if you are able to deliver sufficient amounts of it. Up until t
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I knew those protests were going to fail as soon as I heard on the news that police were throwing down their weapons and joining the protesters. The way to defeat a dictator is not by painting yourself as a defenseless victim. (That is only
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by martin-t 2y ago
This thinking is dangerous and wrong. You cannot fight against violence without violence. Violence is most effective when it's implied/threatened, before it is materialized. The goal of protests are: 1) To serve as a show of force
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by martin-t 2y ago
Yet another example how LLMs just regurgitate training data in a slightly mangled form, making most of their use and maybe even training copyright infringement.
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More people need to understand this. There was an article that explained it concisely but i can't find anymore (and of course LLMs are not helpful in this because they don't work well when you want them to retrieve actual informat
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I never had respect for programmers who call themselves software engineers without doing any actual engineering. This hype cycle and its buzzwords like "prompt engineers" just takes it to an extreme.
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Build on top of stolen code, no less. HN hates to hear it but LLMs are a huge step back for software freedom because as long as they call it "AI" and as long as politicians don't understand it, it allows companies to launder
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I wanted to say it doesn't have to be planned from the top because people naturally want to flock to a cause. But I also remembered a certain billionaire paying people to play computer games under his account to boost his stats. Paying
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Looks like it got popular and then dropped like a rock. https://hnrankings.info/43106012/ I have a suspicion there is massive (organized?) downvoting going on in the past few weeks or months but hard to prove since hn
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by martin-t 2y ago
And this doesn't even scratch copyleft. Getting credit is nice and all but i publish my stuff under AGPL because i want my users to have the right to modify the software, even if somebody else builds on top of my work. LLMs are being u
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Wrong sadly depends on perspective. When you see someone seemingly contradicting their stated goals, ask yourself if perhaps they have different, unstated, goals.
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LLMs are used to launder code under GPL and AGPL and strip its users of their rights. When I publish something under those copyleft licenses, my users have the right to see and modify the code. They even have that right if somebody else bui
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by martin-t 2y ago
> One pillar is alignment of values, and therefore intent. The other pillar is competence. That's a good point. > If we voted with {+1, +0.5, -0.5, 0, 0, 0...} weights, without duplication of non-zero values Are you describing ra
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by martin-t 2y ago
I find it worrying how often people try to pass off a court's decision as truth or in this case as proof of something entirely different. I looked at the guy's link and it actually supports my view even more. > A JDart, lawyer
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by martin-t 2y ago
> If Elon Musk really as narcissistic as you paint him, he would definitely take credit for these bans, or at least comment on them. That's like saying a liar will always lie. Real people do not have min-maxed traits, he has obvious
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So they backed down, then did the same with signal. It makes negligence less likely though since it's a repeating occurrence.
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by martin-t 2y ago
Are links to mastodon still banned on twitter? Because that was a thing after Musk took over. So much for being a free speech absolutist. You're making the mistake of taking a (communal + antagonistic) narcissist at face value. They ar
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by martin-t 2y ago
As you point out, "honest mistake" can be used by sophisticated intentional aggressors to get away with their attacks. For a long time, the advice was "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
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Not a surprise to him, he doesn't care. It's a mistake to treat people with mental disorders as having an internally consistent view of the world. Or as actually believing what they say. They are paperclip optimizers, this one opt
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This is what happens when a society allows narcissists in positions of power. It's a disease and when they refuse to seek treatment, it should make them ineligible for any leadership position, in both the private and public sector. Nob
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The terrorists kept winning and authoritarianism kept rising.
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Post-scarcity can work if everyone can say "here are me needs, they are now fulfilled, I have a happy and satisfying life". The issue is some people have a deep need to have more than others so they will always strive to have more
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by martin-t 2y ago
> it is (almost by definition) less of a problem than aggression which does cross the threshold Unless you also take into account scale (how often the person does it or how many other people do it) and second-order effects (people who fa
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I've thought about this a lot because in the past few years I've noticed a massive uptick in what I call "fake politeness" or "polite insults" - people attacking somebody but taking care to stay below the thres
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The trend is that once ML models are able to compete with humans on a task, they perform is much faster and cheaply (although very often with a much higher error rate for now). IMO thinking will be useful to some extent because the bottlene
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by martin-t 2y ago
The whole idea of developing AGI (even if LLMs are probably the wrong approach) is so strange when you think about it. The smartest people in the world are working very hard in order to make themselves completely redundant and cheaply repla

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