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by martin-t 7mo ago
Have you read Coding machines[0]? BTW, that guy received an Oscar for coding. Oh, far far have we fallen since those days and how far we have yet to go... [0]: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machi
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by martin-t 7mo ago
You're not embracing it, you're forced to accept it because the nature of employer-employee relationships has a fundamental power differential which makes it exploitative. You helped build the company, you should own a proportiona
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by martin-t 7mo ago
So you're saying that the most advantaged people (who control the most money to use for advertising and who can buy companies and their network effects at will) should get the most benefit? > how a civilization is built No, civiliza
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by martin-t 7mo ago
What do you think is the end state? What will society look like 5 or 15 years down the line if somebody creates actual AGI, according to you?
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by martin-t 7mo ago
They used it against my consent. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=steal+meaning&ia=web
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by martin-t 7mo ago
I am in exactly the same boat, down to the ~10 years. Only difference is I ended up picking AGPL for my later works. Like it made a difference... The whole situation disgusts me. - They expect me to pay for access to my own stolen code. - A
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by martin-t 7mo ago
So who should the value go to?
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by martin-t 7mo ago
I see this take a lot and I think it's harmful in ways you might not realize. Even if it's true and you genuinely have nothing to hide, have nothing to lose from being profiled, there are people who absolutely do. Look at the radi
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by martin-t 7mo ago
Could transparency help? Ordinarily, a 3D scene rendered in 2D only allows you to see a cone from your eye up to the first surface the ray encounters, thus defining the 2D projection which you see. But you can make the surfaces transparent
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by martin-t 7mo ago
Technically, they'd be sleeping in a dugout where the entrance is covered by tarps and has ideally at least 2 turns to avoid the blast traveling inside (and potentially to make non-fiber-optic drones lose signal as they try to maneuver
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by martin-t 7mo ago
This is true for most militaries, of course, some more than others - see the Hague Invasion Act[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Prot...
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by martin-t 7mo ago
As per https://drewdevault.com/2025/04/20/2025-04-20-Tech-sector-re... I congratulate the employee responsible.
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by martin-t 7mo ago
A few days ago, I unchecked it, only to see it checked again when I reloaded the page. It could be incompetence but it shouldn't matter. This level of incompetence should be punished equally to malice.
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by martin-t 7mo ago
> then release the ones that are actually rehabilitated Yep. The issue becomes what do to with those who are not or cannot be rehabilitated. But maybe it would be politically tenable, after all, some places have "three strike laws&q
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by martin-t 7mo ago
> those are people who have been convicted of a crime and want to commit another one FWIW, this is why i said "anti-social" and not criminals in my original post. I think with many habitual abusers, the warning signs are there
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by martin-t 7mo ago
> And if you have a policy that doesn't even solve most of the original problem while creating several new ones, maybe it's just a bad idea? Are you saying everyone should be allowed to have a gun? Because that's genuinely
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by martin-t 7mo ago
> interpersonal viole ce should prevent you from having a gun Nitpick but violence is not wrong on its own. Self defense is also violence and should not prevent your from having a gun for next time. Defense of others or reasonable defens
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by martin-t 7mo ago
Hierarchical top-down power structures are only useful when you need to make decisions fast. Pretty much all other times, you can have a vote. As such, I don't see why an individual ("CEO") should have the power to fire worke
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by martin-t 7mo ago
Why should the collective owners even have a CEO and why should he have the power to fire people? The only way would be if they collectively decided that. There are other ways to structure the company. > 0.00001 That's a lot of zero
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by martin-t 7mo ago
I've has similar discussions multiple times. Each time it boils down to one of these arguments: a) "You're not forced to do it, you chose it so it's consensual and therefore right." b) "The value of your work i
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by martin-t 7mo ago
They get ownership. The rest is determined from that, since owners collectively decide how much everyone gets paid. (There might need to be further legal restrictions like minimum wage or tying wage to the skill coefficient used to determin
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by martin-t 7mo ago
> How is the coefficient determined? Negotiations, just like salary today, except all sides negotiate with the same leverage. > As long as there is private property, and you can sell your work for compensation And that's why I th
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by martin-t 7mo ago
> Nobody is forced to work for your business. This is the root of the fallacy - nobody is forced to work for any particular business but everybody is forced to work for some business since 1) starting a new one is more costly than workin
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by martin-t 7mo ago
It's not about stopping progress, it's about 1) making sure the progress is in the right direction 2) rewarding the people who actually made the progress possible instead of those who have capital. But of course, feel free to just
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by martin-t 7mo ago
Thanks for the reply. > reply to tweets of other people with a relevant Twitter thread I had already written I noticed I also have topics I talk about regularly and this would be really nice. Some things only need one high-effort explana
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by martin-t 7mo ago
BTW the company is part of the product. If certain work needs to be done, even if it's low-skill work, it contributes to the function of that company and should give fractional ownership according to amount worked and some coefficient
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by martin-t 7mo ago
I see this fallacy all the time. Can a 40 year old man have sex with a 12 year old girl if she agrees? What if she's 18? The first is illegal and wrong. The second is legal but most people will tell you it's at least gross. Why? B
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by martin-t 7mo ago
Just yesterday I thought about the right middle ground for KYC when buying guns. The issue with centrally registering guns is than when you country is taken over by hostile forces (whether an invading army or a democratically elected abuser
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by martin-t 7mo ago
People should own the product of their work. It's really that simple, all the inequality, injustice and exploitation that's been happening since the first industrial revolution keeps happening because people who do the work only g
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by martin-t 7mo ago
IP was the wrong tool for code from the start, it was just convenient to use because it already existed. What should be protected is human work (it and natural resources are the only things to which humanity ascribes inherent value, all oth

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