nice_byte

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by nice_byte 3y ago
> the idea that AI-driven dispossession is necessary and preordained to sanctify the wisdom and virtue of its creators seems to already be taking hold I am not seeing that anywhere. Most of what i see is astounding naivety like in your
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by nice_byte 3y ago
Yup. Mark my words, there will be paramilitary units blowing up datacenters. Not that it'll help their situation much.
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by nice_byte 3y ago
"we should be encouraging the next generation to become neo-serfs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348353&p=3#35363829
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by nice_byte 3y ago
do people enjoy working this way? wasting time verbalizing your thoughts, stating the obvious, wordsmithing to get the thing to "understand" what you _actually_ want?
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by nice_byte 3y ago
> Isn’t being friends with your neighbors a far more obvious answer to this? you don't get to choose your neighbors...
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by nice_byte 3y ago
I mean, you can do that. that's what most normal people already do anyway. the bulk of audience on this website is not really "normal" though...
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by nice_byte 3y ago
even before this, i've often thought about machine learning methods as lossy compression schemes at their core. llms to me bear a striking resemblance to how my own human memory works - you have to "jog" it with a prompt, the
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by nice_byte 3y ago
that is assuming there are still tasks that robots are not good at, which I predict will remain the case for a long time. without those, humans just become unnecessary biomass. anyway, if you expect some part of these fantasies to come to p
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by nice_byte 3y ago
> If robots do everything a person can do for zero marginal cost, then the we are in a post-scarcity utopia, why is that bad? because you have exactly two use cases under that "utopia": backbreaking labor that robots aren'
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by nice_byte 4y ago
> You are basicallt demanding that parents obtain prior permission from their offspring for them being born before conception. Are you sure you replied to the right thread?
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by nice_byte 4y ago
> he and they deserve immense respect and credit for bringing in this new AI age. Why? Who asked for it? I think that if openAI's breakthroughs never happened, we would not be any worse off (actually, we'd probably be better of
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by nice_byte 4y ago
you're assuming the transition would be abrupt enough to trigger a revolution. most likely that wouldn't be the case - if ruling class plays their cards right, they'll boil the frog, and all revolutionary potential will be de
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by nice_byte 4y ago
i didn't say it would get abolished, more like wither away. here's a possible path to it: 1) school program getting progressively dumbed down; 2) fewer and fewer people choosing to continue education after school. continuing educ
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by nice_byte 4y ago
> In the next 10 years, AI/robots will generate wealth at an unprecedented scale. Food, clothing and shelter will be plentiful. Anyone who believes in the possibility of post-scarcity society must be either naive or trolling. Someth
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by nice_byte 4y ago
Yup. I don't understand why people choose to rag on Microsoft when literally everyone else who has something to sell you besides the OS itself, does this. Maybe it's because Windows is from the era when MS was not a services compa
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by nice_byte 4y ago
I don't see anyone throwing a hissy fit about the "finish setting up your iPhone" prompts. I also don't see anyone worried that you can't uninstall YouTube or chrome from your pixel phone. However, here I see MS get
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by nice_byte 4y ago
from the title, I thought these would be ads for third-party products. it actually is just prodding to install/use ms's own stuff, so it's a nothingburger.
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by nice_byte 4y ago
so I have to use slack at work, and my social interactions with friends, family and acquaintances are split across fb messenger, telegram, slack, discord, skype, WhatsApp, google chat, SMS, twitter dms and probably a few more I'm forge
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by nice_byte 4y ago
even with the examples on the landing page, the regexes generated for the emails are not really usable. it needs way more examples to produce the right thing. even though I doubt most production code uses the actual, correct, rfc-compliant
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by nice_byte 4y ago
don't worry, generative models are coming after music and videogames too. hope you really like gardening...
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by nice_byte 4y ago
but... this has nothing to do with what parent is talking about...
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by nice_byte 4y ago
no it doesn't. there is no financial reward from having a deposit in a bank, and therefore there should be no risk. the measly interest that a savings account pays shouldn't even be considered. we are _forced_ to use banks because
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by nice_byte 4y ago
same here. often times it's not even _wrong_ per se, it doesn't do what i was _actually_ asking. it's like if you asked an enthusiastic intern to do a thing for you, except interns are smarter. I have also tested it retroacti
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by nice_byte 4y ago
Okay, what if we flip the problem on its head? Try to make the chatbot seem rude and unhelpful but then it turns out it has a heart of gold?
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by nice_byte 4y ago
what I do in similar situations is drag them down to my level. make the other party explain themselves and break the idea down into smaller and smaller bits until you can process everything. sometimes this actually helps _them_ see the erro
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by nice_byte 4y ago
the alternative in c is something like glib's array container which hides types. I dislike that more.
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by nice_byte 4y ago
til the Linux kernel has no meaningful complexity
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by nice_byte 4y ago
Works if you want to e.g. skip braces if if..else... statements. Some would say putting braces in always is good style, but I like skipping them myself so won't defend it :)
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by nice_byte 4y ago
just don't initialize it with 0 capacity :-)
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by nice_byte 4y ago
no reason for it to ever cross abi boundary.

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