ninjagoo

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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> In a mathematical model of collective intelligence I think we need to also include a "productive use" factor. The total brain power of our species might be higher than in the past based on a summation, but how much per-capita
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> I see no indication that current human intelligence is at anything close to a historical pinnacle. Human knowledge, yes, but intelligence? No. Collectively, we're dumb and trending dumber Just mathematically speaking, coll
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> machines ultimately can't replace everything humans shape with their hands. What about 'machines' with hands and human-level cognition?
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> Turing was half right. Pass his test and you haven't proven a machine can think — you've proven it can make us think it does. When GPT3.5 first came out it became clear that the Turing test was obviously deprecated in the age
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> Is this Hacker News or rather Marketing Wars? No public forum is naturally immune to the spread of (guerilla) marketing. [1] [1] Internet Rule #48
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> I wish I could understand the appeal of using Claude Code inside VScode rather than Copilot MS thinks CoPilot is the Clark Griswold of LLMs when it's really Cousin Eddie...
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> archive.is is one of the domains of archive.today, which used its end users for a DDOS attack on a blog. Please provide evidence for your claim. The wiki rfc [5] that you linked doesn't provide any DDOS evidence at all, which is o
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> wish I could share your optimism, but no recent event in the world affairs can help with that for me. What about Ukraine holding Russia back, and now looks like it might actually win? What about the most recent additions to NATO. Hung
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> Their purpose isn’t to be helpful. They're there to sell you something, and nothing more. Any semblance of helpfulness is misinterpretation and merely coincidental. Maybe it isn't quite as black & white as that? What abou
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> These all are valid, noble points I also used to brood about while being young and financially supported by my parents. Ah, the proverbial silver spoon. Sadly, I never had that luxury. If you look through my comments, you'll notic
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
Many folks are upset about the supplanting of human effort by ai. Umanwizard voiced this valid concern below [1], but his comment got downvoted, unfairly, IMHO, instead of just being addressed. So putting out at least my response as its own
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> I think when your work is no longer required i wonder if this is physically/mathematically impossible: the mere act of living involves processing energy, and therefore doing work :) And there is a lot of energy to be processed in
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> the closer the expertise you spent your whole life building is to being worthless. Perhaps it is time for life to be considered intrinsically valuable, instead of being "worthy" only based on output or capability. Disability,
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> Bitcoin has been the currency of crime Like, say, cash, or check, or wires, or any other payment mechanism?
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> Why is everyone obsessed with US military Shock of the unsavvy
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
This is quite the, ahem, coup, for Bitcoin. I suppose it was inevitable in a fractured world. This will likely delay, or perhaps even block Pax-Sinica from taking shape. It's quite the achievement, that the inventor(s) of Bitcoin have
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> Much of the post-WW2 American-led world order was founded partially on the United States using its military to keep international waters open. This completely ignores the MAD era and the Soviets taking over Eastern Europe by force. It
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> most executives do not have an information/network security background but do have privileged access to extremely valuable information, even if an attacker just has access to their email. In a properly structured organization, of
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user That would be a capable 'personal assistant', or 'executive assistant', of 'chief of staff&#x2
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> I’ve had it for my blog for years Just out of curiosity, why don't you want your public blog archived? not questioning, just trying to understand the logic/motivations? Also, I think you're being unfairly downvoted.
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
> I think you would be surprised how many commits in OSS comes from paid workers of the various cloud companies and tech companies out there. And I think the value that various cloud companies and tech companies derive from open source
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by ninjagoo 5mo ago
Is anyone tech-savvy going to actually let any tool with this backend run on their personal PCs? Any app with this behind the scenes is a non-starter for me. And anyone think that all those folks ditching Win11 will be going for or recommen
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Will accept a (my) backyard landing as evidence :-)
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> this is mostly to help my wife who has a brain injury Sorry to hear that. Hope things get better. Don't know if your wife's case fits, but the brain has a lot of plasticity; fingers-crossed. > my washer and dryer love to l
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Finance folks reached out asking if they could vibe code their own app using Copilot/Cursor/Claude for finance planning purpose. Having worked with these finance apps (Hyperion, Axiom, Workday etc), they're very data hea
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> how much time is left on the cycle Ooh, new requirement! Set timer on phone when setting timer on machine...
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> pointing a dumb webcam at my washer and dryer so I can tell if they're done without running up and down two flights or stairs). I just wanted to be able to look at the whole scene and manually pick the ROI to extract and display o
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> This is a core tenet of the Rawlsian religion, of which you are a (probably unwitting) fanatic. Ouch. How warped does one's thinking have to be to call " A theory of justice " (1971) for pluralistic, democratic societies
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
>> Are you claiming to have controlled where and to whom you were born? > My parents did. Their parents did. My children will. But not you >> you did not earn them > My parents did. Their parents did. My
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> "calls me out"? i.e., as a member of the group of people represented by the statue?

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