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by notarobot123 4mo ago
I happened to talk to a teenage relative about this possibility the other day and she said that she'd be fine with a ban. It seems that it's not as big a deal if everyone's in the same boat. Parents genuinely have a hard time
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
> How people become rich in your society is one of the most important things to understand about it. You can't let your beliefs about this be determined by ideology, or movies, or historical examples that are centuries old. The idea
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
Mass adoption trumps good design every time.
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
However consciousness is defined its evidently an emergent phenomenon. Emergent properties are real even if they are not a "thing" in themselves. Being rooted in a material reality doesn't prevent emergence of something else&
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
scruples are also often a surface of friction that get in the way of business objectives.
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
I think this is largely right. Software engineering as a stable, high-earning and in demand career is a thing of the past. Those who make it work from here are those who've changed their work completely to resemble something more like
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
discussed previously here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379664
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
This seems like a significant possibility for a rogue AI scenario and not one I'd considered before. Market competition between corporate controlled systems seemed like a self-regulating feedback loop (however imperfect) but this would
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
Why not both?
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
I've always wondered, do people who complain about virtue signaling just simply not believe in the concept of virtues or integrity at all? Human nature is pure vice mediated by violence and contract law, that's it. I get the cynic
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
Just to play devil's advocate, couldn't sending zero-day exploits to a foreign nation's intelligence service potentially cause the sender significantly more trouble.
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
Well the market clearly thinks most of us will be without software engineering jobs by the end of the decade. There's clearly enough proof that the trend is heading in that direction to justify huge capital investments.
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
Yet even those who aim to remake the state change their tune when they become the state.
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
The _social_ utility of AI has yet to prove itself a net benefit. If it increases productivity great, but what about the displaced jobs, etc. Social impact isn't measured in active weekly users.
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
The point is that most utilities like transport infrastructure and sewage treatment benefit local residents and the broader society directly. Datacenters are not utilities in the same way and have a much narrower social impact.
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
In the end, the worst part wasn't just loosing artisan jobs and destroying the market for crafted goods. The second order effect was to create a new kind of drudgery in the repetitive and sometimes dangerous work of maintaining the ope
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
We're off-topic but it's genuinely interesting that you see these as "leftist" beliefs about men. Isn't this mostly the set of views on masculinity in the "manosphere" which is very much aligned with &quot
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
You used to get a dividend from the profits based on your share of purchases from "the Store" back in the day where I'm from. That was a consumer coop driven by the demand of its members. This sounds like a re-branding of a c
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
At this point, it's worth asking whether lots of relatively straightforward verbose code is actually significantly worse than the least code necessary for the problem. Obviously, architecture matters. What might matter less is verbosi
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by notarobot123 5mo ago
but you should link to it in your bio for those of us still curious to find out what it is you built.
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
Agreed, "fully autonomous businesses" is the evolutionary next step for spam. Spamcorp services are the future. Don't resist it, that would be futile.
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
I've seen ancient codebases that you need to be blessed by a priest to even touch but they keep chugging away and having new features added. I wouldn't hold my breath for a collapse, just a quagmire that we continually have to wad
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
"The Shor of Damocles" - what a metaphor. I thought it was a typo at first but wikipedia explained: The Sword of Damocles is an ancient Greek moral anecdote, an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in pos
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
For now but not for good. Neglecting moral character works as a shortcut for maybe a generation or two. But that path leads to destruction and decay eventually. It can't last.
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
It looks like this kind of data will start to be more open in the future. New legislation introduces mandatory data standards in England: https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/22/data-standards-l...
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
Science research without obvious practical application can still be important and valuable. Art works without popular appeal can become highly treasured by some. Open source software doesn't have to be ambitious to be worthwhile and us
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
Boiling the frog is an art form. You've got to know when to turn up the heat and when to let it simmer.
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by notarobot123 6mo ago
Building SaaS businesses has become a whole lot less capital intensive. Solo founders can go much further than they've been able to previously. New startups probably don't need funding anymore. VC for conventional SaaS is dead.
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by notarobot123 7mo ago
The other advantage in physical voting is that so many people are needed to participate in the process. The probability of aligned bad actors goes down significantly when the voting process is a civic responsibility shared by volunteers who
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by notarobot123 7mo ago
I've often thought of state debt as an accruing tax collection deficit. Selling bonds (creating more of this debt) is more politically convenient than raising taxes but it digs a deeper hole and obliges the state to pay interest largel

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