oblio

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by oblio 5d ago
> That's a main advantage of running your own local claw setup using your residential connection -- difficult/impossible to block. https://aws.amazon.com/waf/features/bot-control/
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by oblio 5d ago
I think at this point there is also lots of wild enthusiasm and not that much proof mass-agent anything + orchestration is actually financially viable or even useful.
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by oblio 5d ago
I love how I don't even know how many years after they were created mainstream languages haven't yet figured out that the only sandboxing that works is default deny, like Tcl or Lua. Especially with autonomous agents, it's th
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by oblio 6d ago
Touchy OpenAI employees? :-)))
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by oblio 6d ago
> Yeah, it is extremely sad. It's why we're currently in the process of going extinct. We're not going extinct, LOL. We're more resilient than cockroaches. As a species we will survive nuclear apocalypse, climate chan
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by oblio 6d ago
And before that we had PHP apps and VB apps, etc. Most code didn't have tests, most code wasn't version controlled. Functionality was much more limited, lots more stuff wasn't available on Linux. Yes, we lost speed and resour
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by oblio 6d ago
That site's interesting, but it would be super helpful with some summaries of the stories and maybe of the comments. Though I imagine that would make it a LOT more expensive to host.
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by oblio 6d ago
You've been here 8 years, so... you're just as much part of the same herd as me :-)
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by oblio 7d ago
As OpenAI's IPO troubles seem to indicate, that's an OpenAI skill issue.
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by oblio 7d ago
https://youtu.be/KHbzSif78qQ?si=xWprUIdcae2uo1jd
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by oblio 7d ago
I agree completely.
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by oblio 7d ago
> Code was nosediving before AI badly. What? What are you comparing this pre-AI 2020s code to? 90s and 00s code for sure was worse.
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by oblio 8d ago
Next time can you please start with stuff like this: "Climate change? Lmao." so that everyone reasonable can ignore you? The science beihnd climate change is accepted by freaking BP and Esso.
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by oblio 8d ago
Edit: There.is.no.hope.reality.has.left.the.building. Oh, well, I guess I'll just wait for the bubble to pop for the over-excited SF fans to cool down. I'm having a TON of flashbacks about cryptocurrency discussions.
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by oblio 8d ago
> Should we have scrapped it all, called it a crime against humanity, and never developed AI, because it will take a decade to disseminate the benefits to everyone? Nah, we should have: 1. invested less, in a more targeted way 2. ideally
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by oblio 8d ago
> It is called PROGRESS. There is no such thing as PROGRESS for progress' sake. And FYI, agriculture is a wonderful invention. Yet for about 5000 years after its introduction the average human had worse nutrition than the average hu
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by oblio 8d ago
> Free versions are abundant, Awesome, can I make my own competitive LLM, just like I can make my own open source software? > and in some time useful models will ship preinstalled on all mobile phones. Considering hardware prices, tha
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by oblio 8d ago
Scale matters. The average human doesn't do much on his own, and definitely doesn't uproot society or risk siphoning/leeching wealth from every person on this planet.
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by oblio 8d ago
No it's not, and I've been here more than a decade.
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by oblio 8d ago
The US and the other new world countries were populated by kicking out the locals over centuries in a time when land and housing were cheap and demand for unqualified labor was huge. None of those conditions apply anymore.
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by oblio 9d ago
Gary, Indiana. Large parts of Northern England. Large parts of Scotland. Walloonia in Belgium. Northern France. There are LOTS of regions where the people living there have never recovered after deindustrialization. We cannot expect million
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by oblio 9d ago
> People are losing jobs left and right due to AI There is 0 actual data supporting thus.
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by oblio 9d ago
In general, no? But they should help with this part: > Launching kernels manually is an error prone PITA which I believe is the principle reason for CUDA's popularity.
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by oblio 9d ago
Meh. It's not like we forgot how to make copper wires for landlines. We'll be fine. We'll live more or less like in 1880 or 1920, it's not a horrible life. I do hope we get to keep antibiotics, though.
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by oblio 9d ago
I meant LLMs :-)
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by oblio 9d ago
The real problem is that the human is only seeing dollar signs.
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by oblio 9d ago
FYI, the world is a lot more decentralized than we think and even during the Dark Ages, guess what, that was happening in Europe and many places in the world were booming scientifically, technologically, etc.
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by oblio 9d ago
> LLMs will probably be nearly or actually AGI What if they don't? > This will become even more important once we have AGI. What if we achieve AGI in 50+ years? Should everyone live in this Kafkaesque world until then?
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by oblio 9d ago
> Of course, that opens the can of worms to whether schools should allow students to use AI... We are starting to see results indicating cognitive decline due to AI in education, so no, we should do everything possible to ban it except f
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by oblio 9d ago
> Having the compiler give an error when you mess up is a huge benefit. Shouldn't this be alleviated by the current code generation machines?

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