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by oblio 9mo ago
It's at most self loathing. I'm on HN, so I'm a tech bro. Or I'm bigoted against my own people, which I'm perfectly fine with. > Why should we consider Ai access differently? Because people with money, let's
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by oblio 9mo ago
Every time I hear "democratization" from a techbro I keep thinking that the end state is technofeudalism. We can't fix social problems with technological solutions. Every scalable solution takes us closer to Extremistan, whic
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by oblio 9mo ago
Yeah, like Windows in 2026 is better than Windows in 2010, Gmail in 2026 is better than Gmail in 2010, the average website in 2026 is better than in 2015, Uber is better in 2026 than in 2015, etc. Plenty of tech becomes exploitative (or mor
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by oblio 9mo ago
> Its always been down vote city if you happen to criticize political positions that benefit libertarian technologists. This varies wildly by timezone. Usually I get upvoted during European timezones and then brace for the Americans to w
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by oblio 9mo ago
That thing is "the main competitor to Wikipedia" in the same way I'm the main competitor for the Olympic 100m race. I mean, both I and the winner have legs so it's going to be a close race, right?
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by oblio 9mo ago
> the median programmer is a junior with <5 years of experience, and they cannot write quality code to save their life It's worse, look up perpetual intermediates. Most people in any given field aren't good at what they&#x27
907.
by oblio 9mo ago
Are you claiming that LLMs are... sentient? Bold claim, Taylor.
908.
by oblio 9mo ago
Agreed. The children yearn for the mines and the 12+ hour shifts in factories.
909.
by oblio 9mo ago
No, they're probably saying you're that believer that will buy the dip.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Factory robots have almost nothing in common with humanoid robots and are probably at least 10000x simpler.
911.
by oblio 9mo ago
Really? How often and for how many people? Which ones dominate and are more frequent, flat or hierarchical? Which ones do we use for our most complex endeavors?
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by oblio 9mo ago
Your comment is wildly out of context. This specific company is now the 5th most profitable company on the planet and its FOSS projects are pitiful and 99% fully self serving.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Places like Temu are the exception and they should be banned. Garbage dumpers.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Because social animals have hierarchical social structures.
915.
by oblio 9mo ago
Kinda tells you everything you need to know about the design of the system when using it the default way is utterly unsafe.
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by oblio 9mo ago
I didn't have friends in other countries. I could however greatly enrich my general knowledge in ways I couldn't do with books I had access to.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Before LLMs it was incredibly tedious or expensive or both to get legal guidance for stuff like taxes, where I live. Now I can orient myself much better before I ask an actual tax expert pointed questions, saving a lot of time and money. Th
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by oblio 9mo ago
I'm not a big fan of LLMs, but while using it for day to day tasks, I get the same feeling I had when I first started the internet (I was lucky to start with broadband internet). That feeling was one of empowerment: I was able to satis
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by oblio 9mo ago
FYI, you seem shaken by what you saw, but I do have to point out a few things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre 1. This massacre happened 107 years ago. None of the people involved are even alive
920.
by oblio 9mo ago
It's not ideal, but the EU has 450 million people. It can probably survive.
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by oblio 9mo ago
> It’s an opportunity for other companies to take over imo. This is a feeling commonly shared here. I'd like to point out that IBM still dominates the large, billion-dollars worth mainframe market, almost 70 years after it invented
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by oblio 9mo ago
You do know that the UK literally isn't in the EU, right? A lot of your rant is really weird.
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by oblio 9mo ago
> US: "stop killing innovation" EU: " more regulation" Have you ever stopped to think that maybe a large number of Europeans look at the lack of US regulation with disgust?
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by oblio 9mo ago
> even the current administration want Sure, the US admin wants a strong US military, for example, ideally with 100% US weapons. Etc.
925.
by oblio 9mo ago
That probably requires superhuman AI, though.
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by oblio 9mo ago
The EU parliament can't propose laws, unlike any parliament in the world. The executive is formed out of national government heads of state, which can veto everything. Its judiciary and actually all 3 branches are strictly limited in t
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by oblio 9mo ago
I'm not sure I understand this.
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by oblio 9mo ago
> Jabber was big with the "federated, decentralized" crowd. Yeah, just like today, all 4 of them. Gtalk put XMPP briefly in the spotlight, but for the masses, XMPP never really lived. It was a niche protocol with very niche usa
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by oblio 9mo ago
The EU is not a government. It's a loose economic confederation. And national European governments vary wildly in their positions on this.
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by oblio 9mo ago
> region whose government is hostile to privacy Which government?

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