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by ori_b 4mo ago
I took a quick look at the source: // Fire view events (e.g. unlock_prompt_viewed) for any monetization prompt // present in the freshly loaded page. data-analytics-view-events is a JSON //
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by ori_b 4mo ago
I was definitely reading articles online by the age of 13. This is not exactly a small part of the discourse. I'd expect, at this point, it's rather hard to avoid hearing about AI and its impact.
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by ori_b 4mo ago
Do you think they're too illiterate to read what industry leaders are saying? I assure you they're not.
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by ori_b 4mo ago
Banning it in classrooms isn't going to fix things, not when adults are broadcasting to students that (in the actual words of Sam Altman) "intelligence will be too cheap to meter", that (in the words of Darius Amodei) half of
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by ori_b 4mo ago
"but where are the instances?" is asking "if Bluesky the company disappeared or turned evil, would there be a Bluesky network that kept going?".
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by ori_b 4mo ago
> Are brainjobs more important than musclejobs? Try answering that without your brain. We're trying to build a world where there's no advantage to having one, so start living in the future you want to build.
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by ori_b 4mo ago
Given the overall effects on society, AI use is a little like setting your neighbor's house on fire so that you can roast marshmallows. Marshmallows are pretty tasty, I guess.
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by ori_b 4mo ago
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5807131/tech-worker-chi...
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by ori_b 4mo ago
Yes, "use this or be fired" tends to have an impact. A friend once made a analogy to opium: Sure, it's supposed to be addictive, but if you say no anyways, we're going to show up with gunboats.
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by ori_b 4mo ago
Maybe figure out the answers to that before forcing everyone into an economy where they still need to work to make money, but any worthwhile jobs have been automated away. The other question, of course, is what happens to the political powe
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by ori_b 5mo ago
It doesn't have to; it just has to be good enough for any idiot to operate it, and get good enough results.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
And if you want 'int **arr[a][b]', it's a value that when you say 'x = **arr[m][n]', will evaluate to an int and assign it to x. Postfix has higher precedence than prefix.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
A syntax error. You need a variable name, not a type name, in the middle.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
> ... and are we pretending that automating tasks is some strange new idea that has just appeared? Of course not. Paying people has always been undesirable for the people paying. Software has been an exceptionally cushy job for an exce
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Yes, why do you think there's so much emphasis on automating it from the management folks? It's more profitable if you don't have to treat your employees well.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
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by ori_b 5mo ago
The better AI gets, the closer it gets, yes.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
If you give up on the details, you lose the ability to do a good job on the high level structure. The entire purpose of the high level structure is setting things up so that the details fit cleanly.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
And sometimes buying a statue can be fun, but nobody calls it building a statue.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Being human is not equivalent to having money.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Interesting that you think coding just typing. Code is just a language where the problem is specified in fine detail; the biggest value proposition of an LLM is being able to hand-wave and let some other tool take care of guessing at detail
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by ori_b 5mo ago
So why would you buy it off of Anthropic?
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by ori_b 5mo ago
And you're actually excited about these table scraps that companies couldn't even monetize, rather than making something?
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by ori_b 5mo ago
And you're actually excited by the prospect of buying them from Anthropic instead of making them?
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by ori_b 5mo ago
The smartest 5% are able to figure out where they're not welcome. https://yaledailynews.com/articles/international-grad-school...
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by ori_b 5mo ago
??? This is an insane take. Once again, does hiring someone on fiverr to draw for me make me an artist?
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by ori_b 5mo ago
What did you score on the quiz? Note that a good number of the options are done by well known and widely revered artists.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
If I need to spell it out for you: no artistic 'tool' has yet attempted to automate the thought that goes into art. Would you consider someone an artist if all they did was hire someone off fiverr?
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by ori_b 5mo ago
This seems like a non-sequitur. The entire point of AI is that it's able to generalize and perform at or above human level. Let me know the next time your camera is able to simulate conceptualizing something. Or is your argument that A
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by ori_b 5mo ago
And yet, they're good enough to fool most people, which is what you're trying for if you're aiming to automate the production of art. The fact that we got there more than 2 years ago, before agentic coding was even barely use

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