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by ozmodiar 11mo ago
You'd think on a form for programmers we'd all understand that moving everything to a single thread isn't optimal.
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by ozmodiar 11mo ago
I'm assuming the joke is that what remains of them seem to be entirely on board with this.
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
Honestly, during the dotcom bubble at least workers were getting paid and jobs were abundant. Things didn't start getting bad for workers until it popped. We're supposed to be in the 'positive' part of the AI bubble and
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
I like the idea behind https://oasis-ai.org/ where you can actually try to take advantage of the 'dream logic' inconsistency of each frame being procedurally generated based on the last one. For example, instead o
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
Threads is the one really taking off. Personally I'm not thrilled at Meta and Zuckerberg increasing their stranglehold on social media, but it seems to be the way things are going.
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
As someone who lives in Canada, I can say "performs optically like snow" can be completely blinding. Still, it seems like a good idea as long as we're careful about sight lines.
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
Can confirm doing charity collection that we often encountered this. Credit card processor said there was nothing we could do about the more sophisticated attacks that used a wide range of IPs. We basically stopped them by freezing everythi
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
Originally when I started my comment you mentioned watching cable TV (since removed), but I think a lot of people forget that cable TV started out as an ad free service as well. It's just the same bait and switch over and over again. R
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
I think that as someone's power and authority grows, the risks of applying Hanlon's Razor get too high. It's best applied to peers.
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
I'm thinking less about AI training and more about having a source of (reasonably) reliable information from the net, in case AI generated fake images and generated cross referenced texts start making it too difficult to discern real h
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
So to follow my example, that would be no computer or internet until age 15. I don't know, seems harsh. I'll also have to swap my TV for a 10" one that only gets 2 stations.
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
Perhaps it's more accurate to say capitalist culture is eating its own young, due to its fixation on business culture. And I'm saying that as basically a capitalist. Not sure where we go from here.
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
I hope this isn't too contentious but I'll try to cover most things. I've posted this a few times, but I checked out 4Chan about twice in the early days and saw CSAM both times and it gave me personally a visceral hatred of t
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
I think they're distracting from the fact that it's a huge tax on the general public. You might say it's obvious, but people just don't process it the same way even though that's what a tariff is.
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by ozmodiar 1y ago
The state gets more power over you without UBI (assuming a social safety net of any kind already exists) - without UBI it needs a larger apparatus to decide how to distribute funds, and it can pick arbitrary reasons to cut off your funds. U
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
One thing they do is allow him to raise taxes on the middle class and poor, who will be paying those tarrifs, while lowering the taxes for the rich. Everyone's talking about some 3D chess when "more money for the rich" has al
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
I hate this mindset that Americans are lazy, they are usually some of the hardest working people in the globe. The wealthy are greedy, and wealth and power continue to concentrate at the top while infrastructure, working conditions and publ
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
I'd feel a lot better about it if more countries held values of free speech and democracy. If mainland China were like Taiwan, great. Unfortunately I fear those might just end up being viewed as instruments of America's decline.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
But a large degree of the exception was being excepted from being blown to smithereens during WW2, which is the kind of opportunity that doesn't usually come around twice.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
With Brexit and now this I've been thinking that if someone out there is intentionally trying to dismantle the 5 Eyes they're doing a bang up job of it. Step 1 appeal to their nationalistic or even imperial senses to make sure the
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Or how about this analogy - Google removing "don't be evil." Does it mean anything? Maybe not, but it probably signifies an internal political shift, and we might want to keep an eye out to see what it is.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
This even under sells it a bit. Trump style conservatism has turned toxic and Musk is heavily associated with its worst aspects (think the "salute"). I think a lot of Americans just don't get how angry the constant threats of
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Maybe not now. I wasn't alive for the Vietnam war but I remember saying anything bad about the Iraq war 2 was a quick way to get fired and a bunch of death threats for a few years. Now things have flipped, but you've got to keep i
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
I agree with all of this, and frankly it has me terrified for the future of humanity. With enough AI and automation you don't even need other humans, just the resources to hoard more means of production. The only rational argument I ha
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Power keeps consolidating and the only people who want to do anything about it are those that want to speed it up.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Python scripts for managing and automatically editing photos. Anything bigger and once the code reaches a certain point it starts actively breaking things, and in some cases, makes them unrecoverably worse. I have gotten benefit as a progra
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Especially considering that governments such as the UK (I know they left the EU but I'm more familiar with them than the current EU members) have a pretty grim history of exactly that.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Come on man, even chemicals react.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Well almost half of them are supporting this. Then there's that story yesterday about Erdogan banning his opponent in Turkey. South Korea just narrowly avoided turning into a dictatorship (and honestly they're still in the weeds a
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Is there a Democrat doing ANYTHING beside Bernie Sanders? Chuck Schumer is actively aiding the Republicans at this point. Where are the other Democratic leaders to rally people? Where's Kamala Harris or Hillary, I thought they were sup

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