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> Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, who has been noticeably unwilling to engage in AI fanaticism, recently told the Wall Street Journal: >> You can’t say, hey, all white-collar jobs are gone and this could even be a weapon and we wi
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> We "know" all the right things to do, but time and time again, management dehumanizes the floor staff and refuses to listen. It's often not even out of malice but because that leader simply has no reason whatsoever to ch
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> Wisdom is not appreciated in our industry. Everyone in tech with a modicum of status or power thinks they got there because they're smarter than everyone else and there is nothing of value to be learned from others. Thus, our lead
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> Claude write good. > Nvidia has so much money and they can’t afford to pay a human for a day of their time to write a blog post? The shareholders desperately need that money.
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> When phrased this way, you're describing real people as well. We all have our various masks, secrets and lies. You're misunderstanding "Dick went out of the way to rub in that ... robots ... are actually not people, but
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I think the article makes a bit of a leap. The "priming" in the passage you're quoting is the depiction of robots in mass-media, cherry-picking the highly anthropomorphized hero-robots (e.g. WALL-E, Lt. Cmdr. Data, the good
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> Any mainstream consumer product based on LLMs is going to put guardrails around them of some kind. China might give you different guardrails, but it's a bit naive to assume that a Chinese company would impose fewer restrictions ov
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> Wikipedia is the wrong place for opinions Wikipedia is literally all about opinions. A huge amount of its activity is different ideological camps battling to control the narrative presented in the reference work millions use by defau
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> It's not clear to me, how Wikipedia prevents this rule from being used inappropriately to silence people. It doesn't. Wikipedia rules are often abused and selectively enforced.
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> Cyberdecks are changing for the better > I say that cyberdecks are having another wave of resurgence because the interest in cyberdecks waxes and wanes, like everything in life, there is a cycle to the ideas coming into focus and ou
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> The 1920's gilded age was fueled by fiat money, the greenback. Cite? I'm pretty sure that the 1920s, $20 was literally a gold coin of a certain size.
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>> The technical people managing the repos might just be opposed to name changing in general (seeing how a boatload of links, references, documentation would require updating, some of which you don't even control), and meanwhile
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> This is because revealing the raw reasoning exposes exactly how the AI processes information. These companies spend in huge amounts on R&D to develop a thinking process that is superior to their competition. Exposing those thinking
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>> Trump says a lot of things. It's foolish to take every outrage seriously. It's pretty clear it's just a tactic of his (albeit a dumb one). > And he has also acted on a lot of the things he has said. It's fool
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> No no, the remarks were pretty damn fucking serious. Trump says a lot of things. It's foolish to take every outrage seriously. It's pretty clear it's just a tactic of his (albeit a dumb one). > And the fact that the U
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> What allies? > You threatened to invade Canada and Greenland. > You surely don't think you're coming back from that? Trump threatened. Those were unserious remarks by an unserious person who's 80 years old. If th
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> That's where the review process comes in. > I've found the review process for these things to be far more vicious and demanding than in the real world. 1. for your software or for these "Atlantic-worthy articles"
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> Nearly every day, I get emailed a newly-launched, obviously-vibecoded website filled with AI-generated content that was designed to siphon attention away from human creators: bloggers, authors, journalists, artists, musicians, and anyo
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> There are journalists being hired to write Atlantic-worthy articles that exist only as LLM training data, because they're getting paid more than the Atlantic would pay them for it. I kinda doubt that quality-assertion of "Atl
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> AI wrote this I presume? I doubt it. The whole "The TL-DR" section seems to be written in AI-style to mock AI.
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> That mentality existed well before AI. See out-sourcing. Consumers love outsourced call centers, don't they?
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> So what this will achieve is it will reduce the number of British muggles on social media, thus bringing us a bit closer to the Good Old Days when only nerds were online. I'm fine with this. I think you have a skewed and inaccurat
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Yeah. And it's worth noting (because I'm sure some "clever" software engineer is going to quote Socrates thinking its some kind of mic drop or something), that I'm not saying change all the sudden got too fast just
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> Yes, predicting the future was never possible. True, but... > In fact, for most of the time in human history, the future looked incredibly bleak. No, the rate of change was slow enough that you could probably make a good-enough pred
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> Just a shame its a tiny bit slower than chromium based browsers still (the ui, not the web page rendering) IIRC, it's got a much smaller memory footprint.
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> The browser is my agent, not your mole. Sorry, Google says no, and who are you to disagree? Sarcasm aside: this what people who wax poetic about the market miss. In the 21st century, where products have "minds" of their own (
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> 6 months of reading literature when you don't know how to read biomedical literature isn't very confidence inducing. Come on, he's a software engineer, a little reading will give him a shit-ton of confidence.
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> almost every news website is written primarily by AI these days with a human editor to review... Source? Or is that just self-justifying speculation?
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> This is what always confuses me about the “keep up or get left behind” crowd. ... But those shouting we’ve all gotta keep up are mostly the same claiming they are building god boxes. It genuinely has to be one or the other. Something i
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448 this had >300 upvotes with a link from runtimewire.com and you didn't even criticize it then. why now? There are so many bad and false assumptions baked into your s

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