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by palmotea 6mo ago
> It's an informal coalition between the alt-right, the dirtbag left, the extremely wealthy, and Russian, Iran, and China. > Basically everyone selfish and myopic enough that they'd rather upend the table than lose the game
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by palmotea 6mo ago
You know, I'm fine with this (just as long as the opt-in is one-time, not for every install). A device maker needs to balance the interests of many different groups, including nontechnical users subject to scams, and it's pretty s
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> and travellers will be able to go from London to Constantinople in forty hours By the 1930s, Constantinople been a long time gone. It had been Istanbul not Constantinople for centuries by that point.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Personally I think a lot of technology progression is long-term positive for humans because it means humans get to do something more fulfilling than rote work. It's dystopian and awful but personally, it's a shove for artists
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Preventing this from happening requires a clued-in CTO and equivalent senior level leadership who can defend against such 'attack' methods and knows the difference between, for instance, paying a monthly recurring cost to hos
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Something I read elsewhere was "if someone is using an AI avatar, they were never going to be your customer anyway". Is your point that what you quoted is false? > I used to commission avatars every year or two from a spec
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Moleskin is selling notebooks, not art. They happen to come with graphical elements, but I don't see them claiming those are art. So where is the deception? Come on, they're selling notebooks with art on them. Cheap, AI-gener
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> "There is also this notebook that features a map, which is included in the Instagram post but is nowhere to be found on the website. The map is too blurry to make out properly, but the geography looks inconsistent with other maps
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by palmotea 6mo ago
I think their next product should be a pre-written journal. > Take your AI usage to the next level, with Moleskine! It's not just a thought partner, it's the author of your deepest thoughts! > Imagined by Moleskine, generate
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I would argue that the craftsmanship SWEs see in their work stems from a necessity to be novel in order to truly make something worth putting out into the market. ... There's no real merit to making clones, whereas in civil engine
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> but in a world wherein writing code by hand (the "struggle") is "artisinal" and "outdated", this process being non-optional (which I agree with) is contradictory. > How juniors and fresh grads do that w
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Like a lot of great comedians, Odenkirk has a very grounded and bleak view of the world. I suppose a lot of art, comedy included, is a way of coping with their perspective, for themselves and for the audience. IIRC, I've heard it
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> The problem is millions of years of evolutionary wiring makes us see it as alive. Even those mature enough to understand the above on the conscious level, would still have a subconscious feeling as if it's alive during interaction
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I tell people to treat LLM's like a toddler (albeit a very capable toddler). Bbbbut a guy from Anthropic, just this last Friday , told me to think of Claude as my "brilliant coworker"! Are you telling me that's not
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> The problem is a management pattern: removing people and organizational slack because they don’t generate immediate profit, and then expecting the knowledge to still be there when it’s needed. I think that's still a symptom. The r
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> AI is all about losing every possible bit of friction, severely underestimating the value that friction brings. And it's not just AI, the removal of friction seems to be pursued mindlessly in all areas, with not even an attempt to
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Call me anti-social if you want, but facing overwhelming dissent may indicate you're the lone free-thinker in an echo chamber. Key word is : may . If you're facing overwhelming dissent, you should probably retreat and re-eva
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I am guessing the author is either criticizing people who are anti-social (in the pop culture definition) or believes he was before and after some thinking arrived at the conclusion that antisociety was not the way. But I don't fe
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by palmotea 6mo ago
The puzzling thing is why Google would try to help with that. Aren't they competitors? Wouldn't they want their competitor to have problems? It's more understanding for Amazon or Microsoft to make such an investment, because
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Unless your primary concern is "winning". That's something the OP could add to his guide: approach every interaction as a contest you must win.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
Seems like they should have phrased it differently, like "...he pilots a 4,800-pound RAM 1500 truck at more than 41 mph across through residential areas..."
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> How can I, an ordinary person, track it from Coinbase (KYC) to whatever wallet the prediction market is using to accept payment (or vice versa)." in order to link a real identity to a prediction market identity? KYC data is certai
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> How do you reconcile having worked in this capacity mentally? Not being snarky or judgemental, genuinely curious as to the mindset of someone who has been in this position. I don't work at defense contractor, but it would probably
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> at more than 41 mph across the island Is Staten Island like Hawaii, where everyone drives slow? Because they're talking like 41 mph is super fast, but to me it's not that fast at all (here the interstate is 70 mph, arterial c
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Yes, it's complicated. But I stand by my statement that many people just don't think about it...so they take jobs at places like Palantir without thinking through the consequences. > Many others do think it through and eit
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by palmotea 6mo ago
>> Isn't cryptocurrency (for the most part) very traceable > Mostly no. If you're connected it to a banking account, or other KYC platform, maybe, But if you're (say) and American betting on it, the money almost cert
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> What I've seen is that it's very easy for people to look at their work as a narrow area and to forget about the consequences of it (how it's used, what it actually does when used). Or it's a lot more complicated and
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> ...about working for a company named after J. R. R. Tolkien’s corrupting all-seeing orb. Wasn't the the problem that Sauron had one so he could corrupt the other users through the orb, but the orb itself was not corrupting?
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> The TLDR of my point is going to be that wealth concentration and information pollution sets up economies that don’t work for us in a manner that is healthy for us. I agree. Though I think it's important to understand that a capit
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> It's a sign of our times and I don't think there is much that can be done about it by anyone. Isn't cryptocurrency (for the most part) very traceable? If you make it too hard and risky for most people to participate in,

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