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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Maybe it's just me, but if I were in such a suboptimal defensive materiel position, I would try diplomacy first. Such a nice thought. I wonder why they didn't do it? They must just be a bad, warmongering people. Oh wait, almo
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> They're attacking US/Israel assets in all of those countries. What US/Israel assets are in Afghanistan? > Just today the US told all US citizens to leave Iraq. Isn't that pretty standard practice when there'
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Given that assumption, as obviously flawed as it was, signing on to a ban was cheap PR (literally cheap, too, because it meant they could divest those weapons and their delivery mechanisms to reduce defense expenditures). Doubly so, si
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The expectation that "Parenting" is now outsourced to Teachers, to the Government, to anyone else. People seem to expect they just have a kid, and somehow magically they'll grow up to be a perfect person without any work
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Source? It's common knowledge that most European countries weren't meeting their NATO defense spending commitments for a long time. I'm still not sure if they do even after the post-Ukraine increase in defense spending
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> This is why I'm never giving a penny to OpenAI again, now matter how much damage control Altman tries... Altman is like Musk: he showed his true colors long before the current politically-inflected drama. Musk was over-promising
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> There's a deeper message here. I believe that countries around the world are moving towards a stance that the US is an unreliable partner and that their national security depends on not being reliant upon the US. That's not a
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Because some people committed treason and gave the technology to the Soviets. American big business is pretty much doing that every day, handing over technology to increase China's manufacturing tech level. Pretty soon China won&#
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Starlink is apparently 65% of all active satellites, it would be very expensive to emulate that without super efficient launching capabilities. But does a military really need that many to get the necessary capability? Would a smaller
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Dean Ball made this exact point on the Ezra Klein show a few days ago. I always thought laws would get more just with perfect enforcement -- the people passing mandatory sentencing laws for minor drug offenses would think twice if thei
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> is well loved by everyone who participates (except management). So? The only people who matter are shareholders and their proxies (management). To everyone else: you don't matter as much as you think you do, quit being selfish a
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If your email is on the commit, you are responsible. Humans shouldn't exist as whipping-boys for machines. It's a cop-out for shitty technology. People weren't designed for continuous passive monitoring and do really poo
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> My only caution is that good writers and LLMs look very similar, because LLMs were trained on a corpus of good writers. Good writers use semicolons and em-dashes. Sometimes we used bulleted lists or Oxford commas. No, only if you overs
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> We're going to add that. I've resisted adding reasons-for-flagging for years, but even I can change my mind every decade or so. You need a reason that means "this person is talking about something helpful that an admin n
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Thought and creativity won't be averaged away because human beings have a drive for these things. This just raises the bar for it. And why not? We get complacent when not pushed. The why not is: human beings are valuable in and of
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. Where's the curiosity about this world-changing technology? As all the CTOs have recently said: AI use not an option and it must chan
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> It's obvious that the author doesn't mean THAAD but Patriot That's a bit sloppy.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Seems like, the kind that will award a $70 million contract to a guy with a hotmail address. Why do you mention something like that without providing a link? It anyone's interested, it's the "Cyber Apex Solutions, LLC&qu
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> This is what happens when you replace the guy that knows his stuff witht a dude you know from the club. A guy with a hotmail address hasn't been to a club in decades .
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Software engineers are laborers. If you're a capital owner, a laborer is something that weights down your returns. > It's not rocket science. It's far above the heads of many supposedly "smart" software engi
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> “Competition is for losers” - Peter Thiel > Thiel is an idiot Sounds more like he's selfish, perhaps to an unusual degree. Monopoly is great for the monopolist. For everyone else? Not so much.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Feed vibecode to GitHub so the LLMs coprophagically train on their own slop. Someone needs to build an easy to run AI agent that does that automatically, maybe with strategically bad choices (like complex no-op tests, bad algorithms, i
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If what you describe happens (33% cut to salaries) then the bar for your own startup to be worth it is suddenly lower. That sounds like a material reduction in quality of life. Running a startup seems like it would entail way more hour
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by palmotea 8mo ago
With all we've been learning from stuff like the Epstein emails, it would have been nice if someone had leaked this data: > 46.5 million chat messages. From a workforce that uses this tool to discuss strategy, client engagements, fi
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> it's just that there's a human limit on how much garbage they can type out in their allocated time. Another example where removing friction and constraints is a bad thing.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I don't get how AI fits in here. Software already had massive scale. You aren't replacing a massive data entry team with AI, you're replacing a reliable piece of software written by a human with a reliable (?) piece of s
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. > The online retail giant said there had
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The cumulative license fees required to properly compensate all artists is so absurd that it will probably genuinely burn down the entirety of global economy if paid. That's kind of an interesting concept: "since the scale of
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> It's not at all obvious whether copyright net protects or destroys the little guy. It's super obvious, unless your perspective basically stems from someone who was mad they couldn't BitTorrent a ton of movies. I mean, FF
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> In practice, IP law tends to be an expensive weapon the wealthy major corporations use against the little guy. Deep enough pockets and a big enough warchest of broad parents will drain the little guy every time. Then fix that instead o

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