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by pembrook 5mo ago
Yes, the craft to mass production pipeline (democratization) is frustrating for the individual craftsman, as has been true for hundreds of years. AI is simply the assembly line for the digital realm. It takes the trendy products of the rich
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by pembrook 5mo ago
> verified, vetted information that LLMs can trust blindly. Possibly that's what deals like the OpenAI / Atlantic one are about Except, the Atlantic does very little (if any) fact-based hard news and does very little investig
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by pembrook 5mo ago
It is similar in Germany, where you can be arrested for simply posting an insult (non-violent) to a politician. No police will face charges if you aren't convicted. And you will NEVER get a settlement. I don't know why HN has beco
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by pembrook 5mo ago
I've been saying this for the past year or so. Something happened during the pandemic where too many normies got hired into tech and then started larping around here. The quality of comments here is now just emotional mainstream nonsen
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Can just re-title this to: "[Company] forced to follow local laws where it operates as always has been the case" Meta also had to block legitimate coverage in the US during the Covid pandemic because it conflicted with whatever
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Again, the amount of money “sloshing around” in US based VC funds is again due to policy decisions made by the US. By having a diverse set of private pension funds and endowments as LPs this is what funds the VC ecosystem. France vacuums up
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by pembrook 5mo ago
You do understand if every person in Malta were to use chatgpt regularly it wouldn’t even show up as a blip on their MAU chart Cue up the next cynical bad take.
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by pembrook 5mo ago
I’m sorry, but while I’m sure there’s a few people on earth who have intentionally done this…to imagine its happening around you all the time vs people being just lazy about issues on their vehicle…is quite frankly lunacy. It’s always fasci
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Yes raising the barriers to what we consider harm is a good thing. Also, nobody is talking about harassment, that's already illegal. In modern developed economies we don't have a problem with the barriers to harm being too low. We
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Glad to hear a false comparison to something that's actually physically/chemically addictive really resonated with you (a.k.a. affirmed your already existing beliefs in this moral panic). If we step back and look at this rationa
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by pembrook 5mo ago
It absolutely is not, power infrastructure throughout the US has been massively under-invested in for decades. Nobody wants to admit this though because they hate AI and what it represents more than they want to rationally think about infra
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by pembrook 5mo ago
You're kidding yourself if you think people are laying down in front of bulldozers out of concern for trivial maintenance costs on under-utilized grid capacity.
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Fear of change due to AI, masquerading as concern for the one thing about technological progress that a local city council has the power to obstruct: building physical buildings (classic NIMBY-ism). Basically every AI company using "ca
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by pembrook 5mo ago
What argument? You're the one that needs to argue the presence of harm, given you're the one arguing we need to create a surveillance dragnet to shield certain age groups of humans from witnessing how their species procreates. The
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by pembrook 5mo ago
You seriously think Russia's state services are not compromised by intelligence? Also, yea, no anonymity is the problem. Why would you want your government to be able to track every single website you've ever visited -- especially
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Just this year, France government ID system hacked: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/french-govt-confirms-...
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by pembrook 5mo ago
> if the government ID service has appropriate 2FA and security. You're kidding right?
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by pembrook 5mo ago
This could possibly be the most cringe piece of coastal elite content I've ever read. Aesthetically-minded hipster writes a think piece on reluctantly aging out of high school fears of being "uncool," finally grows up and has
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by pembrook 5mo ago
No, it’s not. Companies have to pay taxes where they operate regardless of what state they incorporated in. Stop spreading populist internet bullshit. Incorporating in Delaware is like 95% about being in a predictable legal framework for an
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by pembrook 5mo ago
So you believe clinically diagnosable Anhedonia and ecstasy withdrawal is...similar to what happens if a teenager isn't allowed to watch tiktok for a few days...hrmmm. I'm just astonished how hard all of the supposedly rational en
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by pembrook 6mo ago
No, I'm not. The median child of a social media user (so basically, the median child) is vastly more well off than the median child of a heroin/crack cocaine user and its not even close. The fact you're suggesting some level
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by pembrook 6mo ago
Not sure if you're aware opioids and crack exist.
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by pembrook 6mo ago
> It was like 300 million junkies all lost their drug supplier at the same time. No, it was not. It was actually nothing like that. No babies were left to die because their parents were out searching for tiktok clips. I saw no people w
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by pembrook 6mo ago
Litigating the semantics of a word doesn't get us anywhere closer to defining the limits of personal responsibility. You'd like the goalposts to sit closer so its easier to offload responsibility onto abstract external entities. I
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by pembrook 6mo ago
Everything is an addiction. Nothing is an addiction. Instead of jumping down a semantic rabbit hole, it might be more useful to look at specifics since obviously its a spectrum. I can say with certainty that opioids are addictive. I can als
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by pembrook 6mo ago
I'm no defender of engagement algorithms and social media (including upvote based algos and this site too)....but this is a ridiculous argument. Social media is not making you behave in ways you don't want. On the contrary, it&#x2
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by pembrook 6mo ago
> Lots and lots of gadgets with removable batteries and waterproof design as evidence. And this is a BS rebuttal. None of them achieve the same miniaturization and water tightness as iPhone. This law is basically government being co-op
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by pembrook 6mo ago
But it essentially shows the same thing, the covid overhiring boom and then layoff cycle post-covid is over. And jobs are rising again. What’s absolutely mind blowing to me though…the idea AI isn’t causing software engineering jobs to colla
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by pembrook 6mo ago
Obviously no. AI is nowhere near as ubiquitous as the microwave so adoption is still scaling. But as chips improve and the algorithms improve (eg. a paper just came out about getting the same results with 90% less inference using a few algo
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by pembrook 6mo ago
My guess is that's off by a bit, but sure let's assume that's true. Now measure the amount of electricity the same prompt will use in 6 years when both algorithmic efficiency and 3-4 generations of silicon lower that by 95% (

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