pibaker

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by pibaker 8d ago
Do you think they are household names in major Chinese labs? I don't have any insight into the Chinese AI ecosystem. But just from how they act on the English speaking internet, I don't see the influence of these Bay Area visionar
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by pibaker 10d ago
If you have a kid who ask you for a toy and you give him, and then he throws a tantrum and smashes the toy on the floor, you don't just pretend nothing happened and buy him the same toy again. Why? Because what you are teaching him is
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by pibaker 11d ago
It's crazy how much deference is given to farmers compared to every other occupation. If the garbage men started dumping the contents of garbage bags in public places I bet they will not be given a free pass.
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by pibaker 12d ago
> As a civilization, and yes that includes folks in the EU even if you are mad at the current president, we need to stop assuming we're the problem or we're the bad guys by default and start holding other countries to account.
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by pibaker 12d ago
No disagreement. It is very unfortunate that our policymakers seem to like the spectacle hurting the average person who happened to have been born in the wrong country more than going after the ones actually holding power.
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by pibaker 12d ago
For human rights violations at home and sponsorship of extremism aboard. I also believe many of our current "allies" in the region should face similar sanctions in case you are wondering.
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by pibaker 12d ago
Sanctions on Iran are justified. But I worry this kind of action will just lead to the eventual rise of an alternative tech ecosystem in the long term, probably led by china and Russia. It will be bad for us, bad for people living under tho
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by pibaker 12d ago
Big empty words are probably cheaper to produce than concise, information rich text of the same length.
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by pibaker 12d ago
Off topic, but I have always wondered if the real advantage of an AI therapist is it has little power over you and will not snitch you to the authorities if you say something "wrong." People walk on eggshells when talking to human
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by pibaker 12d ago
If you are gonna snark anyway then why ask for real human reply at all? Let's make out in the muddy, sloppy style, shall we?
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by pibaker 12d ago
There should be a law mandating government agencies to not limit their electronic communications to private third party platforms. If they post something on Twitter, or worse, Facebook, they must also provide a copy of the post on their own
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by pibaker 12d ago
I want to read stuff from twitter not because I like the twitter culture but because sometimes something happens and the only place you can learn about it is twitter. Like it or not Twitter is still the most relevant platform for tech relat
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by pibaker 12d ago
Thinking everyone who disagrees with him is a part of a coordinated campaign is just classic gangstalking delusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking
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by pibaker 12d ago
Sorry but I don't understand this line of reasoning. You worry about a smart TV going online without your permission and yet you trust it enough to keep it around your home and keep it online??? I don't mean to be rude but it so
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by pibaker 13d ago
I am generally very skeptical of AI doomsday scenarios but one thing I am worried about is some wannabe dictator telling an AI to do something that would be difficult for a human military to do. You can't order an army of humans to kil
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by pibaker 13d ago
What had he produced in the years prior to AI getting good enough for coding? All I know is he was on Zuckerberg's sinking metaverse boat for years, and then nothing else. Maybe it's him, maybe it's his employer. I don't
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by pibaker 13d ago
> This would also certainly require international coordination with China on a slowdown or pause Personally I think the country with a strictly meritocratic elite selection system that also just outright kills you if you sell weed will h
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by pibaker 13d ago
Many Americans seem to think other nations are NPCs in a video game that only exist to make the main character — the US of A — feel good. They conveniently forget that other nations have their own national interests that are often at odds w
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by pibaker 13d ago
It's East Bay, you know which bay. The cultism is in the water. One day I will say fuck it and run for president with my sole policy being fire and brimstone upon San Francisco and its vicinity.
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by pibaker 13d ago
"I can afford ferrari. I just don't want to pay the price."
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by pibaker 14d ago
I don't know how global consistency is actually useful, but I can easily think of ways it is less convenient. For example, DST starts and ends on different dates in the UK and the US. Which dates should google return when someone from
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by pibaker 14d ago
This is your opponent's lawyer speaking. Don't let business decorum and scary legal words scare you. Keep posting through it like a real thought leader!
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by pibaker 14d ago
LLMs are incredible tools if you are knowledgeable enough about what you want to spell out exactly what you want it to implement for you. The long tail of Wordpress users are, in my experience, not knowledgeable enough to come up with their
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by pibaker 15d ago
There is nothing more stigmatizing and dehumanizing than the idea that there is a class of human condition that is taboo to describe in words.
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by pibaker 15d ago
Both have sped up front end development at the cost of making half of the internet look the same.
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by pibaker 15d ago
Why are people so eager to gatekeep who gets to call others mentally ill? I don't understand it. I don't have to be a doctor to say that someone who is constantly coughing and having a fever is sick, nor do I have to be a doctor t
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by pibaker 16d ago
I wonder if GP would change his mind if he had witnessed Matt posting through the lawsuit in this very own website.
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by pibaker 17d ago
Yep. What Stallman and his friends call "free software" would not exist if not for the copyright system. The company legal team who tell you to not touch any GPL code would love to see the licensing enforcement mechanism be abolis
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by pibaker 17d ago
Is drunk driving safe if you happen to not crash the last time you did it?
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by pibaker 17d ago
What's the point of having a photo like that? Is spending time with your friends not enough in 2026? Do we must provide photographic evidence of all the fun you have been having or it did not happen?

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