plastic-enjoyer

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by plastic-enjoyer 5d ago
Look, it's a nice sounding narrative with a sprinkle of truth, but it proves a lot less than it sounds like it does. There were specific reasons historical communism had such a large death toll, and it traces back mostly to the policie
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by plastic-enjoyer 6d ago
So, we have that you differ in opinions, and you'd prefer not to work with him. That's fair, you don't have to work with everyone. But if I understand you right, you'd happily build something with someone who disagrees w
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by plastic-enjoyer 6d ago
Yes, however, the adult thing would be to still work together instead of excluding the other person from whatever you are working on. So, why wouldn't you be willing to overcome this difference in opinion, and work together with this p
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by plastic-enjoyer 6d ago
> They accused me of being 'political' – the very thing an open source project shouldn't be, I'm told. It only divides people. Let's just focus on the technology. Surely we can all get behind building amazing, fa
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by plastic-enjoyer 6d ago
Yes. It is one of the most polished JRPGs, and there are no random encounters or grinding. The game can be played through in 24 hours, with optional side quests.
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by plastic-enjoyer 10d ago
I’ve never said that you don’t deserve to be ridiculed when you write human rubbish, but I haven’t claimed the opposite either. However, I do believe that you definitely and without exception deserve to be ridiculed when you produce AI-gene
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by plastic-enjoyer 10d ago
> Right now there is a lot of prejudice against AI users, and detection will only encourage that. That’s exactly how it should be. If you serve me up AI-generated rubbish that I’m then supposed to sift through, you’ve earned the ridicule
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by plastic-enjoyer 10d ago
Yeah, people on HN don't do anything for the pleasure of anything but to be productive and provide value to whoever. So, don't bet on people here understanding this mindset.
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by plastic-enjoyer 12d ago
Once again, I’m not at all surprised that tech people can’t simply enjoy the activity for its own sake, but instead impose their calculating, utility-driven mindset on something that is truly beautiful and brings people together. An absolut
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by plastic-enjoyer 17d ago
Yeah, it will be assembly line working all over again.
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by plastic-enjoyer 20d ago
> A British Comedian called Jimmy Carr made the point that up to and including WW2 the Stasi in Germany was massive What? The Stasi were an organization of the GDR, which was founded only after the end of WW2
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by plastic-enjoyer 20d ago
I think it was only after I had familiarised myself with hermeneutics that I really understood why the written word is problematic and what Socrates took issue with in writing.
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by plastic-enjoyer 23d ago
> CIA operative tasked with obfuscating the socialist origins of feminism I've read this sentence multiple times, but it still does not make sense to me
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> It's pretty amazing what you can do when you embrace LLMs, figure out how to build one high-quality rigorous project with them, and then start working on more projects. Indeed. But I think it's fair to say that just embracing
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
I think Switch Angel may be the first person who makes actually listenable music using Tidal
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> It is no wonder much more people have read the “Industrial Society and its Future” than anything by Jacques Ellul. Do you think it is because Ellul is hard to read or because Kaczynski is just more well-known for obvious reasons?
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
Somehow, I feel that progress, in your understanding of what progress is, loses all meaning.
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> Why did many high IQ tech and science people vote for their own defunding? Because a high IQ and a science degree does not mean that those people make good political decisions. A lot of political decision making is driven by ideology a
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> This misses the best use of AI in my opinion, which is to gain understanding. Whst is this bit of code doing? Is there a risk of data leaking here? Are permissions enforced downstream of this function? Do I understand when I just let A
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Writing and Reading Practices Revisited(laviniamarin.eu)
2 points by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago|0 comments
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Are You Using AI? Do Not Forget Your Whip(skyecleary.substack.com)
1 points by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago|0 comments
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
Owners of data centres don't have any skin in the game. They are not affected by the negative consequences of the data centres. However, any rise in electricity prices, environmental and noise pollution, and the loss in property value
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
>China is not “just china”, it’s a totalitarian regime without freedom if speech, without worker’s rights and without many/most of the freedoms we take for granted. Just shows the complete naive view on China, but whatever.
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> China is not far away from deindustrializing and then we all suffer. How? China is actively moving up the value chain, into EVs, batteries, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, etc. China is not abandoning industry. > It's a
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> But so is German industry - every day in the news either insolvency or workforce reduction and moving production to Eastern Europe - main reason often stated "expensive Energy". I wonder what are the stats for industrial prod
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> I mean, instead of investing so much effort to get glutamate into your food, why not use MSG directly? HN never disappoints when it comes to bizarre takes.
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
lmao, no. start paying people for FLOSS development, and maybe then we can talk about holding them accountable for their projects. as long as there are no contracts and no payment, there’s no point in making demands of these people.
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
When I take you at face value, it makes even less sense to me. If what you care about is the characters and the plot, you already have those, you wrote them yourself. That's what your 100-200 pages of notes are you mentioned in your pr
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
Yes, but then you are just an idea guy. Why bother, when you are not interested in the act of writing, or worse, don't enjoy the experience of writing at all, including the struggles that come with writing? There are no stakes in writi
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
So, if you hire a builder to implement your design, the end product is functional, i.e. it should provide you with shelter and keep you warm. The builder's craft serves a purpose beyond itself. But when you "hire" an LLM to w

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