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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Look, you are free to worry and plan as you see fit. But IF you were going to try to do some calculus on how to live in preparation for the future, you might want to consider the unsustainable habitat that climate breakdown is causing in th
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
> It's so profoundly saddenning I understand that behavioral changes from technology can be jarring and folks will process things differently. But I keep seeing these kinds of melodramatic declarations of sadness. Were you this sad
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
It's actually a reasonable way to think about alignment. Sometimes you want the agent to just listen to you and sometimes you want the agent to think critically. I think about this line a lot. For example, as it happens sometimes you&#
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
It's good intentions. Only instead of paving the way to hell, it will pave the way to techo fascist governments. Maybe that is hell. Depends on your income bracket.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
It's uncertain what you are doing wrong. I work in Big Tech™. I will tell you that they are certainly not lying. Though maybe they are overstating how much velocity they've gotten. Or at least generously attributing llms to a refi
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
I primarily come to hackernews to get mad while reading the comments. So, entertainment I suppose.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Give pi a try if you haven't already. Avoid vendor harness lock-in.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
I agree. I run gemma4 31b int4 quant on my 5090 and find that's it's quite capable for self contained tasks. There are larger open weights models that are more capable, such as minimax and glm5.1. I've toyed with the idea of
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
I don't want to live in a society where privacy is a second class citizen, yet the prevailing sentiment seems to be "suck it up, we have to protect the children." There are plenty of things not to like about society. What&#x2
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
The only thing worst than a mega corp is an ip attorney. Your cause is already lost. Good luck enforcing whatever frivolous lawsuits you have cooking up against open weights Chinese models that anyone with newer graphics card can crank out
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
While this is definitely one of the topics of the moment. I find these threads really just ragebait magnets. A bunch of people effectively talking past one another: privacy vs preserving the status quo. It's certain now that most of th
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
The problem is that it bleeds over into every community with overzealous assholes. "Here's a thing I made", followed by a witch hunt of ai accusations and morally superior self righteous bullshit. Theres this kind of old joke
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
What the author is missing is that the world is swimming with single purpose apps that don't need to be published. An example: I do game dev as a hobby, and target the browser as the platform. Before I would shim general purpose tools
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
I accept that the poster may be feeling these things, and I'm not interested in or making a value judgement around them. All feelings are valid. Instead, I'm pointing out that it's an extreme overreaction and histrionic view
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Heads up folks: this comment appears to be 100% ai generated according to pangram.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Id argue that your dichotomy in of itself requires context. While the idea that qualia depends on contextual cues might be valuable to understand how culture evolves, it's also indicative that that these cultural phenomena evolve to pr
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Surely this will contribute to a better society.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
I recently watched my elderly grandparent (>90) degrade and die in a hospital bed. The end was horrible. The lead up was terrible. And the years building up to that were miserable. I remember thinking, "I would like to live less tha
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
You are aware that good will hunting is a movie from 1997, yes?
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
We are all where we are due to luck and circumstance.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
I would say there was a marked turning point of weirdness right around jan 31 2025
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Imo the frogs have already noticed
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
> Unless you're working in a coding sweatshop You are obviously unaware of what the silicon valley companies are asking for and commiting to.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
I don't really expect a company run by radical effective altruists / ai doomers to have good business sense. They had a decent product and squandered a lot of dev goodwill almost overnight.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Surely the mods will be here to remind you that it's against the rules to direct personal attacks towards other community members, to fulminate and brigade. Or do those protections only cover whiny open source developers upset about a
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Just stop using claude. It's easy. Grab pi, some provider with open weights, cheaper inference or a more permissive subscription plan, (openai, Alibaba, deepseek, what have you) and never look back.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Show me the evidence of the massive scale.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Posting on lesswrong is an indicator in of itself.
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
Why is nassim taken seriously?
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by potsandpans 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=48104057&goto=item%3Fi... This is, in the parlance of every day people, fucking insufferable. Tone policing and chastising is worst than the article in question. I would rather read

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