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by roxolotl 5mo ago
The topic at hand is market forces demanding the destruction of agricultural products. The horror of that seems very topical to me.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Nothing new here “ The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the f
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
My understanding is dang has said in the past they do some anti moderation(I’m sure he has a better term) for posts related to ycombinator. That is to say they moderate less and might, do not quote me here, even boost a tad. So upvoted stor
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
You’re missing the vital framing. You’re welcome to strawman the strawman but the respond with yet a third: “I’m not able to pay for it and will die as a result”. I’d prefer to live in a society where we avoid as many situations like that a
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Not op but I also agree with the framing assuming you add “and they provide a vital service” to both. If a vital service is being used to extract profits it should be regulated so that equal access to the vital service can be provided. If a
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
A lot of the comments in this thread are ignoring his primary point. He's not saying pattern matching doesn't equal consciousness. He's actually saying something more fundamental. He's saying there's no reason to be
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Yea a while a back I read an article which had a quote something like “what happened to weather prediction has happened to language.” Which is an oversimplification on both sides but if you think LLMs are conscious there’s good reason to th
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Yeah came here to say the same thing. While last year might have been a bit chaotic, this as well, I highly doubt we were as close as it is possible to come to nuclear apocalypse without getting one. This seems like a completely useless met
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
It does? The disclosure even says the concern for single user systems is very low. If someone has access to your single user system, remote or otherwise, you’ve already lost on the sort of device people would be switching from windows to Li
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
It helps with sales because they position it as “we can give you the power to end the world.” There’s plenty of people who want to wield that sort of power. It doesn’t have to be 4D chess. Maybe they are being genuine. But it is helping sal
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
I read Grapes of Wrath recently on a recommendation from a friend and it’s one of the few great books I’ve read and felt was genuinely great. It feels incredibly relevant today with both inequality and automation. Would highly recommend it.
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
I’ve been wanting to follow this tutorial for some time. I think this might make the whole thing way simpler and smaller if all I want is line in. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/upcycle-a-sonos-play1/
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
I agree there’s a lot in the comments here that are right. Yes people are chasing ideals that probably aren’t worth it to chase. Yea money for the sake of money is a bad idea. But the reality also is a lot of what had been built has been ac
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
> Someone once said that SF is a town of extremely high sincerity, and all of its modern and historical weirdness Not directly related to the piece but this explains so much. I’ve always seen it as high credulity. That is to say all lots
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
I’m reasonably convinced this explains basically everything currently attributed to social media, for children at least, and likely can also help explain some concern around birth rates and child rearing costs. Starting with the satanic pan
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
They have audio samples if that’s what you mean. The ones from where I grew up were spot on but rare even when I was growing up in the 90s. https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#AudioFilesOfLocalDialects
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
This is very well written and told. It’s worth reading all the way through. > If you try to refute it, you’ll just get another confabulation. > Not because the model is lying to you on purpose, and not because it’s “resistant” or “def
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
They’ve gotta be feigning it right? I just don’t understand how you could be so out of touch with what happens when wealth becomes this concentrated. This isn’t the first go around at this.
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
A hell that’s been widely documented in fiction as well. That’s the part that’s so wild to me about this. None of this was unseen. Across every medium the extreme commercialization and general collapse of the social contract due to AI has b
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
I’m reasonably convinced this is the best argument against LLMs. It’s the same reason Open is in OpenAI’s name. The understanding that centralizing the ownership of these tools is going to transform the world is widespread. That’s why the i
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
This will probably get flagged but it’s a good example of how any industry as powerful and global as the tech industry is inextricably with the political fates of the world.
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
Right exactly. The point is that dictionary definitions don’t always align with cultural ones.
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
I’ve got many catholic relatives that describe themselves as vegetarians and eat fish. Language can be surprisingly imprecise and dependent upon tons of assumptions.
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
To dunk or not to dunk. I’d pay to see Shaq on broadway.
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Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures(andreyor.st)
165 points by roxolotl 6mo ago|21 comments
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
WiB is different from Move Fast and Break Things and again different from YAGNI though. WiB doesn't mean the thing is worse, it means it does less. Claude Code interestingly does WAY more than something like Pi which is genuinely WiB.
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
It also needs a megawatt so you better have your own turbine off in the woods with it.
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
I’m very curious if we’re going to ever get another “deepseek moment. Qwen is starting to feel like it could be one. But for it to be people would have to decide to care. It took about a month, I think mid December-mid January, from the dee
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
LispPad Go is a similar tool focusing on scheme R7RS. It’s been great for writing little scripts. Been using it for a few years now. Racket would be compelling though because of the number of libraries. https://apps.apple.com&#x2
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by roxolotl 6mo ago
The assumption made by many in the early 20th century, spurred on by the recent successes of unification and formalization, was essentially that we could formally describe the entire universe. Godel’s proof shows that if you attempt to form

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