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by roxolotl 9mo ago
Douglas Adams had it right: > Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
The other piece though is they sent an unintentional message to the rest of the world that American political system is hijackable in a way they ought to be concerned about.
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
How does this differ from meshtastic? Is meshtastic just more chat based and this is more generic?
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
It’s pretty classic civil disobedience. In my mind it’s really the founding principle of the states. There is a difference between what is legal and what is just. For the past 250 years what is just has continually evolved and expanded. &gt
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
But Corey isn’t saying it’s oversold he’s saying the value capture by a few companies enabled by AI is dangerous to society.
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
This doesn’t feel like news to me? A tech startup that has 18 months of runway is pretty good honestly. The story is the quantity of cash involved in that runway. Edit: Startup might be the wrong term but Uber raised money every 18months at
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
There’s a ton of raw data here. Not sure what you’re looking for specifically but if you look for it the vast majority of the data used for studies like this is public. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/international-c
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
This articles claims are also interesting to me in terms of large scale software systems. They authors say: > They (AI systems) delegitimization knowledge, inhibit cognitive development, short-circuit long term thinking processes, and is
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
It’s so interesting seeing some of the comments about this. The sentence I wrote after that blames war and global devastation on fossil fuels. I was expecting to get flak for being too harsh to fossil fuels but somehow it swung the other di
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
Is that not just slippery slope? If supernormal stimuli are broadcast across a population and we are helpless to prevent mind control then sure we should probably ban that. If the argument then is “yes but that’s exactly what TikTok is”. We
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
It’s more accurately: but we _cannot_, or maybe even, do not have the political will to ban it for adults. The point is that it’s politically easy to ban something for those who cannot vote for you.
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
It genuinely makes me so sad to see the US not doing the same. Having grown up to the constant beat of “energy independence” as the core goal of a party it seemed obvious that the nearly limitless energy that rains down from the sky would b
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
He’s pretty clear in the fourth paragraph about one major issue. It only goes on more from there. > Under Section 1201 of the DMCA, it's a felony to modify your own property in ways that the manufacturer disapproves of, even if your
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
Yea I guess we're having a definitional disagreement here. To be clear I think this is a good idea and the work you've done using tests from projects to have agents translate libraries is awesome. But to me clearly that YAML snipp
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
My point is that to create a specification you need to use a formal language of some kind. In this example they created a new yaml based specification language. Why do that vs use a well documented existing formal language the LLM knows wel
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
What is the advantage of that over programming languages though? At some point you’re just creating a new specification language which needs to be learned. If an LLM can go from English spec to Python unit tests why not just start with, or
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
Why wouldn't we just specify these things with programming languages though? The purpose of a programming language is to enable precise specification of computation. SPEC.md is 497 lines, the tests another 500. I don't understand
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by roxolotl 9mo ago
“start menus made with React Native, control-alt-delete menus that are actually just webviews” Haven’t used windows in five years or so but I’ve kept hearing bad things. This really is the icing on the cake though. Yea the AI stuff is dumb
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Why do Americans hate A.I.?(nytimes.com)
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
It’s cute they describe this as a solution to _the_ power problem. It’s a solution to _their_ power problem. We have a grid problem. This massive amount of investment would be an incredible time to do something about it. Instead we’ve got a
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
The difference is they are new. It’s not rational but people on the whole generally are ok with the status quo of how the sausage is made largely because they don’t really think about it. But new systems being spun up provide an entry point
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
Yea 100% it’s not as easy to use. But as far as I’m aware Steam doesn’t provide any guarantee games will keep working and GOG actually has it as a mission statement that, as least those selected as “Good Old Games”, will[0]. Now of course t
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
I always search GOG before Steam. It’s slightly less user friendly in the most minor ways and sometimes a bit more expensive. But getting DRM free games is worth every penny and extra few moments. Steam is really great for what it is but yo
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
The thing that’s weird about this though is it isn’t enshitification. I don’t want to defend the worsening of software quality/ux/ui for monetary gain but at least it’s somewhat rational. This is not a change that emphasizes profi
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
This is an insanely cynical take. Replace workers with AI but commit some money to retrain them for some theoretical jobs which seemingly aren’t able to be replaced by AI. Don’t worry about if they ever get jobs just give Sal Khan more mone
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
Not sure which western countries you’re referring to but the US has pretty giant subsidies on oil.[0][1] Of course it’s also taxed but the pro source shows that most of the subsidies are tax reductions. 0: pro fossil fuels: https:/&#x
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
Was just working on something similar this morning. As an fyi you can avoid the string replacing in the base64 string by using `.toBase64({ alphabet: "base64url" })` and `fromBase64({ alphabet: "base64url"})`. https:&#x
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
While I can’t really comment on how good this specific implementation is simple diff based testing frameworks like this dont get enough press. My first job involved working on an internal programming language. The test suite was just a ton
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
This is one of the things that’s so frustrating about the AI hype. Yes there are genuinely things these tools can do that couldn’t be done before, mostly around language processing, but so much of the automation work people are putting them
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by roxolotl 10mo ago
Fly less. Is waiting a week for a package really that big of a deal? Is traveling less really that much to ask? It’s totally ok to be skeptical of the claims. I can’t make a judgement on them as I know even less than you might. But that’s n

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