sReinwald

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by sReinwald 1y ago
This screams of classic techno-optimist "just build one simple solution" mindset. Yes, consent fatigue is real and nobody likes these cookie banners. Which is also the exact reason why I think they are important. Making tracking v
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You're absolutely right that named credit has tangible career benefits that go well beyond feelings. But I think Vincke threaded that needle well with the anonymous public credit - it creates a documented public record of innovative wo
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by sReinwald 1y ago
I'm not necessarily saying they'd get pilloried. I'm saying that having your personal digital space colonized by people who think you're customer support is insanely disruptive. Think replies full of "I only get 8 f
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by sReinwald 1y ago
Not that I'm aware of. I thought that was weird at first as well, but I assume it might be in a way to protect the engineer. Unfortunately, singling out any individual developer, even for praise, can attract unwanted negative attention
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by sReinwald 1y ago
> This is a gigantic effort from Larian, who among all things is still updating its software instead of resting on its own laurels. What makes this story even better is how it actually came about - this wasn't initially a top-down c
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by sReinwald 1y ago
It's not always, but Israel is uniquely positioned for tech companies of this kind thanks to Unit 8200. Israel has mandatory military service. They grab the most promising teenagers and give them insanely good cybersecurity training on
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by sReinwald 1y ago
I doubt you would be happy to hear it, actually. And I doubt it would change your opinion one bit. You've kicked this entire thread off with an incredibly telling non sequitur: teenager won't use headphones -> multiculturalism
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by sReinwald 1y ago
That's a firm 'no' on explaining your original non sequitur then? I told you I'm happy to dive into theories, philosophy, and other theoretical scenarios once you've answered that simple question. But you're we
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You're asking about norm enforcement failure, but the story shows norms working fine: expectation communicated, pushback received, de-escalation chosen, situation resolved peacefully, albeit not to the satisfaction of the commenter. Th
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You randomly bring up multiculturalism as a problem to be solved in response to a story about a rude teenager of unknown cultural background, and assume I'm dogwhistling? Please elaborate because all I'm seeing here is projection.
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by sReinwald 1y ago
> Culture and race are not the same thing. I don't remember bringing up race. Another interesting leap. But please do elaborate on what sort of 'dominant culture' you're longing for and what sort of policies you'
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by sReinwald 1y ago
Interesting leap you made there. How can you do effective conflict resolution in a society where someone reads an anecdote about a rude teenager and immediately assumes the problem is multiculturalism?
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by sReinwald 1y ago
This is a deeply concerning development, though not an entirely surprising one. While I sympathize with itch.io's position - being caught between their creators and their payment processors - the broader implications here are alarming.
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by sReinwald 1y ago
I think we're mostly in agreement here. You're absolutely right about the intern analogy - that's exactly my point. The LLM is the intern, and giving either one production database access without proper guardrails is the real
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by sReinwald 1y ago
This is a perfect case study in why AI coding tools aren't replacing professional developers anytime soon - not because of AI limitations, but because of spectacularly poor judgment by people who fundamentally don't understand sof
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by sReinwald 1y ago
This analysis demonstrates what we call a "Fachidiot" problem in German - deep expertise in one domain coupled with troubling blindness to how that domain intersects with broader realities. The author's "just chill out&q
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by sReinwald 1y ago
> I'm so glad that you touched an analogy whose framework I am familiar with. Oh, I'm delighted too. Because you actually went there and completely let the mask slip. And with such spectacular historical revisionism, you'v
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by sReinwald 1y ago
> And yes, you are implying that somehow the car I drive is influencing my defence of Musk. Of course I was. The sarcasm wasn't exactly subtle. > But alas, neither does that really affect how I view the article or Musk. The fact
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by sReinwald 1y ago
This is such transparently bad faith rhetoric it's almost impressive. You're trying to paint me as racist for pointing out systemic racial inequities. But sure, I'll bite. You're pretending "race" and "pol
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You've nailed the pattern. And the regulatory environment actively enables it through what amounts to a pricing model for violations. When the EPA or county eventually fines xAI for running unpermitted turbines for a year, it'll b
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by sReinwald 1y ago
"Disproportionately impacts" means that the burden of pollution isn't randomly distributed - it's systematically concentrated in specific communities. In this case: predominantly Black neighborhoods in South Memphis alre
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by sReinwald 1y ago
The article reports that xAI operated gas turbines without required permits and pollution controls for over a year. That's not a "hit piece" - it's documenting regulatory violations with thermal imaging evidence and offi
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by sReinwald 1y ago
IMO, the paper commits an omission that undermines the thesis quite a bit: context window limitations are mentioned only once in passing (unless I missed something) and then completely ignored throughout the analysis of SLM suitability for
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by sReinwald 1y ago
The core vision here is something I can absolutely get on board with, but the execution fundamentally seems to misunderstand why "home-cooked software" doesn't exist. The target audience problem is immediately apparent: they&
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You're attacking a strawman. Nobody's claiming LLMs are a new piracy vector or that people will use ChatGPT, Llama or Claude instead of buying Harry Potter. The issue here is that tech companies systematically copied millions of c
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by sReinwald 1y ago
And why have I heard about them? I'll give you a hint: It's not because they have a fantastic marketing and PR department. It's because their product kept showing up on the phones of assassinated journalists and imprisoned
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You're right that an LLM could theoretically detect suicidal ideation - the article even mentions that ChatGPT briefly showed Torres a mental health warning before it "magically deleted." So the capability exists, but the imp
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by sReinwald 1y ago
The funny thing is that I am, arguably, one of those "freaks" heavily invested in LLMs - in the sense that I am a very heavy and fairly enthusiastic user, not in the Angel Investor sense. I spend an embarrassing amount monthly on
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You may be correct about the language not necessarily inviting very thoughtful discussion. But I didn't exactly expect one, when I engaged with someone who merely "skimmed" the article and put out an incredibly nuanced, thoug
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by sReinwald 1y ago
In your case, "speed reading" and "skimming" are obviously just two flavors of "I didn't actually read this properly but still feel qualified to diagnose everyone involved." You'd love to see more res

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