safety1st

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by safety1st 8mo ago
I think there's room for both visions. Big Tech is generating more toxic sludge than ever, and yeah sure this is because they're greedy, but more precisely the root cause is how they lobbied Washington and our elected officials ag
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by safety1st 8mo ago
Indeed. However, there is no universal definition for what offends people, and never will be. People are individuals who form their own opinions and those opinions are diverse. Ergo if you start to moderate speech which is offensive from on
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by safety1st 8mo ago
Just in case you weren't aware, Gsuite has a clone of Docusign built into it now.
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by safety1st 8mo ago
In my opinion people are fixating a little too much over the automation part, maybe because most people don't have a lot of experience with delegation... I mean, a VP worth his salt isn't generally having critical emails drafted a
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by safety1st 8mo ago
This is the first time I've ever heard somebody claim that section 230 exists to deter child predators. That argument is of course nonsense. If the platform is aware of apparent violations including enticement, grooming etc. they are o
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by safety1st 8mo ago
There's no reason that a sizeable portion of LLM usage can't and won't end up free/ad-sponsored. Cutting edge stuff for professional use will probably be monetized via subscription or API credits for a long time to come.
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by safety1st 8mo ago
When you pick apart what's actually going on in Meta's revenue pipeline it's hideous. Think about this and compare it to what the world was like say 30 years ago: * There are literally thousands of IG profiles that are essent
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by safety1st 8mo ago
In order to make sure businesses aren't giving porn to teens, you can require they do meaningful age verification at the time they want to provide the porn. You can impose criminal penalties on a domestic business which doesn't do
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by safety1st 8mo ago
The problem with the slippery slope argument is that it's a fallacy. That is the origin of the term, it describes a type of argument that's logically invalid. Yeah I am concerned that things could get worse and this might be the f
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by safety1st 8mo ago
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I read the announcement and other than the risk of a slippery slope into more invasive ID demands, I'm not sure I have a huge problem with it. The default experience will be the "te
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by safety1st 8mo ago
I'm not at all convinced that "break your concentration and go check on an agent once every several minutes" is a productivity increaser. We already know that compulsively checking your inbox while you try to code makes your
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by safety1st 8mo ago
The comparison to the dotcom bubble isn't without merit. As a technology in terms of its applications though I think the best one to compare the LLM with is the mouse. It was absolutely a revolution in terms of how we interact with com
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by safety1st 9mo ago
Well the second group in your taxonomy are very unserious, I mean that's fine, it's OK to use an AI tool for vibing and self-amusement, there will be an entire multi-billion dollar entertainment industry which will grow up around
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by safety1st 9mo ago
Yeah, this kind of gets to my main point. A prohibition against slavery very clearly protects the weak. The authorities don't get enslaved, the weak do. Who does a prohibition against "cyberweapons" protect? Well nobody reall
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by safety1st 9mo ago
The root problem isn't really multi-purpose tech. It's the perennial coercive tendencies of monopolies being multiplied by their modern capability to update software in the blink of an eye. If a company develops a monopoly in virt
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by safety1st 9mo ago
I felt that section was pretty concerning, not for what it includes, but for what it fails to include. As a related concern, my expectation was that this "constitution" would bear some resemblance to other seminal works that decla
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by safety1st 9mo ago
I think you missed my point. If you "quiet quit" you're still working for someone you hate. They still own you. Instead, you could ACTUAL QUIT and start a business. Then you work for yourself, who you hopefully don't hat
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by safety1st 9mo ago
If gas town can actually do stuff well at any price it'll have a radical impact on how society is organized, because there are people out there who have practically unlimited money (billions of dollars of their own to spend, plus they
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by safety1st 9mo ago
Yeah I have come across it too, I have also met examples like the woman you describe. But we don't really have to rely on personal anecdotes. The rise of anxiety in young people over the last 20 years is well documented. Someone who&#x
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by safety1st 9mo ago
I think cancel culture is a pretty serious and meaningful concept. 20 years ago I got drummed out of an organization I was a part of for saying I thought people should be allowed to argue that this organization didn't need race quotas.
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by safety1st 9mo ago
The parent comment's point is that you can reduce the amount of executive function required to do the correct thing. Doing something at the same time every day will indeed make it more automatic, requiring less willpower to do it again
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by safety1st 9mo ago
I think it's a complex discussion because there's a whole bundle of new capabilities, the largest one arguably being that you can build a conversational interface to any piece of software. There's tons of pressure to express
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by safety1st 9mo ago
I read the Readme. So this is all just stuff you can do with Claude's cli interface? It edits files and runs utilities? And it does this with few enough errors that you can be productive by just chatting with it over ssh? Is Claude the
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by safety1st 9mo ago
It's pretty wild how the best screenshot of a usable menu is from, like, Office 2000. What the hell have we been doing for the past 25 years?
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by safety1st 9mo ago
There is a massive class of things in open source you can look at from the perspective of "Suppose a megacorp or private equity owns this entity and wants to cut costs as much as possible while contributing as little back to the comm
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by safety1st 9mo ago
Redhat gains at least a few things... - Maintaining X requires a lot of time, expertise and cost, it's a hard codebase to work with, deprecating X saves them money - Wayland is simpler and achieves greater security by eliminating featu
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by safety1st 9mo ago
I am not sure I would consider those two things substitutable goods but I do advocate for social recreational use of alcohol for this reason, and at a certain point in life a creed along the lines of "if you don't practice mindful
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by safety1st 9mo ago
Syncthing is the way! Along with the Material Files app from F-droid, I finally get to have a file based workflow on Android.
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by safety1st 9mo ago
Stillness isn't only enjoyable (for some), it's incredibly valuable. Stoicism and Buddhism both talk a lot about it and they're not the only ones. I make a point of sitting comfortably and doing nothing with no stimuli for 5-
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by safety1st 9mo ago
Looks to me like he's a belligerent personality, but probably not wrong when he says Redhat has an agenda that involves suppressing progress on Xorg and forcing Wayland on users instead. I was open minded toward Wayland when the projec

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