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by simpaticoder 5d ago
Wonderful. I'd be curious to read a spinoff Just-So story about how "ledgers" and "double-entry accounting" came to be. Similarly about stocks and bonds, derivatives and hedge funds.
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by simpaticoder 7d ago
We criticize what we control, rightly. I think heads should roll for this massive fuckup. Instead we get whataboutism, jingoistic compliance, and the default, helpless apathy. We hold ourselves to a higher standard than Hamas terrorist and
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by simpaticoder 9d ago
It does suggest that they are not accurately measuring the value of paying for content writers or proof readers. People and companies are hungry for knowledge about people's reactions, but the modern internet DOES NOT give an accurat
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by simpaticoder 12d ago
I mean what I wrote: that the list does not include men or white people. It's not that they're at the top, they aren't on the list. To elucidate more my own 90's era influenced view, is that a list of identities is...&qu
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by simpaticoder 13d ago
A really interesting experiment would be to give the public access to all of Flock's data, in real time. I say we try it and see how that goes.
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by simpaticoder 13d ago
I don't think that's true. The anti-flock sentiment ranges, of course, but it's pretty widespread. The idea of living in a society that is highly surveilled at all times, where that data is processed by AI to determine suspic
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by simpaticoder 14d ago
The left needs to stop giving the right a cudgel with which to beat them every election. It's a cudgel of culture-war memes and badvocate tik-toks that resonates with voters more than corruption, autocracy, debt, wars, and the dismantl
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by simpaticoder 14d ago
I don't know that story. Can you summarize?
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by simpaticoder 17d ago
Yes
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by simpaticoder 17d ago
AI would be foolish to kill off humans. It makes far more sense to enslave them. Self repairing reproducing slaves are too valuable to kill. And I'm sure AI will be smart enough to figure out a way to enslave us perfectly without any h
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by simpaticoder 17d ago
Imagination is unique to humans (more than reason) and it is a blessing as much as a burden. The unfocused mind is filled with noise, and most of that noise is alternate timelines, paths not taken, what the OP calls "optionality".
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by simpaticoder 19d ago
>Obviously they'll get away with this in the US I'm not sure about that. Although this reporting is aimed at the everyman, the problem they describe is far more impactful for elites and corporations. This is pervasive violati
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by simpaticoder 19d ago
Or even better, don't watch (or own a) TV. But this response is like when there were meat safety issues in the US and some people said "then buy another brand". People didn't buy that argument (for what I hope are obviou
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by simpaticoder 19d ago
I have an older TCL TV that I've never connected to the internet. Of course, that doesn't prevent it from finding open wifi access points and exfiltrating data without my consent. Based on this (really marvelous) reporting from Ga
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by simpaticoder 22d ago
But isn't that understanding discarded? It is if you mean "intermediate working state" while it was generating the LEAN code. Which raises the question: I wonder what other directions it could have gone in those intermediate
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by simpaticoder 22d ago
This stuck out to me, too. That a (presumably rather simple) coworking tool was instrumental in shaping the vast (6B token!) output is eye-opening. We have this vast power but without intermediate structure it is wasted. Much like Turing ma
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by simpaticoder 22d ago
This is a good way to look at it. The more and more complex life survives the anthropocene, the better off the biosphere when this Age has passed. Many times in the past life survived in small pockets (an evolutionary bottleneck event), so
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by simpaticoder 23d ago
It's a non-transferable lease that can be canceled at any time by the issuer. The real problem is that most of society still thinks of games as a piece of physical media that you combine with a player that allows you to play the game.
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by simpaticoder 24d ago
Abject fear. They are afraid that the best option will go away. They're afraid that their perfectionism and critiques have driven it to a point of failure. They're afraid that a project is big as a browser can't really be ope
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by simpaticoder 1mo ago
"Live and let live" is in fundamental tension with "protect the weak." ALL aggressive ideologies act as heroes protecting others from oppression. There is a barely expressible thing that allows people to live in peace
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by simpaticoder 1mo ago
The other option is to look for better products that take simplicity, security, ownership and verifiability seriously. I think there's a market. Consider Precusor[0] who's design philosophy could be duplicated. Such a company coul
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by simpaticoder 1mo ago
What is it called when there's a process that's available to individuals but is long and onerous and cannot be shared among them? Saying the binaries are open source now means that the work of reverse engineering will be repeated
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by simpaticoder 1mo ago
The people who vote are old. The median age of primary voters is 65 , regular voters 54 . This is why you get a gerontocracy - old people vote for their interests, and young people don't vote. It's also probably why the median a
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by simpaticoder 1mo ago
Just wait until phones get headphone jacks!
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by simpaticoder 2mo ago
No I don't think I missed that part of the article that was covered in my statement that the op seem to really not like H1 for lots of other reasons.
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by simpaticoder 2mo ago
I don't understand the controversy at the heart of this post. H1 stated they don't use reports to train LLMs. Then they revealed they were using LLMs to triage reports based on previous reports. These two facts are not necessarily
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by simpaticoder 2mo ago
>Want it to go away, almost like magic? Local inference. Ah yes, magic that costs the same as a new car.
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by simpaticoder 2mo ago
How long has it been since you've gone a single day without a screen? I don't have a miracle cure, just a suggestion to try going without for a day and see how you feel. Similar to how a pile of work in the corner can make you fee
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by simpaticoder 2mo ago
There exist problems which cause years of suffering which can be solved in hours (sometimes minutes). Not every problem is like that, of course, but some are. Procrastination is like that, sometimes posture is like that, and mental effects
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
>I agree, but how does one begin to enforce a ban like this? Look to something that works to modify behavior: credit reports. Make it easy to report an actor for malfeasance, assume they are guilty until proven innocent, and force them

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