spencerflem

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by spencerflem 9mo ago
In this specific case of what’s allowed on wikipedia: the Wikimedia Foundation
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
What a crazy worldview: to think that good things are good and bad things are bad.
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
Every top comment on this thread supports the invasion or hemms and haws at best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348 Sorry for assuming you supported the war [in Venezuela] but I’ve yet to see a moderate that’s a
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
Ngl I have a bit of malice towards em
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
If you have a “moderate” opinion on this war, I don’t know what to tell you
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
Genuinely, I think ~30% of Americans just like it when other people suffer. This might also be true of people in general
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by spencerflem 9mo ago
I know Hackernews is pretty MAGA and that’s never going to change. But for everyone else: it’s crazy to me they didn’t even bother making up a justification for this war. Completely evil. We cannot let the institutions that enabled this con
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
When the courts stole the election in 2000? The forty years where the only two options were slightly different flavors of Reagan?
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Don’t think we disagree
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
I have zero preferred candidates and likely never will
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
I genuinely don’t get how anyone could feel anything other than nihilism with regards to American democracy
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
If you want an actual answer: the ~30% of Americans who have a psychological need to see other people suffer, a media environment totally bought out by hard right billionaires, and an opposition that can barely distinguish themselves also p
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Haha yup. Blowing up society sucks too tho :) Hard to trust commenters are real these days. ( I am tho don’t worry ) None of this AI stuff is helpful for a flourishing society. It’s plagiarism and spam and flattery and disassociation and li
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Frrl. These people are insufferable
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
AI Speech Recognition isn’t a plagiarism and spam machine
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Yeah but you can maybe try. Comments like this make it seem like you don’t care
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
AIs don’t respect BSD / MIT which require attribution any more than they respect GPL. (fwiw, I do agree gpl is better as it would stop what’s happening with Android becoming slowly proprietary etc but I don’t think it helps vs ai)
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Even if what you’re doing is making open source software that in theory benefits everyone, not just google? FWIW I agree with you. I wouldn’t and couldn’t either but I have friends who do, on stuff like security, and I still haven’t worked
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Sadly, I think the unspoken point is never to protect children but to control them. If you look at the many “think of the children” arguments from this angle it becomes a lot more consistent
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Darn, I actually think “is associating with googlers a moral failing?” is an interesting question, but it’s not one I want to get into with an ai booster.
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
While I would probably not work at Google for ethical reasons, there’s at least some leeway for saying that you’re not working at the Parts of the company that are doing evil directly. He didn’t work on their ads or genai. I think the Unite
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Rob Pike worked on Operating Systems and Programming Languages, not web scraping
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
I’d like to think that but the AI ppl on this website are something else
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
No answers here, but I feel you. Looking to switch careers to teaching, I hope that will help. Ill lyk
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
I love the phrase I heard recently: “software developers don’t understand consent” It describes so much
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Read the other comments in the thread lol- “Fuck artists, we will replace them” This is not a winning PR move when most normal people are already pretty pro-artist and anti tech bro
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
You get why people hate AI when AI boosters talk like this, right?
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
You’re not wrong, but I think a hardline stance is pragmatic for keeping AI out while it’s not yet normalized.
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Or my sisters laptop. & Fairly recently actually, to print something. Most accounts I don’t care that much about & two factor should be enough to save me I hope.
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by spencerflem 10mo ago
Tbf it said “we have it so much better Than before” I think they agree with you

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