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by tavavex 3mo ago
The US is moving in the same general direction, even if they take slightly different measures. The universal tracking of everyone is something all these governments can suddenly agree on. If after this is enacted the firewalls aren't p
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by tavavex 3mo ago
> If it's for reading the newspaper, you don't ever need to know "bathroom", but you sure do need to know words like "congressman". Unless you're reading a newspaper from the last 5 years or so - in whi
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by tavavex 3mo ago
I disagree with the way the author describes nerds. What makes something nerdy isn't inherent to the work. There's nothing about Star Wars that would always be 'weird'. Nerdiness in my opinion is the enjoyment of somethi
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by tavavex 3mo ago
You don't need a big bad government or other outside entity to have non-consensual treatments. Just make it available to parents, who can make decisions for their children regardless of their wishes or any nuances of the situation. The
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Even if they didn't, they have a very long way to fall. It seems almost impossible for any already established major tech companies today to actually fail.
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Strict search - perfect, simple, boring. Gets you where you want. Easy to understand. Serves the user, but doesn't create value outside of making your website better (this is completely unacceptable in the modern world.) Fuzzy search -
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by tavavex 3mo ago
> It's really only been 20 to 15 years since the "average person" even knew what that "Internet thing" was. It was the early 2000s, and later where it really took off for Average Joe. When I brought up the 30 ye
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by tavavex 3mo ago
The low interest rate doesn't help, but I'm wondering if it could be possible that, against the ideological need to pretend otherwise, we've also hit the saturation point in a lot of industries in terms of what can be done wi
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Talking in past tense implies that it has ended and that now is a big turning point. From what I see, this will likely continue for the foreseeable future. It's easier to imagine the consequences of this leading us to a large-scale bre
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by tavavex 3mo ago
"We wish it could have a better solution, but you all just couldn't behave" is often the argument in these debates. You seem to be dissatisfied with it, but tacitly accept it as the only way. Let me put a finger on why I will
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by tavavex 3mo ago
That's not good enough for investors. Right now, either something is worthless or it is literally the most influential invention in history that must succeed. Even if/when the AI industry suffers a setback, the trend of investors
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by tavavex 3mo ago
The difference with 'humanslop' is that it's avoidable by training or hiring a better human. With AI it's all the same, even SOTA models are still very distinctly and obviously AI in what they produce. And even very dedi
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Culture and art can teach something to its audience, unlike most of the garbage you likened it to. It's clear you don't hold it in much regard, since you compare it to outright scams (clickbait) and even imply that consuming ficti
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Am I the one who's out of touch, or is this absolutely insane? Let me summarize the state of the AI black hole right now: Data centers! Everyone wants more data centers! But how do I get in on the craze? I think the brightest investors
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by tavavex 3mo ago
What signs point to an inevitable GPT-2 moment in this field?
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by tavavex 3mo ago
What kind of HN types?
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by tavavex 3mo ago
If you're just declaring gcc broken and removing its functionality, then why compare yourself to it? For any of the metrics you're using to hold water, you want the project to actually be comparable to gcc in terms of features, ot
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by tavavex 3mo ago
My counterpoint to that first one is that forcing outcomes through laws doesn't have a political side, although the discourse in the US has definitely been extremely mangled by the untrue stereotype that conservatives are less keen on
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Does your compiler replicate 100% of gcc's functionality? I've heard of similar compiler projects skimping on the lesser used functions and taking shortcuts. gcc is BIG. But the real point is even if we get an ability to AI genera
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by tavavex 3mo ago
My heuristic that any argument, regardless of the topic, that relies on 'it's just human nature' is bullshit keeps being proven right.
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Maybe it's not a full and clean correlation, but there still is one. In my experience, AI boosterism is often linked to conservatism, because the current US administration is all in on AI, the spoils of AI disproportionately reward the
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by tavavex 3mo ago
I think that because I've not seen anything that requires an 800+ credit score anywhere. I'm not saying it doesn't exist whatsoever, but by far the most common way to set credit score-based incentives that I see is that there
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by tavavex 3mo ago
To me it's insane how popular surveillance pricing is in discussions on HN. I think that so far it is the pinnacle of useless rent-seeking from the tech-finance alliance. Bit by bit eliminating the 'inefficiency' of people no
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by tavavex 3mo ago
You didn't remove the inflammatory wording, you quietly swapped their argument for a completely different one. Coupons are not the same as surveillance pricing, because coupons only adjust the price down. They're the way manufactu
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by tavavex 3mo ago
Don't forget that the dossier about your visit is then photocopied and mailed to several other places in addition to being in the bar's closet. Each one of those places is staffed 24/7 by workers that organize incoming data,
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by tavavex 3mo ago
When you are age-checked in real life, the bouncer glances at your ID, checks the date of birth, checks the photo and lets you through, having not remembered a shred of that information. You are just one in a crowd of a thousand. If you&#x2
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by tavavex 3mo ago
I don't think you know Russia that well. The overlap between the oligarch class and the government itself is massive. It's speculated that Putin himself may be one of the richest people on Earth, because he and his allies have pla
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by tavavex 3mo ago
> Capitalism itself has nothing to say about what we do with the increases in productivity. No, it has a lot to say about that. Our system encourages self-interest and maximizing profits, and that is what businesses do. Increases in prod
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by tavavex 3mo ago
> And Greece's government was nothing like Rome. I presume you're referring to the various systems of democracy introduced in different ancient Greek city-states, as opposed to the Roman Republic. Of course, they're differ
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by tavavex 3mo ago
What went live a decade ago? I feel like the monitoring technology we have now (let alone what we had in 2016) is still just scratching the surface, it can (will) get so much worse. My post was talking about things like discreet microphones

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