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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Author makes a living by working for a company that sells an AI coding product. Their livelihood is dependent on people buying AI coding products. The author just happens to write an article about how amazing AI is for coding and how softwa
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Ah, a commenter claiming something is propaganda .. let's go look through their submissions to HN and see their posting pattern .. Let's see .. - Trump-related political posts - China-related political posts - Iran-related politic
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
We're in the middle of an active cold war where countries are trying to manipulate the citizens of rival countries to destroy their civilization without having to fire a single bullet. Anonymous, over the internet mass manipulation, al
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
Yeah, the article basically just defines lifestyle creep, which has been a common term for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_creep
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The point is that what you're "sick of" isn't actually authentic human thought, but in reality you're responding to a recent european-driven propaganda campaign with the goal of deriding anything and everything rela
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by thegrim33 5mo ago
So an author whose company sells AI tools to organizations has published an AI-written sensationalist website detailing how horrible the "old way" of doing things is, in the hope that more people will pay them for their "new
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
I analyzed multiple months of submissions for rule breaking / political content and the vast, vast, majority of them came from the same ten or so 50-200k upvotes power user accounts. The most "trusted" accounts on this site a
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
When I was looking for my last job a company wanted me to sign something similar to that. I declined their offer and got a job elsewhere instead. I feel like that's .. the reasonable take here? If you don't agree to their conditio
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
The way the system is supposed to work is that companies that make bad decisions fail, and provide room for companies that do not make bad decisions to appear or grow bigger. Which works as long as you have an environment with fair competit
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
Every time I see a story like this I like to play the game "does this person just happen to work for a company that sells AI solutions?". And yes, yes they do. Almost never will see you a story promoting AI solutions from someone
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
https://newrepublic.com/authors/timothy-noah How can anyone look through that list of the author's articles and voluntarily choose to consume this author's writing? It's nothing but partisan extremism.
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
So the "negative" externality is that the data you value has been forced to now be higher quality/reliable? From your perspective, isn't the result a positive?
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
I decided to test it out myself. Went to the website, typed in "Jeep Wrangler JK engine bay with components labeled" (Since I'm intimately familiar with JK engine bays). Seems like a pretty analogous test to what you did, if
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
It is a word with multiple meanings. One such meaning is "a group of people brought together and organized for a particular activity."
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
>> budget squeeze >> will still be around after this congress and the agency can stabilize once again 2026 budget - 24.4 billion 2025 budget - 24.8 billion 2024 budget - 25.3 billion 2023 budget - 25.3 billion 2022 budget - 24.0
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
Every backpack I've ever bought I was able to easily find all the relevant specifications I needed in order to choose a quality a pack. If you're looking at a pack which doesn't provide such specifications then that's an
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
The LLM doomerism is just one arm of the general "us vs them" strategy - defining a group of people as the others who are the bad guys, defining yourself as the good guys, constantly fostering hate against the others, finding ways
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
All remotely popular online public spaces are completely infiltrated by bots/propagandists/trolls/morons/etc. If you could successfully filter that type of content out you'd end up with a much larger pool of valid&#
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
Yes, but it was the biggest opening for propagandists to latch on to for demoralizing and spreading fear/uncertainty/doubt about the mission.
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
The fact that the average person is seemingly incapable of detecting LLM text drives me insane. Every aspect of that article screams LLM. The tone, the punctuation, the sentence structure, the overall structure, it's so incredibly obvi
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
It's 100% completely usable for that purpose. To the point where I'm internally using Godot as a backend for my engine, using it for rendering/system events. It's also really good for a hybrid setup where you use their e
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
Project description is AI generated, even the HN post is AI generated, why should I spend any energy looking into your project when all you're doing is just slinging AI slop around and couldn't be bothered to put any effort in you
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
>> is exactly why the US is stuck with SpaceX For the last 20 years NASA has intentionally run their Commercial Crew Program, which has the stated goal of developing/fostering/funding the development of commercial providers
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
The paper is about more intelligent people having higher accuracy judging other's intelligence. Nobody is claiming that intelligent people are completely infallible, nobody is claiming that they're incapable of ever believing in i
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
It's pretty depressing that on a corner of the internet that's supposed to be a gathering of tech/geeks/nerds/stem people, discussing topics that "good hackers would find interesting", it's seemingly
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
Source: A guy who works at OpenAI and makes more money if people pour money into OpenAI.
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
>> RSUs are also much-less liquid Every time I got an RSU I could just sign into my RSU account and press a single button which sold them all, put a portion of the proceeds aside for taxes, and deposited the rest as cash directly into
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
They aren't, what you see is a combination of trolls and propagandists; very few real human beings actually believe in such things.
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by thegrim33 6mo ago
It's not really a challenge of reaching those students, the outlets that could otherwise reach them just simply aren't interested in spreading that particular news, because it goes against their ideological beliefs. And if you ask
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by thegrim33 7mo ago
I'm firmly against METI, but the Voyagers aren't evenly remotely METI / risky.

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