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by thunky 7mo ago
> I swear, some people in this field see no value in their programming work And others see too much value in their work.
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by thunky 7mo ago
> Instead we would expect the increased productivity to grow businesses further This assumes infinite demand which is not a good assumption imo. Especially if people are losing their jobs.
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by thunky 7mo ago
> Because code reuse is hard. > humans are yet not smart enough to properly reuse code All of these difficulties you outline are because program designs cater to the human developer experience over the machine. If this weren't th
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by thunky 7mo ago
> Even if companies were pretending to play by the rules before, at least they had some need to put in the effort to pretend I'm not sure that's better. I'm hopeful that all this open air corruption leads to real reform.
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by thunky 7mo ago
I interpreted their comment to mean 4.5 was the shift, which was nov last year. "Before that" meaning pre 4.5.
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by thunky 7mo ago
> even if we use your standard, the law, it has already been decided in Anthropic's favor. I support Anthropic here. They had a deal with the Govt and the Govt bullied them. That should not be allowed, and Anthropic is suing which
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by thunky 7mo ago
> If each of us individually or as corporations should not be in the business of deciding what it "evil", who should be in that business? This is easy imo. Two methods: 1. The law. It should not be legal for the US Govt to murd
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by thunky 7mo ago
> it's the hardware that makes Macs such an appealing dev machine. Large glass trackpads with incredible touch controls, aluminum bodies, long lasting batteries, cool and quiet Probably so, but I've seen more than a few Macbook
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by thunky 7mo ago
> I would pick a default bare gnome 3 agaisnt any Mac os version UX without any hesitation. Yeah it's a head scratcher for me too. So many devs only want to work on a Mac yet they build software that runs on NOT Mac. Then they have
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by thunky 7mo ago
> People with kids aren't immune to depression or lack of purpose. Especially when their kids turn into adults and don't need them anymore. Having "kids" doesn't last that long.
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by thunky 7mo ago
> Yet Anthropics stance is only two narrow restrictions. Really I think Anthropic should have a single restriction: to not assist with illegal or unconstitutional activities. If automated killings etc is illegal then it would be covered
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by thunky 8mo ago
Optimistic. My money is on everyone forgetting about this by next week.
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by thunky 8mo ago
Glib take. I think most would rather not be killed given the choice. Especially if they have kids or others that rely on them.
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by thunky 8mo ago
Ok so now connect the mass surveillance system to an automated killing system that can blow you up in the grocery store because you're standing in line next to its target.
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by thunky 8mo ago
> In this strategic aspect, yes. So does Israel. So do Russia and China. They're all acting like land empires. The issue is that you seem to be ignoring the context and using this (weak imo) comparison to defend the US and Israel&#x
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by thunky 8mo ago
> Because it fits. Nazi Germany was an aspiring land power. Look at the mass murder by Israel in Gaza. Or how the US just overthrew Venezuela and seized their resources, threatened to take Greenland, taunts Canada and suggests more coun
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by thunky 8mo ago
> So that's kinda expected? Sure, if the choice is between drone bombings and conventional bombings. But no, not expected if the choice is between bombing and not bombing.
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by thunky 8mo ago
> You, and your colleagues, should resign. It would be better if everyone stopped doing business with OpenAI so these employees lose their stock value. But of course neither of these things will happen.
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by thunky 8mo ago
> By now we should all be flying around the planet in a seamless 3D reconstruction Right and if they did you'd likely be complaining about how they ruined Street View by making it a slow bloated mess and should have left it alone.
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by thunky 8mo ago
> Always looking out for the workers How is spreading misinformation looking out for the workers?
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by thunky 8mo ago
> I don’t get what you’re doing here You said that a CEO was out of bounds for framing employees as numbers on a spreadsheet. To me this suggests that you believe company owners should care about the humanity of their workers. And I&#x
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by thunky 8mo ago
> A human being is not some number on a spreadsheet, built over 20 years in order to achieve some "smartness" goal But from the perspective of the business and capitalism that's exactly what a human is. A tool that consum
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by thunky 8mo ago
> Why make things more complicated than they need to be? Humans don't have lidar and we are the only intelligence that can reliably drive. Because we want self driving cars to be safer than human driven cars. If humans had built in
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by thunky 8mo ago
America wasn't always a global superpower either and maybe it won't remain one. But it's still useful to operate within the context of the reality we live in, which is what monero was describing.
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by thunky 8mo ago
> But you didn't say that. You just said I didn't know what 'indulge' means. Right. My objection was that you projected a negative meaning, which in my view was not demanded by the author. I could be wrong about what
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by thunky 8mo ago
> I apologise for you misunderstanding my example as a strict definition? My point is that I believe you have probably misinterpreted the author and used that as a basis to critisize them, unfairly in my view. We don't all need to i
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by thunky 8mo ago
> Indulging in a hobby should be a pre-retirement activity I don't think indulge means what you think it means.
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by thunky 8mo ago
I don't understand the issue with the nest cam video. The data is only accessible to us for 3 hours but why would we expect them to shred the drives at the 3 hour mark so it's not accessible to them ?
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by thunky 8mo ago
> But humans repeat things verbatim too in little snippets, all the time Also, it's possible, although statistically improbable, for a human to generate the exact same thing another human generated (and copyrighted) without even kno
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by thunky 8mo ago
OP said nothing about their employer forcing them to use it. What they said was: "I use these tools daily".

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