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by transcriptase 7d ago
I think at some point these people need to come to terms with the fact that reality often differs from what modern ideology says it should be because it exposes uncomfortable truths. You can write ten thousand scholarly articles about why w
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by transcriptase 13d ago
Perhaps they take after the CEOs of the companies that created them
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by transcriptase 16d ago
“What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anth
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by transcriptase 16d ago
The goal isn’t positive PR. It’s to have governments take note and come down hard on Anthropic and OpenAI with regulations that they’ll ultimately have a hand in writing or providing testimony for. Those regulations will ever so coincidenta
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by transcriptase 21d ago
The NPOV policy has just lead to alternate ways to keep things aligned to the region that most prolific editors/contributors would occupy on an idealogical quadrant. It’s similar to the way traditional media outlets that pride themselv
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by transcriptase 24d ago
Because Anthropic are the type of strange people who think that language models have feelings.
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by transcriptase 25d ago
The openclaw crowd were just former cryptobros onto their next grift: performative posts about AI that would generate enough views/engagement/ad revenue to pay for the hardware… assuming they were even telling the truth about havi
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by transcriptase 25d ago
Yes, and what did the damaging code and viruses actually do in that era? Software, OSs, and the internet at large were comically unsafe from a safety perspective. There was also a very high barrier of entry in terms of the skills required t
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by transcriptase 25d ago
Nonsense. Before the advent of those first “you’re the 1000th visitor” banners or relatively harmless “worms” spready by literal .exe files sent by email in the early 2000s… most of the internet could be trusted by default. And at that poin
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by transcriptase 27d ago
Which is exactly why Amazon can get away with it. I’m not going to get permabanned from what is essentially a utility in the western world in 2026 by going nuclear with a credit card chargeback.
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by transcriptase 27d ago
My absolute favorite bug is the one where the “cancel your Amazon Music subscription” is seemingly the only one of what must be tens of thousands of UI elements in the Amazon app that simply loads a blank white screen no matter what. What a
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by transcriptase 1mo ago
Their “sorry this hardware is too old to run the latest macOS” seems entirely based on KPIs versus capabilities. There’s absolutely no reason a maxed out MacBook Pro from 10 years ago shouldn’t be able to run something like the ChatGPT or C
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by transcriptase 1mo ago
aka electron
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by transcriptase 1mo ago
There are iirc some good write ups from years ago by employees at Blizzard about these things and why “spinning up more servers” wouldn’t suddenly let millions of people login to games simultaneously on launch days.
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by transcriptase 1mo ago
Great way to end up on the no-sloth list
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by transcriptase 1mo ago
Interesting that an entirely true comment has been removed via flagging. I not only helped write grants during the peak of that trend, but reviewed applications where I was expected to evaluate how other applicants satisfied those prioritie
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by transcriptase 1mo ago
I can’t even bring myself to explain how wrong this person is.
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by transcriptase 1mo ago
Yes in much the same way you can literally build a rocket and go to the moon. You may be skipping a few of the involved steps.
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
Real missed opportunity before this all got out of control to simply bundle everything needed in a single file and give it an extension that tells the OS its executable. We could call it a .exe
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
They are bullshit jobs. If you want to evaluate danger in a certain domain, hire or contract people in that domain to evaluate. If you want someone to push their own ideological leanings onto a model, hire a self proclaimed ethicist.
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
Exactly. It’s no surprise that people just blindly hit accept on permission prompts after the 80th time Claude code asks if it’s allowed to read-only parse a csv.
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
Another heaping portion of words from a company that has Fable flag a “safety issue” and refuse to answer if you innocuously request something readily answered by a high school chemistry/biology/physics textbook.
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
This must be similar to what seemingly every documentary on Netflix uses in all their editing when showing any sort of footage taken more than 5 years ago. Some show will be showing a clip of an interview recorded in 2020, and for some reas
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
Let’s not forget the fact that despite their new market cap and being the beneficiary of having a near monopoly on making incredibly complex pickaxes during a gold rush… Nvidia is still the company with a long and consistent history of misl
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
Fun activity: install glasswire on windows for a day or 2, set it to prompt you before any connection is allowed, and watch as about 500 different windows components attempt connections with Microsoft as a result of any and every action. An
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
how’s your mandarin?
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
“By virtue of being the good people everything we do is good, and if it happens to be in our best personal and financial interest then that is good too because it enables us to do more good. And if it’s to the detriment to others then it’s
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
You’ll often find that problems aren’t solved by the people who would find themselves out of work if they solved them.
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
I still can’t believe that an advertising company was able to effectively neuter ad/content blocking for 80% of the world under the guise of wholly invented safety issues.
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by transcriptase 2mo ago
That went live about a decade ago. Heck, a lot of the people who built it and maintain it are here on HN, each getting paid so well and contributing only so little that if they can even admit it to themselves, they would never do it publicl

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