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by tylerchilds 5mo ago
It’s not about your data. It’s about the sum of all expression being able to be reflected back to you in such a way that Dawkins believes he’s met intelligent life. Facebook and Google just slurped up their data centers, while Apple was enc
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by tylerchilds 5mo ago
Put simply: I’ve talked to Apple engineers. Siri fell behind due to how good Apple’s privacy is. Everyone made fun of them for protecting them. This is exactly the opposite of that, where Mark is throwing you and your children under the bus
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by tylerchilds 6mo ago
Rug pull Ladder pull It’s just that “Move fast, break things, regulate impossible to repair.”
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by tylerchilds 6mo ago
Typescript too: https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-... Tbvh the biggest downside of a Turing complete type system is that you can theoretically implement an application that compiles
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by tylerchilds 6mo ago
Probably something akin to the data shows that human worldview gets pretty locked in by 16.
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by tylerchilds 6mo ago
This is a good take. Put a different way, some companies have made a lot of money with business models that hinge on victims never being able to reach a human. Those same companies want to set up phone centers in the neighborhoods of the pe
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by tylerchilds 6mo ago
I’m a broken record on this, but the problem is fundamentally an internet explorer grade problem. First, the system “web” philosophy is always “tie the engine to the platform, move in lock step so nothing ever breaks” It’s best to think abo
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by tylerchilds 6mo ago
And Silly has Silly!
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
What I do to avoid this is to manually approve each change Claude is doing I think the yolo mode of auto approve changes is to the root cause, which is probably a little embarrassing to be that engineer we’re all collectively pulling aside
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
As a data point, I consent to be counted as associating raycast with the Microsoft brand and viewing them negatively as a consequence of using pull requests as an advertising canvas.
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
Probably something innocuous like “Sync with the server periodically to get the latest” Tracks for what we can infer
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
To the downvote— you know JavaScript is the blitting engine for <company that pioneered the button on your remote to stream Hollywood to your living room on a shitty smart TV microcontroller>, right?
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
I agree, but would also posit a parallel The Three Pillars of JavaScript Ecosystem Bloat for example, javascript runs in a browser or on microcontrollers. you can write code that work for both natively [1]. TypeScript-- a mechanism that nee
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
On the one hand, agreed On the other hand, I haven’t and I believe many of us, have never paid node any money so it feels weird to dictate their approach.
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
Not an apt metaphor because we can just walk away and never see our employers again if that’s our free will.
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
I imagine they’ll be fused where moltbook agents become NPCs so that you’re no longer alone in VR but surrounded by a myriad of cognition fragments to feel less alone.
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by tylerchilds 7mo ago
The metaverse: ai talking to each other over cli
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
I feel like the deepest technical definition of autocratic is “fully autonomous weapons”?
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
There’s a difference between blackmail and money networks. There’s money laundering and credibility laundering. The value to the network isn’t you getting a photo with Epstein, the value to the network is Epstein getting a photo with you.
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
I think left to their own devices nobody would have dinner with a convicted sex offender, and at their stages, could have afforded not to have, which makes me way more curious about the people that wouldn’t do business with them unless they
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
“If you’ve got nothing to hide, let me profit off your surveillance”
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
Pointing cameras at people? Law and order Pointing cameras at cameras? Terrorist organization
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
1. Most people don’t realize kernel hacks undermine their entire mental model of security— tbh, only after crowdstrike did I learn it was possible to mass blue screen a population by a security vendor 2. I’m very much already on Linux, most
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
1. Any kernel level vulnerability nullify any formal protections Microsoft guarantees as the first party https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/crowdstrik... 2. Settlements also avoid discovery because the i
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
I mean. Ask any gamer if the original Xbox One announcement needing a Kinect and persistent internet connection was a feature request from them or a three letter org. As someone that was there, we saved the Xbox brand by bullying Microsoft
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
I love you for this reference lol I hate how I’ve had a web site with my name on it since 2008 and when you google my name verbatim it says “did you mean Tyler Childers” Such shade from the algorithm, I get it, I get it, software is lamer t
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
Here are the settlements from Apple and Google regarding “how phones totally aren’t listening to you and selling the data to advertisers” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-voice-assistant-lawsuit-... https:/&#x
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by tylerchilds 8mo ago
One has existed since the 80s, when was the other founded?
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by tylerchilds 9mo ago
This is funny because everyone’s AI strategy should have been “What do we actually need to be productive?” Which is how Anthropic pulled ahead of Microsoft, that prioritized checks notes Taking screenshots of every windows user’s desktop
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by tylerchilds 9mo ago
But the data exists such that anyone with enough leverage could see that? Kind of like how Microsoft provides services to ICC judges until they won’t?

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