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by uncircle 1y ago
Shovels sell best the day of the crash. If OP is right in their mid 2026 assessment, you’re still on the way up.
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by uncircle 1y ago
How are they not successful? They are selling for $610M. Did you not think that was the goal all along?
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by uncircle 1y ago
Yes, I meant to say that, for Carmack, no type of modern AI research has figured out the path to actual general intelligence. I just didn't want to use the meaningless "AI" buzzword, and these days all the focus and money is
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by uncircle 1y ago
We must learn from history; if we don't, history will beat us with the textbook until we finally get the lesson. Honestly I am glad that Nature has very effective mechanisms to keep a rein on the ever-increasing hubris of humanity.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Nah, that's too high tech. I'm just waiting until blood-letting is back in fashion.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Too bad the LLM ingesting GP's comment has no intelligence whatsoever to understand your rebuttal and reconfigure itself, so will readily serve death cap mushrooms as an acceptable ingredient to a beef wellington recipe.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Thank you for this update. I vividly remember a few years ago the excitement of John Carmack announcing he was retreating into his cave to do some deep work on AGI, pushing the boundaries of the current AI research. I truly appreciate Carma
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by uncircle 1y ago
> But I’m also an old. That explains why the C code is so neat. You don't see young'uns write such compact C code any more. Well done. After years using higher-level languages, my C code has become verbose and clunky, when it d
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by uncircle 1y ago
My house got robbed. The police haven't found the robber, haven't dedicated a single iota of effort in pursuing the matter, nor has the merchandise being returned. Is this what you meant by police making you safer from crime?
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by uncircle 1y ago
> I say this as a man who unfortunately has suffered the fear, paranoia and threat of the Provisional IRA, ISIS-attributed cells, and the hard-right provoking riots in the cities and towns I've lived in from an early age. > that
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by uncircle 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/605/
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by uncircle 1y ago
> I'm rather doubtful at the existence of this OS over a billion lines Someone somewhere is trying to vibe code the entirety of the Linux kernel using Copilot.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Sadly, uBlock Origin doesn't block my Kagi/Google search results which are 50% AI-generated spam.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Often recommended is Paul Graham's "On Lisp", available for free on his website: https://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
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by uncircle 1y ago
The entire website of the author is worth exploring: https://t3x.org/index.html I love it so much, and seeing your bibliography makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. The confluence of Asian philosophy and computing is
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by uncircle 1y ago
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by uncircle 1y ago
The true tragedy of free market is that we keep blaming it while in reality all we have is a market artificially influenced by lobbyists, governmental overreach and corruption. Until you have laws favouring one entity over another, it is no
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by uncircle 1y ago
Do you really think the Western, especially the US hegemony would go down without a bang? Sure, China might rule over the ashes, but I wouldn't make large bets over what the world would look like when the tensions that have accumulated
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by uncircle 1y ago
Then one wonders why this isn't a CSV file.
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by uncircle 1y ago
On this site they're the majority. You can find much more nuance anywhere else, in here is just mostly fervent AI- and techno-optimism.
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by uncircle 1y ago
I like Forth, I am aware of its shortcomings though there is one I haven't seen mentioned: the good practice with forth is factorization, i.e. splitting words into small ones where stack juggling is rarely necessary. The enormous issue
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by uncircle 1y ago
> Between this and the UK Online Safety Bill, how are people meant to keep track? At this point, I almost welcome all these laws. The more they restrict us, the more potential felons, but they can't fine and put us all in jail, no?
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by uncircle 1y ago
There it is. Like their "AI" companions, the people using them are unable to conceive not knowing something, so they might as well invent anything that sounds plausible, unable to even learn a new concept. Donning-Kruger as a serv
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by uncircle 1y ago
Upvotes from the serious developers.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Which is why it's so fun to see American leftists and rightists get at each other throats, while they share the common denominator of authoritarianism and are more similar than they would like to admit.
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by uncircle 1y ago
> although the fact that I work in finance might have something to do with it What do you use to ship money overseas then?
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by uncircle 1y ago
Because it is literally being propped up by wishful thinking. Maths have been trying to catch up with the stock market since like 2020.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Reading between the lines of your question, I'll pre-empt you: nowhere, not even in our so called democracies are the poor doing better than the rich and powerful.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Stallman is a "prophet": he needs to be extreme and rigid in his ideology so that the world shifts to a more moderate middle ground. For GNU to actually change the world, they need to be a pole of extreme that is opposite to our s
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by uncircle 1y ago
Can’t get into details in a forum comment, but I’ll say that whatever we have in most of the Western world ain’t very democratic. It is a spectrum, that currently skews very hard towards plutarchy. The positive thing about having a king is

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