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by Crabber 10d ago
> In your scenario, I spend learning 50 different technologies that I will never use because they are not hired for I'm actually saying the opposite of this. To learn react you also need to know html, css and javascript, so I am say
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by Crabber 10d ago
>The agent can influence you anywhere you interact with a computer or via anyone you know who interacts with a computer. So everywhere with anyone. You could say the same thing about social media algorithms though, or scammers who target
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by Crabber 10d ago
Well I think the point still stands that a superintelligent AI would still be constrained to the digital realm. And since we don't yet have a "superintelligent AI" we are just discussing science fiction at that point. Nobody
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by Crabber 10d ago
AI could definitely disrupt and destroy the modern digital world as we know it. But that's a far cry from destroying humanity.
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by Crabber 10d ago
We are talking about a humans vs AI scenario. There are probably thousands of humans in the world right now that could do exactly that right now if they wanted to (datacenter and OpenAI employees, power grid workers).
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by Crabber 10d ago
This is actually the most plausible situation I've seen someone present so far - the AI takeover would be caused entirely by humans falling for AI hype, that's hilarious. I don't think the average human would be stupid enough
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by Crabber 10d ago
For millennia evil people and dictators have been using manipulation, propaganda, threats of violence to get entire populations to try and do "things that they wouldn't do otherwise" and humanity has not been exterminated yet
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by Crabber 10d ago
>a superintelligent AI will inevitably destroy humanity Can someone please explain to me how an LLM is going to "destroy humanity"? Even if the claims of ChatGPT, Claude et al. are true that their super scary agents were able t
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by Crabber 10d ago
>Future shock Looked up this phrase and found the book of the same name, not sure if you were making a reference to the book but from the short synopsis I saw it seems like a very prophetic book for being written 50 years ago and I can s
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by Crabber 10d ago
I think the internet makes this worse because I've noticed a lot of music content on youtube is theory related. But I think that's probably because of this bias the internet in general has of "you only see videos about things
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by Crabber 10d ago
Fair points, I should probably disclose that my comment is perhaps one of those "looking like I'm giving advice to other people but really just giving advice to myself" kind of comments :) I have began learning instruments be
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by Crabber 10d ago
I think a lot of programmers in the industry just follow trends, they don't really understand the benefits and drawbacks of the technology they are using. I have coworkers who host personal projects for their own use and put them in do
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by Crabber 10d ago
I think music is a good "test" for logically thinking people because it requires you to put away your logical brain and just accept that music sounds good because "it just does" and music theory is the way it is because
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by Crabber 10d ago
Perhaps I missed the full name somewhere in the thread, but what is TFA?
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by Crabber 3y ago
Searching for a niche topic on an internet without advertising: 10 results of pages run by hobbyists, who care so much about their topic of interest that they are willing to pay out of their own pocket to make information available to oth
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by Crabber 3y ago
70 million people in America are obese. Eating food doesn't make you obese, it's over indulgence of food and using food as a coping mechanism.
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by Crabber 3y ago
Redhat offers self-supported versions though, for half the price.
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by Crabber 4y ago
The term "unconscious bias" is based on the (false) assumption that every group of human is exactly identical. It is 100% a political term that is shoved at people to make them feel like a bad person for noticing differences where
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by Crabber 4y ago
I think one of the most egregious examples of this is Snapchat Inc's official mission statement being: We contribute to human progress by empowering people to live in the moment From my own observations of how snapchat makes people b
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by Crabber 4y ago
"open source" and "free software" are two words for the exact same thing. Both of them are pretty poor descriptors. "open source" doesn't convey the legal freedom you are granted (as you have just found ou
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by Crabber 4y ago
Disc brakes were available in 1975, wide tires before that. Dropper posts I consider to be a gimmick. 1x drivetrains do have some drawbacks, but I consider them overall to be a good improvement to the simplicity of a bike so I will grant yo
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by Crabber 4y ago
IMO the bicycle was perfected 20+ years ago There is nothing left to be improved, only gimmicks with aggressive marketing Just be happy with the bike you have, and ride
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by Crabber 4y ago
I don't think there's any market. The only people who buy macs are people that have no intention of playing videogames on that system. I personally transitioned from Windows -> Linux -> MacOS, and each switch correlated exac
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by Crabber 4y ago
The vendors are the GPU manufacturers. And both AMD and Nvidia offer full support for OpenGL and Vulkan. There is no reason why I should have to use a different APIs to access the exact same graphics hardware depending on whether I'm r
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by Crabber 4y ago
So which way do you want it then? Multiculturalism, with all the "nonsense" that comes from those cultures, or do you just want every brown person to come to america and start acting white? I thought one of the big benefits of mul
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by Crabber 4y ago
I think you should read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31543498 You consider "true counterculture" things like LGBT and veganism, that are openly supported by every western government and corporation? Really
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by Crabber 4y ago
I think the problem is that javascript has stopped being one language of many and has become the language. There are hundreds of thousands of developers now who only know javascript. They have no perception of the parts of javascript that
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by Crabber 4y ago
We have known that certain plastics mimic estrogen in the body for well over 10 years now. BPA is banned for use in baby products in most western countries for this exact reason, but is still present in thermal receipts and the majority of
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by Crabber 4y ago
Puberty starts earlier than it used to *for girls*. Which surely points towards plastics and phytoestrogens in food as being the much more likely cause than improved nutrition or obesity which would affects both boys and girls equally.
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by Crabber 4y ago
Not once was laziness mentioned, you are projecting. The post is just someone sharing that their own experience is completely different to that of the parent.

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