Gareth321

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by Gareth321 4d ago
The current social zeitgeist is that one is permanently responsible for everything they ever said, even has a child. All nuance is gone. People are looking for a reason to make someone the enemy, and if you're the enemy, violence is ac
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by Gareth321 6d ago
I'm close to blocking it at the router. That might break the habit.
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by Gareth321 6d ago
I'm having a real existential crisis over the internet and technology. On the one hand, LLMs are allowing me to build and explore and learn more than I have ever been able to do before. I'm a kid in a candy store. On the other han
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by Gareth321 7d ago
> I don't believe it. Photography was invented by non-Big Tech, and was widely popular and useful before Big Tech adopted it. Cameras were invented before big tech. Big tech took cameras and made them better and more ubiquitous. Mic
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by Gareth321 7d ago
I've been following Tesla communities and a common response to using FSD is that it makes people nicer drivers. Thousands of people admitting that they can be angry drivers. That they get frustrated in traffic and can take risks or b
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by Gareth321 7d ago
> I don't know where the negative comments are coming from. Maybe players who played early. It's the sandbox concept. Some people load into Minecraft and think, "AWESOME! I'M GOING TO BUILD A MALL!" Some people l
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by Gareth321 7d ago
I'm very close to selling my S10. I barely use it. All the features are sort of nice to have. The only one I really care about is heart rate monitoring during exercise and the AirPods Pro 3 do that.
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by Gareth321 7d ago
I just assume everything in public is audio/video recorded. In most places that's perfectly legal (with some exceptions). I don't think people should expect privacy in public. We faced the same panic about photographs when mo
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by Gareth321 7d ago
Honestly, I think most people just don't care as much about privacy as you and I. I have many friends who are perfectly aware of all of the security and privacy concerns re Facebook, and continue to use it because they just don't
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by Gareth321 7d ago
> I may be biased and somewhat off topic, but I see these incidents as some of the most significant of the past century. I genuinely don't understand why these companies aren't taking a smarter approach to them. Humans tend to
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by Gareth321 7d ago
> But now every consumer in the world can just ask a question or say “check all these prices and sites for a thing I want” and go do something else, right out of the box for free, and have thousands of page loads and site interactions fi
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by Gareth321 7d ago
Billions of people use Facebook regularly. It's a tiny minority of us who would not use a useful product because of privacy concerns. I think you are wrong. It's not they who are a "special kind of stupid." It is us who
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by Gareth321 8d ago
No, intelligence. We already have unlimited information (not to be confused with omniscience). The application thereof is the gate right now between today and planet-scale destructive weaponry. At some point it becomes an academic distincti
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by Gareth321 8d ago
I'll use a very specific example to explain my point, because I don't disagree with what you write: psychopaths. Psychopaths are 20x more prevalent among homicide offenders. Removing them from society would significantly reduce th
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by Gareth321 8d ago
While true, I'm not sure this is much better. There are many genetic traits which are correlated with increased criminality, risk taking, obesity, heart disease, unemployment, etc. IQ in particular is the most well correlated metric we
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by Gareth321 8d ago
It's not as bad as I thought/misremembered. $23/year here in Denmark, and $140/lifetime.
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by Gareth321 8d ago
> I don't see how dumb entity can align smart entity. And we are dumb ones. Super intelligence will play aligned until it is not, and then it'll strike. I am also worried about this. One ray of sunshine here is that it's n
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by Gareth321 8d ago
I second your Usenet recommendation. I also have the $3 deal which just rolls over each year.
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by Gareth321 8d ago
They're already banning certain questions and workflows in the frontier models, but you can usually work around it with well structured queries. The ablated ("cracked") local LLMs will do whatever you want.
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by Gareth321 8d ago
Crazy expensive though. It's basically a Plex subscription, just for the player.
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by Gareth321 8d ago
> As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my arr stack and it has helped tremendously. LLMs have been AMAZING for home server maintenance and improvements. I have completed SO many of my "some day&quo
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by Gareth321 8d ago
While true, the news here is the size of the unified RAM. Nvidia only exceeded 256GB RAM in the 2025 B300 - 288GB. The B300 alone (without the baseboard/PSU/chassis/wiring/CPUs/system RAM/etc) is at least 700
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by Gareth321 8d ago
Exactly. People cannot comprehend an IQ in the millions. But it's far crazier than this. Imagine millions of "people", each with IQs in the millions, all acting in unison at the speed of electrons. None of them can die. They
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by Gareth321 8d ago
I have always hypothesised that AI is the great filter from the Fermi paradox. Given current velocity, AI will offer us cheap and abundant energy designs in a decade. The thing with cheap and abundant energy is that it can be used for good
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by Gareth321 8d ago
I guess I'm boring because I really like it :-/ Maybe some cozier lighting/plants could be nice in the LAN/party spaces. I think the bones are pretty good. Just needs some finishing touches.
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by Gareth321 9d ago
Shelfmark (+ Grimmory/Calibre) is magic.
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by Gareth321 10d ago
This sounds uncomfortably similar to the [AI 2027[( https://ai-2027.com/ ) predictions.
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by Gareth321 10d ago
There were many examples of Twitter censoring and suppressing people and subjects. Some of the best reporting of the time was from Matt Taibbi, who won awards for his reporting, sometimes called the "Twitter Files." These are some
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by Gareth321 11d ago
As much as I dislike many of the users on X, I really appreciate that it feels like one of the last uncensored social media platforms on the internet. Reddit is handing out permanent AI bans now for any and no reason at all. It's ful
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by Gareth321 11d ago
I don't know how HN has remained as chill as it has compared to other social media platforms, but I'm grateful. I can still have deep conversations here without people losing their minds and yelling expletives and death threats. I

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