GlickWick

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by GlickWick 29d ago
This is just the cycle. If the OpenAI offerings are better and cheaper, people will shift there and then those discounts that made it such a deal will evaporate. Anthropic or someone else will entice people back with the discounts. The whol
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by GlickWick 29d ago
The cost and knowledge required to do that is not viable for the average consumer. Same reason the whole OpenClaw thing imploded.
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
For sure. The difference is that they've made a number of similar suspect changes to Grok on X. Like that weird couple of hours where it would only talk about white genocide in South Africa no matter how you prompted it. Everyone makes
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
It's true, but I do worry about governance when it comes to these models. That shows a surprising lack of discipline in their deployment pipeline.
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
There's always been "politics" embedded in this tech discussion forum. Generally you shouldn't discuss politics for politics sake, but if someone's politics are intersecting with their product (which is Musk's
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
I remain eternally grateful that HN's developers created an indicator that an account was created very recently. For those not aware, look for the green name highlight.
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
There's a difference between discussing our impact on the environment vs. the silly "lol nature will outlive us" stuff, which contributes nothing.
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
My point is the whole "nature existed and will continue to exist" thing is honestly trite. Nature created us, we're just another output in the universal system. There's no real point behind the whole statement that natur
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
They will if it means they stop existing
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
I see this a lot, and I think it's sort of naive. Nature itself is doomed due to the way the universe works. It's also far more brutal and arbitrary than we could imagine being. The only way to even have a chance at avoiding the d
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by GlickWick 1mo ago
My guess has always been the delicate balance of perception. Nukes are (rightfully) perceived to be beyond the basic destruction we've come to expect of war. They're a tool for annihilation. If you use them offensively the rest of
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
I don't think it's that simple, and making it seem that way is counter-productive towards understanding what we should/shouldn't be doing. There's no anti-sun obsession, either. Sunscreen isn't anti-sun, and pe
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
Definitely. Looking at the code it weirdly changes ball accel, which is not how nudging works in actual pinball. https://github.com/alula/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/master/Space...
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
Definitely not. Vitamin D takes a while to synthesize and build up. A quick fix like this isn't possible.
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
Trade is funding.
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
I’m sorry but this is a perfect example of what the person above criticized but in reverse. Come on now. China’s youth unemployment rate is 15%, and that’s likely heavily astroturfed to look lower than it is. Even 15% though is terrifying f
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
Nobody is refusing to acknowledge our role in destabilizing things. This is a thread about why the US might be afraid of an also bad-actor rival funding a huge proxy war against it controlling major technology.
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
No, we are in the process of an exit. This takes time
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
I don’t. I do read major reputed economists though, and they are not exactly bullish on China. Don’t create fictional versions of the people you argue with. This is the second time in a span of 10 minutes that you’ve done it. It completely
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
Yeah, the US is not an incredible actor, but China is funding the most brutal war in modern history (the invasion of Ukraine) in order to provide a smokescreen for their own invasion.
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
The US is building a Taiwan invasion fleet?
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
Taiwan, while simultaneously preparing an invasion fleet trained to stop US and EU attempts at a rescue.
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
I'm not the "hive mind" of HN or whatever. Individuals hold unique opinions. Yes, China is a rival. No, they have not won. Their economy is in a lot of trouble, likely far worse than the shape of the US's currently. That
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
The main actors threatening (and delivering) a hot war are China, and by proxy, Russia. The Ukraine war is absolutely and transparently enabled by China, who is also trying to actively destabilize the EU and the US in order to make its conq
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
My argument is that a major world power is pushing towards global conflict by simultaneously funding the conquest of Ukraine while building its own invasion fleet for Taiwan. Allowing them to also destabilize us internally is not exactly a
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
I think the major destabilizing force is the country that has been building the infrastructure for a hot war over Taiwan for the last decade while simultaneously blatantly funding the conquest of Ukraine. The US stupidly withdrawing from th
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
I do care. It's an unfortunate truth that we're exiting a global peace era and entering one of (hopefully just...) implied conflict. Our biggest geopolitical rival that's been threatening a hot war also distilling the things
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
Rational or not, they're building warships and an invasion fleet, along with the ability to stifle any US attempt to stop them. This is not the action of someone hoping for a slow victory. The person at the top of the chain was asking
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
While true, China's threat has been going on for a long time and they've been running repeated exercises on how to do it, how to take US warships out, etc. Additionally, US support for taking Greenland is virtually zero. Chinese s
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by GlickWick 2mo ago
The tower is not about fondness, its about growth

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