LikelyABurner

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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
I did bother reading the article, and so with my 13 years of theoretical physics research well behind me, I say: Good. Fantastic. Wunderbar. Magnifique. "Maybe", "might", and "possibly" are all words that s
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
That's the fundamental platform with all online platforms. It's their own form of carcinization. The problem is that to outsiders, the initial set of gatekeepers who arose naturally in the early community as "the people that
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
You can scroll their X page and it's extremely clear that they're focused on the Gaza war ( https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta ) and they openly state that they attacked the Internet Archive because it was based in America w
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
Didn't believe that anyone would be bridge-burning-happy enough to put this in their official docs, but you're not kidding: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/wiki/Which-GPU-sho... In retros
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
This article is missing the forest for the trees. The reason why the Automattic/WP Engine fight has become the tech industry's daily soap opera isn't because we're all passionate about website hosting solutions. It'
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
They're not "flesh-and-blood compute" you absolute monster, they're human beings with their own hopes and dreams. Reading this comment has given me a strange new respect for crypto, because if slaving under you is what
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
"I'm sorry ModernMech, but you're in violation of our CoC with your overly negative and toxic tone. We're going to go ahead, close your issue, and merge the PR to add Torment Nexus integration." This is what happen
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
> One example that comes to mind is the security person who wanted our logins to expire so frequently that we had to log in multiple times per day. He insisted that anything less was below his personal standards for security and it would
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
This hits the nail completely on the head. If the issue here was "just" training LLMs, like some AI bros want to deflect it to be, the conversation around this topic would be very different, and I would be enthusiastically defendi
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
IANAL but this is textbook unauthorized access of a computer as has been drilled into me in every boring corporate training I do for my security work and thus is "hacking". Telling the judge "but I wasn't wearing my blac
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
Yudkowsky is a human LLM: his output is correctly semantically formed to appear, to a non-specialist, to fall into the subject domain, as a non-specialist would think the subject domain should appear, and so the non-specialist accepts it,
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
The thing that especially infuriates me is recruiters in this article turning around and trying to throw LinkedIn under the bus. No one likes the nightmare dystopia of a platform that is LinkedIn. The only reason most people I know have Li
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
It looks like he started regularly writing for The Intercept in January 2021, soon enough after Glenn Greenwald got kicked out for having the audacity to actually do investigative journalism and publicly sounded the alarm that The Intercept
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
There is a very strong professional code of conduct within security circles that you should monetize the security of your own product as little as possible, because your own security is not a revenue stream, it's your most basic obliga
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by LikelyABurner 2y ago
Yeah, I don't like that we're at the point that we need licenses like this, but in a world where AWS has decided to "disrupt" the methods for open source monetization that the open source community has generally agreed u
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
I thought "finally, maybe someone gets it" and did the unspeakable sin at Hacker News and read the article. Did they talk about efforts by governments to censor the Internet "for the {children,terrorism,morals}? Nope. Did th
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
Is that why the EU is trying to break my encryption, scan my devices for CSAM, and grab all its visitors' biometric data? To "protect my privacy"? This narrative needs to end. The EU does not care about privacy. They care a
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
You can find a plethora of critical viewpoints on Hacker News and the various blogs it links to which are well cognizant of the dangers of the tech industry. The problem isn’t that Wired is critical, it’s that they’ve gone weirdly reactiona
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Ask HN: Now That Phillips Is Enshittified, How Can I Run My Phillips Hue Lights?
20 points by LikelyABurner 3y ago|20 comments
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
I fiercely despise Google and want them to go out of business legitimately, but this argument is right up there with “the defendant used encryption, that proves they must have child porn on their computer Your Honor!” It is not the responsi
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
I would love to know how the people blotivating about this think Twitter worked before. Of course they’re doing ML training on user data! Every major tech company has been doing ML training on user data for over a decade at this point! Tw
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
We don’t need social media, period. Social media is a fundamentally flawed model that you have can have human communication on a global scale with a “The Algorithm” used to cleanly order high quality capital-C “Content” into numeric categor
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
You are exactly modeling the chauvinistic Silicon Valley attitude that is causing the outrage in the general population to begin with. “Our algorithms are pretty much the same as human art criticism, so put down the pitchforks you unenlight
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
What will hurt artists is, when in 10 years, all publishers are demanding that the vividness score (TM) be at least a 95% “because that’s what drives sales”. Which is what will happen if the authors don’t proactively stop it from happening.
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
If anything, it’s the smart people that need to be protected from technology, because Silicon Valley is obsessed with pulling them down into a Harrison Bergeron nightmare where they’re absorbed into the same modeled probability distribution
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
“That book’s vividness score (TM) is 75% opposed to that other book’s vividness score (TM) which is only 50%! That’s, like, a 50% higher culture score (TM)!”
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
I’m with the artists on this one. Our obsession with converting everything into input for an algorithm that spits out an ill-defined number (what the hell is “vividness”?) needs to stop. We already tried this with human communication and g
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
Don’t kid yourself, posting your code on GitHub won’t lead to your being “discovered”, either. Online portfolios are the worst lie we tell young developers. It’s the software industry’s version of “exposure” gigs: they get a few more bits t
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by LikelyABurner 3y ago
Yeah, if you read later, he mentions that something as simple as telling your company “hey, maybe we should try using open source” is sufficient to be giving back to the community in his opinion. “Freeloader” here really means someone like

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