NeutralCrane

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by NeutralCrane 11d ago
Corruption does not mean bad policy. It’s government officials breaking the law to empower and enrich themselves. To the extent the items on your list even exist outside of the addled minds of conspiracy theorists, they aren’t corruption.
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by NeutralCrane 14d ago
Ed Zitron is also making money off of his claims. It may be orders of magnitude less than Altman, but it’s still his income source
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
I could be misremembering but the Walking Dead season 1 and Game of Thrones season 1 came out around the same time, but didn’t really kill of any major characters until after the first season. Both are based on pre-existing material but GoT
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
I agree with you, but that is literally what ruff is meant to do, and what this person is arguing against.
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
This seems like a strange hill to die on. Linters don’t consume energy, that’s the entire point. They get everyone on the same standard so that no energy is wasted by anyone on having to discuss, debate, and implement these standards. And y
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
I work for one of these. Never had a real job, and it shows. They sure can present a slide deck. Organizing a company around a coherent strategy is very clearly beyond them.
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
I think the point is that if you only voice your criticism the moment they are no longer funding you, it’s not upholding standards and principles, it’s sour grapes
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
Well they didn’t say 16 years olds should not having access to compute so your point is irrelevant.
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
Distribution is a subset of use
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
> If we're doing capitalism people have to be paid somehow, and when people say "free" they don't mean "absolutely". Therein lies the entire issue. Intellectual property is a paradox and a farce, but our cur
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
Has absolutely nothing to do with the paradox of intolerance. If you have a more substantive criticism, feel free to elaborate.
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
There’s plenty of licenses that dictate that code can’t be used in commercial applications, or what kind of license derivatives can use.
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
If they lock it up, they lock it up. They don’t need to be forced to open it up. But they also shouldn’t be able to prevent others for making use of any knowledge gleaned from it. In the case of AI, I don’t think LLM providers are required
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
First of all, I’d recommend you not accuse others of being intellectually dishonest simply because they have a stance you disagree with. Second of all, “knowledge is free” doesn’t mean it is free to generate. It means that it literally cann
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
I’m guessing 90% of them are mobile gamers exclusively, so no, that is not realistic
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
What exactly are the facts about AI water usage? I have trouble separating hysteria from reality but most of what I see still claims water usage is enormous
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
The never-ending discussion of LLM-generated code in binary terms is tiring. It’s either all completely useless slop (which is the author’s stance), or it’s infallible and should be maximized at all costs. Yes there is slop, but there is al
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
There’s a lot of crops that are very intensively bred to create new, specific cultivars. Take a look at all the new Apple varieties popping up. There’s nothing natural about their creation: https://applerankings.com
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by NeutralCrane 2mo ago
If knowledge is to be free, that means there should be no restrictions on how it is used. Even an open source license misses the point, because the implication is still that one person can dictate how another person can make use of knowledg
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
That’s my point. The AI writing either affects the content or it doesn’t. If you require a disclaimer to tell the difference, then it isn’t affecting the content. Requiring a disclaimer is essentially admitting the content isn’t meaningfull
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
I think the need to jump through hoops to disclose anything and anything that might offend someone’s particular sensibilities is a losing battle. What if I want a disclosure on if the content is being hosted via AWS vs some non-magacorp tha
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
> who wants to work for a leader who is neither powerful nor high-status within their own company? Me. In my limited experience, the more leaders are involved, the less likely the project is to be successful. The ideal situation is havin
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
What about shooting them in the chest while they drive their car? Or shooting them in the back after they’ve been detained?
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
The repetition and examples aren’t there for learning. They are there for monetization. This is my biggest issue with the self-help industry. There is a lot of self-help books out there with ideas that are genuinely valuable, or at least wo
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
I spent nearly a decade disgusted with Trump but being contrarian by insisting that it was understandable why voters might support it, even if I felt they were wrong. At this point, there’s no defending it. Anyone who supports this incarnat
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
Well it’s not like the budget cuts to science are being redirected to those people. It’s going to the already rich.
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
What about that makes you think it was written by AI?
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
The Crusades and colonialism can’t be distilled down to single causes, but even if you tried, religious reasons would not be the main ones. Political and financial motivations were far bigger factors in both.
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
It’s absolutely a bad thing, and there’s extensive research demonstrating it
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
I was going to mention this as well. Everything is a graphic novel these days. Go to the bookstore, and at least half of the shelf space dedicated to children is for graphic novels (and that doesn’t include the manga section). Almost every

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