SamPatt

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by SamPatt 6d ago
I don't see how it's different from what we have now? Expensive cancer treatments already exist and are rationed by the companies who create them, then over time become more widely available. If AI companies create better treatmen
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by SamPatt 6d ago
I agree that fears are overblown. But we have definitely seen some attacks, especially in the crypto space. Three major ones just in the past month: Coldcard wallet, Liquid, and Trezor email compromised. They're almost certainly a resu
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by SamPatt 9d ago
It is a good thing when it didn't exist before and it does exist now and wouldn't have existed without them. If they profit immensely from curing cancer, good.
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by SamPatt 22d ago
Thanks for sharing this sentiment and including data. So few people seem aware of the wonderful progress humanity keeps making. Makes me worry that the progress will stall or even reverse because people don't even know it's happen
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by SamPatt 27d ago
That's one of the only real downsides of apparent intelligence that I've seen: people in positions which exist to be supportive tend to assume you don't actually need their help. Which, comparatively, might be true. But just
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by SamPatt 1mo ago
lLM
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by SamPatt 1mo ago
The Pebbble transcription is part of their SDK and very easy to use programmatically, also it's quite accurate (not perfect but good enough that I turned confirmation off). The TTS is Piper installed on the same VPS as Hermes. Happy to
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by SamPatt 1mo ago
I have a Pebble Time 2, which is an open source watch. I built a voice operated AI assistant for it. It's hosted on a VPS, connected over Tailscale, and has a realtime TTS server (Piper). The Pebble has built in transcription, so my ap
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by SamPatt 2mo ago
I just built my own voice assistant with my Pebble Time 2 watch and it uses a VPS hosted TTS (Piper) and Hermes agent. I learned about all of these projects on HN at one point or another.
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by SamPatt 2mo ago
In a sense I agree, since GDP is a bit of a silly metric. But it's a decent enough proxy for the parts of human progress that I think are meaningful that it illustrates the point well. That website is an excellent resource and you can
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by SamPatt 2mo ago
>There was no default "state", at least by the time you're talking about humans, we probably already learned from each other by observation. Sure, politics and wars and religion and feudal dynasties and whatever make bumps
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by SamPatt 2mo ago
>A wealthy person is not someone with a lot of things. No one made that claim. By nearly any sane metric the world is wealthier. You can verify this on sites like Our World in Data. We are healthier, have more leisure time, are less like
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by SamPatt 2mo ago
>You are talking about access to resources and technologies, which is basically constantly rising, we couldn't stop that if we wanted to We could very obviously stop our progress in resources and technology. It has happened througho
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by SamPatt 2mo ago
No. The world has absolutely gotten wealthier over the last few centuries. Wealth is obviously not zero sum. Humanity is far wealthier today than before the industrial revolution, and the trend is still towards increasing wealth.
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by SamPatt 2mo ago
Yes but what would they learn from their mistake? "I should run my purchase decisions past an AI in the future."
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by SamPatt 3mo ago
The entire point is to stop it from needing to be a cause in the first place. Trying to establish the right to run models locally while we still can makes more sense than waiting to see if they do try, then organizing too late.
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by SamPatt 3mo ago
As the earth has warmed over the last century, has food production increased or decreased? If production increased (dramatically) while temperatures increased in the past, could this trend continue?
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by SamPatt 3mo ago
Deaths from all natural disasters have dramatically decreased over the last century. I won't bother sharing the source because you'll find some reason to dismiss it I'm sure. It's interesting you claim my comment is prop
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by SamPatt 3mo ago
>the way we heat up the earth right now, i don't think you have to worry about heating Nearly 10x more people die from the cold than from the heat. "...9.43% of global deaths were attributable to non-optimal temperatures, with
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by SamPatt 3mo ago
LLMs don't think for you. Just like any other text you read, you can accept or reject it. Discernment still exists.
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by SamPatt 3mo ago
>I can't in good conscious bring a child into a world that so many are focused on absolutely destroying. Who is focused on destroying the world? I don't think hardly any super villains exist. People might have a different asses
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by SamPatt 4mo ago
Emotions do seem to act as signaling, but is that the same as an attempt at manipulation for the benefit of the individual? It seems conceivable in social groups that having an honest accounting of how people are feeling (via emotions) avai
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by SamPatt 4mo ago
Many comments are mocking the "Non-technical teams are now shipping production code" line as an obvious disaster waiting to happen. I think this will be commonplace in the not too distant future. Some disasters will happen, just l
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by SamPatt 5mo ago
I can second the sentiment, I have had kdenlive crash on me several times without saving. I still use it because it's great for quick and simple things, and I save frequently, but it is extremely frustrating when it happens.
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by SamPatt 7mo ago
Yes. This is why copy-trading often fails.
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by SamPatt 7mo ago
You can see when they buy or sell a position. It's on the blockchain so it's all public. And yes, copying positions is called copy-trading and it's extremely popular. Orders aren't public though. Only the actual trades.
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by SamPatt 7mo ago
Ah I understand you now. Yes I could have had a service do the digitizing then only done delivery myself. And given the time investment that probably would have been more sound. I don't think I'd do it all myself if I did it again
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by SamPatt 7mo ago
I'll have to try that next time
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by SamPatt 7mo ago
Yup, you nailed it. This was my exact concern.
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by SamPatt 7mo ago
It wasn't about having the videos held hostage, but about the ease of accessing and viewing them. I didn't want to do DVDs at all - frankly, that's just a bad experience to go through 200+ hours of unlabeled video.

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