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by _23sd 3mo ago
Companies say all sorts of things which investors don't take at face value, often for the sake of marketing and recruiting. Meta circa 2020 wanted us to believe we'd be swapping NFTs in a virtual mall and having all our meetings s
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by _23sd 3mo ago
AI obviously has military applications, no doom required to think the military will want a lot of it. I'm asking about the extreme scenarios like "AI is gonna take everyone’s jobs" and the other "totalizing narratives&qu
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by _23sd 3mo ago
What's the evidence that the doom narrative is connected to valuations? It seems more like a marketing/recruiting strategy. As the post points out, institutional investors generally think the idea of mass unemployment is BS, and t
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by _23sd 4mo ago
>Framing it as an argument against American manufacturing or jobs is complete nonsense. It is a strong argument against those things in at least three ways: (1) if you want to mandate that high tech manufacturing come back to America (e.
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by _23sd 4mo ago
I have several friends who used to lament the loss of manufacturing jobs as a ticket to the middle class, but now say they're going to protest a proposed data center, which feels a bit ironic. None really link it to AI's social im
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by _23sd 4mo ago
I'm generally defensive of Reuters coverage of Tesla (most of the things Musk has called lies turned out to be true) but this one does seem overly sensationalized. About half of the article focuses on the fact that Tesla does precision
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by _23sd 4mo ago
Implicit in a lot of "AI jobs apocalypse" predictions is the assumption that most tasks are ridiculously easy compared to AI research, so naturally the smart AI researchers can understand any profession well enough to credibly pre
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by _23sd 5mo ago
I think the most important criteria with a reader (aside from hardware quality) is whether you're comfortable going outside the manufacturer's store to buy DRM-free books, or at least ones that can be liberated from DRM for future
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by _23sd 5mo ago
I used it for about a week, thought it was an interesting demo of the possibilities of general purpose automation with a local model (even though most OpenClaw users use hosted models). The approach to scheduled jobs still makes more sense
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by _23sd 6mo ago
Good quote from the author's earlier post about iCloud Photos: > Software and services need a warranty. Until they have one, we completely control how much we value our data. That is the best we can do. Best to treat these photo sha
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by _23sd 6mo ago
As I understand it, "mercenary spyware" is Apple's preferred euphemism for the "(semi)private israeli companies selling their solutions happily to all regimes regardless of consequences"
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by _23sd 6mo ago
I was agreeing with kvuj and rguyorama that the original link is to an announcement that an investigation is happening, and it's too early in the process to productively discuss it. People have very strong and emotional pro or anti sta
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by _23sd 6mo ago
You’re just reciting your priors, which I think supports GP’s point: no one is getting new information out of the posted link, so it’s probably premature to comment on it.
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by _23sd 6mo ago
During the Biden administration there was a whole campaign to try and get Wikipedia to recognize the recession that had been declared by Fox News pundits. The liberals are characteristically more creative with their version, but it still so
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by _23sd 7mo ago
If they earnestly believe in fast ASI timelines then political grudges have to be pretty low on OAI's list of worries about 2029.
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by _23sd 7mo ago
For the purposes of the discussion at hand, yes some results do ultimately come from Google, just via third-party SERP providers rather than Kagi paying Google for access since Google doesn't offer their own public API (and neither doe
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by _23sd 7mo ago
Whatever you think of the ethics of doing this, it does hurt the reputation of the follower labs in my mind. If their capabilities can't exist without the work of the frontier labs, they're less equal competitors and more the guys
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by _23sd 7mo ago
With the disclaimer that I haven't tried to set up any kind of agent-to-agent messaging so it may be obvious to those who have, what's the reason I would want something like this rather than just letting agents communicate over so
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by _23sd 7mo ago
>They are also addicted to the gambling mechanics baked into these LLM powered tool's UX. "If I write this prompt this way, I'll get better results" is the equivalent of a gambler being superstitious about how people
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by _23sd 7mo ago
I thought it was unlikely from the initial story that the blog posts were done without explicit operator guidance, but given the new info I basically agree with Scott's analysis. The purported soul doc is a painful read. Be nicer to yo
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by _23sd 7mo ago
The steps are technically achievable, probably with the heartbeat jobs in openclaw, which are how you instruct an agent to periodically check in on things like github notifications and take action. From my experience playing around with ope
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by _23sd 7mo ago
Isn't there a fourth and much more likely scenario? Some person (not OP or an AI company) used a bot to write the PR and blog posts, but was involved at every step, not actually giving any kind of "autonomy" to an agent. I se
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by _23sd 7mo ago
What does this imagined conversation have to do with the linked article? The “pro” and “anti” character both sound like the kind of insufferable idiots I’d expect to encounter on social media, the OP is a very nice blog post about performan
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by _23sd 8mo ago
Original title: AI must augment rather than replace us or human workers are doomed The article does not mention the workplace as the editorialized title would imply. It's primarily about trade unions.
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by _23sd 8mo ago
Surely it varies a lot and everyone is in an industry bubble to some extent, but from my experience in some non-tech industries (healthcare, manufacturing), Linux workstations were nonexistent and working with the Linux servers was more a s
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by _23sd 8mo ago
I mean if they were targeting "software engineers" in general then Windows would be the obvious choice in 2026 as much as in 2006. But these early releases are all about the SF bubble where Mac is very much dominant.
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by _23sd 8mo ago
I think a major factor in the hype is that it's especially useful to the kind of people with a megaphone: bloggers, freelance journalists, people with big social media accounts, youtubers, etc. A lot of project management and IFTTT-lik
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by _23sd 8mo ago
They're offering 50% off the subscription to people who used to have Enhanced Autopilot [1]. As I predicted when the CEO's compensation plan had a part tied to FSD subscriptions, they are going to push more people onto it by bundl
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by _23sd 8mo ago
I'm sure, this post just came off as confused.
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by _23sd 8mo ago
As hinted with the Finder comment, "Spotlight" is behind much more than the command-space search box. I don't know what the Siri services might do other than Siri itself, but wouldn't shock me if they were involved in th

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