awbvious

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by awbvious 3mo ago
See my other comment. Webcomic creators got their own problems that aren't much different than his were. Be it having to deal with Social Media algorithms, or working for a recently-public company that wants to force people to an app
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by awbvious 3mo ago
Question: Imagine it is right after Watterson stopped working with Universal Press Syndicate and making Calvin and Hobbes. You know someone who can get you in touch with Watterson. What do you do? I ask because I humbly think the closest
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by awbvious 3mo ago
" At present, there are no other major purchasers of AI compute outside of NVIDIA, hyperscalers (who are selling it to Anthropic and OpenAI, or they’re Meta, which has no AI strategy), OpenAI, and Anthropic. None. I can’t find a single
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by awbvious 3mo ago
I agree with this. I also agree with the general spirit of "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worr
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by awbvious 3mo ago
It is a false dichotomy that abandoning anonymity must happen with verifying humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge-proof . The only trick is who holds the infrastructure for the proofs. A single person
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by awbvious 3mo ago
Not sure, but I can tell you what my "oh s** astroturfing is so bad, it's even in Hacker News" moment. And if I learned GenAI was used to make some of the astroturf, that's more an "ah s* “ than an "oh s* “ th
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by awbvious 5mo ago
This a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42065193 . Ed Zitron's latest piece https://www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-openai/ free part of this Premium piece ends with "This is t
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Samsamelo – Silicon Valley selling trolley problem lies [fixed link](lgwnncpcqsloqa4sqqqq5osup2rlqp7iiqliyu4y6vveu5jy6tlq.arweave.net)
3 points by awbvious 5mo ago|1 comments
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by awbvious 6mo ago
Blog says: ATM didn't kill jobs. Okay, it did kill some jobs. Proportionally did, but lots of new banks means overall more jobs. (The relationship management stuff is kind of irrelevant, it was simply the banks took the efficiencie
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by awbvious 1y ago
I feel sad for you that are actually humans and are saying negative things against this extremely well written post. Perhaps you are doing it out of cognitive dissonance that you could be a baddie too. Perhaps you have lost the ability to
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by awbvious 2y ago
" Anonymity of users: validating someone's real-life identity sufficiently would make it possible to permanently ban malicious individuals and filter out bots with good effectiveness, but it will destroy anonymity online. In my op
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by awbvious 2y ago
Thank you, you two people who made my post 3 points.
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Samsamelo – Silicon Valley selling trolley problem lies(lgwnncpcqsloqa4sqqqq5osup2rlqp7iiqliyu4y6vveu5jy6tlq.g8way.io)
3 points by awbvious 2y ago|2 comments
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by awbvious 2y ago
As I mourn today, I am trying to post this again, this time as its own thread. I posted this without the Silicon Valley impromptu subtitle on the Show HN October thread, so the trolley never really left the station. Repeating what I put t
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by awbvious 2y ago
Samsamelo https://g8way.io/WazWieKElugDkoQhDrpUfqK4P-hEFoxTmPVqSnU49Nc Inspired by three people, so I tried to find three fitting ways to let people know this story exists. 1: On a website currently showing deep-fake propa