dbingham

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by dbingham 8d ago
...did you just use the phrase "ICE concentration camps" and then compare them to people's homes and offices to argue that recording them would be bad? Or did you mean "Bad from the perspective of the officers"? Whi
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by dbingham 11d ago
Lots of people asking "Why?". They say so right on their site: There are big changes happening in the technology industry and they are acting pro-actively to ensure the workers have a strong collective voice in the ways the founda
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by dbingham 12d ago
I think for now the probability is limited by their requirement for high resource clouds. They have a limited number of targets. They tend to be targets with comparatively high security monitoring and people will notice if their resource
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by dbingham 1mo ago
This is the counter example to "protocols and interop solve enshittification". No, they don't. Email is the model protocol: perfectly interoperable, perfectly decentralizable. And yet it is centralizing in the hands of a f
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by dbingham 2mo ago
> Agreed, all of the staff/principal engineers I work with are ~99%+ AI generated code, and increasing business value delivered as a result. This is on planet scale infra not CRUD apps. This has been the pro-"write with LLMs&qu
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by dbingham 2mo ago
Yeah, that's just a problem with review. I tend to keep it going until the stuff its finding is stuff that I look at and think "I can live with that". Usually by that point it's found the worthwhile stuff and what rema
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by dbingham 2mo ago
I think most of this is correct, in spite of potentially being built on a bad assumption. The assumption is that LLMs should be writing the code and human engineers reviewing and verifying the LLM output. And that this pushes the cost of
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by dbingham 2mo ago
No, I'm basing my analysis in history and political science and you are basing yours on your own gut biases. I'm referring to people who are part of an explicitly fascist movement (as identified by political scientists, historian
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by dbingham 2mo ago
Except AT Protocol can't do the very thing that made Facebook the commons: privacy. There's a proposal to add privacy to the protocol (private posts, private groups), but I don't think anyone has solved the real root problem
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by dbingham 3mo ago
This is "whatabboutism" which is a logical fallacy. Someone doesn't have to talk about the climate impacts of cars every time they talk about the climate impacts of AI. Both have climate impacts, independently of each other,
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by dbingham 3mo ago
I think the issue is that those stories are rooted very much in the failures of human systems that we see every day. They are us imagining what could go wrong based on what has gone wrong and is going wrong. It would be a lot easier to
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by dbingham 3mo ago
None of these are left. You could make an argument that some of them are "classical liberal" or "neoliberal", but that was the center in the US and everywhere else it is center-right. Definitions are helpful here. &quo
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by dbingham 3mo ago
No. That sentiment didn't "move toward the center". What happened is that the far-right -- and, lets not use euphemisms like "the far right" here, we're talking about fascists and literal Nazis (ethno-fascism i
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by dbingham 3mo ago
You're getting hung up on the relay distinction (which is fair). But I'm not talking about relay's here. And to be clear, I'm talking about the push back towards protocols and decentralization as the solution to enshi
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by dbingham 3mo ago
The National Lawyers Guild released a pretty incredible statement about this trial. They basically were not allowed to mount a defense, in blatant violation of their constitutional rights. > Alarmingly, this mistrial order is just the l
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by dbingham 3mo ago
"Most people" cannot afford $30 /month. And of those who can, most of those cannot afford the time and effort required to run a relay. And I honestly think this is one of the fundamental problems with the push back towards p
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by dbingham 3mo ago
If the goal is to actually calculate how many words we know, then you should include an "I don't know" option. Sure, some people will choose to guess to inflate their score, but some of us will be honest because we legitimat
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by dbingham 3mo ago
Fair!
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by dbingham 3mo ago
On further play, really the only match up where I had any trouble was large vs large. (As a side request, it would be nice to be able to choose your opponent!) With both small and medium, you can just strafe back and forth in front of your
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by dbingham 3mo ago
That was fun, but the AI and the balance need some work. It's too easy to win as the small boat. You just stay ahead of your opponent and then turn back and strafe periodically. It would be much more challenging if you added wind an
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by dbingham 3mo ago
This tracks. In spite of the hype it seems pretty clear the model gains are now in a very strong logarithmic fall off. The curve is flattening and flattening fast. And we're still not to a point where you can fully delegate coding ta
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by dbingham 3mo ago
Yes, that is objectively a lot of money. The only people who wouldn't consider that a lot of money are the small percentage of people with incomes high enough to recover that very quickly -- the top roughly 10% or 20% of income earner
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by dbingham 3mo ago
Cheers! Glad to hear you covered them. I'll check out the book when I have some reading bandwidth. I'm working on applying the lessons of these companies to tech, basically hoping to start a tech Mondragon. It's extremely
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by dbingham 3mo ago
Eric, it's interesting the companies you've picked that "structurally resist gravity" and the ones you've left out. Costco, Patagonia, and Nova Nordisk are all interesting cases. But you're missing Mondragon,
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by dbingham 4mo ago
> You've declared the future, which doesn't leave much room for a conversation. So, cheers! I just flipped your own rhetorical devices back on you. If you don't think they left much room for conversation, then that's
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by dbingham 4mo ago
The problem is that people keep saying this, but the code keeps being bad. Every time I commit myself to trying to build something with AI, I end up wasting a ton of time and backing it out or completely rewriting it without the AI. The c
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by dbingham 5mo ago
In a two party world where one of those parties has been captured by a fascist movement, there is no "political neutrality". You're either pro-fascist or anti-fascist. And if you care about rights at all, including free spe
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by dbingham 7mo ago
Github's two biggest selling points were its feature set (Pull Requests, Actions) and its reliability. With the latter no longer a thing, and with so many other people building on Github's innovations, I'm starting to serious
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by dbingham 10mo ago
To be determined. It's not a problem we have yet, since we're going to ease into the cooperative governance. Right now it's an LLC. If we can hit basic financial stability, then we'll convert the LLC to a nonprofit and
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by dbingham 10mo ago
I'm exploring various systems of community moderation. Right now experimenting with a "demote" button that people are encouraged to use on: disinformation, misinformation, propaganda, spam, and slop. Communities' default

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