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by georgemcbay 3d ago
If you or I hacked Hugging Face in the way OpenAI's agents did, we'd be up on CFAA charges promptly with zero regard for whether we did the hack on our own or agents running on our home systems got out of control. So I guess the d
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by georgemcbay 4d ago
This cartoon is from 2012: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995 14 years later and the most politically powerful person in the world spends a lot of time yapping about "clean coal" and the evil of windwil
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
> 9/11 was the starting point I'd amend this slightly to say that it wasn't really a starting point for anything, but certainly an extremely efficient accelerant for many things that various people already wanted to do or
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
The pre-AI datacenters where you live are very different than the Colossus-style methane turbine and inadequately soundproofed AI datacenters that are being built today.
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
> Second, why is the article trying so hard to make datacenters out as racist? AI Datacenters are classist. Because of their negative externalities they will always be constructed near the poor who have the least political power. Huma
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
Here in San Diego we had Lord Vader's support https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NtOYzDJt9U
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
They didn't word that very well. Would have been clearer if they said "However, in other mediums (like water), particles can potentially move faster than light does in that same medium."
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
> AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust An increasingly large percentage of people being lying POS grifters is breaking trust. AI just happens to be a tool that the laziest of that group of people leans on a lot to supercharge their gr
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
> It's up to us, as tech workers to push back against this. Sadly in my experience a lot of tech workers just don't even care about the issue, let alone have the courage to push back against it. I certainly care about it and I
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
> So I don't find the bulk of the article about it being impossible for a virus to have this effect all that compelling. I think the other flaw the article has it that it assumes the bad actor is doing targeted design. That they or
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
> I've always heard "millionaires" (the quote was always apocryphal, anyways) Gotta update it for 2026 because millionaires are broke bitches. Basically part of the permanent underclass that will never escape the singula
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
Alas Hacker News posters see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed trillionaires.
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
> What today is used for good, tomorrow can be used for evil. Unfortunately we aren't even starting from good. What today is used for evil, tomorrow can be used for eviler.
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
> AI to me is like the Nuclear race again I don't pretend to know the chances of AI wiping out humanity, but I'm not sure the nuclear race is a good comparison. Enriched uranium being very difficult to aquire/process makes
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
> I didn’t believe it at first, because I’ve always considered YC, in spite of its flaws, to be politically astute. YC's current CEO is Garry Tan, who has a lot of ties to "effective accelerationism" and the "dark enl
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by georgemcbay 8d ago
> You'd think theft would still be illegal regardless of what a privacy policy says. I wish that were true, but I live in the United States and it is 2026. The President of the United States rug-pulls memecoin crypto and regularly p
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
> she’s against progress and threatens the continued thriving of our civilization. How exactly does she threaten the continued thriving of our civilization? It is fine for people to disagree with her worldviews, but labeling her a threat
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
> Musk’e fraudulent bailout of Solar City (and himself) reaches its conclusion. Nothing ever really ends, he's just higher up in the stack now fraudulently bailing out everything below with SpaceX.
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
> Surely knowingly letting people drink lead contaminated water breaks other laws rather than their constitutional rights? The legality of poisoning people with toxic water in the US seems to depend upon how black they are (based on clea
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
At this point every EULA or TOS change should begin with the heading: We Are Altering The Deal. Pray We Don't Alter It Any Further
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
> My favorite bit about this is how none of the execs want to take ownership of the change, but instead trying to put someone else in the hot seat and/or start a Committee. And with the exception of John Martin's reply (which r
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by georgemcbay 10d ago
Flock has managed to do what few before have accomplished -- elevated its brand to Google-like status in terms of people associating the entire category of its service with its brand name. Too bad for them that its for a category that virtu
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by georgemcbay 10d ago
> I might just email the company. If they object, I won't make my GitHub repo public. If you do this, I can nearly guarantee they will either never respond as a best case scenario, or they will object. There is effectively zero chan
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by georgemcbay 10d ago
$320m, not a bad haul. More than enough to buy yourself a pardon if you get caught.
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by georgemcbay 10d ago
Community Note: Linked article is by kook right-wing Breitbart alum Kristin Tate, whitewashed through a relatively non-biased news source (thehill.com) by way of being an opinion piece (for which The Hill explicitly disavows agreement with
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by georgemcbay 10d ago
> which will go as far as blowing up weddings in your neighborhood to stop you. And in case the wedding reference wasn't explicit enough, this isn't just Trump, it was also Obama. It pains me to summon the specter of "both
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by georgemcbay 10d ago
> If true I am deeply concerned about what OAI’s teams are actually up to. Haven't all the labs effectively disbanded their real safety teams a while ago? To be honest, I don't really follow it closely because I'm pretty c
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by georgemcbay 12d ago
> An "independent" in America is a person who greatly desires everything Trump is doing but realizes that makes them a bad person and therefore refuses to admit it. There's some truth to what you're saying, particular
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by georgemcbay 13d ago
> I find it kind of surprising she didn't just spend the $20 If it because the poster's mother dislikes the idea of subscriptions, then I totally get it. (Though I admit I have no idea if this has anything to do with the post
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by georgemcbay 13d ago
> This is AGI now. Why are you spending any of your time looking at the "quality of code"? Poe's law applied to AI comments on HN just keeps becoming more relevant by the day. Judging by the poster's comment history,

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