holyra

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by holyra 6mo ago
"If you resist AI, it helps to ask why" I am not intrinsically opposed AI. I am opposed to its environmental and social impacts. I constantly see spamming AI bots that send zillions of useless or poor-quality PRs to OSS. I see PRs
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by holyra 6mo ago
The LLM has brainwashed so many devs that they now think they are nothing without it.
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by holyra 6mo ago
People can choose not to use AI. This is because they think it is inevitable that they will eventually use LLMs.
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by holyra 7mo ago
This comes from a dystopian book (Animal Farm). What is your point?
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by holyra 7mo ago
Yes the environmental impact of an AI agent performing a given task is lower. However we will not simply replace every programmer with an agent: in the process we will use more agents exceeding the previous environmental impact of humans. T
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by holyra 7mo ago
what about the environmental impact of AI, especially agentic AI? I keep reading praise for AI on the orange site, but its environmental impact is rarely discussed. It seems that everyone has already adopted this technology, which is destro
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by holyra 7mo ago
Personally, I dismiss AI, mainly agenetic ones, because of its environmental impact. I hope that one day everyone will be held accountable for it.
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by holyra 2y ago
> Can you name specifics? What freedom does the press not have that they had a few months ago? Every week, Trump is threatening the free press that criticizes him. He suspended the Associated Press from acceding to the Oval Office just b
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by holyra 2y ago
> The US values democracy and free speech more than any other country. Trump is destroying democracy and free speech (notably press freedom). Regarding freedom, I don't buy the US vision. The US culture values individual freedom at
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by holyra 2y ago
> The US is a terrible ally, for all the reasons you cite, but unless they somehow become a democracy, China would be worse in every way. I am no longer considering the US as a democracy. From a west perspective, China doesn't want
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by holyra 2y ago
From my perspective, US culture is more violent in the current era because of several factors: - A large portion of the population is incarcerated - The population is weaponized - Many people are dying because they don't have proper ac
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by holyra 2y ago
I am an EU citizen and I am concerned about the collapse of the US and more shortly about its expansionism claims. US has such a military dominance and violent culture that I am afraid it will produce a global war. I now think that the EU n
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by holyra 4y ago
Be careful, mental health is really precious... I didn't have the courage to quit my PhD while I was alone (my supervisors were not involved in my work from the beginning; I had almost no comments on my writings, including my thesis...
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by holyra 4y ago
> This sounds unreal. How did your supervisor managed his subordinates so they wound not spend their time in leisure activities? Self-pressure? I cannot spend my work time in leisure time, otherwise I ashame. It is pretty even the opposi
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by holyra 4y ago
This is a harsh reply. I also had the same issue as the author: absent supervisions. I had only two meetings during my phd and they never reviewed my papers (I tried everything to motivate them and I finally gave up). I did everything on my