jMyles

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by jMyles 3d ago
I think we'd all consider the tool to be of less value, and perhaps fundamentally flawed. But I don't think it arises to an alignment issue; if I'm able to summon the model to harness my birthright of general-purpose computin
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by jMyles 5d ago
> We have safety systems in place to detect if people under 18 may be using Claude and we’ll disable accounts based on indicators of minor activity. So... kids can't use Claude Code _even with adult supervision_? I remember when I w
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by jMyles 6d ago
> not wearing pants and playing bagpipes on the bus The problem for some of us here is that we're left without a viable transit option, as the yes-pants-no-bagpipes model of transit essentially has a state-sanctioned monopoly. I sus
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by jMyles 11d ago
> That is not correct. My current role is a technical one, not a legal one. Well then I apologize for my presumption. > Besides studio time, connections to expert studio musicians, producers, engineers, advances and royalties? The fir
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by jMyles 11d ago
> I'm a trained attorney who specialized in intellectual property law, and I happen to know a little about both the performing arts and software industries. To be frank, it sounds like you are part of the problem, and that your inco
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by jMyles 11d ago
I'm guessing you didn't click my profile before writing this knee-jerk, but I'm a professional musician. And I've worked in software engineering, across a zillion different licenses, for many years. I'm not just sh
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by jMyles 11d ago
> Is there a convincing argument that the last century of software and music and books and etc would have been just as staggering without copyright? > I would love to hear such an argument. Fortunately, one of the many tentacles of th
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by jMyles 12d ago
Indeed it needs to happen, and even here on HN, it can be difficult for some to admit and acknowledge. It'd be great for this to be the first major relinquishment of nation-state power to happen without violence, without backroom deals
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by jMyles 13d ago
Indeed. But when the rubber meets the road, even our community has trouble standing behind people taking direct action to disrupt ICE activities. eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727750
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by jMyles 16d ago
> I think it's likely to be lawyers who are the safest. Lawyers are the ones primarily in charge of the government Given what seems like an increasingly inevitable deprecation of these outdated, lumbering nation-states, it seems to
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by jMyles 16d ago
> it's probably one of the easier compliance-swaps they have to engage It's the corporate equivalent of lacking boundaries and failing to maintain emotional maturity. Everybody has to say 'no' sometimes in order to be
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by jMyles 21d ago
I miss autocomplete; it was really fun a couple of years ago. What I'd really like is an autocomplete (or pseudo code to language-of-choice) interface, with my agent continually adding the interactions to its context, so that I can cha
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by jMyles 22d ago
Others have mentioned Sierra Ferrell - she seems to be the most obvious and vivid wildlife which is native to the ecosystem in which a huge gap left by this passing. And Sierra is a very sharp and kind human being from what I can tell. We&
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by jMyles 22d ago
Yeah it was a blast to make. If memory serves, a significant piece was over a very lovely and piney joint with Kieran Prasch at an airbnb in... Seattle?
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by jMyles 22d ago
I made a constant library for python which I liked some years ago. I wonder if any of my ideas made it in: https://github.com/nucypher/constantSorrow/blob/master/tests...
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by jMyles 22d ago
I've always found Sam (one of the founders) to be a really good guy. I remember we went bouldering in Berlin when a lot of the early Arweave concepts were still coming out of his skull and we worked out a lot of it in conversation bet
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by jMyles 23d ago
I publish all of my music in ways that are pirate-friendly, which for the moment just means Bit Torrent and IPFS. See: https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/Cryptograss:Delivery-kid If IPFS is starting to wane, does anyone else
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by jMyles 23d ago
Yeah, when we do NFT ticketing these days, we just say, "have your 1155 ready" with a link to explain what that means. I still think it's pretty obvious that on sufficiently long time-scales that some variant of NFTs will be
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by jMyles 27d ago
This seems like an orthogonal point, and one that I mostly agree with. But the question is: just because some perpetrators don't deserve second chances, why does that mean that McDonalds and Raytheon get to be the beneficiary of their
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by jMyles 29d ago
Well, I suppose my argument does turn on the scope on which you consider each of these 10 points. My presumption is that, as nation-states are deprecated, coordination between them will have to take the shape of sufficiently decentralized t
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by jMyles 29d ago
I think the ideal number of _prisons_ (as distinct from jails / pretrial confinement) is zero. This whole charade in the USA of dressing up slavery (without even a single day of interruption on January 31, 1865) as "correction&quo
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by jMyles 29d ago
> How would you design a system that simultaneously achieved all these goals: There is an obvious solution that achieves all of these, that, on 1000 year timescales, seems inevitable: deprecation of the nation-state. The internet solves
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by jMyles 1mo ago
> Cutting them down isn’t the worst idea but it would be nice if we could just elect people that wouldn’t allow this in the first place. Is this really better though? First-party community maintenance is more direct, cheaper, and doesn&
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by jMyles 1mo ago
> 1876 A year when police were relatively rare, and quite new in the western legal experience, having only emerged from slave patrols in the United States and from the founding of the 1829 Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom. This is a
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by jMyles 1mo ago
The institution of police has run its course and is time to deprecate. Flock cameras... I mean, look: our society, without any central organization at all, has the capacity to record nearly every crime that occurs, just by dint of our camer
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by jMyles 1mo ago
Do you have one in particular you'd suggest? That matches the performance, cooling, and profile of mine?
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by jMyles 1mo ago
I love my induction cooktop. I despise - in fact loathe - the touch interface, which becomes useless with the slightest spill of oil (and can thus be stuck on high until the interface is sufficiently wiped off and dried). I have the Gaslan
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by jMyles 2mo ago
It seems to me that there's really nothing at that store that "normal people" want to buy. Everything that we want to do can be done through ordinary collaboration with no need for the state. The special services which the s
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by jMyles 2mo ago
> Disney still gets upset Why do you care about Disney's emotional outbursts in the first place though? > The problem is that it is now explicitly reserved for the rich. That's not new - it has always served entrenched inter
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by jMyles 2mo ago
Even more bizarre than debating over whether we can stop the free flow of information across communications surfaces (we can't)... is the notion that this one person - a highly ineffectual occupant of an office whose relevance is rapid

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