krapp

6 ms·

1.
by krapp 5d ago
I see little real difference between using proprietary software and using AI to generate software in terms of the freedoms allowed to the end user. The entire point of the free software ethos is that the end user should be in control to the
2.
by krapp 5d ago
There is a restriction - the useful models are closed source proprietary services that cost money to be used effectively, and those models require vast and expensive infrastructure for training that isn't available to the public. I can
3.
by krapp 5d ago
Y2K was potentially a real problem. It didn't materialize as such because we actually fixed it.
4.
by krapp 5d ago
The mods have said that they consider the cynicism and "curmudgeonliness" in the community to be a problem and they want newer people coming in. The most direct way to accomplish that would be to drive the old grumps out and repla
5.
by krapp 5d ago
Second on the list of things HN needs a solution to is fucking troll green accounts because it's getting ridiculous.
6.
by krapp 5d ago
Unless you're one of those people who only ever use HN and make it a part of your identity, sure. You can just leave for greener pastures. Or learn to care less.
7.
by krapp 5d ago
The whole purpose of this site is to "satisfy intellectual curiosity," not to post LLM generated content.
8.
by krapp 5d ago
The fediverse. Mastodon or Lemmy are viable alternatives if you curate well enough.
9.
by krapp 5d ago
You'll just get banned.
10.
by krapp 5d ago
Unfortunately most of what gets posted to HN or could conceivably be posted here is already LLM generated to some degree. Because content of interest to HN tends to be written by the same people who increasingly prefer to use an LLM for eve
11.
by krapp 5d ago
Ansel Adams had a process that incorporated on his understanding of optics, film, light and aesthetics. He didn't just point a camera in an arbitrary direction and push a button. I don't think a monkey could take an "Ansel
12.
by krapp 6d ago
>The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable. Learning to program has never been easier or more accessible. Being able to build a website has been accessible
13.
by krapp 6d ago
But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web. There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thin
14.
by krapp 6d ago
I had it happen twice that I can remember. Once I hallucinated that I had a third arm that snaked around to my desk lamp, and just last night that someone whispered "hello" into my ear. Apparently that last one's pretty commo
15.
by krapp 6d ago
People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI. You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human ele
16.
by krapp 6d ago
So "intent doesn't exist in any meaningful sense?" You're requiring me to first solve the hard problem of consciousness before making an argument you consider credible but I have yet to see a counterargument on your part
17.
by krapp 6d ago
The nature of creativity is an implicitly philosophical matter, and you can't criticize me for that when you're putting qualia on the table. Semantic arguments aren't interesting. Do you believe that creativity doesn't
18.
by krapp 6d ago
Like a lot of people you may be confusing randomness with creativity. You can make a Markov chain generate the phrase "imagine a lighthouse milking a cloud." That doesn't make the Markov chain creative. Creativity implies int
19.
by krapp 6d ago
Invading Iraq was always part of the neocon agenda. 9/11 provided a useful pretext, but it was always going to happen.
20.
by krapp 6d ago
Except for the part where the author never actually calls for government censorship to "protect the children" or anything of the sort, sure.
21.
Google Mapped a Fruit Fly's Brain. Now It's Playing Doom and Super Mario 64(gizmodo.com)
4 points by krapp 6d ago|1 comments
22.
by krapp 6d ago
Hack was the better language for so many reasons. It should have killed PHP instead of the other way around and I'm still annoyed about it.
23.
by krapp 6d ago
A thread on HN about the CIA and feminism? I'm grabbing some popcorn, this is going to be entertaining.
24.
by krapp 6d ago
Arguably having numerous decentralized, small and insular sub-networks hostile to change and growth makes them not worth the effort of corporations to co-opt and control. The biggest problem with the web is that there is only one.
25.
by krapp 6d ago
>The Web can be forked and I don't know why people aren't working on this. People are working on this: https://geminiprotocol.net/ And the fediverse and other decentralized protocols have yet to entirely succum
26.
by krapp 6d ago
That isn't the way it works, there's no "three strikes" law for Presidents. If all of his extant corruption, clear senility and incompetence, throwing the global economy into chaos tumbling ass over end into an unnecessa
27.
by krapp 6d ago
I'm not pitching it per se, I'm just claiming that's what I think the endgame for AI is. Corporations (especially in the medical, pharmaceutical and insurance fields) are already masters at avoiding legal liability. What are
28.
by krapp 7d ago
> you envision a future where there will be say a hospital, ran by anthropic which is AI powered fully, no company behind it, just plain Claude running everything from the moment you walk in till you walk out Everything as much as possib
29.
by krapp 7d ago
You can email the staff using the contact link at the bottom of the page.
30.
by krapp 7d ago
There is simply too much money and too many interests vested in the narrative (which many people already believe) that LLMs are thinking, feeling, sapient beings already beyond the threshold of AGI that deserve some status of legal personho

More ›