mekael

6 ms·

1.
by mekael 6d ago
There are already scores of people capable of building biological weapons or doing GOF work which ends up being essentially the same thing. There’s no need for an LLM, just a phd in virology, a decent lab, and a handful of grad students. [0
2.
by mekael 7d ago
That’s because it is. And not even well presented propaganda.
3.
by mekael 21d ago
We align humans via the propagation of morals and ethics, primarily through parenting and social pressure.
4.
by mekael 23d ago
May i ask what industry youre in? Also, how’s the winter in SLC?
5.
by mekael 23d ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
6.
by mekael 1mo ago
Some of us have always had a class consciousness, we just tend not to be boisterous about it. Mine is based on two things: 1. The fact that i grew up in poverty and never want anyone else to suffer that fate. 2. I was raised in a religious
7.
by mekael 1mo ago
I'm 99.9% sure that everyone is AI in that thread.
8.
by mekael 1mo ago
I mean, I've done that for a couple of things, but probably 90+ percent was vendored libraries and javascript which could be ignored. Sadly, this is not one of those cases, and Im guessing yours isn't either?
9.
by mekael 1mo ago
I've found that engineers on a large team do read every line, mainly due to the fact that the skill levels run the gamut from intern to lead, and only 1 or 2 people out of 12 might have knowledge of the application being modified. It&#
10.
by mekael 1mo ago
There’s communism the theoretical idea and “communism” the application. The twentieth century was neither, but just authoritarianism wearing a trench-coat.
11.
by mekael 1mo ago
That will entail an immense amount of violence to be undertaken by the working class against those in power, unless you think they'll gladly give up all of their ill gotten gains out of the goodness of their black little hearts.
12.
by mekael 1mo ago
But who benefits from that economic growth? If it's only the capital owning class, and the rest of us are left in the dust, then the growth is irrelevant. I ,for one, have read enough history to know that it's never the proles who
13.
by mekael 2mo ago
Tell me you’ve never experienced the joy of solving a math problem without telling me you’ve never experienced the joy of solving a math problem. Also, in your scenario, the genie is used undermine all of human thought, destroy the ability
14.
by mekael 2mo ago
As a society we already know how to make the lives of everyone better: 1. Stable housing 2. Access to safe drinking water 3. Access to food 4. Access to healthcare 5. Access to education 6. Stable governments The EA community has so many &q
15.
by mekael 2mo ago
Im unsure as to how "it's clear that AI is going to make that possible". Things that help kids learn - parents who love and care for them - stable housing - stable access to food - stable access to high quality eduction provi
16.
by mekael 2mo ago
Years ago i slid down a bannister at a dance club, caught my foot, flipped over backwards, and landed on a barstool. Having grown up poor as dirt, i knew that calling an ambulance would be at least a grand if not double that. I called an ub
17.
by mekael 2mo ago
At the end of the day doesnt that just end up being universal healthcare but with more steps?
18.
by mekael 3mo ago
Which one?
19.
by mekael 3mo ago
As an aside, i read this, gave you an upvote and then went to check your submission history and saw that I’d kick your rep over to 2222. Congrats!
20.
by mekael 3mo ago
Ive mainly been outputting them to high fidelity jpegs and then stuffing them into a cbz for portability. Works well went im reading on my ipad. As for the others i had them sorted out about a week or two after i decompiled the original bin
21.
by mekael 3mo ago
Interestingly enough, i’ve been sitting on a project for the last 12ish years where i just took the FMloader lib and used that from C# to turn the djvu files into pdfs. All that was needed was a decompiler and an hour of banging my head on
22.
by mekael 3mo ago
Neat fact, those kind of conversations are already happening at ${DAY_JOB}.
23.
by mekael 4mo ago
Depending on the size of the market in your area, or the market in general, not giving two weeks is effectively blackballing yourself. The city I work in is small enough I might have trouble in the future after leaving a manager in a lurch
24.
by mekael 4mo ago
Ummm. Plenty of people starved to death as a result of the industrial revolution.
25.
by mekael 4mo ago
Ive paraphrased it before and i’ll paraphrase it again “If you’re looking for the villain, it’s capitalism. It’s always capitalism” - Brennan Lee Mulligan (and everyone else who’s tired of this shit).
26.
by mekael 4mo ago
There are several quite decent open source CRM’s they could have deployed just as rapidly and easily. For example, years ago I lead a team who stood up SuiteCRM in six weeks where the build/customization was three days and the rest of
27.
by mekael 4mo ago
You have no idea how many times I’ve asked “why are we not using the project generator” or “why did you write 200 lines to parse a csv? Here’s a library and five lines to get it done” in the last year. Its easily up 20x compared to pre ai,
28.
by mekael 4mo ago
I’ve worked for companies with less than that in total personnel expenditures (100ish people) and they were actually economically productive / provided a tangible service. With 15 million and a year(ish) I could spin up dedicated teams
29.
by mekael 4mo ago
What are you working on?
30.
by mekael 5mo ago
We can take the LEO's that would have patrolled highways/city streets and have them patrol on public transport, same job just slightly different environment. Can I ask why you feel that public transit is unsafe in the US?

More ›