mxkopy

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by mxkopy 6d ago
The technology is fine, great even. It’s the rabid greed of venture capital and sociopathic CEOs that try to integrate themselves into every aspect of our lives for profit, that’s the problem. “For 19.99 a month you too can be a world class
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by mxkopy 6d ago
This is a whole lot of talking for someone that doesn’t have much on their mind.
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by mxkopy 8d ago
Comparing US safety nets to those of “any other country on Earth” is just patently absurd and disingenuous. EU has mandated - mandated - 4 week paid leave. In the US you are obligated to exactly 0 days of paid leave. I get that this is HN
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by mxkopy 19d ago
“Everyone wants the village, nobody wants to be the villager.” Maybe look into changing what you want.
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by mxkopy 20d ago
People voted for Trump because they are racist and bigoted on such an abstract and distanced level that it doesn’t seem that way, even to themselves. Lee Atwater, who himself pioneered the strategy, framed it best: “You start out in 1954 by
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by mxkopy 21d ago
This is the mindset of an abuser. “I don’t like how you’re acting so I’m going to pursue unrelated avenues to disenfranchise you.” People who voted for Trump put him into office. Nobody else.
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by mxkopy 21d ago
The only real bottleneck for self-organized discord work groups becoming more mainstream is the need for a central point of contact for legal things, money things, and inter/intra communication things. I see 0 reason why there couldn’t
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by mxkopy 1mo ago
Julia is basically this, i.e. compiled typed python. The nesting for type declarations gets gnarly though, which answers your general question - the really nice language ergonomics cost compute at runtime because that’s the only way you avo
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by mxkopy 2mo ago
I mean just from the above quote it’s clear he doesn’t trust them for “mission-critical” tasks. And I doubt LLms have evolved significantly from their stochastic parrot nature over the last few years
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by mxkopy 2mo ago
Accessibility, saving time, personal preference. Any number of reasonable things that don’t put undue stress on the host
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by mxkopy 3mo ago
You’re conflating being ghosted with ghost jobs, which are positions that are posted but are never intended to be filled (usually cited as for data collection purposes). These waste people’s precious time while they apply for jobs.
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by mxkopy 3mo ago
I love how the basic expectation of having a job and the life altering circumstance of not having one factors into this not even a little bit
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by mxkopy 3mo ago
This is what bugs me about the whole AI fanaticism thing coming from the top down, because what evidence is there that the AI labs aren’t going to try and eat everyone’s lunch after they’ve done whatever they need to developing the actual A
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by mxkopy 3mo ago
Jesus the terminology is so fucked… compare the contents of this blog post with any RL paper containing the words “long term planning”…
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
It all makes sense when you realize QAnon basically runs the white house now. There’s a very insulated type of American who lives in their own world, that unfortunately lots of voters are apparently sympathetic to. It’s probably seen as a v
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
It’s a band aid solution because the model can get stuck in a refutation loop, where it argues a point by pulling up a contradicting source ad infinitum. The holy grail, which has not been yet reached, is figuring out how to dynamically ali
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
All of these advanced death machines need equally advanced supply lines and staging grounds, both of which would run through civilian populations. Look at Afghanistan as an example: with all the might of its war machine the US couldn’t kick
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
The attitudes aren’t 1-1 comparable. China is on a winning streak in terms of socioeconomic development, and AI is likely seen as merely a new technology in the context of the social contract. The US is going the opposite way, and people he
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
The false equivalence of emotional maturity with being able to chase production is really telling. When people think of autonomous driving as a solved problem it evokes something very specific. It means vehicles can drive on their own, wit
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
I doubt we’d build anything IRL without understanding how it works first. And we’re pretty good at putting 2+2 together once we have the pieces, for a lot of these things we don’t even have those. After all AI can just explain it to us atp
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
So what, we shouldn’t even try? What is the point of this argument?
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
Financial incentives
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by mxkopy 4mo ago
It’s also a set of credentials, which might be immediately useful for one reason or other. All those other things you can do outside of a program, especially if you’ve already got the network or career trajectory to support it.
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by mxkopy 5mo ago
> it suffered in the face of competition from cheaper, online brands such as Shein and Temu And, you know. Being laid off seems part of the culture nowdays
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by mxkopy 5mo ago
OP says there are two futures, digital prostitution or slavery. If we truly believe that it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. On the other hand we could have Star Trek.
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by mxkopy 5mo ago
I find the insinuation that mental illness is a fundamental part of the human experience to be deeply revolting. There is no excuse for hoarders and rapists.
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by mxkopy 5mo ago
We could also literally have Star Trek. Think of all the scientific discoveries we could make if we had armies of scientists the size of our labor force. But we will have to (painfully) shed our current hierarchies before that comes to pass
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by mxkopy 5mo ago
This viewpoint is basically that there is no international community at all, and that’s a broader argument
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by mxkopy 5mo ago
You confuse nation state and people in this question. Yes the international community has an obligation to prevent genocide, and the destruction of a nation state if that coincides with the destruction of its people, but these things are no
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by mxkopy 5mo ago
Nation states generally do not have rights.

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