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by nosianu 7mo ago
Unless we scale back our lives significantly, and are fine with a lot less stuff and vacations and devices and modernized living (houses and transit today are vastly more complex systems than a few decades ago), there simply is no way to le
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by nosianu 7mo ago
I used Application System Heidelberg's Script II on an Atari 1040STFM with 72 Hz SM 124 black/white monitor and an Epson LQ 550 24 pin printer. That was some superb publishing system for the time (1991), for a low budget. 1 MB RAM
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by nosianu 7mo ago
I'm not sure why you ask me what I say. I left it as a written comment for you to peruse at any time and as many times as you want to see what I'm saying.
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by nosianu 7mo ago
> Debt That is the very basis of our currency, and the basic idea is a good one in an idea-heavy economy more reliant on innovation than natural resource constraints. Also, if truly becomes too much we will just have one of the many many
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by nosianu 7mo ago
> The thing that surprises me is that people are simultaneously losing their minds over AI agents while almost no one is exploring playing around with what these models can really do. I think we all do??? Even if I'm not coding a
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by nosianu 7mo ago
It's unclear if you are merely joking or whatever you are actually doing here. Your comments don't say much of anything. People here reward and want useful comments that take the discussion seriously. If you don't, what are y
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Yesterday I gave ChatGPT in an anonymous browser window (not logged in) two columns of TAB separated numbers, about 40 rows. I asked it to give me the weighted average of the numbers in the second column, using the first one (which were int
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by nosianu 7mo ago
"permitted" is a pretty empty word in the given context. Because dropping such emails is equally "permitted". Sure, there will be no arrests made, but there will be consequences. And those are what this article is about.
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by nosianu 7mo ago
GrapheneOS in Spain? https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pix... > Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Googl
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by nosianu 7mo ago
> other people would need to be poor Just like billions are not about "being rich", this is about CONTROL. Control of the economy, and how people live, and control over one's own life. Abstraction is a beast, putting eve
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by nosianu 7mo ago
There is one thing different though: Technology allows surveillance on a level and scale that did not ever exist before. I would expect that that in turn allows far greater levels of oppression than ever before. And with all payments going
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by nosianu 7mo ago
I would argue that is still just symbols. A physical model requires a lot more. For example, the way babies and toddlers learn is heavy on interaction with objects and the world. We know those who have less of that kind of experience in ear
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by nosianu 7mo ago
The Heritage Foundation, billionaires and a lot of other people who want this are all US citizens, and they planned for this for a long time. Let's not blame others for something entirely US-homegrown. As an ex East German, I wonder ho
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Like before - debt! This prevents the consumers from slacking off and enjoying life, instead they have to continue to work work work. They get to consume a little, and work much more (after all, they also have to pay interest, and for con
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Are you seriously comparing chips running AI models and human brains now??? Last time I checked the chips are not rewiring themselves like the brain does, nor does even the software rewrite itself, or the model recalibrate itself - anything
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by nosianu 7mo ago
> Which it can’t. The welfare state for corporate interests is alive and well though, and costs much more. (2025) "Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget" -- https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/corporat
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by nosianu 7mo ago
That's just not what has been happening in large enterprise projects, internal or external, since long before AI. Famous example - but by no means do I want to single out that company and product: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by nosianu 7mo ago
> So literally every article will be labeled as AI assisted and it will be meaningless. The web novel website RoyalRoad has two different tags that stories can/should add: AI-Assisted and AI-Generated. Their policy: https:/&
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Why do you choose that single example, which I said was just that, and pretend my whole statement hinges on it? You are either misinformed, willfully ignorant or lying, and I've had it with this discussion style. Yes, people who use &q
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Consumers is nice, but far more important are the big corporate purchases. There may be a lot of people there too who don't want AI, but they all depend on decisions made at the top and AI seems to be the way to go, because of expectat
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by nosianu 7mo ago
> Honestly, I don’t want to be. I don't get it. On the other hand, programmers are happy to work with AI, which is incredibly limited and a pale shadow compared to the real "I" in educated and experienced meat brains. Al
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Those using memes along the lines of "nobody is illegal" (sometimes "on stolen land" is added)? This is a movement not limited to the US. Here in Europe there is a similar movement, using that same slogan. They don'
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Yeah, the cost of doing it on the moon would be even more astronomical. Then there also is the three second of round-trip latency to consider (ca. 2.6 s just the signal, but processing adds a bit more).
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by nosianu 7mo ago
Billionaire money is not like money for the normal person. It is a placeholder for how much influence you have on the economy - and even the state. It is not just a number, as it is for people who just save a few dollars, for whom it really
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by nosianu 7mo ago
The radio receiver and transmitter are additional hardware and energy consumption. They add to the heat, not subtract from it.
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by nosianu 8mo ago
Because that is useless? The physical phenomenon is so very, very different in biological systems compared to the metal-wire electricity our electrical devices are based on that they are entirely different things. For example, charge carrie
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by nosianu 8mo ago
> God forbid the price of food ever goes down. They did give it away for free...? And not letting farms go bust is not the worst idea. Crops are not like industrial products, how much gets produced has a significant random component. R
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by nosianu 8mo ago
"Possible" is everything that does not violate any laws of the universe, that is not a useful criterion! Oh and thanks for ignoring everything I wrote I guess. Not that I expected anything different, it is always the same in these
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by nosianu 8mo ago
> Somehow I think the stars might be aligning this time though > governments around the world are loudly thinking about how to reduce dependence on US tech I am definitely sympathetic, after all, I worked for a major Linux company
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by nosianu 8mo ago
Now if only you had read to the end of my comment, to recognize that I was setting up for something, and also applied not just one but several HN guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , under "com

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