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by pibaker 3d ago
I am generally very skeptical of AI doomsday scenarios but one thing I am worried about is some wannabe dictator telling an AI to do something that would be difficult for a human military to do. You can't order an army of humans to kil
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by pibaker 3d ago
What had he produced in the years prior to AI getting good enough for coding? All I know is he was on Zuckerberg's sinking metaverse boat for years, and then nothing else. Maybe it's him, maybe it's his employer. I don't
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by pibaker 4d ago
> This would also certainly require international coordination with China on a slowdown or pause Personally I think the country with a strictly meritocratic elite selection system that also just outright kills you if you sell weed will h
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by pibaker 4d ago
Many Americans seem to think other nations are NPCs in a video game that only exist to make the main character — the US of A — feel good. They conveniently forget that other nations have their own national interests that are often at odds w
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by pibaker 4d ago
It's East Bay, you know which bay. The cultism is in the water. One day I will say fuck it and run for president with my sole policy being fire and brimstone upon San Francisco and its vicinity.
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by pibaker 4d ago
"I can afford ferrari. I just don't want to pay the price."
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by pibaker 5d ago
I don't know how global consistency is actually useful, but I can easily think of ways it is less convenient. For example, DST starts and ends on different dates in the UK and the US. Which dates should google return when someone from
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by pibaker 5d ago
This is your opponent's lawyer speaking. Don't let business decorum and scary legal words scare you. Keep posting through it like a real thought leader!
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by pibaker 5d ago
LLMs are incredible tools if you are knowledgeable enough about what you want to spell out exactly what you want it to implement for you. The long tail of Wordpress users are, in my experience, not knowledgeable enough to come up with their
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by pibaker 5d ago
There is nothing more stigmatizing and dehumanizing than the idea that there is a class of human condition that is taboo to describe in words.
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by pibaker 5d ago
Both have sped up front end development at the cost of making half of the internet look the same.
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by pibaker 6d ago
Why are people so eager to gatekeep who gets to call others mentally ill? I don't understand it. I don't have to be a doctor to say that someone who is constantly coughing and having a fever is sick, nor do I have to be a doctor t
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by pibaker 6d ago
I wonder if GP would change his mind if he had witnessed Matt posting through the lawsuit in this very own website.
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by pibaker 7d ago
Yep. What Stallman and his friends call "free software" would not exist if not for the copyright system. The company legal team who tell you to not touch any GPL code would love to see the licensing enforcement mechanism be abolis
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by pibaker 7d ago
Is drunk driving safe if you happen to not crash the last time you did it?
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by pibaker 8d ago
What's the point of having a photo like that? Is spending time with your friends not enough in 2026? Do we must provide photographic evidence of all the fun you have been having or it did not happen?
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by pibaker 10d ago
Fire and brimstone upon San Francisco.
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by pibaker 10d ago
There will certainly be people who will pay a premium for certified 100% natural diamonds. But there is probably not enough to support the diamond mining industry as it exists today.
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by pibaker 11d ago
> Or do they just not have political control at a local level?
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by pibaker 12d ago
No it isn't. The 1A is held strongly even by the most reactionary parts of American politics and jurisdiction. You will not be thrown into a jail just for expressing your support for a group as it happens in the UK.
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by pibaker 12d ago
Good action can also be a way for bad actors to buy good will so they can extend their other bad actions. Plus some of these actions are done on the interest of furthering the interest of the bad actors. An example is Meta striking deals wi
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by pibaker 13d ago
You are being downvoted but your reasoning is absolutely correct. We nerds on the nerdy techie HN love to believe that people will act correctly if they are properly informed but people have repeatedly demonstrated that they don't care
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by pibaker 13d ago
I'm placing a bet on "at least one NYT editor caught manipulating news stories so he can win Kalshi bets within one year" if a deal like this goes through.
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by pibaker 13d ago
A lot of them are not even kidnapping in the colloquial sense. We hear "kidnapping" and think about being tied up in the trunk of a car but many of the actual kidnapping cases are more like "Bobby went to his divorced daddy&#
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by pibaker 13d ago
> Just because its rare doesn't mean that you as a parent want to win the misfortune lottery. If you want total safety from misfortune why have kids at all? Pregnancy and birth is one of the most dangerous things people choose to do
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by pibaker 15d ago
You pay for bridges with tax. Tax funded browser sounds good in theory, but I don't trust the people managing my tax money to run a tech project like Firefox. Most likely it gets handed to the lowest private sector bidder, with the sti
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by pibaker 15d ago
Cloudflare is corporate interests. What makes you think they or any other big corp is above messing with products they acquired? Remember when google used to be the good guys? It is also very bad if the company that gets to decide which u
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by pibaker 15d ago
So your argument is what worked back when most people were illiterate and books were a luxury and audio and video recordings were non existent will also work today?
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by pibaker 16d ago
Maybe you should base your sense of satisfaction on the overcoming of the challenge itself instead of the social aspect of other people not having it then. And even if you want to feel superior to others, you can just count them as cheaters
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by pibaker 16d ago
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-... > Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago

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