plastic-enjoyer

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by plastic-enjoyer 7d ago
Yeah, it will be assembly line working all over again.
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by plastic-enjoyer 10d ago
> A British Comedian called Jimmy Carr made the point that up to and including WW2 the Stasi in Germany was massive What? The Stasi were an organization of the GDR, which was founded only after the end of WW2
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by plastic-enjoyer 11d ago
I think it was only after I had familiarised myself with hermeneutics that I really understood why the written word is problematic and what Socrates took issue with in writing.
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by plastic-enjoyer 13d ago
> CIA operative tasked with obfuscating the socialist origins of feminism I've read this sentence multiple times, but it still does not make sense to me
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by plastic-enjoyer 20d ago
> It's pretty amazing what you can do when you embrace LLMs, figure out how to build one high-quality rigorous project with them, and then start working on more projects. Indeed. But I think it's fair to say that just embracing
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by plastic-enjoyer 26d ago
I think Switch Angel may be the first person who makes actually listenable music using Tidal
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by plastic-enjoyer 28d ago
> It is no wonder much more people have read the “Industrial Society and its Future” than anything by Jacques Ellul. Do you think it is because Ellul is hard to read or because Kaczynski is just more well-known for obvious reasons?
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by plastic-enjoyer 28d ago
Somehow, I feel that progress, in your understanding of what progress is, loses all meaning.
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> Why did many high IQ tech and science people vote for their own defunding? Because a high IQ and a science degree does not mean that those people make good political decisions. A lot of political decision making is driven by ideology a
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> This misses the best use of AI in my opinion, which is to gain understanding. Whst is this bit of code doing? Is there a risk of data leaking here? Are permissions enforced downstream of this function? Do I understand when I just let A
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Writing and Reading Practices Revisited(laviniamarin.eu)
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Are You Using AI? Do Not Forget Your Whip(skyecleary.substack.com)
1 points by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago|0 comments
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
Owners of data centres don't have any skin in the game. They are not affected by the negative consequences of the data centres. However, any rise in electricity prices, environmental and noise pollution, and the loss in property value
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
>China is not “just china”, it’s a totalitarian regime without freedom if speech, without worker’s rights and without many/most of the freedoms we take for granted. Just shows the complete naive view on China, but whatever.
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> China is not far away from deindustrializing and then we all suffer. How? China is actively moving up the value chain, into EVs, batteries, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, etc. China is not abandoning industry. > It's a
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> But so is German industry - every day in the news either insolvency or workforce reduction and moving production to Eastern Europe - main reason often stated "expensive Energy". I wonder what are the stats for industrial prod
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by plastic-enjoyer 1mo ago
> I mean, instead of investing so much effort to get glutamate into your food, why not use MSG directly? HN never disappoints when it comes to bizarre takes.
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
lmao, no. start paying people for FLOSS development, and maybe then we can talk about holding them accountable for their projects. as long as there are no contracts and no payment, there’s no point in making demands of these people.
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
When I take you at face value, it makes even less sense to me. If what you care about is the characters and the plot, you already have those, you wrote them yourself. That's what your 100-200 pages of notes are you mentioned in your pr
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
Yes, but then you are just an idea guy. Why bother, when you are not interested in the act of writing, or worse, don't enjoy the experience of writing at all, including the struggles that come with writing? There are no stakes in writi
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
So, if you hire a builder to implement your design, the end product is functional, i.e. it should provide you with shelter and keep you warm. The builder's craft serves a purpose beyond itself. But when you "hire" an LLM to w
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
I mean, you’re right in a way that motifs, stylistic devices and archetypes recur in fiction, and that an LLM could produce similarly inspired texts – so what? That’s no reason not to write yourself – unless you don’t enjoy writing and just
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
I wonder if this spells the end for online bookshops. I can imagine that small bookshops – or even online bookshops that focus primarily on selling curated books – are the future. The book retail in my city is thriving, and consists mainly
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> Hold up, are you the type of person wanting to fire software teams because we can just ask the Product Owner to vibe code the new features? No, and I don't even know how you can even read this from my post.
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
It's crazy that in 2018 a cellular automata written in JS by a 12 year old was considered special (which it is) and today, nobody would even bat an eye because you can just vibe code this without effort.
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
Shit engineers say
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> We are very rapidly automating humans out of the academic publication loop here. It more looks like the breakdown of the current academic publication system, which was rotten to the core pre-AI and which internal contradictions are jus
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> I have pretty cynical opinions as to the "why" of this, largely involving the fact that the vast majority of software engineers refuse to learn anything that they weren't explicitly taught in college, but regardless of t
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> also, technology largly exists to remove the discomfort of evolutionary pressure. I think this is a very limited way to view technology
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by plastic-enjoyer 2mo ago
> So could neuromorphic processing be exactly that or is it not mature yet? So, take this with a grain of salt. I only dabbled in Computational Neuroscience and met some people working on neuromorphic computing, but I am not an expert. S

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