skeledrew

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by skeledrew 3d ago
But does it work everywhere Python works? My main issue with this Rust move has always been compatibility. Python can be embedded and ran in a heck of a lot of places. What's the story when libraries that I may want to depend on are ac
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by skeledrew 3d ago
Why would it? Outline a scenario.
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by skeledrew 3d ago
Finally, a voice of reason.
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by skeledrew 3d ago
Until I see someone provide a sufficiently detailed scenario connected to current frontier capabilities that leads to the claimed "end of things", I also say this is just another "boy crying wolf" event. Why should I lis
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by skeledrew 3d ago
I could also say "I'm just a teacher". No significant difference made by "just" in this context, beyond giving flavour.
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by skeledrew 4d ago
I am very thankful to Evernote. In May/June 2016 they restricted their free tier to 1 device, which pushed me to migrate and in the process discover Emacs+org-mode, which I've been using since then along with syncthing. It was a g
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by skeledrew 4d ago
We use incomplete descriptions all the time. Like I could say "I'm an early riser". Is that reductive?
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by skeledrew 4d ago
Why would China - or worse, Russia - sign any treaty with the US that'd make them worse off if they actually follow through?
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by skeledrew 4d ago
> nuclear non-proliferation has been pretty successful; I'm assuming your bar of success takes in account that 8-9 nation states have nukes. So it follows that 8-9 nation states should have ASI.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
There are those who are only interested in seeing what's on top of mountain, without having to climb it. Let them go see as they wish. Those who want to climb should still do their thing, without taking issue with the option of being d
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by skeledrew 5d ago
Maybe there is no next layer. This is it, and it'll just be iterated on for decades.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
> Something like "sans AI" Sounds like something that'll shrink to an insignificant niche over time, rendering it meaningless as a category.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
You can flag posts though. Enough flags kills.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
Nobody's stopping you from writing code, whether as a hobby or you find/start a company where that's valued.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
No expiration date means treat as already expired.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
There's no way to reliably filter that "vibecoded slop" or "low value LLM-written article" (BTW what about low value human-written articles?) without users actually interacting with them. And it's actually the
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by skeledrew 5d ago
> you're new here Their account is 2 years older than yours. Doesn't say much since you could've been using another or sans account long before then, but still.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
> because it's become foundational infrastructure Which will happen in due time, like electricity and the general computer.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
> big AI labs have bots commenting and voting I'd love to see some proof of this.
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by skeledrew 5d ago
People post and interact with what interests - or triggers - them. Yesterday it was one thing, today it's AI, and tomorrow it'll be another thing. Just have to ack the flow, and find another way to filter for your non-today'
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by skeledrew 6d ago
Even with the genome available, a lot of humans will have to be experimented on to ensure the efficacy of the "supervirus". Just as we still need a lot of experimentation to determine the efficacy of new treatments.
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by skeledrew 6d ago
And yet we aren't extinct, whether by someone's design or accident. Heck we don't have significant deaths occurring over time due to biological poisons. Most deaths at still overwhelmingly via conventional weapons.
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by skeledrew 6d ago
Think of it this way: if it wasn't generally crazy difficult to create even somewhat effective bioweapons (due to the reasons given in the article), there would've been non-trivial use of said weapons in terrorism, war, assassinat
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by skeledrew 6d ago
Luckily banning open source models isn't actually practical, unless all ISPs are tasked with monitoring for huge downloads, and even then Bittorrent or similar can render such monitors useless.
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by skeledrew 6d ago
By definition mutation is a random phenomenon, so there's no telling what could happen. But the most likely outcome is the virus loses all efficacy, just as we have a lot of mutations happening within us but they usually amount to noth
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by skeledrew 6d ago
A surge in rape cases and just curiosity into this new heightened-sex fad will lead to discovery pretty quickly.
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by skeledrew 7d ago
Some of it was illegal. Most of it was permissible or grey zoned. There was no whistleblower program he could've used that would've led to anything more than sources getting shut down and the matter getting swept under a carpet. N
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by skeledrew 7d ago
There doesn't have to be an infinite supply, just a significantly greater portion, which there is.
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by skeledrew 7d ago
We have a pretty famous example, someone who's actions actually led to change: Edward Snowden. He didn't quit prematurely, crying to whoever would listen that he thought the US had a massive ongoing surveillance program. He actu
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by skeledrew 7d ago
By the time authorities get there, if they actually prioritize it (police in many places already have a track record for not being very responsive, unless there're actual signs of a crime), something may have already happened to the ch

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