skulk

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by skulk 6d ago
if all of humanity's knowledge was redistributed to AI labs to sell back to us, it's only fair that some of the profits get redistributed back.
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by skulk 7d ago
in the real world if the speed of light was 5 km, we'd probably be a lot smaller!
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by skulk 7d ago
I've seen how people work in manual labor type jobs (all that will be left, right?). They're worked to the bone and paid peanuts. It's a wretched existence for someone soft like me.
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by skulk 8d ago
it will only self-replicate if instructed to do so. It has no desires of its own beyond what its context window contains. The tool calls it executes and initial prompt are all the work of humans. Someone could give a launch_nukes tool to a
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by skulk 8d ago
For me, the end of the world is no more cushy software job. A fundamental shift in how I trade labor for capital might as well be the cataclysm, so bring it on.
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by skulk 9d ago
ASI doesn't doom mankind, the actions of people do. This has been the case since world-destroying weapons were invented close to a century ago. If you're not worried about how you're going to make money in the post-ASI world
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by skulk 11d ago
you can still do it, but it may not be your ticket into a secure (upper?)middle class existence like it used to be.
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by skulk 19d ago
Why post this thought-terminating cliche when the the great-grandparent comment already addresses it?
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by skulk 24d ago
Overall, I do agree with the thesis but: > Now… how does Sal Khan want my kid to learn? > Watch a video. I find this a little uncharitable. I learned a lot of math at a young age from Sal Khan's early videos (back when he used to
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by skulk 2mo ago
I always imagined that the application layer had some kind of extra overhead that would be unacceptable for general purpose use.
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by skulk 2mo ago
Not really. Nebula creates a layer-3 network[1]. Rayfish is built upon Iroh which is a layer-7 network. [1]: https://nebula.defined.net/docs/#technical-details
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by skulk 3mo ago
Probably some mixture of better statutory labor protections and more class solidarity (collective bargaining), but generally I don't know. It just boils my blood that Walmart can publish a document explaining to its employees how to ap
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by skulk 3mo ago
You're fixating on the word deserve in my post, but that's got nothing to do with my point. I'm saying that the market has decided that it doesn't have to pay a living wage since the government picks up the bill to keep
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by skulk 3mo ago
Well, I do agree that the redistribution system is absolutely broken. Most welfare recipients do in fact work (and benefit others) but our capitalist redistribution system has decided that they don't deserve to live with dignity, leavi
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by skulk 3mo ago
I'm asking you, is this really such a big problem that it requires getting rid of welfare? Is the US financially in trouble because it pays out welfare to undeserving layabouts? I seriously doubt it.
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by skulk 3mo ago
> congress during some fluke period when the filabuster can be overcome. If the clouds part and Jesus himself descended from the heavens, you'd ask him to ... discourage anchor babies? Surely there are better and more pressing uses
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by skulk 3mo ago
Not even this. The USA has a labor shortage that is filled by workers who used to migrate seasonally until it was no longer allowed, thus creating a perverse system that encouraged business owners to look the other way and immigrants to sta
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by skulk 3mo ago
> Nor can I get behind the idea that quality of life for folks is on the down trend. There is a pretty clear down-trend post-COVID here. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2025-economic-we...
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by skulk 3mo ago
Immigration in the US is a completely different problem with its own crazy complex history of cause and effect. Using one as a lens to study the other seems foolish at best.
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by skulk 3mo ago
re: questionable legality https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o... > Moreover it's not hard to think of vaguely similar objections to fertilizers. It's completely different
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by skulk 3mo ago
tractor manufacturers or fertilizer companies didn't suck down the work of generations of predecessors in a questionably-legal fashion only to turn around and sell a heavily discounted version of that back to them. I'm not sure wh
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by skulk 3mo ago
there probably never was any there for a meaningful amount of time, but it's incredibly hard to prove a negative.
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by skulk 3mo ago
If you have a ton of capital, you still can't spin up Claude Opus and compete on price with Anthropic with your new fancy optimizations. With open models you can and that is great for consumers.
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by skulk 3mo ago
It feels like the US military is 90% racketeering and 10% physically protecting Americans, if that. Most of our protection comes from two gigantic oceans on both sides. Though, I really do enjoy this racket so I guess I'm not allowed t
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by skulk 3mo ago
Your motte-and-bailey argumentation here is extremely tiring, and I'd encourage you to take a step back and look at what's being discussed here. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/cos
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by skulk 3mo ago
This comment shows up on every single emacs thread and for the life of me I can't understand why. It takes one line in a shell to pull down a premade config and if that were to be built on, who would decide what gets put in? I don&#x27
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by skulk 3mo ago
Williams College wasn't content to blindly follow a vague directive restricting their speech. They already received very few grants as the article said. You better bet most scientists at big institutions were tripping over themselves t
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by skulk 3mo ago
This group of people you're describing ("scientists who are only willing to do science if it involves preferential treatment") is simply not real. The idea that academics would cling to DEI statements or refuse funding is bey
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by skulk 3mo ago
the inverse is true as well-- I can produce or identify any note with zero reference and imagine entire melodies and harmonies and yet am still probably mediocre at best at composing.
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by skulk 3mo ago
These are very interesting anecdotes. The feeling I've been getting is that the inherent complexity in software hits people at prompt-time because they simply don't have the words to express what is needed. (edit: or don't ha

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