sledgehammers

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by sledgehammers 5mo ago
It does take tremendous talent and knowledge to build what he built, saying anything else is not just dishonest but weirdly cynical if not hateful. I think you grossly underestimate how difficult it is to build anything good. Not an easy th
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by sledgehammers 6mo ago
Also you know, for programmers, say a 3 day work week is right there up for grabs. Even still employers would see big productivity increases.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Are you shitting on peoples work just for the sake of shitting on it? edit. this comment seems unpopular, my intent was to defend the worm against trolls :)
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
I started reading that book (seems great!) and stumbled upon this: "And it’s hardly clear that computer scientists will succeed in creating a convincingly-human artificial intelligence any time soon." Made me smile. Took but 8 yea
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Massive wealth inequality bubble bursting from the bottom up?
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to. Alphabet Inc needs to be broken with antitrust.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
> it is not certain that allowing this would pass Apple reviews Release the app outside the store? Fuck apple and their monopoly abuse control system.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
_Everything_ is getting more shit day after day. Internet is burning. The sources of information are getting scarce, it's almost unbelivable.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
How would you design a protocol immune from all the politics? Whatever the implementation, it's just a part of a larger complex system. This is a very hard issue, and trusting Meta or the likes is naive and dangerous with destructive c
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Whatever it is, I really, really, really, really hope it's doesn't fall into the hands of microsoft, google or the rest. (But of course it will and enshittification ensues.)
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Except in a restaurant, the chef gets paid. In this platform, value is extracted from the chef, the waiter, the eater, the eaten, and their interaction, while tearing down societies. Not a fair comparison.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
I wish we could as a species create a social media and communication platform not based on greed, addiction, micro-monetization, walled datagarden hoardism, and so on, but something above all that bullshit.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
AKA abuse their monopoly. Kudos to this guy. Disobedience is a requirement for a change in a broken system.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
> I think AI really needs a de-pythoning in general. Yes, absolutely. The state of the Python ecosystem is what remains after a nuclear apocalypse. We need more native stuff, ggml.cpp for one is a super important project.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
You are welcome to do as you please. As a collective, we need to acknowledge the burnout epidemic. People need to have the honest freedom to be offline, without any social or business pressure. There's more to life than emails and a co
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
We need to break down these tech monopolies.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Let's hope we don't repeat the same greedy walled datagarden monopoly and privatization/theft of information -problems with the next generation of social media. Does this shit culture ever change?
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Who gets to define normal though? We have one life in this crazy universe.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Good point. What's a little quater/midlife crisis in addition to all the other major crises going on the world simultaneously? Haha. :)
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
This is just my empirical evidence - let me know if you disagree and have contrary information - but psychological traumas like this are increasing everywhere I look. In my local community, local country, globally, it's the same story
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
I hear you, but I don't care about what drama you care about or don't. This is part of a larger fight against monopolism and walled gardenism, theft and privatization of free information & data provided by users.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
I totally get where you are coming from, and 100% agree, but you don't understand me at all. I'm not talking about data. I'm talking about the world as a complex system of physics, chemistry, biology, society, politics, econo
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
How do we fix social media? Let's start with the huge societal problems: - optimizing for addiction - fighting for attention People need social validation for their personalities. Social media drives people into perfectionism - yet nev
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
I think about the state of the world every day. I feel that especially computer science has tought my brains ways of simplifying and therefore understanding complex systems. The world is obviously complex, but the more information you gathe
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Yeah, this "just a machine" -argument doesn't make any sense. First you need to define consciousness precisely. Then you have to proof that we as humans are somehow more than biological machines.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
The leadership should go to jail. The fine should be 100x.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
So refreshing to hear a voice of reason. You are totally right. This shit attitude needs to change.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
You can play whatever you want. This is not about you. Overreaction? Do you see the state of the world? Meta has played a massive role in destabilizing it. You can keep playing resident evil, it's innocent. Underreaction is dramaticall
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
What's the latest GOOD news you've heard? I'd love to read some - honestly :)
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Supply and demand mechanism can take years, decades to materialize a such stabilization. Wealth hoarders have the power to suck huge amounts of wealth out and destabilize the entire economy, just like has happened now. "Capital in the

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