tac19

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by tac19 6mo ago
Do you refuse to use a calculator or spreadsheet, because doing long hand division helps you exercise your mental muscle? Do you refuse to use a database, because it will make your memory weaker? Or, do you refuse to use a car, because it
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by tac19 6mo ago
Social action has a price, both in effort, attention, and goodwill; there is no free lunch. If you are blind to the COST of social action you will fail to realize how you are hurting our chances of fighting climate change. If you honestly
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by tac19 6mo ago
I didn't ignore any of your points. If your house is on fire, then put it out. But DON'T start a social movement that distracts from climate change. Don't distract everyone by claiming that fire is the most important thing,
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by tac19 6mo ago
> 1. Pivoting to a totally different issue No, i am not. It's the exact same issue. If you honestly believe that climate change is an existential crisis, then ALL other issues are by definition less important. That might be diffi
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by tac19 6mo ago
> climate change is a bigger issue - so why can't we focus on it? What it needed was for strong left-wing people to stand up and denounce the distraction. To claim loud and proudly that transgender issues were not important when co
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by tac19 6mo ago
> It feels like this collective insanity will never end They simply do not believe that the consequences will be as bad as the models predict. And a lot of trust and good will has been expended on social issues, for example the fight to
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by tac19 8mo ago
That would set a bad precedent. We're talking about an adult taking his own life. In Canada the government will not only coach you how to do it, they'll provide the poison and give you a hospital bed to carry out the act. A num
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by tac19 8mo ago
I don't have one, nobody really does. But the blind belief in, and search for, some utopian society is what needs to die. Reduced expectations, less ambitious goals, and a renewed reliance on small local communities. I'm not hop
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by tac19 8mo ago
You've just made my case for me. It's why democracy can't work. Because the people who vote in the evil politicians don't (and really can't) know enough to make an informed decision. All those middle men you hate
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by tac19 8mo ago
If you think there is ever any other outcome for a democracy, you are part owner in what we built. Corruption and capture are inevitable, and blaming the particular politicians in power today, misses the point. They're only in power
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by tac19 8mo ago
Condensed Rainbow.
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by tac19 8mo ago
Then everyone should embrace blacklisting, and master-slave system architecture. But they don't, and it's time to extend that sentiment all the way. We need to stamp out all hint of racism, lest we all be bigots.
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by tac19 8mo ago
RIP. You will be missed.
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by tac19 8mo ago
> So was the proposed idea be that people would be required to disclose if AI was used to generate code? Yes. The proposal claimed that there will be too much AI slop, and it will inundate the review process with too much work and bring
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Linus Torvalds: The AI Slop Issue Is *Not* Going to Be Solved with Documentation(phoronix.com)
6 points by tac19 8mo ago|2 comments
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by tac19 8mo ago
They're not an equivalent intelligence as human's and thus have noticeably different failure modes. But human's fail in ways that they don't (eg. being unable to match llm's breadth and depth of knowledge) But the
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by tac19 8mo ago
> ask Opus 4.5 to read adjacent code which is perhaps why it does it so well. All it takes is a sentence or two, though. People keep telling me that an LLM is not intelligence, it's simply spitting out statistically relevant tokens
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by tac19 1y ago
You joined the conversation too late. Go up one parent level and see that the ONLY thing I was talking about, was explaining the apparent hypocrisy the OP had identified. The rest of this thread has been unnecessary and irrelevant objecti
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by tac19 1y ago
The point that started my original response. Explaining a new, apparently hypocritical, propensity to trust such government actions. Whether any of us agree with it or not, is irrelevant to the explanation of why it has happened.
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by tac19 1y ago
That's really irrelevant to the point being discussed. I was just trying to give some context to the apparent hypocrisy the OP had identified, without adding my own opinion about it.
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by tac19 1y ago
> That’s not an interesting insight IMO. I think it accurately explains the mood shift of the portion of the public the OP was originally criticizing for apparent hypocrisy. The same portion of the public who think the prosecutions of t
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by tac19 2y ago
You're wrong. A great many of those same people voted for Obama. They are not bad people with evil motivations. They are people that have been abandoned by the Democratic Party, and who were set adrift looking for a new home.
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by tac19 2y ago
Nazis also wore sharp looking outfits, and organized a military, and had youth-movements. WE do not categorize everyone who does those things as Nazis. Because Nazis were an actual thing, that exists in history, and were actually responsi
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by tac19 2y ago
Okay. But, statistically speaking, America has a Neo Nazi population of 0%. It seems hyperbolic (at best) to saddle all Twitter users with that association, when it is a vanishingly small issue. Not to mention, Nazis actually murdered mi
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by tac19 2y ago
> neo nazis I have heard this a few times now, what is going on? The news hasn't mentioned anything about Neo Nazis, and there is no large organized effort to round up the Jews, let alone exterminate them. This seems like hyperbo
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by tac19 2y ago
> The phenomenon was irrational brainwashing using euphemisms and disinfo to whitewash unethical ideas, done by the US rightwing media and its corporate backers. How exactly did a country that elected Obama twice fall to this brainwashin
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by tac19 2y ago
You're missing the point. You didn't defeat fascism, you helped get it elected.
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by tac19 2y ago
Sure. But I can tell you that it was such messaging that helped elect Trump. You can dismiss me as stupid, and all of the electorate that voted for Trump too. But it's not exactly brilliant to configure your messaging only to be pro
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by tac19 2y ago
My point is that your wonderful level of compassion and empathy wasn't heard by the people who voted for Trump. They only heard the first part of the message, of their complicity in evil, and culpability in profiting from the sufferin
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by tac19 2y ago
There is a certain subset of people, who think no punishment is too great for the sins of the USA, and that all its civilians are enjoying unearned privilege -- and deserve to be humbled for their willingness to profit from such an evil sys

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