threatofrain

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by threatofrain 4d ago
And what framework would there be for international cooperation? Without that element, this would just be self-destruction in a global race.
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by threatofrain 7d ago
I don't really agree that ML killed their business. I paid for their product early on before it was even done but they never really developed their product. I held out hope to the end of a year and ended up never using my purchase. Com
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by threatofrain 7d ago
AI is about automation. Drones have killed people before. If they automatically kill people is that different? Is your worry that mere automation is not novel enough? Snipers have killed people before. If snipers are now automated, is the w
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by threatofrain 8d ago
Before we discussed how important security was, we got insurance, we made libraries and products, we used compliance software, etc. Except how honest were we about all that stuff? How much risk was actually in the air, and what was keeping
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by threatofrain 8d ago
We're talking about AI developing weapons I guess because we're very focused on generative tech, but AI is already a part of weapons systems today.
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by threatofrain 8d ago
OpenAI is willing to credit so plagiarism is not the right framing here.
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by threatofrain 9d ago
That's by design, of course. Whether people got smarter or dumber we might still assign 100 to be the median.
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by threatofrain 16d ago
Scratch's problem is ecosystem. It develops UX for children who are still early to the keyboard but children learn so fast, and at some point they get past the high friction stage and end up in a desert.
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by threatofrain 18d ago
That’s a weak goalpost, the tech you’re talking about will land soon and then we’ll have to move goalposts again.
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by threatofrain 22d ago
Kuzu appears to be a retired effort.
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by threatofrain 23d ago
Why do you have to ask? Because you don't have easy access to the data. Whether or not your nation has a culture of honesty, big scale communication is always going to be dumbed down.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
People believe that it will be a market with very few winners.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
> Being a contributor on there
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
The way the Rhombus / Racket community does libraries has to change. That whole package site has to change. Being a contributor on there exposes you to a steady stream of fraud garbage. There's nothing to promote the top libraries
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
If we were talking about random niche people or some kind of inside drop on information, sure. But this is a generic argument lodged against one of the big prolific content creators, which means that the burden of evidence really falls on a
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
Ryan has given so much to this community... perhaps he gives too much.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
And today the line for amateur capability is being drawn at eager entrepreneur making an app on the back of Supabase and Lovable. The fact that iOS apps have zero users owes far more to sales and marketing than to software, so maybe that&#x
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
Yes, because a stakeholder wanted it.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
Why ask such extreme stuff? Why not ask about the solo entrepreneur who creates a convincing iOS app without a programming background? Advantage the problem on the side of ML and look for winning scenarios today.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
I've built such software for bigger police departments. I listen to what the stakeholders want and balance them against users. If the stakeholder wants a way to bypass this or that, then that's what's going to happen. Neither
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
A robber isn't corrupt. A robber betrays no principle except to seize when hungry, and a robber has no institution to corrupt.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
Every company needs an Oracle.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
Minutes spent transporting to work is one of the best single factor predictors of turnover and workplace dissatisfaction.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
It is a direct refutation.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
And the degree which this is discerned... sometimes AI art wins contests.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
The degree to which you can discern is the degree to which you can meaningfully ask for human vs AI.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
I don't think you need total control, just enough so that you're the go-to party for diplomatic and military negotiations in the geopolitical region.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
Would they hate them as much if they were in a Chinese neighborhood? Why not build in China? We say there's not much jobs here anyway, and that it's all negative externalities.
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
Or why not build then in China? Isn't that the better solution? Are you okay with that backyard?
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by threatofrain 1mo ago
You can see this as an American thing if you want... but you might look at the rest of the world to ask whether you're trying to convince the world to un-invent gunpowder. If China gave superior paid offerings we might just start tra

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