throwaway13337

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by throwaway13337 7d ago
A novel idea. Does it apply to human organizations, too? They seem have a habit of evolving self-preservation above their original goals. Once that happens, their benefit to society - the original reason for their creation - is outweighed.
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by throwaway13337 7d ago
Whether the company employs a human nurse or an AI, the company and not a human is indeed considered the responsible party. The LLC might be fucked but it is not a flesh-and-blood person. There is no person responsible. Just a legal entity.
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by throwaway13337 7d ago
Replace AI with 'company' and you realize that we're living in that world already. There's a reason it's called a Limited Liability Company. The whole point is to separate the company's liability from the indiv
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by throwaway13337 7d ago
It's so close to the "her" wallet thing that the main character pulls out to look at photos. It's just too big, and too metal. The form factor is good. I hope things move this direction. More broadly, it's interesti
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by throwaway13337 8d ago
Naming your agent is a big deal for personal ownership. I'm surprised it took this long for a company to do this. People hate some company's AI. They love their pets. AI needs to be your pet.
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by throwaway13337 11d ago
I appreciate the sorts of ways you're thinking about this. I don't think I see it much. It feels like you're looking at things similar to me but arriving at different conclusions. That's super interesting. So here's
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by throwaway13337 12d ago
I have no idea how artificial analysis got to be something anyone took seriously. This is their new benchmark set? A glance at their new index shows that whatever they're measuring, it isn't useful. Spend an hour with gemini 3.8 a
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
That hero video is interesting. A projector and speech. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I find speech to text / text to speech (but not live audio mode) is quite comfortable and effective for coding now. The speech to text par
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
I agree with you. They are in violation of a reasonable interpretation of anti-trust laws already on the books. It's quite clear. And yet those laws are not enforced. You seem to be saying that there are a group of people who want it t
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
Open standards, protocols, and interoperability are definitely part of my values. But you're still relying on a law if I understand you correctly. If the society lacks them as deeply ingrained values as opposed to somehow to getting la
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
What you're saying is super reasonable and the ways I think about it too sometimes. I have two thoughts on this and I'm not sure how clear I can be. 1. I think sometimes the shape of a technology pushes a shape of society. But the
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
I can see why it can feel like that. It's still about framing, though. It's not a fight. The gatekeepers, like governments, laws, and money are social constructs - shared fictions. They are not physical things but made agreements
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
Centralization of power at all levels is bad. I therefore agree in spirit. But who is the 'we' in that 'we'? If you defer to a politician, you simply centralize more power into a body of government constrained by only cu
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
Maybe we should reframe how we see the big gate keepers like Google and Apple as they seem to be a new concept. They are not governments but have properties of them. Governments are defined as having a monopoly on violence. And we, through
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by throwaway13337 13d ago
Did the Collective find the resetNexus? I mean, yeah, it's probably a data center outage that cascaded to non-related providers due to people switching when their preferred provider was down. But that openai society definitely would ha
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by throwaway13337 23d ago
Marketers have a term for this - "breaking through the noise". I call it pissing in the pool. I hope one day we see paid advertising as immoral. Immoral acts can be defined as negative sum on society but possibly positive to the i
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by throwaway13337 24d ago
I guess my implied advice is to live the way you want even if it means making less money than you could? Yeah. I’ll own that. Believe it or not, you're on a website where a lot of the readers build stuff. And quite a few find success.
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by throwaway13337 24d ago
I was just the sort you’re talking about. I did contract work so I could stay traveling and lived on money I made in previous full time jobs. It was a very nice way to live compared to the 9 to 5 even though I made less money. Having enough
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by throwaway13337 27d ago
The problem is model confusion. You ask models to get around security but also not to get around your security. Models get confused by who said what - especially cluade models. They get confused by negation (don't do something versus d
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by throwaway13337 29d ago
As someone who has some SaaS products that must connect to other SaaS products, I can tell you that this is somewhere that AI saved me a truck load of time. A lot of SaaS companies change their API in subtle ways throughout the months proba
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by throwaway13337 29d ago
That used to be a big deal. I don't think it is anymore. One great thing about the rise of AI is that now it's super easy to make and maintain integrations. This is a place where AI coding uniquely shines due to the points being w
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by throwaway13337 2mo ago
Data driven decisions happened. Metrics can only capture short term value. They also let us make unethical decisions with the data taking the blame. It is fundamentally dehumanizing. We are no longer treating others the way that we would li
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by throwaway13337 2mo ago
I think we see things similarly about the negative potential but please be careful with the framing. AI is a printing press or a steam engine. It's not a weapon. The framing is important. Much like 'distillation attack'. Thes
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by throwaway13337 2mo ago
Implied in this is a concentration of power required to enforce. No one is sold on a dystopian hellscape of fear, surveillance, and control. Each one of these would be required for a select group to effectively enforce AI safety. Inflicting
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by throwaway13337 2mo ago
Certainly, I agree that using AI to dehumanize - generally what companies seem to be doing with it - is super bad. And it's also what is being sold to existing companies right now. But that same AI could cause those companies to no lon
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by throwaway13337 2mo ago
What these complaints always boil down to is autonomy and control. The more centralized an organization, the more it relies on metrics to understand and exert control over its employees and customers. People started hating tech right around
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by throwaway13337 2mo ago
Are there any reasonable analyses of the practicality of data centers in space? I know Dwarkesh Patel was interviewing Elon and brought up the fact that power cost for data centers is only 20%. The number I could find is 7-18%? GPUs are the
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by throwaway13337 2mo ago
This is both true and not. It's true that in a project, a novel idea undeclared as such will be shaved off quietly by an llm. You really need to be explicit about wanting to keep it. You will get pushed into the mean. However, I'd
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by throwaway13337 3mo ago
This can be to generalized to map versus territory. People have a particular lens they see things through. And they forget that there is detail there that matters. The last 15 years of metrics driven decisions has hollowed out what made mos

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