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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:25PM (#50343189)
From the jump the premise seems reasonable. Having a too much of an ego is a source of all sorts of self-imposed problems or create roadblocks in interacting with others. But this literally brings up saintlike detachment as "not far from the truth" in describing the extent they're advocating for.

I'm thinking maths are kinda fucked rn.

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:34PM (#50263714)
> I for one would love to be able to experience Godzilla Minus Zero interactively.

So would I. But I don't not want to experience it as a movie. It'd be something separate. Not an upgrade.

Which makes Sam's comment the inane blather of a pitchman. We don't need to bend over and try to steelman marketing dross. He doesn't care if that statement means nothing, why should we?

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:26PM (#50263593)
>audio-like music

My favorite kind of music.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:28PM (#50249590)
> then the current and near-future capability of AI is being severely overstated

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Re:Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:17AM (#50245230)
I think the fact we take the temperature of the market and label it as a "strong" or "weak labor force" is a counterfactual to the idea there's equivalent exploitation.

It's mutually beneficial (otherwise one party or the other would terminate the contract), but that a wide window for the balance of benefits to shift.

Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:15PM (#50197433)
That sounds like a just so story invented by motivated reasoning.
Re:Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:50PM (#50172482)
>It would rather pursue more business opportunities.

You're agreeing with parent poster that they don't care to fight on principle (in the unlikely chance they hold any principle in the first place). You're just using avoidant terminology that skips the criticism inherent in parent's framing.

Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:05PM (#50171923)
> the feared bottom of the slope was never reached

Hard disagree. Sometimes it's avoided, any other time we just go into cope mode. We discover on the ride down that the bottom isn't so bad. Turns out our collective control mechanisms didn't fail ourselves if the initial assessment was wrong.

Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:48AM (#50168198)
>How can this be fixed?

People stop trusting what they read on the internet.

All alternates are just attempting to improve the baseline trustworthiness of random information from the internet (and/or LLM that's baby-birding it back to you). Any increase in how much people blindly trust random stuff from the internet only serves to increase the blast radius when it is wrong.

Re:Personal software factories are a waste of time on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:23PM (#50154333)
>I don't necessarily disagree with this post but I really disagree with how it is written and with the contempt it expresses towards a fellow tech guy.

It's the same "look at how right I am" post we've all read dozens of times. Dismissive and condescending about what projects should or shouldn't be explored, and of the people who explore the wrong ideas. Same as always, just with a fresh coat of paint for the AI age.

I have thoughts on what may be fruitful and worthwhile to explore. But this post isn't about that, really.

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:06PM (#50091015)
It depends. It sounds like you're all in on the ecosystem. I only have the apple account because I have an iphone. I didn't get one of those double check reauthentications since many years ago, up until last month when I got apple tv. I know because I had to reset my password and it was older than my use of a password manager.
> The biggest problem I have with reddit is mods can slowly but systematically ban users who express unfavourable opinions

I recently got banned from subreddit A1 because I commented in subreddit A2 without knowing the ongoing bloodfeud where A1 moderators didn't find the A2 moderators strict enough. I'm a tourist to the topic "A" all together and barely understood the lore of the topic. Let alone the cultural eggshells of following a search result into the wrong subreddit.

>My biggest concern these days is so many intelligent/powerful people believe the labs are full of shit, yet they may very well not be.

Then why are they behaving like they're full of shit?

Where are their sober forthcoming responses and explanations for critics? I don't mean rando twitter "critics." They could start with the NYT editorials. Even the best you have to argue that they're sincere is a "just trust me bro."

If they're not going to engage in the discourse, that leaves us no other option than to acknowledge the signals of deception and apparent hypocrisies. This is what a tech company that lies to us looks like. Public wanking about p(doom) is unorthodox marketing, but it's undoubtedly mostly marketing now.

I've lived a life of "oh be reasonable, tech company wouldn't deceive us about this topic where they're obviously incentivized to deceive us" followed by "oh my god, who could have seen that coming?!"

>> the modern Democrats are primarily a corporate dominated party

> I suspect this is changing.

Nope. The democrats have been on the cusp of becoming serious for as long as I've been following politics. It's a con to get your hopes up. Don't.

> Why can’t the DoD say “ok we’re going with a different vendor”?

That's exactly what they're doing. It turns out the DoD is a really big bureaucracy and has process to make sure they thoroughly exclude a vendor and transitive dependencies on that same vendor.

>I wouldn’t chalk any of this up to malicious intent. I’m sure they are swamped with such requests.

It's malice from whoever is responsible for under-staffing. It's also malice to prioritize the squeaky wheel for optics; it's intentional to reduce the spread of the knowledge of how unresponsive they are.

Re:I don't want the details on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:55PM (#49819050)
I think there's something valuable in your take. The idea that technical failures and process failures are parallel tracks is not new.

Certainly not the kind of thing where an exec needs to pull out the "I don't want problems, I want solutions" card to illuminate that they are only valuable to the process domain resolution, not the technical one.

The accommodating reader can read that interaction as entirely because of mismatched insight into the issue. I'm willing to budge that maybe too much time in the agile dens does really does necessitate the conversational roundabouts. It's taught people to taboo process they don't see the immediate need for.

Re:Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:12AM (#49817383)
> they are noun phrases and not sentences at all? I’m pretty sure that any decent pre-LLM NLP-based grammar checker would correctly flag half the sentences in Claudish. Also, whatever variant of Claude wrote this thing can’t even capitalize around semicolons consistently with itself, let alone consistently with how English has been written for at least a century.

Probably just a case of a company hoping their scale can change the societal standard faster than they can be bothered to match the standard.

You'll talk like 2023 unsupervised TikTok generators and you'll be happy.

Re:I Don't Want to Interact with Stochastic Parrots on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:16PM (#49646213)
You show a derogatory opinion towards someone for just yapping on a personal blog about their AI opinions you don't like.

And they had a pretty cold take on AI, that's a sibling to perspectives common among even heavy users of AI. That when communication with someone "If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?"

> Can anyone explain to me why Tristan simply didn't go to settings page and turn off the thing?

Maybe they were fine with contributing training data when their threat model didn't include the case of "OpenAI gets wind of our research and attempts to front-run us"?

Re:Anger, Anxiety and Agency on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:14PM (#49425276)
There's something that really rubs me the wrong way when people use the language of healthy emotional regulation to spread unearned and unjustified placation.

It reminds me of (for the pedants out there, I'm not saying it's equivalent to) the consume product meme. "Don't ask questions, just complete assignment and then get excited for next industry trend."

>I don’t know what the future of this industry will look like, and I don’t know who will benefit from it and I don’t think I’m alone with that. However I can only urge anyone who feels anger and looks for a villain right to instead remain curious instead. To be curious enough to understand what is changing, excited enough to experiment with it. And then, from what we learn, earn the right to decide when resistance is warranted and where to direct it.

Sounds pleasant and vaguely inspirational. Then you read it again and notice guy thinks I don't always have the RIGHT to DECIDE to RESIST.

> I guess introducing money is taboo for those communities

Sourcehut is a subscription service with multiple tiers of access.

I think the different tiers are just for show, but I could imagine that if they felt there was a subset of projects they liked that were putting extra stress on their system they wouldn't be above differentiation at that point.

I thought sourcehut was general purpose git hosting, not open source mission focused like codeberg?

obv they're going to have content restriction, but there is a spectrum from "actually illegal" to "wonderful chaps whom I love but happen to disagree with philosophically." Slop coding is neither of those, but is closer to the latter than I'd expect a general purpose host to draw a line.

Re:And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:10PM (#49363476)
Hard disagree. Plenty of new technologies have readily apparent straight-forward application for government use.

You're arguing your point by naming a technology that speculative fiction regularly foresees advancements in, and loves using in stories as the enabler of more intrusive state power.

More surveillance records, better processing and recall of those records are like THE THING when it comes to more law enforcement and passive coercion by the state.

There is honest to goodness disruptive tech that takes time for society to adapt to and reveal where state power wants to go. But those are the vast minority. I think it's a pasttime of industry to play ignorant to how their products will interplay with the government's obvious motivations.

Re:What Happens If OpenAI Dies? on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:05PM (#49351863)
> but dear God would it be satisfying to watch him be proven right on the financials.

I don't get why there are so many people who need Zitron to be wrong. It reminds me of back in the days when people still liked Elon and every criticism of him or Tesla must be a short-seller spreading lies to move the price.

I think it's pretty easy to slot Ed's predictions into your possibility space even if you're still betting on a different outcome being more likley. Something else is going on.

Re:My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:39AM (#49347330)
> It’s not a conspiracy

Why does everyone play the game where everything ought to be assumed above-board until someone painstakingly proves otherwise.

> To date, five manufacturers have pleaded guilty to their involvement in an international price-fixing conspiracy between July 1, 1998, and June 15, 2002, including Hynix, Infineon, Micron Technology, Samsung, and Elpida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing

We are not the courts. The most reasonable and truth based position is operating with a fuzzy impression that most businesses are substantially more dodgy than their carefully manufactured PR releases are meant to portray themselves as.

And in this case, that includes acknowledging that a literal criminal conspiracy in well within the realm of possibility.

Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:15PM (#49336939)
>So why not rate limit non-paying users and charge for whatever scarce resource is being consumed that is causing them to constantly fall-over?

I think it behooves them for the public presentation of their issues to too much load. If they implemented load shedding and still had issues the follow-up questions would be less comfortable.

Re:old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:24AM (#49332566)
old.reddit.com is remnants of a product they're trying to distance themselves from. People who like it are not the target market. It's not that they want you to go away, they'd much rather you be a scroll zombie addicted to the tripe on the front page. But if that's not an option they'd rather you fuck off. All the thoughtful subreddits I used to visit are ghost towns now, with 1-4 posts a month.
Re:Amodei Re. Regulation on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:42AM (#49331858)
>or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over

Looks like Amodi is laying the groundwork so he can re-run Eric Schmidt's "but it happened" playbook. Do whatever you can to make money, wait for the dust to settle and walk off into the sunset after one final "whoopie daisy, didn't mean to do that to you. sucks to suck."

Re:Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:09PM (#49115832)
> Also happy to answer questions about the design decisions we made.

Why did you choose extra pull requests as the division of work instead of building out a decent UI for reviewing/applying/reworking at the commit level? I assume there's some extra insight that made you ignore the mailing list "series of patches" workflow that inspired this whole thing and go with "series of series of patches" instead.

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