frankhorrigan

It can become really addictive. That loop of having an idea and watching it come to life. A friend and I jokingly refer to it as cyberpsychosis. Because when you code by hand, eventually your brain gets tired and you have to stop. But Claude never gets tired, so you can sort of push yourself past what’s reasonable and spend a wild number of hours prompting for new changes. Instead of a healthy dopamine cycle, it feels more like the inexhaustible random reward cycle of gambling.

EDIT: This is in reference to a portion of OP’s comment that was removed. :)

Profoundly patronizing tone here, telling folks that they need help thinking about why something as personal as the human right to privacy ought to be written off.

No, my neighbors do not know everything I’m doing. We have doors and windows and we quite like it that way. We choose what to share. Same in public, same in any reasonable situation.

Losing the ability to choose what we share with the world is a deeply frightening development and makes for a world that many of us, justifiably, do not want to live in.

You can choose to expose your private life if you want, but don’t pat my head and tell me it’s good for me.

Honestly it’s a good question. obviously a big part is walking through it. But I also think it’s because it’s this weird, dreamlike version. Because it’s low res and a little broken, it’s like walking through a place you know really well in a dream. Little truths pop up, like a certain taqueria right where you expect it. But it’s almost a Silent Hill version of the town, so your mind fills in the blanks for you.

Maybe this is a common experience, but the first time I left SF for six months, I would have these sort of flashbulb memories of certain intersections and locations. Not even particular memories there. I think because I moved there right out of college and my late adolescence and all that it entails took place there, there are a hundred little corners where I’ve got a thousand more memories.

It being like a half-remembered scene particularly triggers the nostalgia. Also probably because I’m not there right now.

I lived in SF for nearly 20 years, though I mostly spend my time in New York now.

And genuinely this made me emotional. Was weird as hell walking around my back yard. Going to the spot in Dolo that I used to haunt in my 20s. My favorite tennis courts and hill bombs, walked the entire disc golf course, etc.

The reason I am a writer and you are not is not because I can and you can't, it's because I do and you don't.

Morality is precisely what's at stake here.

Now just imagine how much more meaningful those moments would have been if it had been a story that you actually wrote rather than something cobbled together from the works of previous writers and artists by an algorithm.

It assumes nothing about OP. It’s about what they made, not who they are.

So just because things are going to get worse we should accept each new horrible thing with open arms?

Nope, let’s keep fighting against the things which cheapen our world and support those who enrich our lives.

Absolutely agree. This might be a fun personal project. But things like this only hasten the decline towards a dead internet where human-created things with heart and intent are impossible to locate among the dregs of paper-thin AI drivel which only approximates human invention.

Just because we can does not mean we should.

They can do so anytime they pick up an instrument. But plugging things into AI is not making music.

This is a baseless argument. A human being and a machine are fundamentally different. A human being synthesizes things from the world and it becomes a part of them. The art they produce is filtered through their unique brain and life experience and natural talents. All a machine does is spit out recycled versions of things that actual human beings have done.

Nothing was stopping them from making music before other than laziness.

I’m so sick of hearing this excuse. “I can’t draw so I use AI,” as if the people who can draw were born that way.

No, they spent countless hours practicing and that’s what makes it art. Because it’s the product of hours of decision making and learning. You can not skip ahead in line. Full stop.

You just have to ride the wave with social media sites. Same as dating apps. Use them before they rot.

Infowars is a supplements business. It’s grifts all the way down.

This article is kind of hilariously like almost every conversation you have at the disc golf course, but it’s always something different. The reach back position, the power pocket, the elbow angle, the follow through, pouring the coffee, turning the key, etc etc etc.

If _only_ it were as simple as one thing. But the truth is that distance can be achieved through a multitude of athletic motions which vary drastically player to player.

I really hope you’re wrong. I suspect that the future is technology which blends further into the background rather than being shoved closer to our faces.

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Still an absurd argument. We get a lot of nutritional value from plants and you still take shits after eating meat.

Getting what nutritional value it can and pooping out the rest is just literally what eating is.

You deliver more pizzas.

I'd fall asleep in 30 seconds.

Yeah, I’ve tried posting on housing swap web sites. But it seems they’re more geared towards full swaps which are shorter.

Yup, that’s it exactly. There’s a good chance that you would be alone in one city or the other. And in theory you could both treat the second room as a guest room. With consent, etc.

This is by far the most time we've spent on a tool at Glumdark. It's intended for use in TTRPG campaigns. We use a lot of madlibs-style randomness drawing from dozens of tables with hundreds of rows of handwritten content. Some of the smaller pieces of content are generated through simple markov chains.

If anything, what's interesting is not the technology but the sheer amount of tuning is required to get it to feel natural.

I built something last week to do exactly this. I think if I post it here it will get HN hug of death'd because it's on a free Heroku tier and has an API limit. But DM me if you'd like the link.

This is so bizarre. I just wrote a program to do this last week. Precisely the same thing.

I did it with the Google Translate API first, and you can translate it into 100 different languages and back again without ANY data loss whatsoever. My only guess is that they have so check that everything hashes to the same thing? Like some uber-language to check against.

Yes, that was always the draw of the Nexus and Pixel lines. "Vanilla Android." Really hope that's still the case, though I've switched back to iPhone for a number of reasons.

I've actually thought about this quite a lot. Not because I have an expertise in the matter--I don't. But because it's such a fascinating thought experiment.

My proposed solution goes something like this: It is hard to convey that there is nothing of value and only danger within. So what if you just made the site actually dangerous on the surface? Is it possible to build something like a lake of acid that would make the area uninhabitable, dangerous, and impossible to develop?

Or, to keep it more abstract: Maybe the problem is that we're looking for the right symbol. But instead of symbols we should make the fact of the area itself the deterrent.