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> Altman's criticisms of criticisms about regulatory capture

What is his criticism? If you agree with silent majority who seem to think it's not dangerous why agree with Altman who rants regulation.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabhunter/

Makes it simple to select all tabs and copy paste as url or url + title

It's also snappy for filtering and jumping to tabs especially when using the hotkey, I've used it for years with regularly over 5k tabs.

Re:Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder? on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:52PM (#34470375)
Is there any way to disable VLU?

It sounds like anytime I open an image in Preview it sends hashes to apple?

It's not just myself but my family and descendants who will also be impoverished.

If the holders of capital who are best positioned to reap nearly all the benefits of automation aren't willing work towards some more equitable result why would I want to help automation at all. I'd rather work against it.

"just ignore the rising inequality and complete collapse in value of human labour we can work out the details later once I hold all the cards" is not a compelling story.

Why do you assume you will have the resources to do these things?

We're running headlong into a world where AI makes significant portion of human labor worthless.

>Either humans are needed for a task or are not. Ideally we’re needed for as little as possible, freeing us up to do what we want rather than what has to be done.

If you're not valuable to the economic system you won't be treated well.

>It reminds me of NIMBYism. We’ve been automating entire professions for over a century now… but not MY profession…

Yes... it's self interest look at doctors or unions or guilds.

>I think they were just… extremely incompetent.

SBF is the son of two Stanford law professors, graduated from MIT, and worked four years at Jane Street.

It seems like the limit of credulity to think he was an unwitting dufus that just accidentally ran one of the biggest ponzis in history.

Re:Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:03PM (#33644814)
they're talking about now not before FTX collapsed

nobody is giving him money these days

Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:32PM (#33488626)
Why are programmers so suicidal?

A giant corporation openly steals code from millions of devs and uses to try and automate us and programmers cheer it on.

A billionaire with known poor labor practices buys Twitter and twitter devs make no attempt to organize as lab instead they just write toothless statements.

there's multiple examples of it outputting non-trivial code that is identical up to and including comment strings

If microsoft wants a code AI they're free to create their own training data set instead laundering copyright violation of anything that's touched github. It being "hard" isn't an excuse.

what political ideology got in the way
Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:15AM (#33431374)
>f you go by the rough count of their currently verified accounts, only ~0.16% of monthly active users are producing content of any real value.

Maybe I'm an outlier but of my hundreds of follows ~1% have checkmark. The bulk of my followers are artists, photographers, niche bloggers, subculture news aggregators which are all creating content.

The verified checkmark is basically a non-entity to my time on twitter, maybe it's different if you mainly follow more mainstream western pop culture and political/news media.

Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:47AM (#33419920)
>Apart from youtube comments, I don't think there's anything the scale of twitter for short messages at the moment.

discord, telegram?

Ditch windows.

I recommend only mac or chrome book for older people.

Re:EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:27PM (#33266776)
can they not block Indian IPs from cloudflare dashboard
Re:How SQLite scales read concurrency on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:01PM (#32584151)
seems like it's become trendy to talk about how "underrated" sqlite

in same vein as all those articles comparing time to process data on single laptop vs hadoop cluster or whatever

>Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
Re:On Killing Tanks (2020) on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @11:33AM (#30700077)
The claimed kill rate for Javalin in practice is over 90%.

NLAWs are even cheaper and easier to use but don't know their estimated kill rate.

Re:macOS’s ancient problems still exist in 2022 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:09PM (#30584138)
>and macOS is just plain inferior to other OSes in that regard.

this just seems like a matter of taste

Re:Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:42AM (#30527818)
>US interventionist foreign policy, despite its terrible track record, has really put European security and US interests at risk

Isn't it the opposite? It may be too early to tell but NATO is reinvigorated, Europe is once again turned back towards the Atlantic faction, Russia's economy is faltering, Ukraine is out performing what anyone expected militarily and Russia's army looks shambolic.

I have seen that video linked often in past month and it seems like Mearsheimer's biggest miss was how weak Russia truly is and how irrational Putin may act. If we expect Russia to fiercely defend its interest in Ukraine as IR realists then shouldn't we also expect the US to use Ukraine to twist the knife in the current Russian state?

Re:Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018) on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:44AM (#30425873)
Did you have a helmet?
Re:Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:52PM (#30378495)
>Blackrock made it's rationale public and explicit

Where? I'd like to show it to people.

Get the EU to adopt firefox or a firefox fork as official project to counter balance Chrome/Blink.
Where does he resolve the paradox?

He says you should claim the right to suppress the intolerant and that preaching intolerance is outside the law.

>The politics around allowing immigration are complex and controversial though.

And forcing every woman to have two children isn't?

Re:Train burglaries in LA on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:27AM (#29932735)
>The trains are clearly being robbed out of desperation by the poorest citizens.

Wut? This isn't clear at all. Lots of theft like this or mass retail theft are done by semi-organized crime rings.

Re:At SpaceX, I couldn't stop getting sexually harassed on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:47PM (#29558375)
>I wonder if it will end up like that eventually. Women will be the ones to pursue the encounter because males will be too afraid of crossing a line

No there will always be men willing to tread the line; some will fail and other will succeed. Food for thought from Zizek:

>A tension between rights and prohibitions determines heterosexual seduction in our politically correct times. Or, to put it differently, there is no seduction which cannot at some point be construed as intrusion or harassment because there will always be a point when one has to expose oneself and ‘make a pass’. But, of course, seduction doesn’t involve incorrect harassment throughout. When you make a pass, you expose yourself to the Other (the potential partner), and her reaction will determine whether what you just did was harassment or a successful act of seduction. There is no way to tell in advance what her response will be (which is why assertive women often despise ‘weak’ men, who fear to take the necessary risk). This holds even more in our pc times: the pc prohibitions are rules which, in one way or another, are to be violated in the seduction process. Isn’t the seducer’s art to accomplish the violation in such a way that, afterwards, by its acceptance, any suggestion of harassment has disappeared?

Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:01PM (#29301495)
A significant portion of our waking life is spent doing things to obtain property. When thieves steal it they are stealing spent life and possibly livelihood.

I don't find it surprising that thieves face more gruesome punishments like hanging, cutting off hands, etc in places especially when there may be little recourse for the victims of theft and the theft represents a significant impact on their life.

I think reasonable argument against such things is that it is too easy for people to mistakenly hurt a non-thief on accident. That's more convincing to me than simply saying property < life at all times. If I was poor and needed my vehicle to get to work everyday and you're stealing it then yes I would be willing to shoot you to stop you.

>It doesn't matter that you're probably right.

I guess reality does have a well known liberal bias :)

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