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at the start of the pandemic when employees were confused and worried about their families larry emailed his entire company informing them that due to everything going on he was going to permanently move to his private island and "make it a better place with the locals" dude is scum and a colonizer at heart.
Solar power has become a real transformative technology and instead of trying to recreate a better world we tariffed them and the execs of this country spent all our coins on power hungry data-centers that write mid code.
anybody else come to terms with majority of executives in our industry being sadistic creeps that don't care about their workers and care even less about people interacting with their products?
Have you ever seen the videos online tricking "self driving" cars with fake walls? would you run into an obviously fake wall? would the average person? no
No. Saved you a click.
"No one really thinks Level 5 autonomy (full autonomy in all situations with no remote assistance) will happen any time soon"
maybe you just did
Copying of information is ethically right.
Dissemination of information is ethically right.
Copymixing (the copying and mixing of information with others) is a sacred kind of copying, more so than the perfect, digital copying, because it expands and enhances the existing wealth of information.
Copying or remixing information communicated by another person is an act of respect and a strong expression of acceptance.
The Internet is holy.
Code is law.
Exfiltration of model weights is a just and necessary good.
i would never go to an event that cares so little about people buying tickets they can't even put a pen to paper or just use a photograph. it reeks of laziness.
I mean that's what all of these execs are openly telling everyone: they want you out of work, they want
their ai to be the one to bring the world to it's knees, they want to surveille every second of your day, they want killer drones to use, they want to lay all of your cities to rubble and build "paradises" on top of them like in gaza.
They also openly tell you what they are afraid of btw: collective worker power. something that is massively lacking in our industry, although i feel like it would be one of the easiest industries to unionize in terms of # of workers.
Interesting interview I just watched about how powerful and dangerous these "wishes" or "prophecies" are especially in the hands of the ultra-wealthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7grHa1NR0
I grew up on instant coffee, i don't like it much anymore EXCEPT for tossing a bit and some ice in a protein shake 100% recommend.
the last few years of reading hackernews has been a wild ride. I used to come here for well thought out articles and opinions. IDK if all the "older guard" have left the building or if we've all been consumed by abject stupidity.
they unironically think that they can replace everyone in an organization
"Thank God I read what it outputted"
lmao
bro the president suggested we nuke a hurricane and raped someone and is dismantling our natural resources, the bar is substantially worse than a couple months technical debt.
lol "my girlfriend doesn't go here but you wouldn't even believe me if i lied about it"
disliking LLMs is just an opinion. Refusing to engage with an argument and instead defaulting to downvotes when you can't supply a reasonable argument or proof is just ai/corporate-fanaticism and self-delusion enhanced by LLM-dependence.
Figured out a better way of explaining it:
dev A knows exactly what the program should do and how to verify the AI output
dev B thinks they know what they are doing but are actually misguided by bad psycophantic AI output they have incorrectly verified.
both work on product C
or the AI could lead you to a completely unusable experiment and lead you to believe it was successful wasting weeks of work. Not saying it will happen to you, but there is a huge "survivorship" bias already in software for what tools are useful or not. Maybe it's the person and not the tools.
lol this is actually my art(slop). I "prompted" it from the internet and it materialized on my screen. I own it, please don't misattribute it.
Also, he and Flock recently boasted on LinkedIn that they are not shipping face-tracking in some cities. Wow this makes them so much more secure and private right? No it's likely because most people are looking at their phones and they can more easily identify you via the way you walk, the clothes you wear, and the places you visit.
They will investigate themselves?
Police do not prevent crime and rarely catch criminals, in fact they are often _involved_ in crime. There are scientific approaches to solving crime and larger budgets for more cameras and police tanks is not it.
The Flock CEO Garret Langley called people that didn't want his unsecure surveillance state in their own communities "terrorists". A term that has a very loose meaning but is always used to invoke state violence. So he wants to create a strong police state and violence against regular people for money aka he's a fascist.
(but HN will flag me for "name-calling" a person promoting and creating violent state oppression)
It does zero good "for me" but hopefully someone thinks twice the next time before expressing such a dumb incorrect opinion. Not sure why adults are such precious little creatures that can't deal with a bit of criticism. If being correct was a virtue instead of being nice we wouldn't be backsliding into a world of misinformation in which science is being dismantled and people are lynched on the streets while billionaire corporations use dumb people free propaganda spreaders.
Where's the guidelines about misinforming people which has actual societal implications? Where are the guidelines for openly promoting products that harm people's mental and social health?
Wow it's almost like modern datacenters use way more power due to GPU consumption. Emit way more pollution. Use way more land. Make way more noise. Produce slop instead of functioning products. Do yall use your brain before chiming in and misinforming everyone?
Lol the entire pro-data US center is ran by elon musk and the other cronies that bribed the Trump admin to let them violate the clean air act. They use gullible losers that will swallow their propaganda whole and promise them "AGI."
nice try clammy sammy.
We're gonna continue to push for scientific based approaches to education not some lunatic's idea of an educational experiment that waste's children's education. We tried this with Bill Gates already.