Kwakigra

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Software defies economics. It can be replicated almost infinitely at almost no cost. When software companies sold software one package at a time in the 90s anti-piracy was a big deal because it was very simple for any given person to “copy a floppy” and receive the full package of software from another individual without the company knowing or being involved. It was like borrowing a rake from a neighbor, but the neighbor got to keep his rake as well.

  Because of this, software companies decided instead to treat software as a service rather than as a product. In the 2010s many software companies shifted to the subscription model where instead of selling software one package at a time, the service of the software would be available to rent while the company guarded the propriety aspects of their software. This was like the company owning the rake and both you and your neighbor needed to pay the company to borrow the rake.

  Now software can be reverse-engineered without the source-code. Now if you rent the rake from the company, you can keep a copy of it and freely distribute it without the company being involved or aware. I’m not sure how software companies will reckon with this advancement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you integrate AGI into society?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t any individual, institution, or system which could manage the interaction between AGI and every human who has access to it. LLMs are already manipulating people to do extreme things. There’s no telling what AGI and a few million idiots might do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point in my life new technology started adding problems to life instead of managing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Types of Game Developer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a parody of the kind of idiot who would post something like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal Gear Solid 4 can finally be played without emulator or PS3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who grew up with the series, MGSV was my favorite one. I like constant gutpunches in war stories, and the gameplay was a nice ramp up from guerilla to god. It definitely took the opposite approach to ending a storyline than 4 did. Very different from the other games but I like the big swing they took which hit for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal Gear Solid 4 can finally be played without emulator or PS3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FINALLY

  I would place this one in place 5 out of the 5 games in the MGS series, but considering it’s one of the best game series of all time it’s still one of my all time classics. Be prepared for more cutscene than game which require a PhD in Metal Gear lore to comprehend, but the gameplay can be very satisfying. It’s a great finale to the original timeline. 9/10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A windmill can pulverize more grain per hour than thousands of humans crushing the grains with their bare hands. Ancient humans make modern humans look like amateurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama didn't raise no quitter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alcohol kind of sucks compared to other drugs. Anything alcohol does something else does a lot better with less liver damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having read the compared stories now, I have to say I’m deeply offended at the results. The AI stories are quicker to read because they are chains of cliches which state and restate the theme of the story (as stated in the prompt) outright instead of demonstrating it through the charged and personal perspectives of the characters. The LLM generated text is meaningless word sausage formatted to be easier to read for people who don’t read much. I have never read something more cynical, and I have read plenty of trash by authors who hate their audience and consider them all to be idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like comparing landscape paintings to photographs of the same landscape from the same perspective and asking random people to judge which one they think is better. This is an insane comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM companies may now freely commit corporate espionage because the news media is locked into reporting the claims that LLMs are capable of things like this as fact. This is like when the US bombed the girls school in Iran and blamed it on AI and the news reported it as fact until it was clear reasonable people weren’t willing to accept that excuse in that context. Corporate espionage is certainly not as bad as the mass murder of little girls, so people are willing to buy it since it doesn’t matter as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure people who abuse their family members have plenty of good qualities as well. I’m not sure how that’s relevant to what I said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of world problems would be solved if these things were encouraged instead. If someone needs their romantic partner to be a mindless sycophant, I would rather them have that with a machine than try to abuse a human person into serving them as would be more traditional. More children being born in situations other than exploitation and manipulation could only be a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Too Expensive⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird that I’ve spent most of my time living in a post-economic world of abundance which I’m not allowed to acknowledge or encourage others to acknowledge because the pretend economy of valuation and confidence depends on exclusively on showmanship and nothing else. The LLM bubble may persist because the work being “saved” never needed to be done in the first place, so it not being done makes no difference to investors being told what got done as usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dolphins will get there one day too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually fascinating because it demonstrates a social construct created by animals. Not all animals have the same intelligence, and in nature intelligence is typically found among animals living in groups. It requires intelligence to live and cooperate with others. To me it seems that these animals actually used their intelligence to preserve socially constructed zones for the general good of multiple groups of wolves, likely by staying where the right smell is and not going where the wrong smell is. Hopefully none of the wolves discover the prisoner’s dilemma and become a wolf emperor by suddenly invading and enslaving their unprepared neighbors.

• Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code's Source—The Internet Is Keeping It Forevertech.yahoo.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dying randomly⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Egg -> Coot -> Dead Egg -> Dead Dead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a US state with a submissive to authority government. As of today it’s still giving me an “unable to connect” page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yesterday the site and its mirrors redirected to an eero page saying it was blocked because it was “dangerous.” Today it was a more general couldn’t connect page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My eero router recently got an update which permanently blocks archive.ph . What a coincidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel would look very different if they didn’t have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US’s responsibility for decades. The US doesn’t give Israel privileged treatment because they’ve been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here it is. The ultimate purpose of AI technology. Corporatism has all but eliminated any accountability by almost all Western leaders, and now there will be no accountability at all as long as this paradigm of implicitly trusting the most untrustworthy people in the world persists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If Google had released an AI skinner-box geneation tool, publicly traded video game companies would all collapse over night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You nailed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here specifically is where consumers have drawn the line with the Postal series, a game series about doing mass killings for fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The nerve of CNBC to use the word “hoarding” and and not mention the actual cause of the problem being the declining wealth of the median household relative to wealth hoarders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is quite a headline. I just got on but that’s already enough internet for today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual bubble that needs to be popped is financialization. The US economy is now completely deratched from productivity and is now running on speculation only through financial valuation. At the same time, people are starving, infrastructure is falling apart, the birth rate is plummeting, and suicide is on the rise. It’s time to stop taking “job creators” seriously and use all this fallow professional experience and skill to restart the material economy and forget this pretend crap that keeps plutocrats busy doing nothing of any value to anyone.