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Minimalist code is necessary to keep AI agents working well for longer than a month on a system IME. At a certain point, their own machinations overwhelm them and they both slow do…

This is a good counterpoint.

IIRC, using AI for CSAM and deepfake porn of people is already illegal in the US. That's not so much a lack of law as a lack of a means of enforcement. If you sell people pens and …

This is a bad counterpoint to "more regulation makes business harder". No regulation at all is probably the hardest business environment possible, but too much regulation is bad to…

I think it's touching the limit of what one can reasonably expect any intelligent thing to produce with the only direction being "produce an svg of a pelican riding a bicycle". Whe…

Yes, I find the K8s codebase pretty easy to read actually, but I am biased since I work with K8s and the codebase makes a lot of sense when you understand what everything does alre…

100% with you on every point. It's the only language I've worked in that lets me read other codebases without an hour or two of "wut?" happening, so they did something right!

Social security was created so that money collected day one could be distributed day one. Allowing people to opt out and invest the money is incompatible with the model as a whole.…

Those jobs are much more niche, and require much more specialized knowledge. Google alone probably has more software employees than all of the high paying trading firms combined. I…

Almost certainly, outside of standard trade restriction windows. I don't think they have any control over what you do in the market outside of preventing insider trading.

1000000% this. I remember lamenting all through the 2010s that all the high paying jobs were basically ad revenue supported. Now its AI. Maybe AI doesn't materialize the way we wan…

But do they at any useful scale? China is probably the only other country deploying AI at any appreciable fraction of their economy, and it's certainly much less than the US.

> Use that super-intelligence to solve any supply-chain issues you might be facing. I think this is where a lot of people's thinking goes awry. Unlimited intelligence doesn't mean …

Back then you could spend 6 months making something twice as fast, or wait six months for computers to become twice as fast. People obviously did the latter. It also became a cycle…

No, you're operating within the confines of the system when you vote to change it. Voting to change the system, in the US, is part of the system. By fighting I meant in ways outsid…

Honest question: Let's say you had a neighbor who was always asking about your daughter and telling you how lovely she is. Then your daughter goes missing. Would you not want you n…

> I'd say no, just generally liking classic cars isn't material to the case. Every lawyer would disagree, but you do you.

> My point is, its not illegal to just generally be an anarchist. Generally being an anarchist shouldn't be related to evidence of one assaulting a government facility. Let's say s…

> Is that evidence of committing violence against an ICE facility? Again, the zines relevance isn't proving they did it . It's providing context and intent. If you can't see the co…

> "but what about.." I don't know. > Did he even have a warrant issued to him related to these documents? Yes. A zine put together by a group that later goes on to commit a crime t…

> If someone has committed a crime is that not in some sense "fighting [the] system"? Of course not. I'm speaking directly about intent. It's pretty obvious to me that most crime i…

It's not illegal "because you think its illegal", it's illegal because "you had a court order to provide things that are relevant and you instead hid things you thought were releva…

I'm sorry, I meant in terms of discussion, not in terms of legal proceedings. Obviously these people were formally charged in a court of law on legal grounds and I assume had their…

You don't have to be present for the act to be part of the conspiracy...

If you're fighting the executive branch, then legality goes out the window and any outrage about punishment becomes moot, no? Expecting the system you intended to subvert/dismantle…