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sledgehammers
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About sledgehammers
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Comment #47754974
It does take tremendous talent and knowledge to build what he built, saying anything else is not just dishonest but weirdly cynical if not hateful. I think you grossly underestimat…
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Comment #47469062
Also you know, for programmers, say a 3 day work week is right there up for grabs. Even still employers would see big productivity increases.
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Comment #36628578
Are you shitting on peoples work just for the sake of shitting on it? edit. this comment seems unpopular, my intent was to defend the worm against trolls :)
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Comment #36628540
I started reading that book (seems great!) and stumbled upon this: "And it’s hardly clear that computer scientists will succeed in creating a convincingly-human artificial intellig…
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Comment #36628321
Massive wealth inequality bubble bursting from the bottom up?
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Comment #36584230
Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has acc…
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Comment #36583256
> it is not certain that allowing this would pass Apple reviews Release the app outside the store? Fuck apple and their monopoly abuse control system.
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Comment #36538638
_Everything_ is getting more shit day after day. Internet is burning. The sources of information are getting scarce, it's almost unbelivable.
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Comment #36503539
How would you design a protocol immune from all the politics? Whatever the implementation, it's just a part of a larger complex system. This is a very hard issue, and trusting Meta…
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Comment #36503233
Whatever it is, I really, really, really, really hope it's doesn't fall into the hands of microsoft, google or the rest. (But of course it will and enshittification ensues.)
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Comment #36469240
Except in a restaurant, the chef gets paid. In this platform, value is extracted from the chef, the waiter, the eater, the eaten, and their interaction, while tearing down societie…
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Comment #36433390
I wish we could as a species create a social media and communication platform not based on greed, addiction, micro-monetization, walled datagarden hoardism, and so on, but somethin…
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Comment #36429871
AKA abuse their monopoly. Kudos to this guy. Disobedience is a requirement for a change in a broken system.
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Comment #36421458
> I think AI really needs a de-pythoning in general. Yes, absolutely. The state of the Python ecosystem is what remains after a nuclear apocalypse. We need more native stuff, ggml.…
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Comment #36402636
You are welcome to do as you please. As a collective, we need to acknowledge the burnout epidemic. People need to have the honest freedom to be offline, without any social or busin…
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Comment #36391488
We need to break down these tech monopolies.
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Comment #36327062
Let's hope we don't repeat the same greedy walled datagarden monopoly and privatization/theft of information -problems with the next generation of social media. Does this shit cult…
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Comment #36308003
Who gets to define normal though? We have one life in this crazy universe.
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Comment #36307583
Good point. What's a little quater/midlife crisis in addition to all the other major crises going on the world simultaneously? Haha. :)
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Comment #36307197
This is just my empirical evidence - let me know if you disagree and have contrary information - but psychological traumas like this are increasing everywhere I look. In my local c…
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Comment #36257609
I hear you, but I don't care about what drama you care about or don't. This is part of a larger fight against monopolism and walled gardenism, theft and privatization of free infor…
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Comment #36242314
I totally get where you are coming from, and 100% agree, but you don't understand me at all. I'm not talking about data. I'm talking about the world as a complex system of physics,…
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Comment #36238268
How do we fix social media? Let's start with the huge societal problems: - optimizing for addiction - fighting for attention People need social validation for their personalities. …
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Comment #36238198
I think about the state of the world every day. I feel that especially computer science has tought my brains ways of simplifying and therefore understanding complex systems. The wo…