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sledgehammers

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About sledgehammers

msc compsci.

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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…