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xoralkindi

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    Comment #44563204

    How are you confident in the code, coding style and practices simply because the LLM says so. How do you know it is not hallucinating since you don't understand the codebase?

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    Comment #44562678

    Now instead of having accountants audit transactions you will have accountants audit LLM output for possible hallucinations. Seems counter productive.

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    Comment #44479696

    It can scale economies and can run on the global level, it also brings about rapid advances in Science and Technology. It also provides more options for individuals than in Sociali…

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    Comment #44479014

    > Most people aren't looking to eliminate capitalism. They want sensible constraints to be put on it. Things like higher taxes on wealth, stricter antitrust enforcement, or investi…

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    Comment #44478868

    I also believe that technology is the solution. But all the key technology is centralized Chips, AI, Batteries, Cryptography, Email, Internet access, Radio Waves

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    Comment #44478794

    > Someday, people will have to realize we live in a society. What will it take? Anarchism, socialism and communism can work perfect in a small village where everyone knows and trus…

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    Comment #44474204

    > It can generate data that mimics anything humans have produced... No, it can generate data that mimics anything humans have put on the WWW

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    Comment #44471890

    Shor's algorithm, originally designed for integer factorization, can also be adapted to solve the discrete logarithm problem in polynomial time on a quantum computer. There is also…

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    Comment #44471790

    Bitcoin is designed with clever incentives to prevent this kind of thing. If you can afford to bruteforce wallets the incentive would be to just mine bictoin which is more probable…

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    Comment #44471688

    People always forget about the great Wei Dai, who like Nakamoto is already sort of pseudonymous, he also created Bmoney which is allot like Bitcoin. He is also the creator of the C…

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    > I audit everything myself before making PRs and test rigorously How do you audit code from an untrusted source that quickly, LLMs do not have the whole project in their heads and…

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    Comment #44462347

    I think it will push opensource/ free software hackers to close source their code because it is being used to feed LLMs. Similar to how allot of hardcore free software proponents d…

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    Comment #44445460

    Its like chess in that white has an advantage because they get to play first. The rich get richer because you need capital to efficiently participate in capitalism and it has a com…

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    Comment #44445143

    "zero sum: relating to or denoting a situation in which whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other." The data from the Fed show great inequality which can be expected from…

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    Comment #44443996

    The US Federal Reserve data indicates that the top 10% of households own about 67% of the nation's wealth, while the bottom 50% hold less than 4% Also let us not forget other tools…

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    Comment #32876441

    I like the idea of not bringing "irl" problems in cyberspace, but at the same time I can't help but worry that this does not address the root cause and will only perpetuate and nor…

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    Comment #32850058

    This is all about ledgers, traditional banks have a centralized ledger that only they can edit. Blockchains the ledger is decentralized, anyone can edit the ledger (based on specif…

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    Good cryptography should be auditable, that means it should be simple. It should not rely on experts knowing their way through the complexity but should rely on mathematical guaran…

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