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Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by cheikhcheikh »

drannex wrote: post #150
sarchertech wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> think he's god's gift to programming and everyone whose work he disagrees with are losers If he thinks like that (I don’t know him), he needs to limit the scope of what he works on to projects he can accomplish completely on his own.

The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. Does this mean everything he does or says is right? absolutely not, sometimes its myopic and tunnel-vision induced with a smidgen of good points hidden within. Does he come across as 'off' to some people? a slight god-complex? is he likely hardcore autistic and…

He is good, yes. There are are a lot of really good programmers, his fanboyschere make him sound like super genius mr.robot its so tacky and cringe. What did he really accomplish

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Post by zbentley »

everdrive wrote: post #138
Maxatar wrote: post #134

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You're kind of being a dick now.

I'm just so frustrated by how quickly and easily people give in to these things. People face relatively small inconveniences and quickly give away their rights. Smart phones and social media (in large part, enabled by always-on, always-present smart phones) have so, so many negatives effects and people won't even consider moving on. "It's hard to find parking" or "some restaurants are now inconvenient to eat at" are…

That’s a good clarification, thanks for writing it. I think you and the uncle post by bluefirebrand are both right: the social expectations are different enough now that there really might not be a practical alternative for most people to the corporate surveillance pocket computer—and you’re not wrong that the shift in values and priorities that indicates is pretty scary and grim.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by solid_fuel »

> I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person.

Yeah, it's common knowledge now that you can't put many identifying details into a dating profile - there are creeps out there doing things like harvesting them and feeding them into ChatGPT.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by solid_fuel »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #108
1Bas-12g wrote: post #80

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LLms are a cleverly encoded database. It is a lookup. A very fast librarian with a select material of reference books and adept at speed reading could give the same answers as LLMs. A bit slower of course. Most of the time an encyclopedia would suffice and be more accurate than the hallucinating ghosts in the machine. EDIT: The insane downvoters can go back to their AI girlfriends. The comment was meant for thinking…

A very fast librarian with a select material of reference books and adept at speed reading could give the same answers as LLMs. This is called the "Chinese Room" argument, postulating that a human equipped with a Borgesian library of reference books in a language he doesn't understand and a symbolic lookup table for that language can emulate a thinking human mind without actually thinking. It was controversial for de…

> Simulated intelligence is now known, thanks to LLMs, to be indistinguishable from real intelligence.

Oooff, that's quite the claim. Why don't you try to back it up? Cite some research.

Last time I checked it was still very possible to distinguish "reasoning" LLMs from Real People.

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Post by fatata123 »

solid_fuel wrote: post #213

> I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person. Yeah, it's common knowledge now that you can't put many identifying details into a dating profile - there are creeps out there doing things like harvesting them and feeding them into ChatGPT.

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Post by eloisius »

dgellow wrote: post #26

> What killed the hacker culture I grew up in was spectacle. That’s so rich from someone known for his public stunts against Sony & co

I think his usage of spectacle here is the "spectate" kind, not the hullabaloo kind. Spectacles are created to be consumed from the sidelines as a spectator, rather than directly participated in. Being involved, not a spectator, is the root of punk ethos. Bad music and outlandish hair was always just the window dressing.

Say what you like about geohot's public behavior and his long string of half-finished projects, but he's always been very DIY and I respect that about him.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by eightysixfour »

kalleboo wrote: post #193
eightysixfour wrote: post #182

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Neither of those are dumbphones and neither resolve 90% of the problems I mentioned. I wasn't trying to get away from walled gardens or chase additional privacy, I was trying to get away from the most distracting devices ever created and to intentionally not have 24/7 access to a web browser. My path was iOS -> LightPhone 3 -> GrapheneOS -> iOS. The LightPhone was the right level of capability for the distraction fre…

What's your opinion on the Commodore phone? It runs a smartphone OS but web browsers (and social media apps) are intentionally banned for distraction reasons.

No RCS and iMessage via bridge (which effectively means no iMessage via phone number and a number of privacy concerns) makes the communication part an issue, but the rest looks nice. Preordered to see how it goes.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by eloisius »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #174
cliglot wrote: post #46

> I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person. I’ve long described dating apps as “distilling an entire person into a few curated photos and a snippet of text”. In all dating app profile advice I’ve ever seen, creativity, personality, and anything against the grain is highly discouraged. No wonder they barely work.

i'd argue against that point to a degree. going against the grain does work, if you know who you're looking for and can send the right signals accordingly it's that okcupid data about how the highly tattoo'd people tended to get the most negative responses, but also very strong responses from other seriously tat'd people fly a flag, signal theory, etc.

That only worked in first-gen dating sites where you browsed profiles. I think this strategy was called "spearfishing" where you make your profile as polarizing and authentic as possible, because it would cut out all the people you don't want to meet and appeal strongly to the person you do want to meet.

In today's Elo-score face swiping apps, your profile just tanks because all those people you didn't appeal to left-swiped you, and the one person who would have liked your tattoos never sees you. The only strategy for these apps is to 1) be attractive 2) don't be unattractive.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by paradox460 »

dwroberts wrote: post #41

When I read stuff like this, I think the people involved need to go outside and touch grass. I don’t mean that in a mean or reductive way. But something about this kind of assumption that things will get more elaborate and more abstract forever (when he’s talking about the future war for your inner reality) as if there are infinite resources, just strikes me as disconnected from physical reality in a way that feels p…

There's something strong to be said about it, and not in a mean way

When I was laid off a couple months ago, the first thing I did was go out and mow my lawn. One hour of simple, clean labor, with clear progress, goals, and solitude. It helped me stay out of a bad mental frame, and when I finished I went inside and sent out a few hundred applications

Over the next several weeks, I spent a lot of time that wasn't spent on finding a new job working on my yard. Fixing sprinklers, cleaning up the edges of the grass, turning, peating, and mulching garden beds, and more

While this job search period took longer than any of my past ones, and ostensibly should have been more stressful, it wasn't. Is that because I spent most of the downtime working outdoors? Probably, who knows? It was certainly a better use of my time than sitting indoors moping

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by interstice »

sarchertech wrote: post #176
drannex wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. Does this mean everything he does or says is right? absolutely not, sometimes its myopic and tunnel-vision induced with a smidgen of good points hidden within. Does he come across as 'off' to some people? a slight god-complex? is he likely hardcore autistic and…

> The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. I don’t know the guy, but if what the person replied to is correct about how he views himself and people who disagree with him, it doesn’t matter how good he is. You don’t want to be on a team with that. You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. Let…

This logic would have prevented the Enigma machine from existing
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