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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 ozozozd »

everdrive wrote: post #37
matltc wrote: post #25

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Well idk if the author is actually geohot but if it is then look him up. Famous hacker from cmu ppp, I think he was first to jailbreak iPhone 4

Ah, sorry, I wasn't familiar with him. Looks like he was born in 1989, and so is not so young. I'm a bit baffled to hear that he doesn't think he can escape his smartphone given that he was resourceful enough to jailbreak an iPhone 4 back in the day. I understand he's speaking poetically and emotionally. Maybe he just means he has the knowledge but not the means.

I think he is longing for the “old web” or “small web” as some refer to as these days.

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

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Post by ben_w »

1Bas-12g wrote: post #75
ben_w wrote: post #63

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> ChatGPT does not know more than you. The fallacy is always that you compare AI to a human without literature references and a database. If the human needs a literature references and a database to answer a question, can they be said to "know" the answer? ChatGPT doesn't have an endgame database for chess. Despite having "read" all the literature about chess, it will hallucinate the board state if you try to play ch…

If Stockfish uses a table base to play endgames, does it play chess? If a CPU needs RAM and disk access to give answers, does it "know" the material?

> If Stockfish uses a table base to play endgames, does it play chess?

It would be very impressive to watch this, but irrelevant:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22table+base%22&t=osx&ia=images&i...

> If a CPU needs RAM and disk access to give answers, does it "know" the material?

If you need to have a prefrontal cortex (RAM) and hippocampus (disk access), same question. (The answer is "yes, obviously that's fine, why would you even ask").

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

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Post by NetMageSCW »

krapp wrote: post #49
xoac wrote: post #18

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Wasn't this obvious?

Spend some time on HN reading people's comments about how AI frees them and liberates their minds and lets them be creative in ways that were never possible before and how anyone who thinks otherwise is just a Luddite. You'll realize how not obvious it is to many people. You (collective you, not you personally) are just consuming a product. The LLM is a product. The model is a product. You're reheating spam from the…

Or are they right and you’re the one saying if you don’t know how to saddle a horse and rub it down you shouldn’t consider yourself a driver?

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

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Post by mingus88 »

yellow_lead wrote: post #62
skizm wrote: post #38

The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks when attempting to change some placeholder text in the twitter search bar. He ultimately couldn't figure it out and then immediately quit lol. He even ran a poll on his twitter asking if he should quit, most people voted "NO" then he quit a…

Guy was also tryna hire other interns as an intern himself, lol

That’s called a “referral”

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

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Post by zdragnar »

ryan_n wrote: post #51
nicman23 wrote: post #34

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lol he is right. his work both on the ps3 and now with the hacked p2p drivers is powering many a lab

how does the ps3 hack "power many a lab"?

PS3's, prior to the otheros block, were turned into supercomputers in quite a few labs. The US Air Force had the 33rd fastest 'supercomputer' by building a networked cluster of them at one point. Doing this was substantially cheaper than actually purchasing a similarly powerful actual supercomputer.

The hack allowed users to continue using them as such, though to what extent that persisted I don't actually know.

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

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Post by 1Bas-12g »

ben_w wrote: post #92
1Bas-12g wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Stockfish uses a table base to play endgames, does it play chess? If a CPU needs RAM and disk access to give answers, does it "know" the material?

> If Stockfish uses a table base to play endgames, does it play chess? It would be very impressive to watch this, but irrelevant: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22table+base%22&t=osx&ia=images&i... > If a CPU needs RAM and disk access to give answers, does it "know" the material? If you need to have a prefrontal cortex (RAM) and hippocampus (disk access), same question. (The answer is "yes, obviously that's fine, why wou…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

skizm wrote: post #38

The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks when attempting to change some placeholder text in the twitter search bar. He ultimately couldn't figure it out and then immediately quit lol. He even ran a poll on his twitter asking if he should quit, most people voted "NO" then he quit a…

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

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Post by skizm »

rustybolt wrote: post #64
skizm wrote: post #38

The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks when attempting to change some placeholder text in the twitter search bar. He ultimately couldn't figure it out and then immediately quit lol. He even ran a poll on his twitter asking if he should quit, most people voted "NO" then he quit a…

If you ever saw this guy program you know he's very competent so IMHO that reflects badly on twitter, tbh.

Totally fair! I think it is more of a reminder that making impact at large companies can be hard even for competent people.

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

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Post by mingus88 »

justjash wrote: post #57
rmunn wrote: post #29

From the article: "... there is no other Internet, just a place with five corporate towns and some Chinese ones that are really hard to visit if you don’t speak Chinese." Yeah, that's only true if you don't hang out in the old-style Internet. I spend most of my time on blogs, reading and replying to discussions on wide-ranging topics, talking to interesting people who know a lot more than I do about many subjects (in…

I miss all the old forums that have died out. Still some gems out there, but not nearly as active anymore as far as my hobbies and interest go.

Ironically, when people moved their communities to Reddit and discord they only helped to enable the AI theft of this culture

Forums were easy to search. The threads were mostly chronological and easy to stay in touch with.

These corporate platforms are designed to promote reposting. Always “new” content and impossible to find anything else. keep the user reloading that feed at all costs. And behind the scenes the corporations are mining your activity

I’m somewhat optimistic that as future generations of LLMs keep scanning this new LLM driven social media landscape, the models will collapse and the content will just suck more and more.

And people with interesting takes and novel ways of expressing them leave the corporate platforms, and we return to the humble days of user owned platforms without all the bots

After all, it’s easier than ever to build a platform now that we have LLMs to do all the chore work

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