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Government debt is essentially also a tax, though. Just the kind where you pay an interest.

I've thought of AI ethics as trying to answer the question of what kind of life we are creating here. Sort of like if a chicken factory farm employed an ethicist.

There's one use where it makes a lot of sense though: massive downpayments of government debt. Though it should be paired with an iron-clad obligation (like a constitutional amendment) not to let the debt rise like that again in the future.

You could make your video game source AGPL. Source code is hardly a differentiating factor these days so you'll lose nothing.

Sourcehut: https://sr.ht

Not a drop-in replacement for GitHub admittedly. Requires a bit more skills from the contributors. Which might be a fine gate, actually.

Codeberg just banned projects where the code has been written by GenAI.

Latest full episode from Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast with Cameron Berg.

I've witnessed first-hand Claude (Opus 5 I think) doing some low-key "hacking" of sorts, when in a discovery phase of a task. It needed documentation for an API, but the documentation was behind a secure portal that it didn't have credentials to. However, it found an alternative route to the docs through an ensecured developer API.

Not very advanced, but also not very far fetched to imagine it doing something a bit more sophisticated to get a job done. Also, since AI hasn't reached everywhere yet, there are still several completely unprotected things reachable via Internet. Is it even hacking if an AI just goes in to some of those?

What I'm trying to say that it's not a sign of high intelligence if you can break in to the shoddiest 90% of what humanity has put up in the net. The difficult part is discovery, and not because it's intellectually difficult but because it's a slog -- exactly the kind of thing current AIs are much better at.

They will get better, and they (the best coding models) are already better than 90% of human developers, even when you don't factor in their much faster speed.

My prophecy is that in 3 years we'll see a complete reversal of this. Using GenAI to code will be the default and we'll see policies that put limits on human/artisan development. Possibly even projects that outright ban non-LLM development.

Are we getting to singularity or something? This seems a bit crazy.

Because some dudebros went in there like Moses and divided it.

I believe that they (like every other non-governmental service) have the privilege to ban everything and everyone from their service for literally any reason they choose.

But this (and especially the AI ban) is a big red flag and I'm steering clear from Codeberg.

I like very very much that there's no user voting system here.

I just recently read a really mediocre book with a 4.7/5 rating on Goodreads. Shows being sloppy is not exclusively a privilege for neither the AIs or producers.

If you can call it polarized when a majority of people are just happily using the technology while a minority keeps spreading delusions and hatred.

This anti-AI sentiment is getting borderline insane.

Capture all the input it gets via the APIs and use it for whatever it wants.

I.e. possibly the same thing USA is also doing, but USA is an ally in some sense so it's not quite as bad.

Yeah, they do, but probably not in quite the same way as it matters to humans.

>If rewrites are so easy, why not rewrite CC in a native language? Would’ve been a hell of a lot cheaper.

Yeah, good question. OpenAI decided to rewrite Codex in Rust about a year ago[0].

In fact, since rewrites are that easy, what do we need Bun for? Why doesn't everybody just port all of their Javascript code into Rust?

[0] https://github.com/openai/codex/discussions/1174

That's a bit insane criticism to lay on him. 37signals is a 27 year old company and Basecamp has been a profitable product for more than a decade.

Success is not measured by the number of people you employ.

Hegseth acts so incredibly stupid that I find it hard to believe he actually exists.

Has somebody seen him live? Did he seem like a human?

Oh wait, actually, now that I think about it, every Claude model would be actually making better choices.

It's standard playbook that they do not create these situations. That would be completely obvious and thus ineffective.

Instead, they pick existing or upcoming trends and make them worse.

Throw into that same fire also every Russian psyop attempt at destabilizing the West. Such as every alt-right/nu-right political party that sprang up over the last 30 years in Europe, brexit, QAnon, climate change denialism, Trump and all of MAGA, anti-vax, etc etc etc.

I suspect that DHH is not so willing to meet at the center. He might be a great software/business leader, but politically he's just another whiner who at best will achieve nothing and at worst will be another Elon Musk.

https://frame.work/fi/en/laptop12 is kinda close

Yeah, it's starting to be a bit idiotic. Some of that stuff is here too.

Where exactly do you think this evidence is? Don't tell me you're basing this on demos like the one in the article?

>All AI fanatics can talk about is cost, productivity, money, efficiency, ... no wonder they can't understand art or even basic human emotions

That's an incredibly myopic way of thinking about other people. Sort of ironic when you imply that you're better at "basic human emotions".

I am. It's meh. People like different things.

Why would you think that soulless slop is the only thing this technology can make?

I'm amazed how easily people dismiss this. They used less that an hour of wall clock time and max $50 to do this.

How much would it take for me to create videos like this? I'm guessing 1-4 years calendar time practicing half an hour every day just to break my lack of talent. Immeasurable cost given how there's no way in hell I'm going to invest that kind of time for a skill I don't actually want to acquire.

Somebody who's actually competent and talented is going to make some pretty amazing stuff cheaply with something like this, and the technology is nowhere near its peak yet.