And as long as it's hand-made, that's fine.
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> The things that make you think "banning this is good actually" are exactly the things most likely to be banned (and this is true in China too).
Then make the case why it is better for the world that the Tiananmen Square massacre is memoryholed. You said A, now say B.
In the meantime, I'll make the case against it, and it's simple: totalitarian control of historical truth, by definition, to be 100% watertight, needs control of the whole globe. It doesn't mean everything needs to be controlled, it means everything needs to be controlled by at least an entity that cooperates on this matter. I.e. another totalitarian bloc.
That makes the CCP, just by their insistence about Tiananmen -- nothing additional required, at all, they could not harm a fly and have no prisons and it would make zero difference -- an enemy, a threat marching towards any thinking human who wants to have agency and dignity. Actually, it's more like a river flowing to the ocean, people in the CCP can have lofty ideals about honesty and factual truth, the system they require to survive in turn requires this to survive, as it is. It requires human spontaneity and human freedom to be dead, completely. That is what totalitarianism is.
And by the same token, we must be wary of those who take that lightly. A friend falling asleep at the wheel will kill you just the same as an assassin who messed with your car.
That is not "as opposed to the US or the EU or Russia or North Korea". It is strictly in addition. No other regime can behind another regime or use it as an excuse. Using the US to distract from the CCP is as odious as doing the reverse.
> I never want to explain to a future job interviewer or HR employee who used GPT-7 to comb the internet for all text that stylistically can be traced to me
So you want to work in an office wearing a tie. Well, people who want to work as roadies and fight all night would never hang with you if they found out. And if that was your priority, you would be more afraid of NOT being blacklisted by the corpos than not being part of them.
But seriously, are you saying you are as afraid of being found out as the person you are, because you're not already wearing that on your sleeve, in exactly the same way as people who have to fear that they and their family get disappeared, tortured, for remembering friends that got murdered? That would be totally a you problem.
I'm not up to hip with the speed because I think Python is very gross, but maybe to get a feel for it you could start with https://pypi.org/project/pypioffline/
I don't understand most of these words but I think if you paid me a lot of cash I could find someone who could help me make sense of it: https://techbeatly.com/offline-pypi-server-disconnected-envi...
Do OpenAI employees get paid? I'm honestly totally clueless about artificial telegents if you couldn't tell, but it's a company, right? Or is it more a community effort where everybody contributes when they can but they mostly have second jobs or even still go to school? In that case I say let's do a kickstarter so they can keep on being smart cutting edge high tech developers who aren't either a.) lying on the level of spam from Nigeria b.) doing their job at the level of someone falling for spam from Nigeria.
Even if you could afford the equipment to make sure you don't have a single molecule of shit on your shoe, you couldn't operate it. Most people couldn't. So what gives? How is it possible that people have parties and then not endless discussions for decades and centuries about this unsolvable issue, right up there with how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Because they're not playing games is why. Because it's simple, if you don't bend over backwards to make it seem hard. You don't walk through shit on purpose, and before entering you check your shoes to your best ability. The end. There will be small percentage of cases where this fails, and that's fine. Spirit of the law and all that.
You do the same with genAI. If you are worried it's too much, "the wrong kind", whatever, you simply ask them. Because you have good intentions and will respect their answer, you have no reason not to do that. If you don't even have anything you're unsure if you can upload there, it's totally moot.
Is that an argument for or against jobs? Because one way to look at it is that they didn't develop a personality and identity at all, because they just attached themselves to a job. When that inevitably ends anyway, sooner or later, one way or another, a deep pit of nothing. That's one reason to rip the bandaid off right away.
But IMO even more importantly, how much room do people who do what the environment tells them, who let their job tell them who they are, have for inner dialogue? The worst things in the world were and are enabled by people "just doing their job", and if they have no identity outside of their job, there's someone just following orders waiting to happen. So from what would distress them, being rid of a crutch and an ear piece where a person would otherwise grow, follows that it is in their and all of our best interest to pay no mind to it.
Their new job will be to get a life and become a person. Maybe someone can print out some papers that make it look official, and they can get a monthly letter telling them they earned N personality dollars this month, good job, keep it up, thanks, company.
You download the "website" and make it available locally. That's trivial.
When you talk of "answers" in the same category as humans give them, of "beings", you already are outside the realms of critical thought.
> I wish I'd had the skill before one such mistake toasted my kidneys.
I wish the people who died from bad LLM advice were still alive. Many of them had their life still ahead of them. You can't guilt me into confusing generated text with answers while ignoring all that. I also have pain and suffering in my life, one aspect of it are these attempts to devalue humans by putting probabalitities of words humans produced on the same level as them, calling them "beings" and all that. If I could remove all intellectual dishonesty from the world and have some pain in my right hand side diodes in exchange, I'd take that bullet for y'all. So I'm not impressed by this tear duct jerking.
It's like "[actual living person] has big eyes" and "character portrait in a 90s video game has big eyes" are similar sentences on the surface, but they describe things as far part from each other as a single dot left by bird poop vs. the combined writings of all humans, ever. Like half an atom compared to a universe.
Same for "beings". Just no. Or rather, I apply what you suggest to what you said, I don't just take your word for it but inspect if what you said could be true, and realise your answer is so full of false premises it's not even wrong.
you are comparing a wooden stick to a fighter yet, try again
the same as "zero", in that if the amount is zero, you're fine.
"did you pack your bags yourself?"
"no/not sure/what does that mean let's discuss" = please leave the premises now
"yes" = welcome
Dunno if they were "in tune" though, maybe I'm too literal, because in my mind, anything, even the coolest stuff, that was made by adults and/or legal was not the stuff. Actual youth culture can only happen among the youth, if you know what I mean, so there's at least always this lag.
"If you have shit on your shoe, please don't walk across our carpet".
"But how do they know? maybe we should test if they can tell", and all that stuff... no. Most people would simply take a good look, and if they're worried about something that could be be mud or not, brush it off just in case. And if they come directly from 12 hours of drunk partying in the wilderness, they can still simply take their shoes off and ask for a plastic bag at the door, just in case. Easy.
And yes, maybe the owner goes crazy or hates you, and you just bought new shoes that are squeaky clean, but brown, and get thrown out with no appeal. That can happen. But in that case, they could use many other things to be petty about, too. And Codeberg does not strike me as that.
How can you tell if you drank too much? What is the exact amount of alcohol molecules a given person could ingest in an exact instant (like, down to the exact Planck whatever) and no longer be fit to drive? And if someone says "no drunk driving on my property" while not caring what happens outside of it, can we really let them off the hook before they showed us the machine that can calculate it?
If people are worried about using libraries that contain vibe code, sure, that may become a real concern, but even then, why not have a really restricted website? For projects where the people are either so good, or the project so small, that that they know for sure there is no vibe code in it? Why this oozing over and into everything?
You cannot discuss in non-English languages on this site. Even though you could slur and degrade English, and therefore it being impossible to give you an exact heuristic right now that separates English from non-English exactly. The rule is still accepted, and cases dealt with as they come up.
Can you name one? It's an honest question, first of I'm not American, but also the stuff I do come up with (asking an LLM how to blow up a school or whatever) would also be handled similarly in China, so those would be a wash, and I can't think of any that aren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GRBn7Vn2U0&t=775s
Obviously it loses a lot if you don't speak German, but they were very funny and silly and interacted with their fans a lot, to say the least.
Besides it being so general a question to really be useless as anything but an insinuation IMO, which is why I'm trying to tease that insinuation out. E.g. are people who use Apple left-handed? Are they gay? The answer is "yes, some of them, of course, but also many aren't... why are you asking?"
There is no thing as "just a question, nothing in mind really". That does not exist. The mind that can ask a question cannot arrive at it in a vacuum.
For poor old me, too many wikipedia articles on algorithms useful mostly or only for programming are described in formulas rather than simply code with detailed comments. Scrap the whole page and just gimme the code :( Not even to copy and paste, because that's a language I can understand, and enjoy learning.
Doesn't make it any less ghoulish the way it's all trained on things humans made for humans. So yeah, I'm glad I don't need this stuff. You may need it for your job, I don't. Neener neener! I don't need it for my countless side projects I could not make reality in 10 life times, either. Because I know if I finished them all, I'd just come up with more stuff, there is no end, so simply going at my own pace and smelling the flowers, loving every insect, is just as well. I like it better, that's why I do it.
So why wouldn't I shit on something I have no use for, because of all the qualities it has that deserve to be shit upon? I'm free. "But others are not" -- then get free, but get out of my hair about not being free.
> if I search my file system for "foo" a trillion gazillion times, it will not return "bar" once.
Do you understand what this means? I say "this bike cannot fly to the moon, I prefer my moon rocket". And you say what if they can be improved? Fine, improve them. Don't question me because I go by what is real now, rather than what you'd think is possible or around the corner. It's not a game with a few bugs, where mostly bugfree games also exist. There is no way from here to there I see, and if you disagree, walk it.
I lose no time by doing something else in the meantime. Find the promised land and I'll be there with my feet on the table in 0.1 seconds, pretending I founded it -- don't worry about that. But until then I won't stumble around some corporate slop desert with you because I think there is no there there, and basically doing anything else is preferable.
Because people are struggling to make ends meet as wealth gets more and more concentrated. It reminds me of that really disgusting joke: why do sheep farmers like to fuck their sheep just at the edge of a cliff? Because they push back.
So yeah, people often make choices they'd rather not make. Doesn't mean anything, just like that sheep doesn't love the farmer and is grinding up against him, it doesn't want to fall of a cliff and die.
And these companies take a few cherry picked snapshots, never show the video, never show the aftermath, and brag about acceptance. Fuck all of that, so much.
People don't want all of humanity to be stolen from by companies who then turn around and sue you if you violate their copyright. That settles all of it, already. All this stuff about quality and economics is irrelevant. We hate people who steal from the little man to enrich the wealthy, always did, always will. Where there is a "we" that isn't just isolated people playing pretend, you will find this as the bedrock, maybe a layer above hating child abuse. And making the "accept child abuse or robber barons" option 10%, 20%, 50000% cheaper doesn't change that in the slightest.
I'll go you one further: the very few ones who do, or don't care, don't matter, because when it comes to ethics and society they already checked out, and can stay checked out. They got old, they lost what they were supposed to hold on to if they ever had it, and that's tragic, but mostly their problem which they want to extend onto the people who don't have it.
> something that genuinely looks like a huge improvement to them
Of course they think it's great, or they wouldn't be doing it. That goes for everyone, with anything, ever. And some customers probably think it's great, too. But if you want me as a customer, to whom all those other opinions are completely irrelevant, you'd be better off just putting a turd glazed with boogers. Doesn't matter what it advertises, I'll know a human made this, and look at the product description.
if someone says "this hame is buggy" talking about how it might improve is moving goal posts, especially here where that "fix" is purely speculative and has not happened even once.
> Great! Nor will an agent any more likely, cause it just sends out a tool call and surfaces its output.
nope, that's so handwavy it doesn't wareant more response than that.
> trivially verifiable facts
like that game gets patches? this is too dumb for your mockery to get a rise out of me.
I did. I used that phrase.
"not slop cuz pretty useful" = slop argument
so far I mostly saw it spewed forth on HN
- Simone Weil
That's 3 things to be nervous about, none anyone is "curious" about. So they're nervous about the prospects, but also acknowledge they "benefit from them", which is 100% vague versus actual concerns. If that's the best you can come up with after this stuff about the media trying to find boogeymen, that's kind of an own goal.
And you don't even mention something I see mentioned in the wild all the time, often at the forefront: how these companies just took and take everything people made, without asking, while if you take from them they sue you. That is so glaring I would even say if all people you know don't care about that, it would be a problem with your friends, not legitimize what these companies did and do.
So now not being the first becomes the smarter move. Kinda fits that it's all built on ingesting vast volumes of stuff people made because they couldn't just prompt, but doesn't spell good things in the long run IMO. It makes me think me of complaints about dating in big cities, people tend to hold out for meeting someone even better rather than committing and making the best of it.