69 karma · joined May 30, 2025
Granted, many can't draw at all, but people's inability to reproduce from memory an object of some complexity that they see (and likewise, use) every day is telling.
Also the well-documented inaccuracy of eye-witness testimony.
I don't think you have to worry about that.
> lol dumb Ruskies parking them out in the open
comments here and elsewhere neglect the role START obligations may have played in Russia's domestic security failure. It's also unsettling to think about how much US critical infrastructure could be vulnerable to similar attacks.
> “FYI, those bombers that were hit HAVE to be out in full view due to nuclear treaty obligations. Zelenskyy took advantage of that,” General Flynn noted on X.
> His post generated heated discussions on social media about whether Russian obligations under a bilateral treaty with the US might have helped Ukraine in targeting the Russian strategic bombers.
From the State Department: https://www.state.gov/new-start-treaty
> The treaty permits the use of national technical means of verification (e.g. satellites) in a manner consistent with international law, and contains explicit provisions that prohibit interference with NTM and the use of concealment measures that may impede monitoring by NTM.
Here:
> The great cultural project of developers has been opposing any protection that might inconvenience a monetizable media-sharing site. When they fail at policy, they route around it with coercion. They stand up global-scale piracy networks and sneer at anybody who so much as tries to preserve a new-release window for a TV show.
He doesn't explicitly name corporate entities, but it's clearly the ones founded and run by "move fast, break things" types (and I suspect he's one of them) that he's using to smear all developers, even the humble ones who aren't nearly as rich as him and whose open source software he used to build his business.
Even the ones advocating or engaging in personal piracy aren't creating unauthorized derivative works and monetizing them, which is arguably what these AI systems and their customers are doing. And Thomas wasn't talking about personal piracy, but instead trying to use the IP-hostile conduct of Google and certain startups (like Scribd or GrooveShark) to smear all developers and de-legitimize their IP-based objections, even of those releasing code under permissive licenses (like the GPL) in exchange for expected adherence to certain terms and conditions that these systems and their users ignore.
These systems (LLMs, diffusion) yield imitative results just powerful enough to eventually threaten the jobs of most non-manual laborers, while simultaneously being not powerful enough (in terms of capability to reason, to predict, to simulate) to solve the hard problems AI was promised to solve, like accelerating cancer research.
To put it another way, in their present form, even with significant improvement, how many years of life expectancy can we expect these systems to add? My guess is zero. But I can already see a huge chunk of the graphic designers, the artists, the actors, and the programmers or other office workers being made redundant.
It will also make proving your identity harder and more time-consuming.
You're not concerned about OpenAI or Google stealing your code? I won't use VSCode for that reason, personally, but I do use VSCodium.
> The median dev thinks Star Wars and Daft Punk are a public commons. The great cultural project of developers has been opposing any protection that might inconvenience a monetizable media-sharing site. When they fail at policy, they route around it with coercion. They stand up global-scale piracy networks and sneer at anybody who so much as tries to preserve a new-release window for a TV show.
This is pretty disingenuous and mean-spirited. He's using SV startup types to smear all developers, including the typical, humble, un- or undercompensated FOSS dev who absolutely respects intellectual property, and quite reasonably, expects their own IP to be respected as well. But because Sam Altman types follow the "It's Better to Beg for Forgiveness than to Ask for Permission" rule, altruistic, non-sociopathic developers have no right to complain?
Then the article's title is deceptive.
If this isn't the case, then the bot detection systems big sites are using must be pretty bad, because I do almost all of my browsing on a desktop originating from residential ASN IP address, and I routinely run up against CAPTCHAs. E.g., any Stack Exchange site on first visit, and even Amazon. What reason would there be for this, unless these crawlers are laundering their traffic through residential IPs?
> muh sugar
and that it's important to stress that the "sugar lobby" has completely distorted the scientific record (without any mention of Beef checkoff or the dairy lobby)?