SturgeonsLaw

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Comment · 5 hours ago
> so here's the actual quote in context (unlike the leakers, I have permission to post this image)

Worth keeping in mind that his post was reviewed and vetted by Proton management

Comment · 6 hours ago
Yes, largely due to the scientific and medical progress humanity has made despite the sleazebag politicians being in power
Comment · 8 days ago
They likely understand full well what's happening, but it raises the cost of failure

"So the third party consultant warned against it, you did it anyway, and it caused these problems?"

Comment · 11 days ago
> He is an external consultant

Called, no answer, left voicemail

Billed 15 minutes

Comment · 11 days ago
Yep, this was me most of my career. Started a new job a couple of years ago, except this time I dialled down the effort to like 80% and enforced strict separation between work hours and home hours, and it's been wonderful
Comment · 13 days ago
Well they've been doing that to devs for a couple of years now and yet mathematicians seem to be much more vocal whingers (might be selection bias in the articles I'm reading though).

AI is coming for all of us knowledge workers, nobody is immune.

Comment · 15 days ago
> Cool, so I'll have you make an LLM that can make cosine

The last thing we need is more math addicts roaming the streets

Comment · 15 days ago
While I agree that there's a special element to human crafted pieces, and artisanship would be a terrible thing to lose, I'd point out that Roger W. Smith hand makes ~15 watches per year which sell for around $400k a pop, while Casio's watch division brought in $1.17B in revenue in the most recent FY
Comment · 15 days ago
Well the thing that comes to mind for me was the US gov classing encryption as a munition and placing it under export controls
Comment · 15 days ago
Those are the dates that the NSA obtained quantum computer tech from the alien crash site at Roswell, which would enable them to break the crypto they were currently building
Comment · 18 days ago
Wolves eat rabbits, not grass, so it's doesn't matter if the grass dies because they can just keep eating rabbits
Comment · 23 days ago
Netbird has a self hosted option
Comment · 24 days ago
Anthropic runs a biology wetlab (while denying biology to consumers of even their publicly available models, let alone their inhouse ones that only they can access) so I'd expect AI to generate practical and lucrative products soon.

Cure for aging? What do you reckon that'd be worth?

Comment · 27 days ago
Meanwhile our noble side only slaughters foreigners, so you see that makes us the good guys

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