bjornnn

the disingenuous paternalistic altruism of the intellectual and financial and political elite has a way of rapidly metastatizing into unabashed nihilistic egocentrism when their wealth and power surge far past their points of diminishing returns. eventually it's not enough to be the billionaire who smoked a joint on tv and marketed the electric car, you have to be the trillionaire who abolished human empathy and created a genetically-engineered aryan master race.

you got it, boss!

we all know how passionate the hackernews community have always been about the integrity of european progressive activist groups, it's practically all anyone talks about on here

both ed zitron and dan luu are professional bloggers who earn their living from selling ai sensationalism, zitron using paywalls and luu using patreon. whether the sensationalism is positive or negative, either way it is a very clear conflict of interest.

if only we could have held onto our casinos in cuba, things would have been totally completely different

destructive book scanning is pretty standard, it's the only way to efficiently get a good flat scan of the pages without a tremendous amount of human labor to correct distortion on every individual page. i'm curious about what specific rare books are being destroyed and how rare they really are. and at any rate, anyone can go out and buy books and scan them or destroy them or set them on fire or whatever, they bought the book it's their own property. so now physical books are treated as the public commons while intellectual property is privately owned? are we in topsy-turvy world? i feel like there are much more egregious crimes that people ought to be talking about with ai companies, like impoverished black people having their city water supplies poisoned or the massive financial fraud that will destroy the economy or the massive co2 emissions that will destroy the world or just the fact that it's not even artificial intelligence at all and it's not even a technological innovation, it's just a google hack that dumbed down an existing neural network model enough for it to run on lots of nvidia gpus and produce an impressive-enough tech demo to show to gullible investors who don't know what to do with their massive piles of money.

even when foundational patents expire, licensing agreements and copyright and trademark and other things remain legally enforceable. chinese companies actually did start investing in mips at one point but ended up getting sued. people tried to open source mips years ago but gave up and just switched to risc-v because it's too much of a legal hassle to try to open source something that was proprietary for decades and has all the legacy baggage of multiple previous owners who want to sue you for any reason they can think of. it was easier to just design a new architecture that was open from the start.

the significance and allure of risc-v, the reason china is investing heavily in it right now, has little to do with the technical details of how it works under the hood, it's the fact that it is an open standard not encumbered by intellectual property law. even if it isn't technically the best general-purpose processor architecture, it sets an important precedent by proving that it is possible to develop an open public architecture that the world can use to build computing devices without being extorted by a multinational corporation charging licensing fees or a geopolitical superpower enacting tariffs and sanctions.

are you asking these questions sincerely or is this just your passive-aggressive way of saying that netbsd is dead and nobody uses it? and why does everything have to be compared to linux? isn't the whole reason we developed free and open-source operating systems is to have lots of different choices and not just one universal corporate-controlled OS that everyone thinks of as the yardstick by which all other OSes are measured?

was it really necessary to blur the image of ai women wearing crop tops? is this saudi arabia?

was it really necessary to blur the image of the "mildly revealing clothing" i.e. women wearing crop tops? is this saudi arabia?