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Comment · 2 months ago
glad to see this posted here on my day off! the universe seems to have a way of reminding of certain things and pointing me in the right direction!
Comment · 2 months ago
hell yeah, glad to see it, keep at it! this is the type of thing that i always figured software people would naturally tend to support, because it's just systems thinking. what better thing to do than to heal the ecosystems on which we depend?
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?
Comment · 7 months ago
lol wtf
Comment · 7 months ago
> “Our opportunity now is to take those 900 million users and turn them into high-compute users,” Simo said, according to a partial transcript of the meeting reviewed by CNBC. “We’ll do that by transforming ChatGPT into a productivity tool.”

Moloch strikes again!

(for those who don't yet get the reference https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)

but seriously, we (or they) need to define what "productivity" actually is these days and in these contexts. is it to generate revenue for a company? is it to become a self-sufficient human? is it to educate the younger generations about what's true? is it to do science? is it to increase the efficiency of whatever task you're already doing (note that increasing efficiency would result in using less compute for the same operation lol)? if we keep moving forward without sitting down and reorienting ourselves about a shared vision, given all the new things we now know since establishing our frameworks of social/economic organization, i fear that there will be a very bad outcome.

Comment · 8 months ago
can you tell us about this "ansible filesystem swiss army knife"?
Comment · 8 months ago
wait why not robots.txt?
Comment · 9 months ago
it's malware in the mind. it was happening before deep fakes was possible. news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells. now we have tools that pretty much just accelerate and automate that process. it's interesting. it would be helpful to figure out how to prevent people (especially upcoming generations) from getting swept away by all this.
Comment · 10 months ago
not to mention the high resource-usage of a local LLM that most PCs wouldn't be able to handle, or would just drain a laptop's battery.
Comment · 10 months ago
what i hate most about this (and the discussion happening in the comments), is that nobody is even defining "AI". "artificial intelligence" is not a technical term. what is mozzila doing exactly? what does it mean to put AI in the browser?
Comment · 10 months ago
wait what do you mean? what's wrong with kafka?

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