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Comment · 4 days ago
... until the LLM-PM wades into some lethal trifecta via a customer or some other party.
Comment · 16 days ago
That is 50 in the US, not in some 3rd world country.
Comment · 16 days ago
So the AI is already auto-shunning itself from the math community.
Comment · 16 days ago
The world doesn't care. They've got China firewalled away anyway.
Comment · 16 days ago
Public only as accessible by government issued identity.
Comment · 20 days ago
To remove it from the spec you would need to get enought votes in the FIDO alliance workgroups and board and whatnot. That's just politics.
Comment · 1 month ago
Correct code is not cheap. And some places you need a very correct code. Like in mission critical systems.
Comment · 1 month ago
For the normie guy who used google search just to get to facebook, ELIZA is much cheaper to run than a fully fledged GPT. It's just sensible business wise. Trash the brain of the already poorly educated user to use cheaper AI on him.
Comment · 2 months ago
The HTTP protocol and HTML fromat that Tim Berners Lee created, were meant for sharing documentation and information which foster collaboration via internet. It wasn't really meant for doing business in trusted environments.

The WWW acronym should stand for Worldwide Wild West.

Comment · 2 months ago
This reminds me of the ole days of cleaning up preinstalled Windows of bloatware. Some clean Linux distro on desktop is the only path open to human-first tech.
Comment · 3 months ago
Chat apps have already replaced socialapps like FB long ago and the companies know it. Meta has FB Messenger and WhatsApp.
Comment · 4 months ago
Because of the allusion to British Empire?
Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.
Comment · 4 months ago
The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free Software movement with redefining it as "open source" while the Internet was booming. And all of that is now being reaped by the corporations the "tech-hippies" themselves helped to create.
Comment · 4 months ago
Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.

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