sledgehammers

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msc compsci.
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Comment · 6 months ago
It does take tremendous talent and knowledge to build what he built, saying anything else is not just dishonest but weirdly cynical if not hateful. I think you grossly underestimate how difficult it is to build anything good. Not an easy thing to follow up all the expectations set after a massive global hit like that, a classic dilemma of a successful artist.
Comment · 7 months ago
Also you know, for programmers, say a 3 day work week is right there up for grabs. Even still employers would see big productivity increases.
Comment · 3 years ago
Are you shitting on peoples work just for the sake of shitting on it?

edit. this comment seems unpopular, my intent was to defend the worm against trolls :)

Comment · 3 years ago
I started reading that book (seems great!) and stumbled upon this: "And it’s hardly clear that computer scientists will succeed in creating a convincingly-human artificial intelligence any time soon." Made me smile. Took but 8 years, the book was published in 2015. :)

(BTW. I'm super concerned about all the incredible amount of power nvidia has now and in the future. They get to decide the fate of the human race, I feel. And their incentive is just to make as much money as possible, while all negative externalities including the likes of extinction is left to the society to deal with. Sigh.)

Comment · 3 years ago
Massive wealth inequality bubble bursting from the bottom up?
Comment · 3 years ago
Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

Alphabet Inc needs to be broken with antitrust. Youtube has to be a separate company.

What a massive failure of democracy that this hasn't happened already. Fuck FAANG.

Comment · 3 years ago
> it is not certain that allowing this would pass Apple reviews

Release the app outside the store? Fuck apple and their monopoly abuse control system.

Comment · 3 years ago
_Everything_ is getting more shit day after day.

Internet is burning. The sources of information are getting scarce, it's almost unbelivable.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Whatever it is, I really, really, really, really hope it's doesn't fall into the hands of microsoft, google or the rest. (But of course it will and enshittification ensues.)
Comment · 3 years ago
Except in a restaurant, the chef gets paid. In this platform, value is extracted from the chef, the waiter, the eater, the eaten, and their interaction, while tearing down societies. Not a fair comparison.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wish we could as a species create a social media and communication platform not based on greed, addiction, micro-monetization, walled datagarden hoardism, and so on, but something above all that bullshit.
Comment · 3 years ago
AKA abuse their monopoly.

Kudos to this guy. Disobedience is a requirement for a change in a broken system.

Comment · 3 years ago
> I think AI really needs a de-pythoning in general.

Yes, absolutely. The state of the Python ecosystem is what remains after a nuclear apocalypse.

We need more native stuff, ggml.cpp for one is a super important project.

Comment · 3 years ago
You are welcome to do as you please. As a collective, we need to acknowledge the burnout epidemic. People need to have the honest freedom to be offline, without any social or business pressure. There's more to life than emails and a corporation that is free to fire you at any point.

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