I don't think that's the only reason. Here in Germany, you can also buy that fluffy white bread—usually wrapped in plastic—that's probably made that way. But most bread in Germany is still produced the traditional way,…
> Both Altman and Zitron are the opposite of Frankfurt’s bullshitter, because they both appear to evince genuine care for the truth value of their position. I can't really judge Zitron, but when it comes to Altman, I…
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I am even. Source: Lifelong Prime
"App development has always been harder than web development for LLMs." What do they mean by "always"? Am I old? Are there people out there for whom LLMs aren't the new thing?
I do think it's part of many people's vocabulary. It's a bit informal. And it's not a word you use every day. But it's definitely a word that gets used when the occasion calls for it, just like the related verb…
(This is a reply to Der_Einzige.) Way too sweeping for my taste. There’s obviously some truth to that. On the other hand, it’s way too easy and convenient to dismiss things as PSYOPs. To my grandfather, every LGBTQ…
Riding a motorcycle is one of the things in life that puts me in a good mood. I live in Germany. Traffic here seems to be pretty orderly. I don’t feel like the cars around me are putting me in danger. I have protective…
Definitely not! They just don't want to let you have the advantage. "I have to wait here in my Ram Truck, so you'd better wait too and not cut in line!"
So much effort for a self-righteous framework of contempt for certain people. In recent years, I have observed several people up close who uncompromisingly focus their lives on economic success. What these people have…
I'd like to see this problem solved in such a way that your group memberships are transitively applied to your access to agents. In other words: you shouldn’t be allowed to talk to an agent at all if, at a given point…
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve lived in the city my whole life and have seen rents rise. That’s been extremely frustrating for me because I’ve been at the mercy of market trends and have worried about what would happen if,…
Unfortunately, yes. One real-world example was the former Linotype typesetters. As far as I know, they had union-negotiated benefits such as job security until retirement, early retirement, or generous severance…
No, of course, you can only ever be certain of that in hindsight, through a historical lens. We’re not there yet. The question is simply whether Marx’s analysis was abstract and general enough at that point to still…
It’s already the case that I’m no longer paid to type source code into a computer, but rather to control agents that do that. There’s still plenty of demand for human expertise and labor. It’s possible that this will…
You know, strictly speaking, a guinea pig isn't really a pig either. If you were expecting real physics, you should have realized from the word “social” that it wouldn't be in there. Particle families aren't really…
Absolutely right: they took advantage of us and exploited us, and ever since then they’ve been calling us lazy. Many people in East Germany and West Germany don’t even realize this, but what actually happened during…
I see three problems here. 1) You’re misunderstanding the concept of magical thinking. It is not an umbrella term for false expectations. Magical thinking occurs when a person assumes that their thoughts, words, or…
It’s a good recipe for consensus. I find it easier to reluctantly submit to the will of the majority than I would to the will of a minority. There are certainly a few opponents of democracy who feel exactly the…
I am the son of a (Cuban) immigrant and a German woman. Once, the police asked me if I spoke German, probably because my hair is dark and my eyes are brown. Germany has a bias against “southerners”—the darker your skin,…
> It's a fascinating bit of biology to see a species collectively sacrifice its well being for the benefit of one man I wouldn't attribute this phenomenon to biology. But in a healthy world, there would have been an…
> Your argument isn’t simple, it’s word salad. That’s not very nice. I can assure you that I read everything you write here with the same contempt and accuse you of at least the same intellectual dishonesty. I just…
It's even simpler than that: Genuine rights cannot be transferred. Everything else is just an attempt to somehow determine who is allowed to make money from what. You shouldn’t take this too seriously, and certainly…
Great! You currently have just one other comment pointing out that Bezos is no longer CEO, as if that were a piece of information that would make even the slightest difference in this matter. Unfortunately, my comment…
“Their data” does not imply copyright or ownership. But it is data that is stored with them or at least available through them, and in that sense, it is certainly their data. Their friends, their nationality, their back…
I don't think that's the only reason. Here in Germany, you can also buy that fluffy white bread—usually wrapped in plastic—that's probably made that way. But most bread in Germany is still produced the traditional way,…
> Both Altman and Zitron are the opposite of Frankfurt’s bullshitter, because they both appear to evince genuine care for the truth value of their position. I can't really judge Zitron, but when it comes to Altman, I…
[dead]
I am even. Source: Lifelong Prime
"App development has always been harder than web development for LLMs." What do they mean by "always"? Am I old? Are there people out there for whom LLMs aren't the new thing?
I do think it's part of many people's vocabulary. It's a bit informal. And it's not a word you use every day. But it's definitely a word that gets used when the occasion calls for it, just like the related verb…
(This is a reply to Der_Einzige.) Way too sweeping for my taste. There’s obviously some truth to that. On the other hand, it’s way too easy and convenient to dismiss things as PSYOPs. To my grandfather, every LGBTQ…
Riding a motorcycle is one of the things in life that puts me in a good mood. I live in Germany. Traffic here seems to be pretty orderly. I don’t feel like the cars around me are putting me in danger. I have protective…
Definitely not! They just don't want to let you have the advantage. "I have to wait here in my Ram Truck, so you'd better wait too and not cut in line!"
So much effort for a self-righteous framework of contempt for certain people. In recent years, I have observed several people up close who uncompromisingly focus their lives on economic success. What these people have…
I'd like to see this problem solved in such a way that your group memberships are transitively applied to your access to agents. In other words: you shouldn’t be allowed to talk to an agent at all if, at a given point…
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve lived in the city my whole life and have seen rents rise. That’s been extremely frustrating for me because I’ve been at the mercy of market trends and have worried about what would happen if,…
Unfortunately, yes. One real-world example was the former Linotype typesetters. As far as I know, they had union-negotiated benefits such as job security until retirement, early retirement, or generous severance…
No, of course, you can only ever be certain of that in hindsight, through a historical lens. We’re not there yet. The question is simply whether Marx’s analysis was abstract and general enough at that point to still…
It’s already the case that I’m no longer paid to type source code into a computer, but rather to control agents that do that. There’s still plenty of demand for human expertise and labor. It’s possible that this will…
You know, strictly speaking, a guinea pig isn't really a pig either. If you were expecting real physics, you should have realized from the word “social” that it wouldn't be in there. Particle families aren't really…
Absolutely right: they took advantage of us and exploited us, and ever since then they’ve been calling us lazy. Many people in East Germany and West Germany don’t even realize this, but what actually happened during…
I see three problems here. 1) You’re misunderstanding the concept of magical thinking. It is not an umbrella term for false expectations. Magical thinking occurs when a person assumes that their thoughts, words, or…
It’s a good recipe for consensus. I find it easier to reluctantly submit to the will of the majority than I would to the will of a minority. There are certainly a few opponents of democracy who feel exactly the…
I am the son of a (Cuban) immigrant and a German woman. Once, the police asked me if I spoke German, probably because my hair is dark and my eyes are brown. Germany has a bias against “southerners”—the darker your skin,…
> It's a fascinating bit of biology to see a species collectively sacrifice its well being for the benefit of one man I wouldn't attribute this phenomenon to biology. But in a healthy world, there would have been an…
> Your argument isn’t simple, it’s word salad. That’s not very nice. I can assure you that I read everything you write here with the same contempt and accuse you of at least the same intellectual dishonesty. I just…
It's even simpler than that: Genuine rights cannot be transferred. Everything else is just an attempt to somehow determine who is allowed to make money from what. You shouldn’t take this too seriously, and certainly…
Great! You currently have just one other comment pointing out that Bezos is no longer CEO, as if that were a piece of information that would make even the slightest difference in this matter. Unfortunately, my comment…
“Their data” does not imply copyright or ownership. But it is data that is stored with them or at least available through them, and in that sense, it is certainly their data. Their friends, their nationality, their back…