Sort of. Living off-grid doesn’t necessarily mean fully abandoning society, but rejecting the part that values convenience over self-reliance. You can do this while still participating and improving society as a whole.…
Labour value. Not in the past, but the argument is that it is being threatened.
In the interest of steel-manning, I think it’s not about a cure being kept secret but rather non-elites being stripped of the leverage they would need to access it.
The skill floor has definitely been lowered, but if this were actually true then firms would be replacing senior software positions with entry level ones, not the other way around.
It’s the standard enshittification playbook. Get a large market share with a good product, then you can safely degrade it since your users are too reliant on the ecosystem to conveniently switch.
I’m not so sure the usefulness of custom allocators really relates to the complexity of the problem. Take the scratch arena example: ifaik it’s just free performance (& simplicity) whenever you need dynamic allocations…
Agreed. I was specifically talking about the one blackmailing message they got.
I feel quite bad for her. If you aren’t in the know (chronically online), I don’t think it’s obvious whatsoever that using AI for a poster could be seen as unethical. I doubt she even expected anyone to point it out. At…
> You look very odd and silly if you still want to engage with it and just use a different UI layer (i.e., "XCancel", "Nitter".) Why? The site still hosts plenty of content worth seeing. Is it really so silly to do it…
> Why should you put in effort to something that should be effortless? Why should it be effortless? > Why should I waste my time writing some inferior copy by hand? Have some faith in yourself :) If the LLM writing was…
> This person doesn't owe you any work. He's providing a product for free A product being free doesn’t make it exempt from criticism. It’s not about “owing” anybody work. > and this is a reasonable enough description of…
> Nothing is ideal Right, which is why touting oversimplified economic models is likely to be contentious ;) Speaking of which: > The more free market a country is, the more prosperous it is. When do you think the US…
That’s an ideal free market, but do you know of any large economies that actually meet this criteria? Happy customers are optional when you have regulatory capture.
Sure, but almost everyone already knows this. It’s not hugely relevant in a discussion about how things could be better.
Sort of. Living off-grid doesn’t necessarily mean fully abandoning society, but rejecting the part that values convenience over self-reliance. You can do this while still participating and improving society as a whole.…
Labour value. Not in the past, but the argument is that it is being threatened.
In the interest of steel-manning, I think it’s not about a cure being kept secret but rather non-elites being stripped of the leverage they would need to access it.
The skill floor has definitely been lowered, but if this were actually true then firms would be replacing senior software positions with entry level ones, not the other way around.
It’s the standard enshittification playbook. Get a large market share with a good product, then you can safely degrade it since your users are too reliant on the ecosystem to conveniently switch.
I’m not so sure the usefulness of custom allocators really relates to the complexity of the problem. Take the scratch arena example: ifaik it’s just free performance (& simplicity) whenever you need dynamic allocations…
Agreed. I was specifically talking about the one blackmailing message they got.
I feel quite bad for her. If you aren’t in the know (chronically online), I don’t think it’s obvious whatsoever that using AI for a poster could be seen as unethical. I doubt she even expected anyone to point it out. At…
> You look very odd and silly if you still want to engage with it and just use a different UI layer (i.e., "XCancel", "Nitter".) Why? The site still hosts plenty of content worth seeing. Is it really so silly to do it…
> Why should you put in effort to something that should be effortless? Why should it be effortless? > Why should I waste my time writing some inferior copy by hand? Have some faith in yourself :) If the LLM writing was…
> This person doesn't owe you any work. He's providing a product for free A product being free doesn’t make it exempt from criticism. It’s not about “owing” anybody work. > and this is a reasonable enough description of…
> Nothing is ideal Right, which is why touting oversimplified economic models is likely to be contentious ;) Speaking of which: > The more free market a country is, the more prosperous it is. When do you think the US…
That’s an ideal free market, but do you know of any large economies that actually meet this criteria? Happy customers are optional when you have regulatory capture.
Sure, but almost everyone already knows this. It’s not hugely relevant in a discussion about how things could be better.