matheusmoreira

> You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.

Morpheus, Deus Ex.

Anthropic rewrote the MIT licensed Bun. The capability has clearly been demonstrated. As far as I'm concerned, the writing is on the wall.

And it's not just free software either. AI can quickly reverse engineer compiled software too. It's almost scary how it made short work of all the firmwares running on my laptop. Even the days of compiled proprietary software are numbered since AI can trivially make free software out of them.

We live in interesting times. The very act of publishing software at all is now questionable.

Isn't that the whole point of crowdfunding platforms like kickstarter?

Developer presents the idea and how much it costs. If enough people pitch in, then the idea is funded, the developer gets the money as a lump sum and can turn the idea into reality.

Why did this model fail?

Indeed. It's either AGPLv3 or all rights reserved, and I'm increasingly in the proprietary camp.

There are two free software business models:

1. Choosing the most copyleft, most business hostile license imaginable (AGPLv3) and charging for permission to violate it.

2. Relying on crowd funded patronage via platforms like Patreon, GitHub Sponsors, Kickstarter.

AI's ability to rewrite entire codebases is quickly killing 1, and even the biggest projects which are most successful at 2 don't make enough to cover even a single full time developer's salary.

All of my new projects will be private by default from now on.

The regurgitated approximation can matter just as much depending on what results it accomplishes. If I somehow make money out of this, then it's mission accomplished. Arguably, they might even matter more than my artisanal hand crafted software projects which never paid me a living wage.

Doubt.

If I vibecode a video game and manage to sell it on Steam, the information definitely mattered even though I didn't understand any of it.

There are drugs that nobody truly understands how they work and they are being used by professionals in actual treatments literally right now. We know purely statistical facts like "if drug X is used for condition Y it will help Z% of patients" and can only speculate as to their mechanism of action. They are used anyway and still benefit a lot of people.

Thanks, I was wondering about the exceptions!

The other OCRemix albums are highly recommended too, especially the early ones.

> NES Mario can be corrupted to execute arbitrary code in TAS

Pokémon, too!

https://tasvideos.org/3358M

https://youtu.be/zZCqoHHtovQ

Isn't GrapheneOS rootable?

And if you're not a citizen?

Right now it seems GrapheneOS is the only OS capable of resisting Cellebrite.

> suspicious screenshots were found I made 2 years ago about the Iran/Israel war

> I was barred from the US for life

Getting banned for life due to wrongthink screenshots is pretty wild. No idea why screenshots would be suspicious.

> I can understand that security don't want to take any chances with people carrying supposed explosive powders on an airport, so the system was doing it's protective job.

I'd understand rejecting your entry on that day but why would they make you persona non grata forever? That seems completely out of proportion.

I wonder how low Google will sink next time.

Respect for the GrapheneOS for pushing through regardless, even if they have to reverse engineer stuff. Can't wait to buy their phone.

There are two injustices here. The first injustice is the sheer existence of this notion of intellectual property. The second injustice stems from the selective application of the associated laws.

Intellectual property should not exist, but since it does, one can and should expect it to be applied consistently in all cases. Just look at what they did to Kim Dotcom, he basically got destroyed. SWAT rappelled down helicopters and descended upon this guy for the egregious crime of copying bits. That's exactly what should happen to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta. Anything less than that is an insult to previous enforcement victims.

Inconsistency robs authorities of all credibility. Selective enforcement exposes them for the arbitrary tyrants they are and delegitimizes their decisions.

IP could be real and LLM training could be considered fair use. IP protects published information, so even abolishing all IP would not help us since the LLM weights are secret.

Nothing short of a global revolution can fix this. Proprietary LLMs should be illegal. Either we achieve post scarcity within this generation or it's literally over.

Not everything needs to be general purpose. Allocation can be as easy as bumping a pointer, and it's hard to beat that.

Existing games will not be recompiled for the new bytecode target, and they want all of those games to work regardless.

More than the average person, I suppose. For some reason, AI writing isn't as irritating to me as it seems to be for everyone else.

I treat it the same way I treat human writing: by speed reading most of the article so I can find the points the author is trying to make and decide whether I should read the entire thing.

> If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it?

Because the information in the post could be valuable regardless of human or LLM involvement.

> If you're stating your 'strong opinions' as fact

Is there anybody on this site who isn't?

Salaries are about scarcity and leverage, they have little to do with working hours. Nurses pull insane hours and they still don't get paid as much as doctors.

Very few people, if any, are going to bust ass in law school or medical school if they're not going to get rich off it. Better to do literally anything else.

How is a planet wide constellation with offensive capabilities not imperialistic?

The USA has officially killed the Outer Space Treaty with that system. We really do live in interesting times.

China has been very active in Africa as of late, and it has... Interests in my own country as well.

> The need for actual lawyers will persist I think

But will their glamorous salaries persist? That is the question that matters.

AI doesn't need to wipe out lawyers. If they just depress salaries enough, virtually nobody is going to want to be a lawyer anymore.

You can value human authorship without automatically ridiculing anyone using AI.

Why do they keep trying weird things? That makes no sense. People just want a browser.

Reading is about learning interesting new ideas, enjoying a narrative. The suffering of the author is beside the point.

I can sympathize with the notion that AI writing currently sucks, but not that it's automatically invalid or deserving of mockery. Maybe one day we'll have far better models. Maybe they'll do a good job without inserting any load-bearing vocabulary.

Asking for the prompts is fine, but might not be sufficient. The process iterative, and may incorporate data that won't be published. For example, I recently published a Sol/Fable benchmark article. It would be trivial for anyone to prompt a new version of the article if they had the raw benchmark data, but this data will never be published.

Analyze the game theory of what you just proposed. Have AI effortlessly generate an article for your idea, get ridiculed. Put a lot of time and effort into it instead, maybe get ridiculed anyway.

It's gonna be a no brainer for a lot of people.

The issue is metaphysical. If AI can produce the exact same output a human would, does it matter who made it?

It's possible for the ideas to come from the author while the writing is outsourced to someone else. Ghostwriting is an established practice.

Effort involved in writing sounds a lot like the "sweat of of the brow" doctrine, which is rejected even by copyright monopolists.