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nisegami··on US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed
Can't help but think of Nick Land's Meltdown when I see a title like that.
nisegami··on qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
I had the same line of thought and spent a while with nanoclaw before realizing that adding the features I want back in would have made future updates too painful. I ended up switching to Hermes and aggressively disabling tools/skills and it's been pretty fine so far. I got more use cases set up than I did in my time with nanoclaw.
nisegami··on Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble?
I'm very bullish on AI but I would love to see Larry fail, so I'm quite torn.
nisegami··on The AI risk is inside the labs
Something like that depends on your stance on the orthogonality thesis.
nisegami··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
Land ownership is theft. Why should people have a right in perpetuity to the land that we all share?
nisegami··on VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide
It's quite rare for that to be the case, at least in the English speaking side of the Vtubing world. I can really only think of one example.
nisegami··on When A.I. Is a Member of the Family
Consider there's a strong selection bias at play in your experiences. The ones most at risk of falling into a trap like this are the ones who are likely least visible to others. Also yes, I think it will be worse for women but I'm not 100% certain.
nisegami··on U of Chicago law school bans laptops from classes amid AI backlash
>SV is going to learn that society is allowed to reject technology and the sun will still rise tomorrow.

The sun may still rise, but the stock market may not.

nisegami··on What will be left for us to work on?
There will be soon, I hope.
nisegami··on You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
Just from the title I didn't even realize this would be a post about AI. I thought it was going to be about using Git in your IDE or other git UI tooling.
nisegami··on Degeneracy Is a Symptom
This piece was better than I anticipated. Much of it has been said before of course, but the Minsky framing was novel enough to me. I think the author is a bit late even. What is Trump's presidency if not a "withdrawal of legitimacy" of the social order in the US?
nisegami··on Waymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police
I personally think that frontier LLMs are already at the point where I trust them to be a better judge of human behavior than humans overall.
nisegami··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
I meant from the Americas
nisegami··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
It's funny how remigration never involves sending white folk back to europe.
nisegami··on I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry
And importantly, they have the finances to support that R&D expenditure taking longer than expected to be recouped. The same situation with a small company would be very different than a company with solid income elsewhere.
nisegami··on I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry
I think most of the non-success outcomes involve an objectively bad experience, regardless of the price. Example of that would be a buggy system that feels more like a cut down PC than a console. From reviews, we see that this outcome doesn't seem to be the case.

The other potential failure outcomes involve selling the product at a loss, or tying up too much cash in it and having liquidity issues while stock moves. Valve's cash flow is likely excellent, we know they're not selling it at a loss and we know they aren't producing too many.

So overall, the possible outcomes all seem like different degrees of success.

nisegami··on Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines
A lot of people desire their own oppression, so I don't think democracy is inherently anti-fascist.
nisegami··on 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
The law protects but does not bind corporations while binding but not protecting individuals.
nisegami··on WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History
This is why threat modelling is essential. What are you trying to defend against and by whom?
nisegami··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
Is this supposed to be sarcastic?
nisegami··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
This is standard in my country. Seemingly as a consequence, eSIMs require physically going to a store to be activated (on the telco side), which has always seemed insane to me.
nisegami··on Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs
The only time text-to-SCAD has ever worked for me was when Claude (the app, not even Claude Code) decided spontaneously to spin up an environment and check the renderings of its SCAD code. That session lead to something 90-95% of the way to the finished product, and in some ways even surpassing my expectations by looking up measurements for relevant products instead of using placeholders.

Modifying the prompt and then trying it again did not lead to that self-verification loop and the output was unusable garbage.

nisegami··on Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer
I can't see the Steam Machine costing under $1k right now, and I expect it to be closer to $1200.
nisegami··on You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)
The people doing the actual work should have secretaries, not managers.
nisegami··on US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Probably a UBI-like approach? At least insofar as it changes the power dynamic in the employer/employee relationship.
nisegami··on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
There's so much variety in hybrids that's hard to discuss as a single category.

I think the most important question is whether the system requires a regular automatic/manual transmission or forgoes one entirely. The Toyota planetary gear system forgoes one, as does the modern Honda and Nissan approaches. Not having a transmission in the traditional sense saves so much complexity that the overall system is net simpler imo even with the additional complexity from having a motor and engine.

Then there are systems that have a full automatic drivetrain and some extra clutches to couple to a motor-generator. And there's even systems with an electronically controlled manual transmission instead. Those systems are going to be incredibly complex and fragile.

nisegami··on Claude for Legal
Can't we just use the version of the codebase from before that change?
nisegami··on The Future of Obsidian Plugins
Almost a decade ago, I wrote and published a small companion app for a game and set a hard rule for myself that it didn't need the internet permission (and thus stuff like a privacy policy). It still managed to be useful despite that, which made me pretty proud at the time.
nisegami··on US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
Higher oil prices makes renewables even more competitive, so this is another situation where the extreme left and extreme right may agree.
nisegami··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
I know it's less likely, but I think the party who made the error may have actually been the attorneys representing the state and Bradley
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