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People seem to throw the words "doxxing" and "harassing" very lightly these days, if you ask me, although I'll give that nobody in this whole mess seems to be capable of calm or even non-violent communication.

> And I've vibe coded entire ephemeral apps just to find a single bug because why not - code is suddenly free, ephemeral, malleable, discardable after single use. Vibe coding will terraform software and alter job descriptions.

I'm not super up-to-date on all that's happening in AI-land, but in this quote I can find something that most techno-enthusiast seem to have decided to ignore: no, code is not free. There are immense resources (energy, water, materials) that go into these data centers in order to produce this "free" code. And the material consequences are terribly damaging to thousands of people. With the further construction of data centers to feed this free video coding style, we're further destroying parts of the world. Well done, AGI loverboys.

Can we please stop saying "AI is doing this", "AI is doing that", and instead point out at the companies and individuals that are shoveling AI down our throats as the ones that are decimating industries or destroying jobs, almost exclusively for their own economical benefit?

Framing it as "AI" only leads to ignoring the responsibility of those who are making those decisions. It's exactly the same argument behind justifying things as "market forces": it allows everything and makes nobody responsible for it.

I have to admit that this is the first time I found something made by an AI ... funny.

Is this seriously trying to portray OpenAI/Altman or Nvidia/Huang as unlikely everyday dudes who reluctantly take up a challenge and rise to become heroes? I never stop being amazed at how people love to present rich, well connected, people as underdogs and turn them into heroes.

Came here to complain about the same. I downloaded the app, but it needs an online account. What's the whole purpose of making it open source and downloadable, if it doesn't work offline?

> Progress is progress, and has always changed things. Its funny that apparently, "progressive" left-leaning people are actually so conservative at the core.

I am surprised (and also kind of not) to see this lack of critical reflection on HN of all places.

Saying "progress is progress" serves nobody, except those who drive "progress" in directions that benefits them. All you do by saying "has always changed things" is taking "change" at face value, assuming it's something completely out of your control, and to be accepted without any questioning it's source, it's ways or its effects.

> So far, in my book, the advancements in the last 100 or even more years have mostly always brought us things I wouldn't want to miss these days. But maybe some people would be happier to go back to the dark ages...

Amazing depiction of extremes as the only possible outcomes. Either take everything that is thrown at us, or go back into a supposed "dark age" (which, BTW, is nowadays understood to not have been that "dark" at all) . This, again, doesn't help have a proper discussion about the effects of technology and how it comes to be the way it is.

I'm so surprised that only one comment mentions ELIZA. History repeats itself as a farce... or a very conscious scam.

Technically it might be interesting, but artistically it's extremely boring. And conceptually it's just so plain... Sometimes I seems like the only references these researchers use for representing "the world" are videogames.

And let's not talk about the cultural flattening that this represents. A "medieval village" from where? When? Whom?

This is just slightly refined AI slop, but slop nevertheless.

Videos and pictures here https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-community-phone

That definitely depends on where you are. In Germany it's quite common, and in other countries too.

The fact that the AT Protocol relies on everyone having a domain name, which is a centralized system over which few people have control, and about whose workings most people have no clue about, is problematic. Also impractical, once we consider that - as far as I can understand - 8 billion people should have their own domain name.

> This is likely good for the consumer, and largely good for the world (less centralization).

It looks exactly like the same amount of centralization to me (if not more), only now it's openai and not amazon then one at the center of things.

I think the other commenter answered exactly what I meant and you decided to ignore it, so... I just suggest you read again what they wrote.

> An individual human without any of the support provided by larger organized groups is only able to exist at quite primitive levels, as any number of pieces of post-apocalyptic fiction can portray.

This guy may be a math genius, but he should at least pay minimal respect to the thousands of people who have studied human cultures, societies and civilizations, and to their findings, before coming up with a post about groups of people based on what "post-apocaliptic fiction" has portrayed. As an anthropologist, I just stopped taking his ideas seriously at that point.

I used to run a BBS from my bedroom when I lived with my parents. I had attached a phone to the same line, and replaced the speaker with a led, so I would know someone was connecting because the led would blink intermittently for a few seconds while it "rang". Not sure if I remember correctly, but I think the BBS software even allowed me to see what they were doing.

"At OpenAI, we can't eliminate that disruption. But what we can do is help more people become fluent in AI and connect them with companies that need their skills, to give people more economic opportunities."

I love it when companies do something and at the same time say, that they cannot do anything about it. Like Microsoft recently firing tons of people while posting record profits and making up some lame excuse about things being the way they are.

Exactly. The connection between Tetris and Max Weber is... Internet Archive. :shrug:

These changes in direction (spending billions, freezing hiring) over just a few months show that these people are as clueless as to what's going to happen with AI, as everyone else. They just have the billions and therefore dictate where money goes, but that's it.

> another "system based on the laws of our physical universe."

Since when is mathematics based on the laws of our physical universe? last time I checked, it's an abstract system with no material reality.

Yes, seems interesting, but honestly, an abstract that includes sentences such as "accelerate AI development and allow us to reap its benefits much sooner" and "paths that unfold into endless innovation" sounds like written by the marketing team of a AI company.

I found the article really insightful. I think what he's talking about, without saying it explicitly, is to create "AI as scripting language", or rather, "language as scripting language".

"Books as civilization" implies that those peoples who had not "created" books (or something similar) were not civilized. Quite eurocentric.

My toaster broke a week ago. I tried repairing it and found out exactly what the post says: almost impossible without breaking it (or seriously bending parts just to take them apart). After realizing that I wouldn't be able to, I decided to buy a used one, but couldn't find any on offer around my area that looked in good enough shape. Ended up paying 25€ for a new one, which will arrive by post any time soon. I find the whole experience extremely unsatisfying and would love more of this (repairable and self-assembly-able electric appliances).

Love it how people come up with "trends" based on just one or two things happening in a very short time.

And not only as an investment, but as one that can lead to the salvation of the country...

I can imagine that anything that involves logistics, moving people or things around. Lack of electricity might disable something that's important to you, but over which you don't have direct control or precise information about. Blackouts might affect only parts of a city, and I can see why having precise, real-time information about which parts of the city have power or not, is something really useful to re-route things around the problem.

Looks like a great project, and I don't want to nitpick, but...

https://www.ocr4all.org/about/ocr4all > Due to its comprehensible and intuitive handling OCR4all explicitly addresses the needs of non-technical users.

https://www.ocr4all.org/guide/setup-guide/quickstart > Quickstart > Open a terminal of your choice and enter the following command if you're running Linux (followed by a 6 line docker command).

How is that addressing the needs of non-technical users?

Most probably as part of the agreement of being bought by Notion, to prevent competition.

The title is slightly misleading, as the article seems to focus on flying between certain countries. Good luck expecting to cross 90% of the worlds borders without a paper passport, where these technologies will never appear.

The author seems to lack the capacity (or experience!) to imagine other ways of moving around the world that are not flying.