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Pretty embarassing state of affairs for this "engineering" discipline

So when other life exists in areas with humans, humans seek to exterminate it? Sad and cruel state of affairs.

It's actually unhealthy that you think it's unhealthy to cry regularly. Perhaps you have trouble processing your emotions and just bottle them up instead, causing them to leak out in other situations or lead to outbursts?

This reads more like a personal essay than a research paper.

And the first sentence with an actual citation , which makes claims of SA, has been debunked . Much work has been put into attempting to find actual evidence for that claim, and none has been surfaced, it was a fabrication. The original reporting retracted. Why didn't the author include that?

Okay but when it's US "warfighters" making missiles it's good? Pretty hypocritical that isn't in the the "threat report" too.

> We are very proud of the work we have done together with the Department, supporting frontline warfighters with applications such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning, cyber operations, and more.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

People have been integrating/recommending brew on immutable distributions.

These release notes appear generated by LLM, with the usual extreme verbosity. Wish a human had done a better job editing these.

You're reducing programming to its utility in producing exchange value in the captitalist political economy. That's what "value" means in this context. That's exactly what I'm pointing out. Programming is more than that, if you can think beyond your current economic constraints. Your life's activity ought to be more than just a tool for producing capitalist exchange value.

Does cooking food serve any purpose beyond mass producing food for restaurants to sell?

Ironically, this post comes off as out of touch. The purpose of the various martial arts isn't just to win in a life-or-death brawl or murder people as efficiently as possible. Similarly, the point of programming isn't just to generate as much code as possible, or only to be more "productive".

Kind of a good example on why conflating Judaism with Zionism leads to anti-semitism.

Seems like your actual argument is that competitive profiteering makes people insane. That is the motive here. Software is just the conduit.

As well as the people who work on software not being the ones making decisions about that work. A gap between the deciders and the laborers. Which is a result of the structure of the current micro political economy within organizations. It is not separate from it.

Checkout gopass for the modern iteration : https://www.gopass.pw/

Yeah for real, an AI critic being popular is making everyone here lose their minds and try to come up with ten "Well Akshually..."

Yeah, the three tables just looking at revenue and profit YoY is pretty laughable financial analysis.

Perhaps now they'll release a 3.0 MechaHitler version

The word "terrorist" is almost always used in a propaganda context. There's a good book you should check out, that surveys media mentions and provides hard statistical evidence for this: Manufacturing Consent.

Capitalist right-wing vs nativist right-wing

You'd better hope Bill Gates stops buying up all the farmland then.

Accountability is not the same as decentralization of power, don't conflate them.

Decentralizing power means that many people are made powerful in their own respects.

Accountability means that one person or a small group of people are made powerful, but there are checks or mechanisms on that person's power.

These have vastly different impliciations for how organizations and groups of people develop and grow and interact.

You're still doing the thing where you make defensive comments though, just now pretending it's about something tangential

I think parent comment is saying this person should have organized with their coworkers who had similar complaints rather than resigning individually.

Which is understandable. The problem is not solved by resigning. The problem is solved by changing their employer's policy.

If not then why do they get so upset here on every similar thread? Complaining about "anti-AI"

AI boosters on this site will be very mad that this person exists, but I'm glad there are people that stick to their principles. Principles that aren't just "productivity" or "efficiency". People can and should have other motives that are just as if not more important.

The blog post is about rare books. Meaning, AI companies scanning and destroying rare books.

No, the destructive book scanning was happening before that.

If you want the community to be in control of the platform, you should be pursuing a community-controlled platform, not a capitalist-controlled one.

Also they tend to assemble complex jargon in obtuse or meaningless ways, which makes reading and parsing and understanding much more difficult. Tends to reveal that LLMs fundamentally do not have "understanding", just likely word generation

Technical people (or people with bad social skills) also love to inadequately and incorrectly try and turn the complexity of social organization into simple laws and rules. This kind of reduction doesn't really do people a service, and is also a bit arrogant and simple-minded. It would be much more interesting to name this as a tendency, and try to describe when and how it might occur, how the structure of the org might influence it, etc. Decontextualized takes projected onto everything like this are kind of misapplied and meaningless.

If you've been part of an organization or a community that has undergone a big conflict or a schism, you'd understand. Plus this community largely communicates exclusively over text, which doesn't really work well for community repair. It's difficult to get people to feel OK with each other, or spend time together not arguing, when they only ever write intense letters to each other. Plus social work with technical people that spend most of their lives looking at a computer, not interacting with people face-to-face, does not exactly lend itself to socio-emotional maturity. Seems like in the case of Nix, the more mature people have repeatedly gotten burned out trying to tend to the mess and create a healthy community. It's extremely difficult to get someone to be humble, listen, reflect, and grow, when they are already upset and have their defenses up. And without our normal human tools or other trusted peers to help, like we can call on in real life, it can sometimes be near impossible.

Plus, in our highly individualized and hierarchical society, people don't have a lot of practice making decisions democratically, or coming to a consensus with people they disagree with. "Group projects" in grade school is pretty much the only time this happens during our socialization, which is incredibly sparse and inadequate. Anthropologically speaking, we should be doing this nearly every day.

Does your LLM have hardware drivers in it? this is silly.