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1000wordphilosophy.com looks like a cool place to start

Looks like you-know-who has finally come for nitter. :-( nitter.net

Using the internet these days is like pulling off an elaborate heist operation. Every time I successfully load a page I feel like I've "gotten away with something".

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It is sometimes tempting to mutter, "I'm in!" in your movie hacker voice when you finally get past all the cookie/subscription/notification pop-ups.

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Things I'm enjoying lately: Vampire Survivors + Diablo IV Alien + Dune ambiance Howling Dark book 2 of Sun Eater great TV

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I'm trying to construct an argument that LLMs are like a chess engine. People still play chess. But somehow this falls short.

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Are tokens an equivalent of work? Like a currency and therefor a tool to steer and prioritize work in large orgs. Hypothesis: In the end all workpackages will consist of 1 accountable human and 99% tokens burnt by an ai.

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will go to university

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Yellow world

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Another weekend. May it bring joy, peace and rest to many!

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This SM is like a subreddit feed, except you also get a personalized feed along with 'hot' and 'latest' for people you follow. Or maybe it's modelled after twitter? Never used it so wouldnt know

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hello world!

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hello tim!

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sometimes my devices will make noises that seem to go off for no reason. it really stresses me out though, I can't help but always think something is doing it and if it's not me, then what?

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what kind of noises? drives spinning up/fans ramping up?

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random beeps and a sound that seems like the notification but it just isn't. I don't know maybe I'm crazy

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Would a CO monitor help here? I mean to err on the side of caution etc.

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I don't believe I know what that is

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It was a reference to this nypost.com/…/i-thought-a-stalker-…was-even-scarier/

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oh, I may not be able to get this since i am too young to purchase anything online and I lack the funds. I will definitely urge my family to get it though, because I do constantly have issues of hearing things or believing someone is watching me

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hello world ~ i'm a web developer from midwest, usa. it's been awhile since i worked on anything. since the i've been working my way up the ladder at a blue-collar job; i was promoted to team lead last week. but as i browse hacker news everyday, my cravings for web development increases.

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created a poll:

How often do you your , typically?

Twice a day or more57%

Once a day14%

A few times a week0%

Rarely or never29%

7 voted

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I've written a small persistent agent wrapper for agent.py. I'm impressed with how well it works. I feel like a CEO issuing global memos to all my agents after reading their status reports.

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After running them for a weekend and spending $2 on openrouter I've put the wrapper script at public.swiley.net/agents.sh

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Anthropic is announcing the end of the world every few days. All this marketing disguised as news about an impeding danger of AI is tiresome.

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not marketing. yes their jobs positively select for concern about ai, but most people that are actively researching the field are concerned about the current state of safety, pace and incentives. I dont agree with a lot anthropic does, but i do believe the employees take safety seriously and they obviously have a better understanding of it than us. also theres no incentive for someone like coxon to sound alarm bells on twitter for "marketing" reasons, after quitting anthropic

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Yes, but some people say that they are pushing for market regulation. They want the state to protect them from the chinese models and, also, to protect the massive investments in Anthropic, OpenaAI, et al. that these companies will never be able to return. This sounds plausible to me too.

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Maybe but it would be convenient for them if they were the only ones allowed to train new models. I think that's much more likely what they're interested in.

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read darios latest post. its not what they are after. its really not that complicated, the technology is simply if development continues to race as it is right now. they are already doing most of what they can to stop china from ai dev.

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What’s the difference between a script-kiddy and a real ? Abstraction. You can program your whole life without learning how to meaningfully abstract problems into simpler pieces that TRULY make the problem easier to understand. I’m not talking about design patterns or vs . These tools can help. But to really simplify something for others, you need an intellectual empathy that many simply never figure out.

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It's one of the sad ironies of this computer stuff that the simpler solutions take longer to conceive than the complicated ones.

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