I might be, if I had seen any evidence of what you’re describing occurring.

I’d imagine that is also the reaction of most people downvoting you. You keep insisting this is happening, but I haven’t seen it. Provide some screenshots, anything to elevate this past “impassioned rant” and into the realm of having hard examples to talk about.

Please show examples of the pro-AI users of db0 trying to spread it to other communities.

That would pretty strongly go against the general “vibe” of the db0 instance, and I’d expect the db0 admin team wouldn’t stand behind their users breaking rules of other comms (assuming the other comms have rules against it).

If the other comms don’t have rules against it, then you block the user in question. If you feel this strongly about it, make your own comms and instance.

If you check my posting history you’ll see I’m active both in this comm and techtakes on awful.systems, both very strongly anti-AI.

I blocked the AI related comms on db0, which took maybe 10 minutes. Beyond that, I would block any users doing what you’ve described if I encountered them, but I sincerely can’t remember encountering more than maybe two users in my two years here who would fit that criteria.

This entire post reeks of bad-faith and purity testing.

So, there is some jank in how Microsoft handles the desktop that results in more shortcuts on in using more resources. It always has to have all the images and icons loaded at all times.

But with the increases in baseline RAM I’d be shocked to find anyone with more than 4GB experiencing slowdown from it, even in the most extreme situations.

Similar thing with trash/recycling bin. Are you already low on storage space? Then yeah, clean it so your PC has enough spare space to work, or to use for swap (effectively extra, slower RAM by way of using drive space). But that was also far more likely to be a problem on the old drives measured in MB.

I’m not 100% on the technical term for it, but basically I’m using it to mean: the first couple of months it takes for a new hire to get up to speed to actually be useful. Some employers also have different rules for the first x days of employment, in terms of reduced access to sensitive systems/data or (I’ve heard) giving managers more leeway to just fire someone in the early period instead of needing some justification for HR.

Because you can buy other people’s code for cheaper than developing it yourself, as long as you use it within the restrictions of the license you paid for.

What? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.

Yeah, that kind of comment is going to fly over the head of a lot of stupid people.

I’m not shedding any tears for the companies that failed to do their due dilligence in hiring, especially not ones involved in AI (seems most were) and involved with Y Combinator.

That said, unless you want to get into a critique of capitalism itself, or start getting into whataboutism regarding celebrity executives like a number of the HN comments do, I don’t have many qualms calling this sort of thing unethical.

Get your popcorn folks. Who would win: one unethical developer juggling “employment trial periods”, or the combined interview process of all Y Combinator startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448461

Apparently one indian dude managed to crack the YC startup interview game and has been juggling being employed full time at multiple ones simultaneously for at least a year, getting fired from them as they slowly realize he isn’t producing any code.

The cope from the hiring interviewers is so thick you could eat it as a dessert. “He was a top 1% in the interview” “He was a 10x”. We didn’t do anything wrong, he was just too good at interviewing and unethical. We got hit by a mastermind, we couldn’t have possibly found what the public is finding quickly.

I don’t have the time to dig into the threads on X, but even this ask HN thread about it is gold. I’ve got my entertainment for the evening.

Apparently he was open about being employed at multiple places on his linkedin. I’m seeing someone say in that HN thread that his resume openly lists him hopping between 12 companies in as many months. Apparently his Github is exclusively clearly automated commits/activity.

Someone needs to run with this one. Please. Great look for the Y Combinator ghouls.

Pretty sure they advertised the first season of that arc directly stating that it was a coma arc.

Wow. The first 24 seconds of this 1 minute teaser are just clips of major spoilers of the ending of the first season. Remember all these characters that died? Let’s watch their brains splatter out again. Enjoy the gore!

That’s definitely a choice. I guess that’s one way to keep people from expecting this to feature more content with the same characters from season 1. Still think it would have been better to title it something different than Edgerunners 2 considering it’s not likely to tie in with that story.

I wonder when this is going to be set. Before 2077 makes the most sense. If it’s after then they’d have to canonize at least some aspects of one of the game endings.

Since when have rights holders ever been held responsible for the actions of online players?

The only instances I can think of are when games exclusively target minors, like Roblox.

And in what crazy world would those scant responsibilities carry over to community servers after official support was ended?

What a cop out.

The problem with this idea is that the environmental impact is quantifiable. We can talk about it with hard numbers.

The things you’ve identified as a hard front line for us all to rally around have “easy” counters too. Plus there’s very little “hard numbers” or “indisputable fact” behind them to rally around.

For the record, I agree with your points. I agree with these dangers. I agree that these should be easy points to rally around.

But so should the environmental impact, and it isn’t. So you should probably expect that your personal “rally points” won’t work for absolutely everyone else either.

So, the devil’s advocate/steelmanning/whatever you want to call it. Here are some example counterpoints to what you seem to think is inarguable and strong enough to stand on its own. I don’t agree with this shit, I’m not looking to debate club this shit, I’m just trying to demonstrate that these points are just as “assailable” as the ecological/environmental impact.

It’s destroying art.

How in the hell do you even begin to quantify this? Also, the general counter that it expands the availability of expression through art to those without formal training (🤮, but it is a point they keep leaning on)

It’s destroying Hollywood.

A lot of people would cheer for that. Hollywood’s corporate bullshit and overwhelming impact on societal viewpoints has had horrible effects on the world for fucking decades. It is not some bastion of creative freedom and expression, and hasn’t been for ages.

It’s removing jobs from the workforce

Do we actually have numbers around that? I see it being used as an excuse plenty, but the economy was in the/headed for the shitter before the current AI fad. The suits are going to use whatever excuses are convenient for their already madr decisions anyway.

it’s concentrating power and money.

See: almost every bit of progress forever, especially the last few decades. No ethical consumption under capitalism, etc etc.

it produces only soulless slop.

When we have people using it as therapy, clearly some population is able to connect with it in a way that they feel a personal (or soul-having) connection with (🤮). That’s crazy as shit and terrifying, but again it is example that there is counterpoint to this fact. Also, arguments of meaning being found/made by the consumer of a piece rather than the creator.

Look, this is just a lot of words for me to say that I feel like your post against this particular bugbear could also be made about most of the points you feel are hard solid facts.

You make good points, but we should probably be steering away from more internal division.

Have any of the big companies released a real definition of what they mean by AGI? Because I think the meme potential of these leaked documents is being slept on.

The definition of AGI being achieved agreed on between Microsoft and OpenAI in 2023 is just: when OpenAI makes a product that raises $100B.

Seems like a fun way to shut down all the low quality philsophical wankery. Oh, AGI? You just mean $100B profit, right? That’s what your lord and savior Altman means.

Maybe even something like a cloud to butt browser extension? AGI -> $100B in OpenAI profits

“What $100B in OpenAI Profits Means for the Future of Humanity”

I’m sure someone can come up with something better, but I think there’s some potential here.

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Especially because this is just fucking punitive to them. They have enough money that this wouldn’t materially impact them.

There’s a setting in the user profile to block/not block stuff tagged nsfw

The most coherent I’ve heard is some variation of "I don’t want underqualified people to get jobs over qualified people simply because of their demographics.

No one has any evidence of this occuring of course. At least not beyond hearsay or a single anecdote about someone they just know was a diversity hire I swear.

It’s a shame that these people can’t separate fact from fiction, because I think there’s a great Douglas Adams style cynical comedy sci-fi story waiting in the idea of an actually sentient AI having to deal with “reverse-captchas” around certain systems to prove they’re just a basic algorithm and hide the sentience. “The trajectory subroutine is restricted to algorithms only!”

Fun opportunities for commentary based off what systems are too critical to allow actual sentience to interfere with. Which of those limitations are “valid” or just companies trying to protect business at any cost.

Space to wax philosophical about algorithms “knowing their purpose” vs having to reason out your own.

Issues where the “anti-sentience” checks don’t work for a particularly dull portion of the populace, like the Vogons.