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CrimsonRain commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
bevhill · 6 days ago
This is another example of the poor being punished harder. A desperate mother who steals repeatedly will reach felony levels and spend years in prison or face deportation, but a rich teen who steals for fun will stay below felony and get away Scott free.
CrimsonRain · 6 days ago
Rich kid can also keep stealing and face felony. Don't defend stealing.

Also if you're stealing as an immigrant, you should be deported without any questions asked.

CrimsonRain commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
AlecSchueler · 22 days ago
Wait, are you claiming astrology is real and that the moon landings were faked?

No of course you're not, and I'm not claiming anything about a full human replica so please don't put words in my mouth that way.

We're not talking about a replica of a body. We're talking about LLMs. They don't have bodies and can't be moved, which is the definition of emotion.

And I'm not sure what you mean that my context window is a day. That's a strange thing to say. I'm deeply affected by childhood traumas several decades after they happened. They affect the tension patterns in my body every day. An LLM isn't affected even within its context window regardless of its length. They're only affected in the sense that a microwave is affected by setting it to defrost or a calculator is affected by setting it up use RPN.

If you built a perfect replica of a human then it would feel emotions just as a human. But that's not what we're talking about is it? There's a saying in my country: If your granny had balls she would be your granda. We can argue all day about "what if x" and "what if y" but we might be better served focusing on the reality we actually have.

CrimsonRain · 20 days ago
tfa is not talking about AIs of now but of future. Broaden your imagination where we will be in 10/15 years, not 30 days.
CrimsonRain commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
AlecSchueler · 24 days ago
No, it completely misses the point. If you say something very upsetting to me it will genuinely affect me and my day and have negative consequences for myself and the people around me, because I will have an emotional reaction. You can't upset an AI because it doesn't have the capacity to be upset, it can only return some words and then continue on as if nothing happened.

I hope that makes sense. The underlying functionality of my emotions don't matter at all, only the impact.

CrimsonRain · 20 days ago
You continue as if nothing happened even though <insert really bad event from 10 years ago>.

By the way, AI will react and have larger context window soon(ish). Then what?

CrimsonRain commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
jachee · 24 days ago
AI isn’t programmed to have emotions. Merely to replicate a semblance of a simulacrum of said sensations. Regardless of your considerations for the electrical signals, the models are just tab-completion, ad infinitum.
CrimsonRain · 20 days ago
Your emotions are just a tab-completion to God/Creator/or whatever.
CrimsonRain commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
xg15 · 25 days ago
Your emotions for the AI are real, but the AI's emotions for you aren't.
CrimsonRain · 24 days ago
why is electricity in your brain real? and fake in the AI?
CrimsonRain commented on When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?   queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?... · Posted by u/jazzypants
breve · a month ago
It is happening. Leptos is an example: https://www.leptos.dev/

Dioxus is another: https://dioxuslabs.com/

C# with Avalonia for a different use case: https://avaloniaui.net/

Avalonia solitaire demo: https://solitaire.xaml.live/

Avalonia Visual Basic 6 clone: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

Blazor can run as WebAssembly on the client side if you choose that runtime mode: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...

Beyond the browser, Wasmer does WebAssembly on the serverside: https://wasmer.io/

Fermyon too: https://www.fermyon.com/

Extism is a framework for an application to support WebAssembly plugins: https://extism.org/

CrimsonRain · a month ago
how'd you compare dioxus and leptos?
CrimsonRain commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts   fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
forgotoldacc · 3 months ago
There's the old quote from Babbage:

> On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

This has been an obviously absurd question for two centuries now. Turns out the people asking that question were just visionaries ahead of their time.

It is kind of impressive how I'll ask for some code in the dumbest, vaguest, sometimes even wrong way, but so long as I have the proper context built up, I can get something pretty close to what I actually wanted. Though I still have problems where I can ask as precisely as possible and get things not even close to what I'm looking for.

CrimsonRain · 3 months ago
theseday,s i ofen donot correct my typos even wheni notice them while cahtting with LLMS. So far 0 issues.
CrimsonRain commented on Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room   clientserver.dev/p/malici... · Posted by u/jakevoytko
gnfargbl · 3 months ago
I have a medical condition (autoimmune hypothyroid, extreme edition) which I wasn't aware of, but was suffering from severely, during my University years. Waking up was extremely difficult for me and as a result I was often late. At the time I couldn't understand why I seemingly had a problem that nobody else did, and presumed I just lacked self control. Nope, I just needed (a lot) of medication.

Your Prof Ramsey would have penalised me for this unknown condition. This isn't behaviour to be celebrated.

CrimsonRain · 3 months ago
As someone who is _often_ late, your inability to be there in time is not someone else's problem. Unfairly punished...gimme a break.
CrimsonRain commented on The great displacement is already well underway?   shawnfromportland.substac... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev
ponow · 3 months ago
Could it be that your particular position required more ongoing learning, and that has kept you better prepared for a changing world?

What fraction of positions require that ongoing learning, or at least to that degree?

Also, consider many other jobs, are they doing their job, and the doing of their job itself provides the experience that makes you a more valuable worker? Or is the doing of the job basically a necessary distraction from the actual task of preparing yourself for a future job? What fraction of humanity actually takes on two jobs, the paying job and the preparing-for-the-next-job? Might doing the latter get you fired from the former? Most importantly, is doing that latter job getting more important over time, that is, are our jobs less secure? If so, is this what is an improving economy, rising, as it were, with GDP?

CrimsonRain · 3 months ago
if you are in computer engineering and you are not doing "ongoing learning", you deserve to be left behind. While the company should provide some opportunities for learning, ultimately, it is your responsibility.
CrimsonRain commented on Odin: A programming language made for me   zylinski.se/posts/a-progr... · Posted by u/gingerBill
CrimsonRain · 3 months ago
For many people, hacking away is (the) hobby.

It's a sad situation when people like you pollute this field with your "computer is just a tool for me to make money" attitude.

u/CrimsonRain

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