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largbae commented on Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back governance.fyi/p/silicon-... · Posted by u/bigbobbeeper

largbae · a minute ago

I love this new information about birth rates and WFH, and totally support following it to higher birth rates.

But the article framing as if the pronatalists somehow knew of the birth rate benefit and maliciously used it to counter their stated goals is too heavy-handed.

How about framing this as the new information that it is and getting the information out there in a positive way so that it can be used in both government and corporate policy?

largbae commented on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/johnbarron

hedora · 3 days ago

In related news, diesel is $7/gallon, and peets coffee is $25/lb, and computers (hardware and cloud) are up 25-50%.

The official numbers claim 3% inflation. Does anyone actually believe that? We were seeing 30% YoY before Iran here in California.

The discrepancy is so large, I’m wondering if there’s an official explanation or some reasonable explanation, or if they’re just not bothering anymore.

largbae · 3 days ago

Diesel is $5 in the Southeast, what kind of supply chain issue could cause 40% diff? Should we hire some tanker trucks and arb this?

largbae commented on White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/robtherobber

jahnu · 5 days ago

Question from a European who doesn’t deeply understand your partisan politics: what specifically should they have done differently? My probably wrong understanding was that people were still angry about the inflationary consequences of dealing with the pandemic and didn’t believe it was tapering off, didn’t believe that unemployment was low, didn’t believe that real wages were increasing. How could they have combated that?

largbae · 5 days ago

I'll bite as an independent: I believe that "they" could have reverted to Clinton(Bill) or Obama's moderate stances in regards to border/immigration and gender/identity politics and maintained a sweeping majority.

If the Democrats had disclosed Biden's decline and held a primary this likely would have sorted itself out.

largbae commented on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft writings.hongminhee.org/2... · Posted by u/dahlia

casey2 · 8 days ago

The value of software has never been tied to the cost of writing it, even if you don't distribute it your still breaking the law.

largbae · 8 days ago

The article is proceeding from the premise that a reimplementation is legal (but evil). To help my understanding of your comment, do you mean:

1. An LLM recreating a piece of software violates its copyright and is illegal, in which case LLM output can never be legally used because someone somewhere probably has a copyright on some portion of any software that an LLM could write.

2. You read my example as "copying a project without distributing it", vs. "having an LLM write the same functionality just for me"

largbae commented on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft writings.hongminhee.org/2... · Posted by u/dahlia

largbae · 8 days ago

This is only worth arguing about because software has value. Putting this in context of a world where the cost of writing code is trending to 0, there are two obvious futures:

1. The cost continues to trend to 0, and _all_ software loses value and becomes immediately replaceable. In this world, proprietary, copyleft and permissive licenses do not matter, as I can simply have my AI reimplement whatever I want and not distribute it at all.

2. The coding cost reduction is all some temporary mirage, to be ended soon by drying VC money/rising inference costs, regulatory barriers, etc. In that world we should be reimplementing everything we can as copyleft while the inferencing is good.

largbae commented on Files are the interface humans and agents interact with madalitso.me/notes/why-ev... · Posted by u/malgamves

largbae · 10 days ago

I think this article just speaks to the immaturity of our use of AI at this "moment."

Production grade systems might be written by agents running on filesystem skills, but the production systems themselves will run on consistent and scalable data structures.

Meanwhile the UI of AI agents will almost certainly evolve away from desktop computers and toward audio/visual interfaces. An agent might get more context from a zoom call with you, once tone and body language can be used to increase the bandwidth between you.

largbae commented on We Will Not Be Divided notdivided.org... · Posted by u/BloondAndDoom

etchalon · 17 days ago

One second, I have to go turn my stove off. It could be used to start a forest fire.

largbae · 17 days ago

That is not analogous to this petition.

largbae commented on We Will Not Be Divided notdivided.org... · Posted by u/BloondAndDoom

w4yai · 17 days ago

There are other valid use cases than war for AI.

largbae · 17 days ago

Of course there are. But once it exists, a technology will be used for all purposes. The choice is in the making, anything else is virtue signaling.

largbae commented on We Will Not Be Divided notdivided.org... · Posted by u/BloondAndDoom

largbae · 17 days ago

The signatories of this (letter, petition, whatever) are the same folks who profit from creating this Pandora's Box. If you don't want it opened, stop making it?

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