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Comment on Software for humans in ~tech
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Comment on Software for humans in ~tech
teaearlgraycold Link ParentWell that’s kind of the entire point of automation. I think I’ll also be able to achieve higher levels of consistency, quality, and with less time per widget. I haven’t done anything yet so I...Well that’s kind of the entire point of automation. I think I’ll also be able to achieve higher levels of consistency, quality, and with less time per widget. I haven’t done anything yet so I can’t say exactly what I’ll do. But you can bet your ass I’ll be using a lot of 80/20 extrusion!
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Comment on Software for humans in ~tech
teaearlgraycold Link ParentI’m planning to start in October. In the end I’ll have a machine that will likely have no equals around the world. I’ll be able to take orders online from a beautiful website with 3D previews and...I’m planning to start in October. In the end I’ll have a machine that will likely have no equals around the world. I’ll be able to take orders online from a beautiful website with 3D previews and have something produce a real life equivalent. This will take something that normally would involve human labor and do it for cheap. I can lower the price dramatically, expanding the pool of customers. I plan to make multiple websites targeting different product types but all handled with the same machine.
I have actually made some of these widgets by hand and there’s demand. But I realized the prices I’d want to charge are too high. So automation is coming to the rescue.
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Comment on Software for humans in ~tech
teaearlgraycold (edited )Link ParentNo I never cared about that. Specifically in the case of code generation I think it's not such a clear cut case. The models are trained on freely distributed copylefted code. Does that mean the...Do we just not care that the tool itself is based on stolen work?
No I never cared about that. Specifically in the case of code generation I think it's not such a clear cut case. The models are trained on freely distributed copylefted code. Does that mean the resulting AI generated code should be copylefted as well? Maybe. I don't really care if a judge decides AI generated code is all AGPL now. I'd actually be ecstatic if I could make legally enforceable requests to every SaaS company around the world to hand over their now poisoned source code. I'm more than happy to have contributed my public code on GitHub to the model's training data. I've gotten more out than I put in. For image and video generation (which aren't tools I use anyway) there's a much stronger argument against it as so much more of the training data wasn't meant to be freely distributed and copied.
That continued use and support of it is actively destroying the environment for little benefit?
Fair point. And it's a shame because it's mainly an issue of electricity sourcing. It doesn't need to have its current carbon footprint. We should be running 100% renewable electrical grids by now. We are at least making good progress as a species on that. Solar is incredibly cheap, battery tech is improving. I personally wouldn't mind if datacenter expansions were limited by whether they could run off of clean energy.
That its growing commodity is causing a general decrease in individual knowledge and learning capacity?
Depends on the person. I'm able to do new things and learn in the process using these tools. I just finished a project which I will write up and share on Tildes soon. I used LLMs heavily throughout the process (for CAD, programming, data science). I could have done everything by myself, but it would have taken more hours to do so. It's not a kind of project I'd ever done before and I'm quite proud of it.
That it's making the industry of IT that most of the people commenting belong to worse to be a part of?
I'm outside of the software employment world at the moment. Thanks to LLMs I'm hoping to get into a niche area of automated manufacturing soon. I'm highly confident I can build my own CNC machine (not a CNC mill to be clear) given the availability of the basic components/modules/plans online combined with my knowledge and LLMs to fill in the gaps. It helps I have both an industrial warehouse and a makerspace to help me. One aspect I hope to see a tremendous uplift in is patching CNC firmware with LLMs to implement my customizations. Something that could have been a couple weeks of learning will probably be accomplished in a couple of hours. Sure I won't have a personal deep knowledge of the firmware - but I don't think I'll need to. When you build a more standard CNC device you usually don't need to know how the firmware works.
Edit: Honestly if you're someone with technical skills right now I think stretching your capabilities through LLM assistance is a goldmine. Things where you'd typically need to work on a small team (or just be skilled in many areas) can now be accomplished for nearly free as a solo entrepreneur. The LLMs from the top labs are currently subsidized. They only recently got good enough to use in this way. Now's the time to act!
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Comment on Firefox is releasing an enterprise offering soon in ~tech
teaearlgraycold LinkGiven the security benefits of a proper ad blocker Firefox seems like the best option for this market.Given the security benefits of a proper ad blocker Firefox seems like the best option for this market.
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Comment on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features in ~tech
teaearlgraycold LinkI’m sure it helps that I’m unemployed, and thus only run software consensually, but I feel like the only person that isn’t either AI obsessed or upset by it. LLMs are extremely useful for the...I’m sure it helps that I’m unemployed, and thus only run software consensually, but I feel like the only person that isn’t either AI obsessed or upset by it. LLMs are extremely useful for the volunteer/hobby work I do. AI generated images are garbage. AI videos even worse. Embeddings/semantic search is god tier tech. Image segmentation, depth estimation, object detection is amazing. It’s a mixed bag but overall I’m super interested and happy with the capabilities available.
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Comment on You Can See Everything | Official teaser in ~movies
teaearlgraycold LinkBorn too late to explore the Earth. Born too early to explore the stars. Born at the right time to watch as Nathan Fielder's career develops.Born too late to explore the Earth. Born too early to explore the stars. Born at the right time to watch as Nathan Fielder's career develops.
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Comment on UN says world will miss its climate target, warming must be reversed in ~enviro
teaearlgraycold Link ParentMaybe this doesn't mean much because we import many of our goods in the US, but our CO2 emissions peaked 20 years ago.Maybe this doesn't mean much because we import many of our goods in the US, but our CO2 emissions peaked 20 years ago.
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Comment on Proposal to ban development of AI superintelligence by US Senator Bernie Sanders and US Representative Greg Casar in ~society
teaearlgraycold (edited )Link ParentI'm talking about you literally just upload the same instructions you give to your human employees and software will spin up a Windows VM and click around and do exactly the same work faster and...I'm talking about you literally just upload the same instructions you give to your human employees and software will spin up a Windows VM and click around and do exactly the same work faster and cheaper. Not just certain parts of a job or a few fields.
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Comment on Proposal to ban development of AI superintelligence by US Senator Bernie Sanders and US Representative Greg Casar in ~society
teaearlgraycold (edited )Link ParentBernie’s got his heart in the right place and always has. But recently his videos make me think he’s been duped a bit into thinking we’re about to see Terminator come true. Edit: I have recently...Bernie’s got his heart in the right place and always has. But recently his videos make me think he’s been duped a bit into thinking we’re about to see Terminator come true.
Edit: I have recently gotten a feeling that in 12 months we’ll have AI services that can replace many people working office jobs. We need to get ahead of that shitshow. Not super intelligence. Mere general intelligence.
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Comment on UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size in ~humanities
teaearlgraycold Link ParentI’ve thought about this before but have little knowledge here. Are the native people of South America those with the most genetic adaptation history? That seems to be the end of the Earth from the...I’ve thought about this before but have little knowledge here. Are the native people of South America those with the most genetic adaptation history? That seems to be the end of the Earth from the perspective of an Ethiopian genesis story. People adapted to life in South America, or perhaps Eastern North America, have perhaps the deepest history of adaptation to different latitudes, biomes, etc.
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Comment on What's a show you love that's from before your time? in ~tv
teaearlgraycold Link ParentI quite like Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me, but could not stand season 3. I dropped out after 3 or so episodes. I’ve seen a decent bit of Lynch’s works but some of his stuff is lost on me.I quite like Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me, but could not stand season 3. I dropped out after 3 or so episodes. I’ve seen a decent bit of Lynch’s works but some of his stuff is lost on me.
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Comment on OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis in ~tech
teaearlgraycold Link ParentIt's turned out that there's enough information encoded in human languages for machines to reverse engineer what it is we're talking about and how those things operate. But it's got to be an...It's turned out that there's enough information encoded in human languages for machines to reverse engineer what it is we're talking about and how those things operate. But it's got to be an incredibly lossy process. I expect a future version to operate off of sensory inputs mapped to neuron activations and motor neuron outputs. That should let you reverse engineer a human rather than just processes. And just like that you've created an android. TBD if that's more of a problem or a solution.
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Comment on OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis in ~tech
teaearlgraycold Link ParentThere’s an edge here. Tildes uses an invite only registration system. It’s a load bearing design choice.There’s an edge here. Tildes uses an invite only registration system. It’s a load bearing design choice.
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Comment on What workplace absurdity are you forced to live with? in ~life
teaearlgraycold Link ParentI wonder if the high school students’ behavior rubs off on them.I wonder if the high school students’ behavior rubs off on them.
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Comment on What workplace absurdity are you forced to live with? in ~life
teaearlgraycold Link ParentHonestly so many tech jobs are like thisHonestly so many tech jobs are like this
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Comment on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? in ~tech
teaearlgraycold Link ParentI don’t think every inch of concrete should have art on it. But more art would be nice. The great problem with our system is people only get paid when they can prove immediate financial impact to...I don’t think every inch of concrete should have art on it. But more art would be nice.
The great problem with our system is people only get paid when they can prove immediate financial impact to someone. Someone can create tremendous economic uplift by educating children and they get rewarded with a small salary. The fruits of their labor won’t appear for years, and potentially at some great geographic distance.
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Comment on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? in ~tech
teaearlgraycold Link ParentAs someone that's able to use LLMs to do work I previously never would have bothered with - but love having the finished artifacts - it's annoying to have people online constantly yelling about...As someone that's able to use LLMs to do work I previously never would have bothered with - but love having the finished artifacts - it's annoying to have people online constantly yelling about how much they hate generative AI. It's genuinely useful. I wish people could be unified around the thing that matters the most to them - threats to their income. There's a whole class of wealthy people that are ready to burn tons of money for a chance at eliminating millions of employees from their collective payrolls. That's what people should be yelling about. Not data centers, not water usage, not generative AI being included in too many programs.
At the same time, the best people should hope for is a soft landing. We should never attempt some Soviet-style command economy tactics where people are employed just for the sake of employment when the work could be automated away. Longshoremen received a deal as the shipping industry evolved. I don't see why an organized group of white collar workers couldn't achieve the same.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly - Final Thread for Season 3 in ~games
teaearlgraycold Link ParentIt’s like I’m really thereIt’s like I’m really there
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
teaearlgraycold Link ParentIDK I remember watching Total Biscuit and similar sources for everything. I don't think there has been any phase for me in which I went to IGN or whomever for reviews. But maybe I'm not enough of...IDK I remember watching Total Biscuit and similar sources for everything. I don't think there has been any phase for me in which I went to IGN or whomever for reviews. But maybe I'm not enough of a "gamer" gamer.
The warehouse I mentioned is actually full of a ton of old 80/20 from a defunct robotics startup. So it’ll be free! There are also a ton of cameras and optics there which were made for machine vision.