Pam Samuelson (UC Berkeley) has a nice explainer on AI copyright - https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/does-using-in-copyright-works-as-training-data-infringe/
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HN discusses aliens https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111119
"I am very interested."
Bet you are, bud.
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saw this elsewhere. the account itself appears to be a luckey stan account, but the next
There’s more crust than air or sea or land... so a vehicle that moves through the crust of the earth is going to be a huge deal
I have built working prototypes of this
so are we talking mining, or The Core (2003)? it feels like he's trying to pitch it as though it's Tiberian Sun style subterrean APC, but I can't be sure whether I'm reading into it
Don't forget he made a prototype of a gaming helmet with shotgun shells aimed to kill the wearer.
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hey crazy idea, what if we made a vehicle that moves across the habitable surface of the crust instead
it would need to be organized somehow, make it big and electric to be efficient. people go to the same places every day so you can just put a durable track of some kind in right place,
I’m thinking nydus worms from SC2 or the GLA tunnel system in C&C generals.
right? like, is felon finally getting competition for unhinged billionaire gamerposting?
announcing “leeroy jenkins” mode for grok where it just posts your tweet drafts and you can’t delete them
New and lengthy sneer from Current Affairs just dropped: AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
article is informing me that it isn't X - it's Y
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Nicky Case posted the ending to her AI Safety for Fleshy Humans series and gosh I miss when I thought she was cool 🫠
linking to Rob Miles and an EA longtermist fund at the end of the outro really gives the game away lol
(interestingly this also involves Hack Club, which is the org that Ghostty is now part of from @gerikson@awful.systems’s post earlier today? I wonder what’s up with them)
It's even way too long a read and full of footnotes, as is tradition!
Heck it's even long enough that I just came across the second flashcard break, and I'm 1/4th of the way through part 1...
I am not familiar with Case or her work, but based on my shallow research, she’s part of the cohort of internet stuff-communicators including people like Vi Hart or the Oatmeal etc. Not casting aspersions on anyone here, but I’d be interested to know who amongst them have revealed their chud nature and who has remained pristine (…for now).
Last I checked Vi Hart still seems like a good egg (idk if the closeted teenaged self hiding in the recesses of my brain could take it otherwise 😭)
I'm a bit more familiar with Case - I mainly knew her for making web games like :the game: trilogy, Nothing to Hide and We Become What We Behold.
Fucking sucks to see she's bought into this shit.
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I have found some Medium and Substack blogs full of slop which sneers at the TESCREAL types. Hoist on their own petard. Example: https://neutralzone.substack.com/p/the-genealogy-of-authority-capture (I was looking for a list of posters on the Extropians mailing list to 2001, which is actual precise work so a chatbot can't do it like it can extrude something essay-like).
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github produced their ~~annual insights into the state of open source and public software projects~~ barrel of marketing slop, and it's as self-congratulatory as unreadable and completely opaque.
tl;dr: AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI...
Just one thing that caught my attention:
AI code review helps developers. We ... found that 72.6% of developers who use Copilot code review said it improved their effectiveness.
Only 72.6%? So why the heck are the other almost 30% of devs using it? For funsies? They don't say.
You'd think due to self selection effects most people who wouldn't find using Copilot effective wouldn't use it.
The only way that number makes sense to me is if people were force to use Copilot and... no, wait, that checks out.
there's some more cursor fun too. no sneers yet, I've barely started reading
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