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• Roko’s Basilisk is actually just people on the internet making a simulation of your brain play Doom.

  on A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• I think their point is the LLM didn’t contain the information on the weight of that orange, it had to outsource it.

  on AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• This is kind of like the “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” argument

  It’s not even that! Students without a calculator don’t see their test scores crater, the work just takes longer.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• It did not have a significant impact.

  Then this is obviously different, because we are seeing a significant impact on test scores. Students that use AI test poorly.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• I see short/choppy sentences, but not a lot of other slop writing indicators. What are you on about?

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• No, it was made for the government not to take away the rights of rich property owners, slave owners, and traders. It took a couple centuries and a civil war to reform the Constitution to a somewhat reasonable state, and the Supreme Court keeps chipping away at every protection that has been applied to you and me. Law is class power.

  on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 Sep 2026

• The US Constitution is fucking stupid.

  on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026

• A first edition has no value to me. The value comes from the words on the page, not the paper it’s printed on. I could see value in a book that was hand transcribed or something, but the fact that it was the first book out of a printing press is worthless.

  I should say being signed is important, but that’s not really a rarity issue. That’s now a unique historical artifact because it was interacted with by a specific person. That’s basically the same as a bible having historical value because of who owned it.

  on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• It’s not like we’re printing books from old school printers where they had to assemble the letters by hand on a printing plate for each page, or they need scribes to hand transcribe books with a quill. It’s all computer. There’s no reason for any book to be rare.

  on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• The text is what makes it valuable though? I guess there’s some value in, like, the actual literal physical copy too, but that has nothing to do with rarity. A bible can have historical value because of who owned it, but that’d be strange to describe as “rare” I think.

  on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• I don’t understand the concept of a “rare” book. Every book should be infinitely reproducible, the fact that they aren’t is a crime.

  on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• Actually, people in the US are bringing guillotines to townhall meetings over data centers

  on Desktops are gonna be screwed by this too. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Aug 2026