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New comment by ajam1507 in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

ajam1507 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:56:38 +0000

If Julian Assange had taken his privacy principles and built a social network instead of leaking government secrets things might have turned out differently.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Open source AI must win"

ajam1507 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:52:35 +0000

Moore's law isn't as relevant with parallel workloads. If you can keep building more lanes you don't have to worry about making faster cars.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ajam1507 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:37:42 +0000

> LLMs don't get a free pass because they're also so good at writing typescript for beige CRUD apps and bedtime stories.

Plenty of useful things get free passes to be dangerous. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of accidental deaths in 11 states, but we don't ban cars because they're dangerous. There's plenty of safety features, but we acknowledge and accept that people will die. People like to pretend that they won't sacrifice safety for convenience, but they continue to do it time and time again.

New comment by ajam1507 in "More Molly Guards"

ajam1507 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:03:59 +0000

I would go to this museum.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet?"

ajam1507 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:59:51 +0000

Surprising that there are still people who don't think LLMs qualify as AI

New comment by ajam1507 in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

ajam1507 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:06:48 +0000

Pre-built PCs are the way to get a deal right now. The price of individual components is much more expensive than buying something from Micro Center or one of the Chinese integrators.

New comment by ajam1507 in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

ajam1507 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:26:11 +0000

I'm not sure why you're setting slavery aside. It's my whole point. Do you think the Union should have conceded the civil war because "you can't force other people to change their morals?"

New comment by ajam1507 in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

ajam1507 — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:33:58 +0000

The history of social pressure would disagree with you.

New comment by ajam1507 in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

ajam1507 — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:32:24 +0000

Having a libertarian stance on morality is great unless its actually important to take a stand. It's the difference between "I would never own slaves" and being an abolitionist. I think it's pretty reasonable to expect others to agree and align with my personal morals around slavery.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

ajam1507 — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:20:38 +0000

I'm not going to watch a 3 hour video, but custom PCs are a tiny fraction of the consumer hardware market. Also, the custom PC market is struggling partly due to people overstating the price of RAM. It's not like the cost of building a PC has doubled. RAM and SSDs were typically some of the least expensive components in a complete build. Looking at prebuilt PCs from iBuyPower, a pre-built that would have cost $2000 last July now costs a whopping $2100 with the same components.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

ajam1507 — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:44:20 +0000

> They have literally destroyed markets that aren't coming back anytime soon (consumer hardware)

Ram is more expensive it's not the apocalypse for consumer hardware.

> "Oh well, they fucked our economy long term. Guess they're just human."

Not sure what this is a reference to.

New comment by ajam1507 in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

ajam1507 — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:30:49 +0000

This really says something about society, can't even imagine leaving your house without a smartphone.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

ajam1507 — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:29:09 +0000

National success is about creating a nation of basketball players, not just a single all-star team.

New comment by ajam1507 in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

ajam1507 — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:45:16 +0000

How would they know you went out to the woods?

New comment by ajam1507 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

ajam1507 — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:33:01 +0000

That was Meta. The judge ruled in the Anthropic case that they infringed because they downloaded pirated copies of books that they could have otherwise purchased legally, and for retaining copies of those books as a central library.

New comment by ajam1507 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

ajam1507 — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:05:06 +0000

In Bartz v. Anthropic the judge ruled that Anthropic making a digital copy of a printed book and then discarding the physical book was not infringing when used to a train a model.

New comment by ajam1507 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

ajam1507 — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:18:17 +0000

This is contradicted by the amount of AI use at top tech firms.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

ajam1507 — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:45:26 +0000

An acronym is an abbreviation, and they specifically do not spell out the very first acronym on the page the first time they use it.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

ajam1507 — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:34:06 +0000

This page has 5 abbreviations that are not spelled out before you even get to the body of the article.

New comment by ajam1507 in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

ajam1507 — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:02:21 +0000

This seems more like a failure of management and process than a problem inherent to autonomy.