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New comment by emanuele232 in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

emanuele232 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:05:14 +0000

we can't define it, therefore we can't even assess the distance a "being" is from becoming conscious. We assume other humans are sentient because we personally are (or feel we are), but there is no way to guarantee that i'm real and the rest is not mimicking a behaviour.

New comment by emanuele232 in "Hyundai is spending $1B to keep self-driving startup Motional alive"

emanuele232 — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:48:33 +0000

street view has images from years ago depending on where the google cars are mapping in that moment, waymo needs constant mapping of the cities it has cars in, therefore needing more man-hours. furthermore the driving laws differs from country to country, and in most of the world the road paint/signs are borderline indescifrable for a human, let alone a machine. i'm not saying that it can't be done, but it is already expensive in big US cities, it just do not scale well.

New comment by emanuele232 in "Hyundai is spending $1B to keep self-driving startup Motional alive"

emanuele232 — Fri, 03 May 2024 07:28:27 +0000

because waymo relies on a continuous mapping of the cities you can take it. that's why it is available in few US cities, but this does not scale at all. The point of those startups (and tesla's) is to produce something that can drive everywhere whitout prior information (fantasy world right now)

New comment by emanuele232 in "Self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi cluster"

emanuele232 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:02:14 +0000

i have a raspberry pi3 (4gb, 50 euros) and a pi5 (8gb, 100 euros). i run a k0s cluster (for fun) w/ pihole, plex, some monitoring and homeassistant. that for me is cost effective

New comment by emanuele232 in "Self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi cluster"

emanuele232 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:59:05 +0000

yup, i belong to the already-cloud generation, having a capable router+ a couple of raspberries have taught me a lot

New comment by emanuele232 in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"

emanuele232 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:09:19 +0000

forced work for who breaks the law? you risk to fall in the "slavery with extra steps" situation

New comment by emanuele232 in "Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer"

emanuele232 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:56:50 +0000

nop, corpos acquire a lot of houses in the market and rent them. They can pay more for the houses since their scope of investment (years to break even) is longer than your average mens' lifespan. rent goes up. a smaller and smaller percentage of population can buy houses because there are fewer on the market. rent keeps everyone poor. This is happening now, in every major developed country

New comment by emanuele232 in "Human mobility networks reveal increased segregation in large cities"

emanuele232 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:51:52 +0000

Actually i do agree with the statement. I live near the biggest city in my state and my friends are different in ideas, political opinions and preferences (also kinda different in economic possibilities) due to the fact that we all went to the same highschool, and there are few places where the young can socialize. on the contrary my brother lives in that big city and its friends are ALL coming from the same cultural background, with the same ideas and the same political leaning (that he chooses during university)

New comment by emanuele232 in "Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments"

emanuele232 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:48:05 +0000

this is getting philosophical, but maybe humans are sophisticated tools

New comment by emanuele232 in "Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job"

emanuele232 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:36:00 +0000

harsh reality is that 80% of humanity works a dead-end/awful/not wanted job just because bills. IT is a nice bubble in which you do something you are mostly passionate about and you get paid well. I'm not saying "we got it good so don't complain" but sometimes is worth to analyze the situation from the perspectivo of an outsider. IMO i can do whichever tech job, the more i dislike it the more i need to be paid, that's all

New comment by emanuele232 in "Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI"

emanuele232 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:54:18 +0000

I actually had a discussion regarding this topic with a peer of mine that at the time was doing art-studies . She was extremely angry and devastated that in her field weren't enough jobs available for every one that mayored in it. That was a real complaint, for her the state should step in and guarantee a well-paid job for everybody in the exact field that everyone chooses, Like "I want to be a painter" and the day after they give you a place to work on your paintings

New comment by emanuele232 in "Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI"

emanuele232 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:49:32 +0000

yeah, we did not ask for farmers permission before producing Farming machines

New comment by emanuele232 in "Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI"

emanuele232 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:48:38 +0000

i agree in part with the parent comment, art can be done for hobby or for work, if the work part is being replaced by generators then art will be confined as an hobby and maybe that will be better for everyone. Stop at all the laundry-multimillionary "art" racket.

btw, regarding copyright use, i don't see how AIs are not in the "fair use" category, they take human-generated content and apply a transformation to it, generating new images. The only problem is that generating images is a million-times quicker and cheaper

New comment by emanuele232 in "The beauty of finished software"

emanuele232 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:13:57 +0000

i agree with both, "finished" software i think can happen only with small pieces of sotfware, every medium size+ project needs a continuous development

New comment by emanuele232 in "RabbitOS"

emanuele232 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:20:42 +0000

the point is that the user don't really know what he wants or can't communicate that efficiently

New comment by emanuele232 in "Anti-ageing molecule boosts fertility in ageing mice"

emanuele232 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:57:55 +0000

and Death Cap is just a mushroom!

New comment by emanuele232 in "Unreal Engine 5.3"

emanuele232 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:20:50 +0000

don't understimate the ability of a 15yo that wants to learn something with passion. It outperforms seniors

New comment by emanuele232 in "Cuber: Deploy your apps on Kubernetes easily"

emanuele232 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 11:15:46 +0000

"up to 80%". isn't it to be read as "from the same price to a 80% discount" ?

New comment by emanuele232 in "Kagi Search Stats"

emanuele232 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:44:42 +0000

uhm cite a couple, maybe? off the bat i can't point at a profession that does not benefit of the internet knowledge

New comment by emanuele232 in "Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video"

emanuele232 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:55:47 +0000

for what i recall, the actual messages on whatsapp are end-to-end encrypted, metadata and attachments are not. It is just another mass data gathering service