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New comment by kouru225 in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

kouru225 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:43:30 +0000

The fear of the general populace is itself a propaganda campaign

In the agricultural era, which was the most violent time in human history, we accepted any beggars that came to our front door. Now we live in the safest time in human history and were so terrified of the masses that we disempower them completely

New comment by kouru225 in "A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)"

kouru225 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:00:53 +0000

I agree, but the reaction to AI is making me realize that there are a whole bunch of people who don’t know how to find meaning in their lives

New comment by kouru225 in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

kouru225 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:35:16 +0000

The reason why anyone argues against local and free AI is because they want corporations to have control over the general population.

America is a corporate hellhole.

New comment by kouru225 in "Immich 3.0"

kouru225 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:04:57 +0000

I’ve been using photoprism. Should I switch?

New comment by kouru225 in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

kouru225 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:58:32 +0000

The discretization of those tokens can be manipulated to get any result you want. If it meaningfully benefits the AI to have a more fine-grained discretization, then you can do that. AI only compresses as much as we want it to. I understand your sentiment, but the logical conclusion of what you’re saying is that no form of compression is ever valuable. That’s just not a defensible argument.

All information gets compressed. Even your own perception of reality gets compressed.

New comment by kouru225 in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

kouru225 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:26:06 +0000

The fact that machine learning can learn highly detailed patterns is the very reason why AI is so useful. So what you’re saying doesn’t really make much sense

New comment by kouru225 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

kouru225 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:09:54 +0000

So I guess the Chinese government will decide what model I use next

New comment by kouru225 in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

kouru225 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:29:58 +0000

Looking through these it’s crazy to find out that The Iliad is only 1 of like 5 original texts on the Trojan war. We’re reading book 2 of a 5 book series

New comment by kouru225 in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

kouru225 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:33:52 +0000

Woah there was a lost Homer epic comedy about a bumbling fool named Margites?

New comment by kouru225 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

kouru225 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:22:18 +0000

Hikaru Nakamura had a good comment on famous chess moves like this: All the famous chess moves are famous sacrifices, genius saves, and last minute checkmates, but when you plug the games into stockfish you find out that these scenarios only happened cause the players made a series of awful moves early on in the game

New comment by kouru225 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

kouru225 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:33:23 +0000

Roman alphabet only or does this work with other alphabets?

New comment by kouru225 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

kouru225 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:36:01 +0000

By design or by accident

It’ll happen by evolution. Just complex systems trending the way they trend.

New comment by kouru225 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

kouru225 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:33:41 +0000

IMO this is the greatest argument against AI as technofascism. The general public seems to believe that AI will usher in technofascism by claiming corporate ownership of AI output: the independent entrepreneur will be unable to compete against the corporations compute, every piece of data about you will be stolen and monetized by AI, and you will own nothing.

But AI might in fact do the exact opposite and reverse the privatization trend that the West has been going through for the last 400 years. All of our copyright laws rely on the idea that there is a human consciousness behind the copyright. The more AI has input, the less we can claim ownership. If AI returns everything to the commons, then it results in a much more egalitarian world.

Hilariously, many people, especially artists, see the return of the commons as an assault against them. They’re so captured by copyright that they assume any infringement on their copyright is inherently fascist. It’s ridiculous. Copyright is a corporations number 1 weapon when it comes to creating a moat and keeping the masses out.

The original intent of copyright, in fact, was an incentive to return an idea to the commons. Experts used to hide their discoveries in order to keep them for themselves. Copyright provided an opportunity to release this knowledge and still profit. There were even several cases where it was established that those who claimed copyright could retain copyright even if the idea had been previously discovered. This created a huge incentive: release the knowledge or risk having your process copyrighted by the opposition. But that system worked because copyright could only exist for so long (14 years, doubled if they filed again.)

Now copyright is a lifelong sentence at almost 100 years. The entire purpose of it has been undermined. Corporations own all your childhood and by the time you can profit off of it, it’s outdated.

A world where the mainstream is primarily a commons seems to me like an egalitarian world. I’d like to live in that world.

New comment by kouru225 in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

kouru225 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:56:19 +0000

I use local send when KDE connect isn’t working for me. The big problem with these is that you basically have to spend a minute or two setting up both devices to send.

New comment by kouru225 in "I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it"

kouru225 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:23:20 +0000

It’s annoying because it’s scarcity for scarcity’s sake. The reality is that low depth of field cameras constrict the actors and make them unable to perform naturally. Blocking out the background is also just hyper-convenience for the audience IMO: you’re telling them exactly where to look. It’s visual handholding.

The only reason why people think this is valuable is that it’s scarce, and scarcity is a terrible metric for art

New comment by kouru225 in "Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration"

kouru225 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:23:15 +0000

Every post about creatine wants you to drink an absurd amount of it. I tried it for 3 days and ended up with a level of diarrhea that I’ve previously never encountered without being sick

New comment by kouru225 in "They See Your Photos"

kouru225 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:37:10 +0000

It labeled every single person in my area as having “confirmation bias and in-group bias”

New comment by kouru225 in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

kouru225 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:18:56 +0000

I don’t know why anyone trusts Signal. People keep talking about them. I thought it was clear years ago that they were a sketchy company

New comment by kouru225 in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

kouru225 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:18:03 +0000

They’ve been trying their hardest to find a moat for 5 years, and nothing seems to stick. At first it seemed like access to the model could be a moat but then llama and deepseek came out. Then it seemed like the hardware requirements could be a moat but small local AI just kept getting more efficient. Now they’re trying to gate keep access to the models again under the guise of security, but we probably got like t minus 2 weeks before an equivalent model is released by someone

American AI desperately wants AI to intensify the wealth disparity and therefore justify the wealth grab that the rich have done for the last 3 decades and AI is just not cooperating

New comment by kouru225 in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

kouru225 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:05:00 +0000

Nah. The main issue of addiction is the lack of clarity. You allow an addiction to pretend like it has a purpose and it can stick around. Reductionism is a great tool against this: reduce your addiction down to its most clear state and it loses all the mystique. Right now, people can pretend like they're into tiktok or youtube or instagram or twitter etc because they wanna engage in the social media landscape. Pull out the algorithm and replace it with a different one and they can't keep that lie up. They have to admit they're into the dopamine itself.