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When I saw the title I thought this post would be about books written by AI.
The AI used for coding would really have to be self-hostable to protect the privacy of the code being generated.
In this interview with Dr. Ned Hallowell, who is apparently an expert on ADHD, he says smartphones and social media may be changing our brains and actually giving us ADHD.
I don't use a bundle, but my own setup using Ubuntu and Bitcoin Core.
Initially I enabled clearnet connections, but when I looked at the map of nodes and saw my house on it I decided to go tor-only.
Yes, Tor can be deanonymized, but that takes resources and I'm more worried about wrench attacks than the government going after me for running a node. It's a Bitcoin node, not a dark web marketplace.
A VPN costs money, I don't want to add liabilities, would rather stack more sats.
Connecting to the node from Sparrow takes a bit longer when it's over Tor, but I do it infrequently enough that it doesn't matter.
One of my points was that it produces dollars. So from that perspective it doesn't really consume more than it produces.
However, since those dollars are money, they may be grossly mispriced, and the market may keep them mispriced for a long time.
IP rights violate normal property rights.
If I have a file on my computer I can copy it, because it's my data (information is non-rivalrous and non-excludable) and my computer. And I can print it, because it's my printer and my ink.
For instance, there's a recent burst of people writing blogs / newsletters / comments with AI. Most of these are shitty (see above) but a few aren't, which forces you to get really concrete about what the point is. What does it mean for me to write this, now, wholly out of my own brain, vs as a collaborator with a commodified artificial mind?
You can outsource what you want and how much you want to AI.
A blog post can be anything from entirely written by AI (prompt: "Come up with an interest topic and write a blog post on it.") to written by you and the spelling being corrected by AI (which is great if you're dyslexic).
I like to write what I like to think of as wholly out of my brain, but use AI for research and fact checking, which before AI I'd have used a non-LLM-based (but still somewhat smart, and increasingly so) search engine for.
One of the things that makes me uncomfortable is that it's often hard to tell to what extent AI was used.
I've recently butted heads with a good friend when I realized his messages for me were LLM output. I felt offended at first, because my first thought was that the level of effort I was putting into the communication wasn't reciprocated; that he was going the easy route and not even reading my messages; that he was being lazy.
He explained that it was all his own thoughts, and the LLM was just an aid to express them more clearly. I appreciated his explaining himself, because it made me think, but also told him I didn't need that, that he was clear enough without it. But then there is nothing I can do; he'll continue to use it, and maybe one day I'll start using it for that purpose too, just like in the 1990s I might have sworn never to use a mobile phone.
Another thing that makes me uncomfortable is that the content goes through the Big Tech. Unless you self-host, which my friend doesn't; he's not even tech-savvy enough to know that DeepSeek's advantage is in it being smaller and therefore self-hostable, and has zero concern about passing his communication with me through the CCP.
if one is struck in the face, retaliation is unjust because “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
If someone strikes me in the face, I'll strike back.
If a state taxes their citizens on my goods, their citizens should strike back, because it's them who's being aggressed on, not me.
Any effects on me are an externality.
I did a vibe coding course, which uses Replit, and it looked pretty dope what it can do.
But haven't tried vibe coding myself and the reality of it may be quite different.