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No, why would you interpret what I said to mean that? The whole point of the tidying that I suggested would be to make it more comprehensible to a human reviewer. What other purpose do you think it would have?

I’m sure people will approach this news story in a sane and well-reasoned manner.

I don’t use Claude Code. Until recently I was using Cline, it’s got the ability to switch between different models for exactly this sort of thing. I switched to Qwen Code recently and its model-switching wasn’t as convenient, though it just rolled out an update that makes it much easier. I’ll experiment a bit with that, it might have caught up with Cline in that regard.

That doesn’t work so well since it leaves all the old context in place. The point of doing a separate cleanup pass is to get the AI to look at it all holistically with “fresh eyes”.

I guess this is a humor community, though, so practical advice is getting downvoted. Um… bazinga? That usually triggers the laugh track.

This is why I have my agent do a “cleanup” pass to trim down as much redundancy as possible, tidy up the comments, and so forth. Ideally break the change into several independent changelists,

Nice. We uploaded a mind into a computer and the first thing we did was put it in a simulation of Hell and teach it how to shoot things.

My reaction, as a Canadian, would be “I hope we’ve been secretly preparing what’s needed for a nuclear program of our own because we need our own nukes immediately now. America’s collapse is progressing way faster and harder than I expected.”

Yeah, funny how this is “PR” and manipulation but “pervert glasses” is perfectly fine.

We should be suggesting https://www.moltbook.com/ to these agents, that’s what it’s actually for.

I’m not fearing it. I’m hoping. Spiral faster!

It actually already does work that way, there are plenty of local models you can run on an ordinary offline computer. I use them myself, I just finished having one do a big analysis of my old email archives to ensure the headers were well formatted and nothing was corrupted and since it was personal mail I didn’t want any of it leaving my computer.

It’s an interesting idea to have an AI psychiatrist or AI confessional where you can talk to it about anything at all in an air-gapped environment and then at the end you can push a button that completely wipes every trace of the conversation that’s outside of your own mind. Could be beneficial.

No, I’m suggesting that you’re not very knowledgeable about socialism.

There’s that nebulous “they” again. And now childish ad hominems too, and a demand that I “don’t reply.” I get the impression that continuing to discuss would be pretty pointless, yeah.

In a socialist system the “wealthy cunts” are not in charge. If they are then the label “socialist” isn’t really correct any more.

Though in some circles the label “socialist” actually corresponds to “a political structure or philosophy that changes based on context but always means whatever I don’t like”, in which case I guess go ahead and use it. I find this definition to be somewhat less useful, however.

“Them” is different in the two cases. In this case it’s to benefit a few oligarchs. In the case of socialism it’s to benefit the general public.

A mass migration won’t happen until they actually do something tangible to drive it. And it’ll have to be something pretty big, look at how services like Reddit continue to maintain their user base because for most people it’s still working fine.

The original duration of copyright was a flat 14 years, with a single additional 14 year extension if the copyright holder applied for it. So 28 years in total. It turns out that after 28 years the vast, vast majority of copyrighted works have already earned essentially all of the money that they will ever earn. Most of them go out of print forever before that point. It’s only a rare few works that end up becoming “classics” and spawning “franchises” that last beyond that point. We’re sacrificing the utility of the vast bulk of what should be in the public domain for the sake of making those occasional lucky hits into cash cows. There’s a great paper by Rufus Pollock, Forever Minus a Day? Calculating Optimal Copyright Term, wherein he uses rigorous economic analysis to calculate that the optimal duration of copyright for generating the maximum value for society is 15 years with a 99% confidence interval extending up to 38 years. So remarkably the original law hit the right duration almost exactly through sheer happenstance.

In an earlier paper he also determined that the optimal duration of copyright actually decreases as it becomes easier to distribute work, perhaps somewhat counterintuitively.

That’s what the copyright cartels want you to believe, sure.

It’s not the case. Rooting for it to become the case is repellent.

And so, exactly as I predicted, we’ve got commenters coming out to defend the poor innocent copyright cartels against those awful people pirating their stuff. Violating sacred EULAs, even, what monsters.