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Martin Taibr

@martin_t@mastodon.social

mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06

Programmer, archer, aspiring rationalist, master procrastinator, gamedev. I say what I think and call out bullshit, deal with it.

Truth and justice over assent and peace.

All my open source projects are currently on hold until society figures out whether stealing is legal now. I didn't spend 10 years writing (A)GPL code to see it remixed and sold for profit without attribution, without compensation and without respecting users' rights.

#foss #fairness #justice #LaborTheft

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Joined September 04, 2023

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https://github.com/martin-t

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Trickle down?

Fuck trickle down.

I don't want pennies which fall out of a billionaire's pocket and which are beneath him to pick up.

I want the full transitive value of my work so I can democratically split it with my coworkers. Y'know, the people doing actual work and contributing value.

And if we decide we need a shared assistant ("manager"), we'll hire him and negotiate his reward collectively.

#LaborTheft #capitalism #EatTheRich #coop #labor #inequality #equality #fairness

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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RE: https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/116388015824694842 @samir Yes, it is "AI" (with the quotes being a key component). What it's not is what I call aAI (actual AI) - the thing that works like the AI in sci-fi, namely gives correct and complete answers or signals when it cannot do so. So any time I see anyone use AI without either the quotes or the leading a, I know they have not understood the difference yet. What is more scary though is if somebody makes aAI and the owner class replaces most workers with it...

mastodon.functional.computer

samir, fake programmer: "A couple of people wrote to me to say that they a…" - Lambdadon

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

"This is of course a general principle when somebody is taunting you. It means they want you to fight, which means they expect to benefit from you trying."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-can-prevent-extinction

This is of course a simplification. Violence has 3 dimensions - legality, morality and practicality - which are independent. Eliezer concluded that at this time individual small-scale violence is counterproductive so he appeals to legality and morality to dissuade...

#ai #llm #violence #EatTheRich #morality

lesswrong.com

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Up until 2 weeks ago I believed that opting out of using my data for training would protect it. I no longer do.

Everyone knows that fines paid by companies are considered simply a cost of doing business. A probabilistic tax.

It finally dawned on me that since they need more and more data, at some point the value of using my data for training will exceed the cost of getting caught using it without/against my consent.

There's no escape unless we change the law.

#LLM #capitalism #LaborTheft

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@drwho@masto.hackers.town @alienghic@timeloop.cafe @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @danirabbit@mastodon.online Only name and not address? ;)

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@drwho@masto.hackers.town @alienghic@timeloop.cafe @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @danirabbit@mastodon.online Anyway, their goal is not depopulation, that's just a side effect. Their goal is to have fun, which to them is competing with other rich and anti-social people who has a bigger number in his bank account. The real issue is constantly letting anti-socials into positions of power instead of democratizing everything - not just governments but companies too - and with direct democracy, not this "vote for parties to control your life" appeasement.

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@danirabbit@mastodon.online I don't think "safely" is even relevant. I had unfiltered access to the net since I was ~12 and I turned out fine. A friend told me she started watching porn when she was 13 and she turned out fine. Yes, some people end up as NEETs/shut-ins/incels but those are outliers good for clickbait headlines. If we (decisions should be made by people, not politicians) are to restrict freedoms, we need sufficient proof of a causal relationship. Until them, age-restrictionists can fuck off.

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @danirabbit@mastodon.online Land of the free... Up until about a year ago, I saw Europe as the last bastion of actual freedom (although we have more restrictions on free speech and I was threatened with cops for things I said online by people who were provably abuser-types and flying monkeys). With the latest wave of restrictions like chat control and age checks, I don't think there's anywhere left.

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe No doubt but they're outliers. Issues with this phrasing: 1) you're using an extreme example to characterize a group, it distorts the discussion 2) people will believe you if they already want to but the average person will see a conspiracy theorist and ignore you. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and repeating that evidence for every new person who hears about it. Actually killing people is outside the majority's Overton window (for now) so they won't (for now)

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe I wanted to say "killing people directly" but was out of characters. Gotta find a better instance.

To many people (sounds arrogant but the average person isn't very smart) there's a huge diff between lining people up next to a wall and shooting them vs putting them into a camp and killing them via malnutrition and disease.

ICE straight up shot people on camera

Yup, and I hope the people responsible will be shot in return, though I have little hope of it happening intralegally.

Martin Taibr @martin_t@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @drwho@masto.hackers.town Yup, many are real. What I was trying to say is that to the average person, it doesn't matter what is true, what matters is whether it sounds true.