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ltning

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Created this account because my http://floppy.museum was mentioned on HN and I didn't even know.

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Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive? 5 months ago

The issue with creative and novel output from people is neither about intellectual property nor energy, though. So even someone who has nothing (personal) to lose by adopting these techs should be able to reflect on how that will make things look 5, 10, 20 years from now.

And I'm not talking about climate or poor starving artists here. But of course, if everyone thinks like you seem to do we might just give up on having a livable planet in 50 years. Or any significant scientific or artistic progress.

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Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive? 5 months ago

Why are we even discussing this before the theft problem has been solved? Or the energy consumption?

If anything, there needs to be studies done on

- the drop in creative, novel output from actual people (due to theft and loss of jobs)

- the energy cost per pax in relevant industries, pre/post LLMs being adopted

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Floppy Disk Museum on a Bootable Floppy serving from a 286 PC 4 years ago

Yeah - idea is "remote management". It's tricky because packet drivers were never written with multiple applications running simultaneously in mind, DESQview is one big monstrous hack on 286, and both httpd and ftpd use direct screen writes which can't be virtualised on 286. I'll be testing a newer version of the httpd which uses bios screen writes, and a second NIC and packet driver for ftpd - but no idea if it's going to work :)

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