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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
WRT sovereignty: I'm sure situations like the recent EPR/PPWR debacle didn't help, where the EU passes bad laws that all EU countries are nevertheless forced to adopt. (Recently discussed here: https://news.ycom
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
It's true that LLMs have trivialized some aspects of software development. (We're at the "software writes itself following natural language inputs" stage.) What's nevertheless true is that they've hardly touch
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
But this guy's talking about drop-shippers, life coaches, cryptocurrency, online "influencing" in general, and other things. Very few of those fit your own definition, as there's nothing illicit involved. In some cases,
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Yes. "High confidence." I confirmed it myself: > https://i.ibb.co/m5tPKPYS/Screenshot2026829-1.png But forget Pangram. This passage, from the conclusion, is 100% rock-solid proof that Claude was a key c
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
> i’m curious if new laws will have to be enacted and retroactively applied One of the cornerstones of jurisprudence, going back to Ancient Rome if not earlier, is that you cannot retroactively apply laws. It's expressly prohibit
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
> You need to fact check it (especially with LLMs) That's true... but with every day that passes it's increasingly less true. Today's best high-end LLMs are highly optimized towards fact checking themselves and each oth
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Claude built the site, it's obvious from the style. Which is to say that anybody with a $200 subscription and access to Namecheap and Netlify could have built the site in one hour flat. There's no longer any need for an NGO, medi
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
> McKinsey lol. lmao even. Have you seen the quality of their output? I'd take Claude or ChatGPT Free Tier over advice from McKinsey these days.
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
> It is not clear to me what precisely happened, but if someone throws sand into a running machine constantly, you cannot pinpoint the precise grain which stopped it either. They all act together. There is the paper war about everything
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Uh, guys, the EU left a huge loophole. The law applies to all companies that "makes transport packaging available for the first time on the territory of another Member State, directly to end users." (I've checked and there&#
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Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America(pluralistic.net)
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
And thus for a very long time, and even today to some extent, the Japanese (or their cultural theorists at any rate!) have viewed themselves as the inheritors of "true" Ancient Chinese culture -- unsullied by Mongol/Manchu&#x
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Yeah. You're probably familiar with the "Hanfu" revival -- a sort of resurgence in people adopting traditional clothing and makeup styles from the Han and Tang dynasties. It's entirely on account of the fact that those
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
There are primary sources. There are archeological sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianling_Mausoleum There are also histories written just after the Tang Dynasty had fallen. It was considered good form for a new
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Fortunately, generating this sort of annoying boilerplate is what LLMs were born to handle.
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
> Any single country that would try to enforce this would be on its own. Actually they'd have no retroactive way to enforce it at all, and the most they'd be able to do would be to charge an import duty on a per-parcel basis,
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Good move. There's an interesting old article on the door handles here: > https://medium.com/@arunchidambaram/is-teslas-door-handle-an... In aerodynamic terms, door handles are nbd compared to side mirrors. M
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Yeah, my ideas on this basically come from Doctorow. That guy really has it figured out.
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Uh, I'm in manufacturing in the US and EU. Can confirm the tariffs are a total disaster. It's increasingly difficult and expensive to ship raw materials and components to the US! "Just find US suppliers." It's not
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
> A rather large amount of Canadian industry is benefiting from these regulations. Adopting policies like these would be tremendously disruptive and cause a lot of short term issues, upsetting manufacturers, foreign owned subsidiaries (
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
The problem is that Canada makes ~1.3M cars/year -- and about 1M of those are for Japanese manufacturers like Toyota and Honda. With unbounded Chinese imports at Chinese prices, a sizable fraction of that domestic industry is going to
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Just to play Devil's advocate here, high-level volleyball players tend to be extremely tall. The average male pro/olympic player is anywhere from 6'6" to 6'10". Some are, of course, even taller. There are wel
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
> In general, going heavier into consumer/data protection laws and proceeding to prosecute both the Canadian and American monopolies would be amazing though. IMO you don't want lawfare -- but rather you want to remove bad law
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
I get it, but tariffs will only make things more expensive for Canadians, too. I've got a better idea. 1) Repeal all DMCA-like laws. Make it explicitly legal to break a digital lock to repair a device, run custom code, install third-p
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
I've been to Russia, China (about ten times,) central Asian -stans, various parts of South America, Africa, etc. My phones and laptops (plural because I travel with >2/ea, and it looks kind of weird,) have never been inspected
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
I agree -- and I think that the applications should be open-sourced and in general provided to the public commons. Some people won't like AI no matter what, but it's hard to argue with results that clearly benefit the public good
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
And, with a perfectly straight face, they'll say: "B-but ackshually it's NOT genocide! They're not all dead yet!" Beyond disturbing, I think.
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
K3 is highly competitive. They're essentially tied here: > https://www.together.ai/blog/kimi-k3-vs-claude-fable-5-on-de... And they're very very close here: > https://artificialanalysis.ai&#
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
It's legitimately weird to see anybody defend them, as the immorality is out in the open. The past few years have really opened my eyes to the nakedly tribal nature of democratic politics. Polybius was largely correct when he said tha
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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
Who is "we"? Are you Dario or an Anthropic rep? Writing a paper on streamlining the FDA approval process is nice, and I agree with all of it, but it's one thing to do that (about 4 hours of work) and quite another thing to c

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