ElevenLathe

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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
This is just a guess, but is the reason the same one that the gas is cheap all the way out in BFE west Texas? In other words, even if you could generate electricity from wellhead gas more cheaply than a bunch of wind turbines, solar panels,
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
Hot Sprints was pretty sad the last time I visited (more than 10 years ago now), but you could clearly see that it was once a ritzy place. One thing Havana had on Hot Springs was obviously that they could be open about liquor consumption du
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
The main reason Cuba was valuable to U.S. interests before the Revolution was as a playground for American vacationers. Las Vegas was basically spun up as a replacement Havana after the Revolution took it away from U.S. interests and jet ai
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
I'm not suggesting anyone is doing anything, just stating the objective fact that it is definitely possible for closed-weight model developers, and would be super hard to detect outside of this limit scenario you posit, where it is pro
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
> You can’t benchmaxx an eval that comes after your model release Sure you can, just do it silently and don't tell the people hitting your API that the model is different now. Unless it's open weight, we're just taking you
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
It's wild how software BoM is taking off at the same time that LLM BoM is being declared literally impossible. IMO the threat model is roughly the same: if you can't account for the provenance of all the text in your training set,
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I've noticed that things like "decision documents" and complete feature or service {proposals,white papers,"one pagers"} have become acceptable since the start of the AI {boom,bubble} in a way that they weren't
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Your father believes it because, presumably, he is not paid to deny it, like the president and his lackeys are.
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
The original Model T plant (the Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit proper) was not vertically integrated, and in fact most of the "running gear" (all the complicated stuff, basically everything but the coachwork) was purchased as
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
They don't want to spend resources on something that they don't like (AI), but don't care about resources spent on something they do (wine). This is rational if you assume feelings don't need to be rational, which typica
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
You could say this about anything, but it's being said about AI datacenters. People like wine! They don't like AI and the NSA. It's really not a mystery.
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Maybe not, but it does mean that the request for empathy in this post is completely backwards. It's a minor annoyance for the poster, and life or death for the sender. I get spam to tell me about promotions for Australian McDonalds loc
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Ordinary, non-elite jobseekers (at least in the US) NEED a job or they will be homeless. If you want somebody to stop asking for a job, give them a job.
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I somewhat recently had a conversation about how we were going to start being more "strict" about how we do Agile (with a straight face). And they were right!
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I was young, but I remember a world before the internet was widespread. I was also an adult for years before I had it in my pocket. In these Before Times, there were often conversations that would meander for minutes about some fact that wo
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
There's only one way to eat an elephant: one bite at time. Putting some energy into organizing, even if only on the level of deliberately building solidarity with your coworkers and never mentioning the word "union", can and
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
When have religion and "morality codes" meaningfully constrained elites? I can't think of an elite caste anywhere in history that is really even close to what a rational observer would call "moral". Yes, certain thi
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I'm curious how you envision money ever leaving politics. I hear this phrase often and every time I do it feels more and more nonsensical. Politics is what we call the social aspect of resource management (it's often called "
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
A social system that looks at a technology like LLMs and decides to use it to increase "output" in some abstract way while reducing the median standard of living is a system that will have a hard time maintaining popular (non-elit
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
At least where I am, substitute teachers don't have to study anything in particular at all. You simply need to have completed X number of credit hours at an accredited institution, no actual degree or certificate is required and the
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I think it's interesting that you think we could bootstrap an artificial brain with no inputs from human culture. I disagree, but am open to an existence proof of this kind. Such an artificial brain would be totally alien to us, of cou
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Yes, this to me is also a good sign for the "it's language that's smart, not us" argument. It's an emergent trait that has evolved several times, like flight or carcinization. There's something about language t
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I personally think that the "inner voice" is a non-falsifiable claim, and therefore more of a religious belief than something which can be part of any materialist theory. In this regard, I'm a strict empiricist and wouldn&#x2
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
It's language. Language itself is the thing that makes us smart in the unique way that we are among the other animals, and it weirdly turns out to be transferable to machines to at least some degree.
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
OpenAI might in fact be a good target for stuff like this at the moment. Even if your argument is weak, they may be eager to settle generously if your suit threatens the speediness of their IPO in some way. But I happen to think this is in
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Yeah, I didn't mean to be argumentative, but I hate that issues like this are frequently framed as generational conflicts when they're really class conflicts. There are a lot of people that benefit from erasing the whole concept o
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I think it's much less about generation than about material conditions. It's easier to convince someone that AI is going to be good for their bottom line if they are already retired, or at least have a significant chunk of savings
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
...which wouldn't be as big a deal if the blue collar factory jobs weren't also gone to the far east. Conceptually, the only non-shit jobs left to automate are artisan-style trades like plumbing and carpentry. These are great care
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
IANAL but this can't possibly hold up in any but the kangarooest of kangaroo courts. The whole thing in fact seems to be an end run around the judge who saw clearly that this was Trump essentially suing himself in an Uncle Sam costume.
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
One major axis on which LLMs could get better is energy (and in general material) efficiency, doing the same stuff they do now but with fewer inputs. I actually fear that we are very early on this curve. The period of time between electric

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