Legend2440

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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Lol, as if they can just get copyright reform passed because they asked nicely for it. They can't legally publish the digital copies, and you know it. Training is fair use but direct copies are not.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
On the other hand, the book can only be in one place and read by one person at a time. People may not even know the book exists or that it contains the information they want. Obtaining access to a copy may be very difficult, even if it is n
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
>That random product manual from 1966 becomes a near-priceless relic to me if it lets me repair and use the sewing machine handed down from my grandmother. Not necessarily the ink printed on paper, but the information contained within. O
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
AI companies are building the knowledge from the books into their models, which they offer for sale to the general public. Far more people will use the model than would ever have read the book.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
I'm not opposed to it on principle, but it has to actually work. Every AI phone assistant I've talked to has been pretty terrible, even compared to modern LLMs like ChatGPT voice mode.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Many people do like AI tools and use them regularly. ChatGPT has nearly a billion weekly active users. It's just that another group of people absolutely hates the idea of AI and wants it to go away.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
>Mine are mostly stale... because non-stale spices are expensive and take effort and education to track down. Not really though. The spices at the grocery store are not stale when you buy them, and will not go stale for 1-2 years once op
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Keep in mind that both wages and rents are higher in SF and not really comparable to the rest of the country.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
We are nowhere close to thermodynamic limits. Another 100x or even 100000x growth is entirely possible. We aren't even using 0.01% of the solar energy that hits the Earth's surface, let alone what we could capture with possible fu
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Degrowth is such a stupid idea. All the things that make your life better - housing, healthcare, education, food, iphones, air conditioning, cars, and more - are forms of wealth. You cannot have more of them without economic growth, because
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
>Mixing this can let you believe that you can use a compressor to do the same thing as LLMs, which you cannot. You can, actually! Any compressor can be losslessly converted into a generator, and vice versa. Traditional compressors like g
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
He didn't, and if he did he'd dismiss it as just part of the con.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
A whole ton of people desperately want to believe that LLMs are a lie that will be revealed as a scam... any day now.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
This is a new architecture. It's a non-vonn neumann device.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
What you're describing is what Cerberas does. Talaas is different, it's a true compute-in-memory architecture where the weights are stored in the connections between the transistors that perform the matrix multiply, rather than in
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
There is a data center in my town. I drove by it and don't get the fuss. It's a box in an industrial park. It makes a little bit of noise but not nearly as much as the paper factory next to it. People just like to whine.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
>Not all consumption is good. That's not your call to make. If I am willing to spend my hard-earned money on a thing, it's because I think it will improve my life. Who are you to tell me otherwise? You're not my mom. And i
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Nonsense. Who consumes the goods produced by the factories and mines? Who lives in the apartments and takes the high speed rail? Automation is also a massive boon to the common man. It's the only reason we're not both dirt farmers
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Because ultimately those things (apartments, high-speed rail, mines, factories, datacenters, etc) exist for the benefit of the public. We give tax breaks because we recognize that these things are beneficial to the economy and want to incen
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
I don't really think it's about the adverse impacts. That one in utah everybody hated was gonna be built in an empty valley. There would have been no impact to neighbors because there weren't any, and no impact to the grid be
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
If there's one thing Americans can agree on, it's that we don't like building things.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
I think Goodhart's law is just a consequence of correlation vs causation. It is very easy to find a metric that is correlated with what you want. But once you start trying to influence a system, you quickly push it out of the range w
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Well that's on purpose lol. OpenAI does not want you falling in love with their chatbot and have been deliberately training it to be less romantic.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Proof? In my experience modern models are better at all tasks than models from two years ago, especially complex multi-step tasks.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
The oil industry as a whole does not benefit from supply side shocks. However, the US oil industry is not supply constrained by the war. They can still produce as much oil as ever. It's only their competitors in the middle east that a
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
>They're rare books that are bought in bulk for scanning. Nope! Actually this article has a list of the books they were scanning: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/dutch-bookseller-ai-spam-phis... >pr
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
The books you will find on a bulk sale are, by definition, the ones that are very common today.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
This benefits me personally by having the information in the books freely available through the AI, which anyone can use. I'm all for it.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
Because air is extremely common and not scarce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value Similarly, wholesale used books are cheap because they are extremely common and not scarce.
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by Legend2440 2mo ago
They probably still throw away the duplicates even if they don't scan them, because the wholesale value of a used paperback of the Da Vinci Code is like half a cent.

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