Miraste

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by Miraste 2y ago
Of course it has other benefits. The context of the conversation was in terms of advancement in society,
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by Miraste 2y ago
Exactly, it's useful for theft. Taking the value other people produce is the whole benefit of social intelligence. If you can convince someone that a scam is a good deal, you don't need to create any value at all. This is the orig
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by Miraste 2y ago
This is off base. Socially intelligent people occupy all of the best paid and most powerful positions in society. Social manipulation is the most valued kind of intelligence in America, far more than academic intelligence.
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by Miraste 2y ago
There are a few people like that, but not many. And certainly none in the AI space.
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by Miraste 2y ago
That hasn't stopped them before. Fitbit and Nest, for example. Granted, this is an order of magnitude more money to waste. Maybe they'll come up with a better strategy this time.
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by Miraste 2y ago
Google in particular has had some egregiously fake AI demos in the past.
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by Miraste 2y ago
Ah, 90s network security. Happier times. I went and checked myself, and they have evolved a lot more than I remembered. For the better, I think, but you're certainly right that they could be going about this in a more legally adept way
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by Miraste 2y ago
Do you think the open source community is capable of maintaining Firefox without Mozilla? I find that doubtful. Even if they did, without Mozilla, Cloudflare and friends would start trying to kill Firefox like they do to other independent b
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by Miraste 2y ago
Yes, exactly. The Internet Archive was founded in direct response to closed archives-being open is the entire point. Their goal is not preservation if it's locked in a vault- their mission statement is "to provide Universal Acce
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by Miraste 2y ago
>leave the items up, block download of the full file, and make excerpts available. This is what Google does with Google Books. I imagine the Internet Archive is trying to avoid it because Books is no longer a repository of works, it&#x27
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by Miraste 2y ago
That New Yorker article is not "partly" tongue in cheek, good grief. Has Reddit broken reading comprehension so badly it needed an /s?
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by Miraste 2y ago
I like Affinity Photo a lot, and it's what I use, but Photoshop is definitely the more powerful program. Affinity still doesn't even have an auto-select.
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by Miraste 2y ago
This is true of macro life forms, but rinderpest is a bad example. It's one of only two diseases we have ever been able to eliminate. Both of them were viruses-we've never stopped a bacterial disease, and with the increasing failu
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by Miraste 2y ago
Yes and no, but mostly no. Nearly everything advertised as a laser projector uses the laser as a light source for a normal DLP/LCD/LCoS setup, and needs to be focused the same as with a light bulb source. Even the triple laser on
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by Miraste 2y ago
I've only used larger, higher power ones that are meant to stay in one place. Even with those, all the "point it at a wall and it looks like a TV" marketing is fiction. They don't look good without projector screens unle
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by Miraste 2y ago
The novel part is projecting onto an LCD panel instead of a simple piece of glass.
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by Miraste 2y ago
You're missing that the LCD is still there. It's still blocking just as much light as it originally did, but now the DLP chip is also blocking light. The effect stacks.
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by Miraste 2y ago
They have gotten better. Recent consumer projectors use triple (RGB) lasers as a light source, which improves color accuracy a lot. It's not worth replacing one that works, but it is noticeable.
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by Miraste 2y ago
I think the dichotomy between how developers have reacted to LLMs (mass adoption) and how authors, illustrators, etc. have reacted (derision, avoidance) demonstrates that coding was never an art to begin with. Code is not an end in itself,
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by Miraste 2y ago
If anyone is wondering, it's ~1 billion dollars per year, for a homeless population of less than 10,000. With this money, they have achieved basically zero change in that number for years. Staggering, incredible levels of waste.
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by Miraste 2y ago
The spec may say it, but I've never encountered a USB-C cable that claims to support 240 watts. I suspect if machines that tried to draw 240W over USB-C were widespread, we would see a lot of melted cables and fires. There are enough o
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by Miraste 2y ago
Unless you run the GPUs in parallel, which you have to go out of your way to do, the IO bandwidth doesn't matter. The cards hold separate layers of the model, they're not working together. They're only passing a few kilobytes
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by Miraste 2y ago
I imagine that's why he's pivoted to using other peoples' wealth.
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by Miraste 2y ago
Then one has to ask: is it producing a facsimile of reasoning with no logic behind it, or is it just reasoning poorly?
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by Miraste 2y ago
Answering novel prompts isn't proof of reasoning, only pattern matching. A calculator can answer prompts it's never seen before too. If anything, I would come down on the reasoning side, at least for recent CoT models-but it'
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by Miraste 2y ago
Apple needs China. It's a big market that still manufactures most iPhones, despite their efforts to change that. The surveillance bill the UK has passed is in some ways worse than China's (a UK shard would not satisfy it), and t
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by Miraste 2y ago
Of course Apple doesn't have principles, they're a for-profit company. What's in question here is whether they believe the UK is financially worth opening this can of worms. Following US government whims is good business for
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by Miraste 2y ago
The US can get away with this through its immense power and economic influence (for the moment, at least). The UK is a small market of middling relevance, and their government's belief that they're a global power is an anachronism
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by Miraste 2y ago
Unfortunately, that subset is the tech community leadership.
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by Miraste 2y ago
Exactly. Investors will always constitute a force against cooperatives; countries with successful coops (Spain, Italy, the Nordics, even Canada) provide other funding mechanisms to prevent private investment from dictating the entire market

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