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by Taek 2y ago
This comment is giving me "I am very smart" vibes. Yes, everything you said was true, but I'm not sure it's adding that much value to the discussion and it comes across like its correcting GP, who never claimed that all
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by Taek 2y ago
I find it unlikely that someone who was willing to pay an artist for a charcoal sketch would be satisfied with an AI alternative. You don't just buy art for the aethstetic, you buy it for a lot of reasons and AI doesn't give any o
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by Taek 2y ago
I don't think there's consensus around that idea. Lots of people (myself included) feel that copyright is already vastly overreaching, and that AI represents forward progress for the proliferation of art in society (its crap today
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If I recall, the suicide had some highly suspicious circumstances and calls to question whether it was actually a suicide had worthwhile merit.
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I'm actually okay with the things you mentioned. The really salient example for me is: should Disney be allowed to advertise Disney movies and Disney products at Disney world? The answer seems to be a pretty obvious yes to me. If you a
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by Taek 2y ago
So, I dug into this somewhat deeply, and it's true that there's some case law which would make an outright ban of commercial advertising difficult, however: The law is pretty consistent about the idea that any paid endorsement has
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by Taek 2y ago
Establishing that you support the extreme action does not mean that you are unwilling to accept incremental action as well. Let's start by banning billboards, and then let's keep going and ban more forms of mental pollution until
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by Taek 2y ago
The difference between an advertisement and a post on HN is that the HN comment (presumably) is not a paid comment - people are saying things on HN because they genuinely believe them, not because someone with an agenda paid them to pretend
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by Taek 2y ago
I have taken one project to $3 billion and another to $700 million, and along the way we have run numerous events, marketed numerous products, and built many reputations. Many of the most successful products (including one that hit 2 millio
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by Taek 2y ago
The law has pretty firm definitions for things like "in kind payments" and "consideration" - because these sorts of sneaky ways of rewarding people are also relevant to bribes! So we aren't treading into new unchart
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by Taek 2y ago
Procter & Gamble is welcome to become a media production company, but they can't push their media by paying for distribution - any paid distribution is advertising. Instead, distributors have to want to distribute the content becau
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by Taek 2y ago
I would define "advertisement" in this context as "paying someone else to say something of your choosing". So, in the case of a billboard, if you are paying a landlord, that's advertising. If you are paying a newspa
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by Taek 2y ago
If all advertising was banned, other institutions would set up to fill the vacuum. Imagine variations of Consumer Reports but that stretch across all sorts of industries. Essentially, to get the word out about your organization or product (
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by Taek 2y ago
Advertising is a parasitic force on society. It sucks up your attention with a willful intention to change your purchasing behaviour, often knowing that the new behavior is worse for you. If ads were merely about being informative, they wou
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by Taek 2y ago
My first response to this comment was very poorly received. I initially thought I had been polite and straightforward, but upon reflection I guess it came across as pretty dismissive. That wasn't my intention at all, and I'm sorry
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by Taek 2y ago
Do you have links to research or other credible sources that establish kids who have plentiful friends don't also have imaginary friends? Your statement intuitively feels false to me, and I would like you to defend it.
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by Taek 2y ago
I read the post, and I can't see anything in the post which says that the model is not multi-modal, nor can I see anything in the post that suggests that the images are being processed in-context.
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by Taek 2y ago
Can you find me a single official source from OpenAI that claims that GPT 4o is generating images pixel-by-pixel inside of the context window? There are lots of clues that this isn't happening (including the obvious upscaling call afte
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by Taek 2y ago
There are many clues to indicate that the animation is a lie. For example, it clearly upscales the image using an external tool after the first image renders. As another example, if you ask the model about the tokens inside of its own conte
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by Taek 2y ago
Can you provide a link or screenshot that directly backs this up?
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> it appears to be generating the image tokens and decoding them akin to the original DALL-E The animation is a lie. The new 4o with "native" image generating capabilities is a multi-modal model that is connected to a diffusion
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by Taek 2y ago
> What's important about this new type of image generation that's happening with tokens rather than with diffusion, is that this is effectively reasoning in pixel space. I do not think that this is correct. Prior to this releas
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by Taek 2y ago
How is 6x generous? Alphabet's P/E is 23. That means $2 billion rev implies $46b valuation (assuming high margins) These deals always have more than meets the eye. Google wouldn't acquire revenue at a fair market price just f
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by Taek 2y ago
ToS have limits, people in a practical sense aren't really able to read and understand the ToS of every product they buy, which means a ToS can only go so far in the ways it allows companies to be predatory against consumers.
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by Taek 2y ago
Well yeah, if you are in a 195 degree sauna with 45% humidity there's a ton of heat transfer, that's why people like them. And it would definitely be unsafe to hang out in them for too long. People who aren't well adjusted to
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by Taek 2y ago
It takes about 300 watt hours of energy to raise the body temperature of a human by 6 degrees. If your human is starting at 99 degrees, 6 degrees will put you at 105, which is where you'll start to have immediate problems. (At 104 you
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by Taek 2y ago
The amount of arrogance in this thread about what temperatures become fatal is baffling. Hyperthermia is not something that kills you on the timeline of minutes or even hours at wet bulb temperatures of 100F+, or even 105F+. Remember, when
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by Taek 2y ago
Not at all. I've spent plenty of time (sessions exceeding an hour) in saunas that were >105F and >95% humidity (literally so much steam that it was continuously raining from the condensation). Remember that when you get a fever,
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Biden declares Equal Rights Amendment US law, even though it is not(reuters.com)
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by Taek 2y ago
Responsible disclosure is about harm minimization. If you tell the world about an exploit, now there are thousands of hackers who have been informed about ways they can harm innocent people. You should only openly disclose a found vulnerabi

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