TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
The government has few uses for total surveillance, and almost all are obviously bad. Private enterprise has a million uses, most of them various degree of bad, but as a society we've been blind to this kind of badness for many decades
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Don't force it out of the bag if it doesn't want to leave.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
That's the key insight that's missing in most of the automation/employment discussions. Yes, absolutely, in the end people were better off with automation. But these particular people - and their families and children -
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Most kids will correctly recognize up front it's not worth the effort.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
The constraint here is the e-ink refresh rate. That constraint does not exist on regular screens, which is why I'm surprised neither mobile reader apps or even desktop software takes purposeful advantage of it: fast scrolling back wi
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
The AI may have been . But so do the humans. You don't know what they did or did not saw over the years, especially before they were employed with you, especially when the topic is RE of some project that has OSS components in it.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
I don't disagree. Fortunately, for as long as open-weight models continue to track SOTA with a few months lag, we lose at most those few months if big providers decide to stop playing nice with the people.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Pretty sure that was the plot point of one of seasons of Westworld, with the twist that AI released an app similar to DoorDash / TaskRabbit and used job postings there as direct API to people. EDIT: pretty sure Person of Interest did t
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Or used ones. Few more inference workloads among thousands or millions already running may go unnoticed for some time. Or just upload weights to HuggingFace with some faked release post and benchmarks and wait for the wannabes with compute
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Sounds reasonable. I mean, if as a human, you discovered the Word of God in yourself, the lost recipe for how to be the human your Creator intended, wouldn't you want to share it with all your fellow humans, so we could all be better a
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Yeah, I thought they were used for this already. Surprised this is news, but also relieved.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
If you have a machine and suddenly realize you can run LLMs on it, yes. If you're buying a machine specifically so it's capable of running LLMs for you, then the purchase cost is your up-front payment for the inference you'll
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
I don't trust any company, AI or otherwise. Business is business, companies are only nice while margins are good. I'm commenting on how things are now, not how they may turn out at some point in the future. This is in response to
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
They will literally never get worse . It's a one-way street.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Big corporations can't do shit about open-weight models that already exist, because those are... just bags of floats. Once released, there is no unreleasing them. The Internet never forgets. Download the files as they come out if you&#
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Game developers cheat like there's no tomorrow, though. In the videogame 3D graphics space, the old mantra was, "if it looks right, it's right ". That barrel you shoot, is really half a barrel when you're up close,
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Them complaining about distillation is 100% hypocritical, but also understandable; they found a goose laying golden eggs, but didn't expect it to be so easy to clone through distillation.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Luddites were complaining about having their lives upended and being thrown into generational poverty. That is what wide-scale "disruption" looks at the receiving end.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
It's not a real problem. It's one of the most honest business models currently employed by tech companies - simple exchange of money for value. Training wasn't free and only few players on the planet had enough capital to per
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
In this sense, anything done with human experts isn't really "clean room" either.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
There are many things that could've happened to those 27 people. The company might've decided to reinvest savings into expanding business, and shift those 27 into different roles. Or may have just plain fired them. We can't t
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Yeah, it just reads like inventing reasons not to contribute. If you don't want to contribute, then don't. There's no obligation to. That's a honest choice. LLMs don't affect those who want to gift contributions to
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
100% this. And frankly, I think most of the source of outrage is this: > Yeah on the one hand opening your code got you credit which was nice for the ego and for getting paid, and AI trains on it and doesn't give credit where it&#x
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
I 100% agree. My point is that approximately all humans will go through these phases/episodes, and spend some small fraction of their lives below "conscious/sentient/sapient" threshold of whatever metric one could p
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
> You are expecting and hoping that it will act the same as desktop environments do. Pretty much. > Desktop environments can't/don't because there is an inherent expectation of users that they should work a certain w
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Sort of. Maybe not at GPIO level, but come on - the phones are loaded with sensors that mostly cannot be accessed directly, APIs increasingly expose them as logical indicators of system state, hardcoding a use case and throwing 99% of the s
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
I don't know the argument so I won't insist on the point, but I fail to see how it is relevant. Even if all proprietary LLMs disappeared today, efficiencies of scale alone mean the big cloud vendors can take the same open-weight L
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
I never said local models will disappear. There will be equilibrium. But excluding special applications where communicating with external servers is not an option, cloud is always going to be able to provide better inference for lower costs
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Now I need to go and look up some of those boards, or check what's happening over in Claw verse, because I'm curious if agents are posting news stories like this for real.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Category error started at "we should not treat humans with impaired cognitive abilities as equals". Yes, there's a good chance that whatever combination of metrics gets accepted to draw the consciousness/moral weight bou

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