TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Graphene OS is the odd one, I don't know what to make of it. It seems to be the only entrant in the mobile OS space that has a remote chance to work as alternative OS for daily use - but it's optimizing directly for the philosophy
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Obviously not true, unless you think that "idea" is the only thing, and "execution" is worthless, at arbitrary timescales. Which would make 99% of us "not thinking" 99% of the time.
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
> It is also why the doomer argument is so ridiculous. It is a type of superstition that is confusing a real danger. We don't need to "align" the nuclear reactor so it doesn't get angry and meltdown. It is just a mac
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Yes. I'd also argue there isn't anything humans couldn't do in theory, other than things strictly prohibited by known laws of physics. It's been pretty conclusively shown in the last 100 years, we're past tipping po
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Long-term, if we allow AI to manufacture machines, the set of such things is empty. Immediate-term, it's pretty clear that natural division of labor is that computers do the thinking, and humans do the menial, manual work that requir
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
No, they don't - that implication is in the heads of people who believe AI is magic, or believe AI is advertised as magic, or believe that humans are dumb. The actual implication is, and always been, different: AI did something human
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
> A dog does not claim to be conscious. So you need to handle that somehow, but you can't just patch dogs (or octopuses) into "conscious" group, because you can draw a straight line between humans and bacteria and, along
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
And the poor human is still stuck inside the dataset, none the wiser. Wonder how many people are living their whole lives inside GPT-6 Astra, oblivious to the fact their universe is just a few months old and is just a bag of floats?
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Headline for IEEE: biologists show that human brain is basically a big FPGA devboard.
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
I bet you can tune hyperparameters on the MRI so that the resulting image makes the lizard brain look like a lizard, too.
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
"and both are asbestos-free"
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
I think "Human brain evolved from two separate organs" would've been more accurate and sufficiently simple/short for a headline, but I guess it won't fly either due to political reasons.
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Did you try to scroll the list tho? (Did they fix that whole "store contacts in a linked list" problem in Android already?)
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
I'm saying that environmental externalities are hugely overblown[0] and to a large extent are part of the cost model. Datacenters are not like the legacy industries, they have to pay for the land and energy they use. > Your point a
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Much like with 2FA apps, most of the sites I've seen - including big names - support only one app and one passkey at a time .
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by TeMPOraL 20d ago
Oh right, I started to notice it too - couple non-tech people around me seem to treat "password reset" as default login flow, and definitely don't complain as much about auth flows as the rest. I guess that's one effecti
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
Thanks for the explanation! This is indeed consistent with my observations. But it brings me to two follow-up questions: 1) What is that registry switch even doing, if the problem can be solved with just setting it? 2) Why is Python not usi
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
> For a while, this could coexist with us screwing around with a real-life tricorder. Wish I could upvote you twice for that line alone. It perfectly sums up what I always wanted Android to be. Alas, the closer we are to this in hardwa
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
I call this the Hanlon's Handgun: "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by systemic incentives promoting malice." Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&am
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
> There has never been more content creators making a living off their content than there is today. Look no further than these enormous platforms with ad rev sharing options for contributors producing UGC. And you think anyone is actua
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
Your point notwithstanding, that's still a bargain.
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
> Most of what they are stealing is the sum total of human knowledge, which was created before most of us were even born - it is public domain already. Well then they cannot possibly stealing this, and short of creating laws that direc
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
I don't know, and I don't care. Scaled proportionally to actual contribution, it'll be like $0.000001 / year, and I'm not going to begrudge the AI companies for not paying me a fractional cent, and I'm definite
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
> It is certainly closer to intelligence than anything we’ve come up with before, it can certainly match or beat actual intelligence in some domains, but just as certainly it clearly lacks many features and capabilities of intelligence.
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
There's a balance to be found here, that's unfortunately very hard to find at times. In my experience, there are two classes of tasks: some are very "in-distribution", and for those LLMs can near-flawlessly perform the &
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
> Even to this day Windows has all kinds of problems around long file paths in its ecosystem. To this day I don't know if it's a Windows problem or a Python problem, because I never encountered this - and never realized thi
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
You have a very large subthread debating downstream confusions, which were previously debated in millions of such discussion on-line too. It's a confusion everyone has to learn to live with when first exposed to concept and the metapho
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
> orders of magnitude more are using LLMs to brainstorm if not outright generate content for them, which they are then reframing as their own creation I doubt it, those are the same group of people anyway. Orders of magnitude more peop
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
We have free plans and open-weight models you can host yourself, or pay someone for hosting, or host yourself and sell others to recoup the costs. All of these lag SOTA by ~6 months on average, so yes, indeed, the thing you could only pay f
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by TeMPOraL 21d ago
That I can't argue with. "Distillation is theft" is one of the silliest and most hypocritical things uttered in any of the debates surrounding AI.

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