TheOtherHobbes

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by TheOtherHobbes 5d ago
Musk is literally burning methane for funsies, and generating CSAM and getting sued for it. Handing corporate code secrets to his AI model is... unusually trusting.
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by TheOtherHobbes 5d ago
And space launches. The Big Names will lose a ton of money and disappear as the tech commoditises. The moat is Being Able To Do Things No One Else Can and as both hardware and software commoditise that moat disappears. Open LLMs are already
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by TheOtherHobbes 5d ago
We do. And they're full of politicians, financiers, religious leaders, and media personalities, not so much street tattooists.
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by TheOtherHobbes 5d ago
Where's the money in censoring nipples?
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
You're limited by the time, knowledge, and complexity costs of hand-rolling and testing a solution to your problem. As soon as commands become even a little non-trivial, those costs mount up.
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
That's a huge part of the appeal. If you're really lazy you can tell an LLM to add a specific column to a specific database, and it will handroll some SQL just for you and run it. It's slow and very inefficient, but it works.
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
Underappreciated point. The point of inflection is where humans switch from being a driver to a liability. But I don't think it's randomness, because that would be easy to add. It's more like a different perspective on the tr
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
No, it's a means of removing anonymity so promoters of ideologically unsound sentiment can be identified.
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
The default style is literally marketing droid - a mix of blather, grammatical filler, folksy corporate pretension, and SV dev speak. ('And here's why that matters.' Things 'landing' through 'gates', abstr
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
The worst thing about them is the lack of patch memories. This is sold as some kind of creative limitation, but really it just means you can't park an interesting patch and keep refining and exploring it. I prefer virtual modulars li
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
There's an entire industry of women's fiction made entirely of improbably bulging and muscular men (as seen on the cover, sometimes headless) with limitless drive and passion (as described, in physiological detail, in the text.) B
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by TheOtherHobbes 7d ago
An angry cat in full fight mode will absolutely put a human in hospital, and the bites and scratches are teeming with potentially deadly bacteria. They may be unique - a super-successful predator that has persuaded a more dominant species t
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by TheOtherHobbes 7d ago
Did you look at the examples? They're almost ridiculously diverse, and the prompts show very little handholding was required. They're not novel, but a poster for a spring fair isn't supposed to look like a de Kooning. These a
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
I'm not clear where the line is between individual agents acting in their own interests, which may involve more or less abstract experiences of cooperation and mutuality, and a direct awareness of self. You don't need something
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
Interesting argument. At first sight it looks like an argument for scarcity, but I think it's more an argument for relationship - the value of art isn't in the capitalist concept of 'a for-profit content object in a corpora
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
Description isn't explanation at all. That's bullshit. Whys are teleological. No one knows why anything. Hows are working models. And, as per Kuhn, they get updated regularly, but people get attached to them and they often need to
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
His point is that in cosmology, that 'standard part of the scientific toolkit' isn't being used. It also sounds as if he's discovered that PhDs are rewarded for work that makes their supervisor look good, not for origina
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
Did you not read the article? She was unaware of the controversy and had just had a baby - which tends to be quite a stressful and time consuming thing. The milk comparison is specious and irrelevant, because consumers are there for the pro
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
It was hardly ever the same business making the image and the food. I'll say that again - when a restaurant has pictures of food, those pictures are often from stock, not actual representative shots of the food the restaurant sells.
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
No doubt MAGA Who would have been much more popular?
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
All of the big franchises are collapsing under the weight of nostalgia and self-reference. Reboots like Picard are shockingly, almost insensitively, retrospective.
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
A generative AI UI would be far better at accessibility than various fixed human attempts, because every user would be able to customise it to suit their own needs from their own set of customisation preferences. People still aren't un
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
I'm not sure why anyone is expecting stochastic systems to be deterministic. Chess is a deterministic game won by a combination of known movesets and constrained multi-level forward search. LLMs do neither of these things. They don&#x2
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
Industrial modernism is an aesthetic of distance, abstraction, predictability, and containment. But the flip side isn't anti-modernism, it's mass-market kitsch, which is at least as ugly. Minimalism isn't bad on its own, and
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
Western-ish tuning and harmony with some independence in the lines. I'd guess hymns influenced this at some point. It would have been really interesting to hear original pre-contact music.
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
I had ridges in my nails after an exceptionally bad bout of flu. It's not obscure or complex.
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
Columbus and the Conquistadores and slavers did exactly the same things, at scale. (Apart from the cannibalism, so far as we know.) Being able to write and use technology stops no one from being a savage, if they're that way inclined.
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by TheOtherHobbes 12d ago
At some point you realise that an $11tn industry, with $7tn in handouts and subsidies every year, has spent billions on astroturfing, political capture, and straight PR to deny the obvious and keep itself on life support at the expense of e
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by TheOtherHobbes 12d ago
If we doubled our energy out - not easy, but plausible with mass solar - carbon capture becomes practical enough to essentially end CO2 accumulation. It might take a couple of decades and a lot of reorganisation to build the capture facilit
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by TheOtherHobbes 12d ago
>Now there may be other potential issues that would elevate the matter, if disinformation is used, or if personal information about citizens is obtained illegitimately, then they could constitute crimes in their own right. Both of those

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