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by Ukv 2y ago
> If the codebase has multiple languages using my api I will need to make changes in these other languages if I want to do this. This is a very real cost to me. Current policy, at least in theory, is that the C interfaces can change as b
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by Ukv 2y ago
> I would. You would. I would've had no idea prior to reading this article. There seems to be real value in the LLM being able to probe with relevant diagnostic questions, then picking out "Your platelet count is alarmingly low
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by Ukv 2y ago
> A narrow definition will appear less frequently and thus probably have higher informational content. It's why a word "a" has little informational content, but a very specific word like "vestibular" has more inf
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by Ukv 2y ago
Castle.io's customers seem to include marketing platforms, and their listed use-cases include preventing account sharing and alt accounts. Can understand why a company would want to be able to uniquely identify users, but also from a u
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Rigid in as I like things to be concise and precise as possible. The more rigid the definition, the fewer things a word can be. I think there two, arguably three, concepts being conflated here: 1. Narrow vs broad - how much is included
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Yeah, because the stricter the definition, the more useful it is Language is capable of expressing broad and narrow concepts. I don't think it can be said that either is inherently "more useful" - it just depends what yo
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by Ukv 2y ago
Neat idea. Would like to be able to type normally - clicking each letter is fairly annoying.
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Why is that unreasonable? I'd argue that if applied as a universal principle, then: * It would make it even harder specifically for smaller companies, who don't have ~200 employees to position one in each country, to get star
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by Ukv 2y ago
Can see the potential uses for prototyping, like if you fed in some concept art as the initial frame, but struggle to see the applications for game preservation. I feel the result would be more demanding to run than traditional emulation, s
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by Ukv 2y ago
> We should attribute no normative weight to whether something should or shouldn't be scientifically analyzable. So we should always improve our means of observation, as well as our culture towards the things that are difficult [...
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by Ukv 2y ago
Not GP but I'd argue that whatever we mean by consciousness must at least have physical impact. Something that doesn't couldn't decide our actions in the physical world like laughing at a joke or painting a picture, and criti
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by Ukv 2y ago
> I assumed we were talking about logistics, not tech Still uncertain what you mean - the logistics of creating something? Logistics as in transporting goods? Either way I think veggieroll's point on viability still stands. > Dee
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Yes, they do To clarify: veggieroll said training models wouldn't be viable, you said it'd just require licensing like everyone else already manages, I said most other cases don't use millions/billions of works, you
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Sure it is. It just requires what every other copyright'd work needs: permission and stipulations from the copyright holder. Most other scenarios don't use millions/billions of works - that's the part which puts via
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by Ukv 2y ago
> All company's incentive is fundamentally to sell more product and advertising and marketing are the ways to do that. [...] There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to sell something if you live in a capitalist society. T
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Right but where do they get their info? Hopefully from first-hand experience with the product, and not just from ads. > If there were no advertisements, would they call up companies to see what they offered? Searching product listin
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Here is how: You have to admit and understand you are competing, you have to have a sense of where your competition is, and then you have to find out how to put yourself around them like chess, so they wake up and realized they lost. O
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by Ukv 2y ago
> Advertising is a PURE competitive move I think "competition" has to be directed towards a useful end, like improving the product, else it's at danger of just causing enormous waste disproportionate* to any value it is cr
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by Ukv 2y ago
Advertising is "worth it" in the same sense as sites with JS crypto miners. 10¢ of resources are wasted to cover 0.1¢ of operation costs.
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by Ukv 2y ago
> This is a tad reductive. If there were no ads, how would people know that products existed? The post does say: > > Limited to honestly informing people about what's available on the market, it can serve a crucial function in
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by Ukv 2y ago
> If I were to implement some feature by writing a test for it first, I'd have to have a very clear idea of exactly how the feature should behave. I'd need to have chosen a suitable name for it, worked out what parameters it sh
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by Ukv 2y ago
> isn't this a slam dunk case? Meta literally published a paper where they said "We trained this AI on Intellectual Property which we knew had been obtained without the owners' consent." Making/receiving copies w
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by Ukv 2y ago
I think humans do two broad types of arithmetic: #1: For small numbers, the answer is "directly" available to us without consciously applying any steps #2: For larger numbers, we consciously apply some formal method to break the p
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by Ukv 2y ago
UI looks clean, but I'm always annoyed to see users looking for a new browser being drawn towards gimmicky Chromium reskins that do little to loosen Google's grip on dictating web standards.
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by Ukv 2y ago
While not the case here, I feel like if some system really does have a lower error rate than humans on some task, then it'd be wrong to rule it out just because it can't be held accountable or punished. To me those are primarily m
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by Ukv 2y ago
> To clarify, there is greater chance of natural pandemic. I think it'd be excessively pessimistic (and very selectively so) to believe vaccine/etc. research would increase the overall chance of a pandemic. But, the idea I&#x27
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by Ukv 2y ago
> is a certainty in that you have what you have If you halt disease research, there's a greater chance of a pandemic - or losing the battle to drug-resistant diseases. If you halt meteor deflection programs, there's a greater c
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by Ukv 2y ago
This whole issue seems frivolous. That she used a MacBook for this presentation doesn't mean she "can't be bothered to figure out how to run FreeBSD". > I wonder why a woman like Kim McMahon was hired by the FreeBSD F
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by Ukv 2y ago
> I think your description here assumes too much clarity in what is possible or what will happen if you continue on. Sometimes the system is well understood and the potential gains are pretty clear, that isn't always the case though
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by Ukv 2y ago
> That would still have to be weighed with [...] As always you'd have to determine whether some course of action would have disproportionate negative impact on other objectives, yep. Point there was to set out on what basis I'd

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