WarmWash

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by WarmWash 1mo ago
It's one of those things people only want when it benefits their ideas in the moment.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
The US isn't totally dependant on foreign states to have a modern economy. Delete the US and China and all Europe has left is 6 weeks vacation.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Might as well ban computers then, no?
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Europe had the opportunity to create a silicon valley 30 years ago. They fumbled it so badly that most euro tech talent went to the US and worked or even founded their companies there. They still have not (and likely never will) implement
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
>They use American software products because frequently there are no alternatives Hint hint
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Ironically the fact that the howls need to come from the other side of the Atlantic, rather than having any domestically, should tell anyone all they need to know about the situation.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Good for you, now get others to do it. Definitely not the wrong neighborhood though, HN is extremely pro ad-block and every paywall link has an archive.ph link in the comments. Hell the top story right now is about a tool for backdooring tw
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Every Google competitor has the problem that 40% of users won't load ads and 99% won't pay a subscription. They don't need to do anything adversarial, the greed driven mindset of the internet (ads suck, everything should be f
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Wikipedia has a pretty fat bag. It's not like the devs were peeing in water bottles at their desk...
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
So what does that have to do with capitalism?
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
>The impact of the decisions of big oil are nothing compared to the collective decisions of individuals.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
And who is buying all that stuff from corporations? Who is actually the one consuming? We can quibble about edge effects like "induced demand", but by and large, people just love cheap energy, cheap calories, and can shift the mo
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Spoiler: It's individuals who are driving that demand. The impact of the decisions of big oil are nothing compared to the collective decisions of individuals. Big oil isn't going to kick down your door when you buy an EV and switc
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Yeah, good catch, thanks.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Technically you would pay programmers to write SVG code with no visual feedback if you want a straight 1:1 comparison.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Right, but that's not the crazy part. The crazy part is thinking they do it all specifically for pelicans on bikes. If that was the case, the models would have been producing near perfect outputs for it a year ago. Instead they are jus
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Many people still believe that LLMs can only reproduce what is in their training set.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
>Not much of a surprise. Government action has been anemic at best. Industry action (overall) has been net negative. And individual action has switched to just holding governments and industry responsible. Which basically amounts to givi
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
The US government value of gold is hard pegged to $42/oz since 1973. Off by a factor of about 100 from market prices.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Google is the answer to an Internet that largely blocks ads and uses backdoors to circumvent pay walls. A single massive pillar with enough surface area to carry all the dead weight. If people want a better internet, they can start fosterin
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Your conflating capitalism with markets. Markets are fundamental things and exist regardless of any kind of moral "should". Otherwise we wouldn't have people buying hard drugs or trafficing women.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Words and expressions often have both colloquial and literal meanings. Trying to argue away the colloquial meaning under the guise of the literal meaning is just another form of whooshing.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
I think the snag is that people use "Next token predictor" as a dismissive statement. In reality it's about as functionally dismissive as "humans only communicate one word at a time".
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Didn't do the PCB with ChatGPT, but did the analog circuitry for a 3 stage ultra low noise amp project I have been working on this past week using 5.6sol and 3.8 flash. The models are excellent at doing maths, and excellent at thinking
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
The context here of comparing trust between American models (which are mostly centrally hosted) to Chinese models (rather than "local" models) implies trust levels in who is hosting. American local models don't hand over data
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
It's wild that people are so lost in the sauce of social media that they have no qualms handing over all their data to an authoritarian ethno state with a single ruler who appointed themselves for life with unrestricted unilateral cont
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
At least accord to the MIT study last year, most employees are using their own AI subscriptions to do work. Keep in mind that a vanishingly small number of workers are SWE's churning millions of tokens daily.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
If we rewind the clock, Google was taking LLM development very seriously and it seems they were moving glacially due to not having solved all the potential threats. They were really hardcore on safety. Dario and anthropic too. Then sama was
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
But our press isn't free, it's bound by what gets dumb human brains to put their eyes on ads.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
The older I get the more and more convinced I become that the media is the actual real enemy of the country. Their lifeblood is creating controversy and drama about everything so they can show ads. So insane that so few call them out (pro

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