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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
The original pithy comment I was replying to was arguing that we’ll become dependent to a service run by another company. I don’t see that being true for two reasons: 1. You are not forced to use the AI in the first place. 2. If you want to
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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
For starters: Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Llama. How they run their business is none of my business. I can download the weights right now and use them as I see fit under the open source license terms. Google Maps was never a self contained binary you
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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
Coffee shops got filled with the laptop crew, are gyms the next frontier?
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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
Quantize it and you can drop a zero from that price. How much serious work can it do versus chatgpt3 (SOTA only a few years ago)?
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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
Use one of the open models that are also getting better and easier to run every year?
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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
Good by what standard? Compared to SOTA today? No they're not. But they are better than the SOTA in 2020, and likely 2023. We have a magical pseudo-thinking machine that we can run locally completely under our control, and instead the
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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
The quality of local models has increased significantly since this time last year. As have the options for running larger local models.
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by _aavaa_ 8mo ago
The significant problem with that book is that it commits the primary energy fallacy. It sees that we need X GWh of chemical energy from fuels and says we have to replace it with X GWh of electricity. Which is of course completely wrong sin
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
> you just need to host public tarballs of your source code. Except now I can do it all on one place. > public repo = public/open PRs, because that's how a vcs works. No it’s not. A PR is not a feature of git the vcs, it’s a
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
There is no confusion about that. I think the confusion is repo being used for both 1) the actual remote git repo hosted by GitHub and 2) the “repo” at GitHub.com/username/project. I know that opening a PR does not affect the firs
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
> You don't owe the public many things, but when you create a project and make it public on a shared hosting site, other users also have rights to make commentary, since you've exposed it as public, and proposals and to assist
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
The classic commoditize your complements.
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
I’m getting tired of the stackoverflow graph. It clearly slowly consistent decline since 2017, all ChatGPT did was accelerate that decline by a year or two; it did not cause it.
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
That’s a joke right?
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
But the problems with hydrogen are fundamental and inherent to it as a molecule, not something innovation can change. - Energy required to get it from water is fixed. - energy required to compress it (and got for it liquify it) is fixed. -
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
Yes, and the energy required to compressed it to liquid form is immense, leading to high costs. And until it’s made from something other than methane it won’t be a climate solution. In fact hydrogen production is a major climate problem tha
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
This is an often repeated talking point, but the reality on the ground has proven hydrogen vehicles to be failures every time they are tried. Hydrogen trials outright fail or prove to be substantially more expensive overall than EVs every t
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
I was surprised to see no mention of C. Thi Nguyen who has a much more structured version of this thesis: games are art and the medium is human agency. See: 1. https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/the-philosophy-o
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
Umm, no. Tech debt is a problem for AIs. You can argue current models have gotten smart enough to work despite it, but you still have the same downsides.
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
Not just that, but I feel there is backwards movement, or at least attempts at it, from the administration…
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
Even if you stay connected, many place already charge you a fixed cost every month regardless of usage, which presumably should be covering this
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
I am not trying to equate the two concepts. Just that in most of North America car culture is what dictate the roads we have and who they’re built for.
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
> tax for the bike lanes That already exists. In large parts of North America there isn’t a tax proportional to vehicle age, and the tax on gasoline doesn’t cover road wear (to say nothing about the unproved externality of pollution). So
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
> So you do not use busses,taxi or road travel? do you fly all the time? Do you have stuff delivered by truck/cars or only by air? What about shopping? do you think the items you buy or the things needed to make those items use road
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
The term you're circling is "grid defection". > must be connected to the grid. That's a legislative problem. If a home can prove it can produce enough electricity for itself, it should not be forced to be connected. &
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
> As a non car owner are you annoyed everyone gets subsidized roads? Yes, and people should be annoyed by this given the underfunding, poor urban planning, and outright hostility by many local governments against anything that dares encr
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
That depends on how close to the theoretical max you think they are.
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
You have AGI, why do you care about new talent? You have AGI to do the ads. You have AGI to pick the best ads. Isn't that the pitch of AGI? Solve any problems?
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
This doesn’t answer the actual question: why they wouldn’t just do both?
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by _aavaa_ 9mo ago
Ads appear to be the only way to monotone certain cervices or products which people are otherwise unwilling/unable to pay for.

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