aaroninsf

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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
This 100%. Even in the target-rich environment of late-stage kleptocratic surveillance capitalism, it is hard to pick out a less ethical firm which has done more moral and direct harm, to more people, with as durable a record of defying all
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
Lovely engineering; if you bring it to market(?) I suggest offering if not full customization a range of aesthetics. Black/red is a hard no for me. Something fitting with the existing aesthetic (let's call it "Scandanavian mi
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
You know what will be a good day? When the "AI community" GTFO X and stays off. Toxic site. Toxic ownership. Unbelievable bot activity. Indefensibly shitty politics constantly boosted. Continued participation is a stain on every c
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
Not my domain though I followed the data science enough to nod as if I really followed it, but this is just lovely and inspirational work. A unique marriage of hacking in the celebratory sense, thoughtfulness, and meaningful contribution. O
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
I find Marcus on this, something approaching sophistry and rhetorical showmanship in service of maintaining an ideological position, for reasons unrelated to the nominal intellectual clarity. To sharpen that, I think he's (obviously) i
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
Wow, you could do a lot at 292 tokens a sec—oh. I have all praise for those taking this on and in my idiom would call it *the lord's work." The image I reliably summon to mind is that compilation video showing the progress of Bo
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
This is a conflation of issues, predicated on false understanding of what LLMs are. This line of critique is pernicious because it is both technically correct, as description, and profoundly misleading. Saying that outputs are a product of
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
That link is fantastic.
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
Came here looking for this comment. Especially given its occurrence in the summary paragraph, that is a strong claim and I would like to know more. Some googling turns up social media links expanding on this claim ("reflective and insu
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1406/
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
It's Wolfram-speak, so you'd want to drop Stephen if you're committed. It's part of his GUT. You will likely become committed to the well when you encounter ruliad : https://writings.stephenwolfram.com&#x2F
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
If there is a real rejoinder to this, I have yet to encounter it. This depressing observation is regularly voiced (or thought) every time UX aesthetics come up... and I've yet to see so much as a sniffy defense. My assumption this is b
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
Tom doesn't take up the single argument that is of primary concern to me, which is that capable models running in environments where they can be and regularly are abliterated, and as a society and civilization, we have no good answer t
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
Oh, sure, I am 100% not on team "quietly/secretly update the text" eg in ebooks... ...I was more thinking of this as an interesting "art" project of sorts, adjacent maybe to an annotated edition where readers can op
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
Apple's M7 comes to mind...
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
I would suggest that both are true! It's common for games to have an intentional designed aesthetic which uses cultural and social and graphical "languages" to create specific emotional impacts and effects. The lower the budg
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
I've always wanted to set up automation that updates the text for the book every so often to preserve original intent, by changing the language around quantities to <whatever would make a contemporary reader be impressed> Replace
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
Personal take: I immediately liked the game and was inspired to try multiple days, my single biggest frustration was that once a day is attempted, it's locked, and, you can't continue after a single failure. The "single point
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
ITT the consensus is they don't actually work better, but, were royalty free. No idea about either, myself.
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
In project budgeting the material cost difference may well be relatively insignificant
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
ah yeah, I was on desktop at the time!
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
I assume it's a MINI, which is made by BMW
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
https://zcode.z.ai/en There's an `EN` link at top right
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
> nostaliga is always for the last layer Now there's a sentiment worth Jenny Holzerizing.
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
I wonder if this will hold as other models with different biases achieve parity.
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by aaroninsf 3mo ago
People don't make this assumption, if you ask (or reflect); arguments however regularly are implicitly predicated on exactly this premise. (Infinite improvement, no; enough improvement that practically speaking the difference between e
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
My favorite easter egg by far in this domain, was the Apple II version of Karateka. The game came on a floppy disk; if you inserted it in the drive upside down (the Apple II only used one side of the medium) you found (unusually) that the g
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
True, and relevant (I live with a professional editor)... yet I immediately think of Ximm's Law: Every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon. Lemma: any statement
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
The K-shaped economy kontinues.
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by aaroninsf 4mo ago
ITT a surprising lack of perspective on the fact that despite the breathless pace of the singularity, people are still necessarily figuring things out as we go and we are well off the map. Here there be monsters, and we don't have an

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