altcognito

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by altcognito 2mo ago
Email in it's first five years barely extended beyond some research universities. And is it novel? Do you see email as somehow a difficult concept to imagine? Unix in it's first five years reworked the way operating systems perfor
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by altcognito 2mo ago
You said (originally): > I’d urge you to not keep insisting consciousness is a total mystery. But don't want to get into the philosophy of it. I'd urge you to consider the definition of conciousness (as specified by the origina
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by altcognito 2mo ago
"Democratization of access has its victims." If it were democratization, we'd all have access to the data that underlies this dataset. In reality, this will destroy the origins of the data, and it will become hidden for all o
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by altcognito 2mo ago
You really have to expand the list to ridiculous levels before you get to something as big. We've already left humans behind in many ways (but in others we've failed to build LLMs that know how to find the gaps in implementation t
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by altcognito 2mo ago
I’m not advocating for anything (I was just spitballing) I’d be more interested in what you think would be the legal and fair thing to do.
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by altcognito 2mo ago
I'm assuming you're referring to a harness that includes memory -- I generally think of the harness as anything beyond executing the generation loop, but I'm not an expert. True as that may be, it may be better to optimize mo
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Thank you! I wanted something beyond an article, but this was a perfect launching point for getting to the court case information: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058235/554/21/bartz-v...
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by altcognito 2mo ago
So, I lived through the Internet Explorer age so I'm familiar with that. I think it is a leap to say there are better alternatives dying to get out. There's no objective way to decide they are stifling innovation. I'm not su
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by altcognito 2mo ago
None of this is an explanation of what consciousness is, either physically, logically or philosophically. (Maybe some physically) Fundamentally it comes down to an objective decision about what that is. If you say it is “feelings” based on
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by altcognito 2mo ago
"You own a particular physical copy; you don't possess an abstract transferable 'one-copy license." There is nothing that says you have to destroy something because you scanned it. This argument has been confusing me sin
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Another fair take. I mean, hell, a lot of companies are bought literally just for their user lists (to sell new products to). I can't think of a nicer user list than a list of potential developers.
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by altcognito 2mo ago
What evidence do we have that they are "destroying" books? I'm not saying this in their defense, but as someone who has worked at companies who has scanned books at scale, and generally speaking, I wasn't on site there,
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by altcognito 2mo ago
That's fair! I'd say kids today are spoiled, but there's no doubt that this has been a rough year for github even if it is understandable circumstances.
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by altcognito 2mo ago
This was the thing that caught my attention. It does feel like a lot of "scaling git was hard and complicated, so we're just offloading a significant to a different layer" I've got no dog in this fight and no specific ra
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Distributing across different services wouldn't be a bad idea.... I still can't help but feel a little grateful for what they do across the free side of things. I know it isn't altruism, and I know nobody needs to defend a bi
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by altcognito 2mo ago
(I agree but would add...) They should ask for it if that's the case. Typically if you're asking in a forum, you ought to state the research you've done up front as not just a courtesy, but a clarification of what you've
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Thank you for your kind reply. I appreciate your point completely and while I tried to moderate sounding dismissive of what was being done here, I think I could have done better. I love "trivial" examples and everything you'v
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by altcognito 2mo ago
It's a trivial example. This won't be useful outside of a VERY specific domain without more parameters. Many people need to know about the bitter lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson Over time,
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Not sure how you see git repos as a compute intensive process. A single git commit takes milliseconds. It's mostly a hash calculation and a small file transaction. They've added some database stuff around the edges, but that is pr
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by altcognito 2mo ago
14x is a lot commits, but I seriously have doubts that some pushes are putting them over the edge. (as many have suggested) > GitHub Actions For me this is probably this biggest culprit along with the general pressure of AI against the h
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by altcognito 2mo ago
"Current lawsuits are pushing for universal recording because we require users to tell us their age" is a weird argument.
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by altcognito 2mo ago
I can actually restrict how much is spent using a sensible user interface with openrouter. That’s a real pain with aws
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by altcognito 2mo ago
All true but a reminder that basic health care, natural foods and a safe environment are out of reach for too many. We have definitely improved on the distribution of foods and even safe environments, but there are insitutional blockages th
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by altcognito 2mo ago
It's not even a useful introduction. A harness does kinda the opposite. A harness is what makes an AI useful and dangerous. It is a neutral tool in the sense that it constructs and environment, but it is expanding what the algorithm ca
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Obviously, letting everyone track everyone is not ideal. I assume this is the intent of your proposal.
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by altcognito 2mo ago
> Compression is functionally equivalent to prediction when the data distribution is exactly representative of all future problems. At some level, nothing is representative of all future "problems". I think as far as corner cas
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Naively, you'd think the judicial systems would invoke "judgement" on the underlying purpose of dumping content in the form of filings, paperwork, etc...
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Yes, I too benefit from controlling the publicity, messaging, narrative and history surrounding my actions.
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by altcognito 2mo ago
It has to survive though in the sense that it has to live long enough for us to see it. If we think of life as "spontaneously" (roughly speaking) emerging from the right conditions reasonably rarely, it has to outcompete other exi
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by altcognito 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure that everyone is aware that an article from jacobin has these biases. Perhaps it is notable because you're so frequently exposed only to billionare and corporate biases.

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