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by an0malous 3mo ago
Can’t wait to see all these libertarian venture capitalists begging for another government bailout
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by an0malous 3mo ago
> This could actually be the fuckup that kills OpenAI as an independent company. I wonder if they’ll be the Lehman Brothers of this bubble
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by an0malous 3mo ago
“Do nothing” can be a decision
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aliems
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by an0malous 3mo ago
I would guess it’s the same force driving absurd stock valuations — the money supply doubled around COVID and all the new money has to pool up somewhere. Some of it ends up in stocks and real estate, but once those become obviously overvalu
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Stocks, especially without dividends and negligible voting rights, are basically baseball cards for companies.
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by an0malous 3mo ago
There’s some Sanskrit texts that don’t have English translations that I’d really like to read so I was going to use an LLM to create translations. Does anyone know how well LLMs handle Sanskrit or have any suggestions? Are any particular mo
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by an0malous 3mo ago
> The general fallacy of the “but inference is profitable” argument is that it tends to ignore all the costs of building and training the model. Given the fact that 1) that’s not trivial, and 2) the arms race underway means one can’t sto
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Every business wants you to be addicted to their products, whether it’s social media, cigarettes, video games, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, supplements, fashion, electronics. Even seemingly innocuous things like reading the news or exercisin
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by an0malous 3mo ago
No my point is that none of these are by themselves even coercive design, there’s no distinction between a smooth or pleasant UX experience and a coercive design without context.
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Should all buttons require a confirmation dialog to prevent people from making decisions too hastily? Should we ensure all interactions have at least 100ms of latency so users don’t get mesmerized by a smooth experience? Maybe we should set
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Basically all people with monetary investment in the thing being hyped
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by an0malous 3mo ago
> and generally not to be trusted There are many AI bulls who adamantly disagree and cite Tao’s statements about LLMs for mathematical proofs as an example of how advanced and autonomous these systems already are
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by an0malous 3mo ago
What kind of repercussions will OpenAI face?
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by an0malous 3mo ago
This is only like the 12th reason not to trust OpenAI. The culture starts from the top
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by an0malous 3mo ago
> Words have more meanings than ever Right, that's the problem > but last century produced wittgenstein; I don't think a philosopher who died 80 years ago is driving the change in how words are used in the last 20 years. It
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by an0malous 3mo ago
I miss the days when words still had meaning
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by an0malous 3mo ago
https://xcancel.com/bryan_johnson/status/2072069730517860385
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by an0malous 3mo ago
The power of network effects. Same with Elon and Twitter
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Exactly, this is just application of property rights and enforcing existing consumer protection rights. You can’t tell someone they’re “buying” something if they don’t own it. Imagine someone doing that with house rentals or car leases, it
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by an0malous 3mo ago
“Everyone else is doing it” is a childish justification and there’s a line where this becomes fraud and a felony offense. Do you think Elizabeth Holmes should have been allowed to make up claims about their blood testing technology? Is it O
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by an0malous 3mo ago
You should add a parallel timeline of how many times AI CEOs have claimed their next model is too dangerous to release, AGI is months away, or some white collar job will be obsolete within 6 months. I don’t know anyone in the tech industry
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Ranked choice voting would go a long way, the two-party system is an intentionally forced false dichotomy like when parents give their kids the choice to eat broccoli or carrots so they’ll think it was their decision. Both parties are contr
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by an0malous 3mo ago
The money printing during COVID screwed everything up. Most of the capital was directly given to banks and businesses, fraudulently in many cases and unnecessarily in most, and everything pooled up into real estate and stocks so anyone who
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by an0malous 3mo ago
The P2P stuff will take off once AI slop is done destroying the current web, like a new ecosystem emerging out of the carcass of a dead whale
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Ask HN: Why don't Claude or ChatGPT get message timestamps?
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Why should the skeptics be reading it? The scaling laws show diminishing returns on more training data and larger models. From the Kaplan scaling laws paper: > We have observed consistent scalings of language model log-likelihood loss wi
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Is this why Claude never knows what date and time it is right now?
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by an0malous 3mo ago
Those are all pre-rugpull prices though. Give it a year.
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They never want to show it

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