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by apantel 2y ago
The point is to communicate a large amount of personal investment - love, sweat, and tears. As opposed to someone who scraped together some side project in a weekend and hasn’t yet faced the demon horde of edge cases.
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by apantel 2y ago
> Some rephrase the question: ‘What’s the point or purpose of life?’ I don’t find this helps. It seems like asking ‘What’s the point or purpose of the universe?’ and I think the answer to this question is plain. ‘It has none.’ It has cou
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by apantel 2y ago
It’s only a superpower if you have full control over the data and no one else has access. If someone else has control and access, it’s THEIR superpower over you.
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by apantel 2y ago
Here’s the issue: humans do the same thing: the brain builds up a model of the world but the model is not the world. It is a virtual approximation or interpretation based on training data: passed experiences, perceptions, etc. A human can
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by apantel 2y ago
This is much bigger than this particular issue. This is the same as the Xz backdoor: supply chain attack. It’s sad, but the fact is you cannot actually trust anyone else’s code unless you audit it yourself. Even something seemingly-well-
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by apantel 2y ago
The closer you are to the cutting edge, the more sliced up you’re gonna get.
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by apantel 2y ago
The issues always enter when a codebase has to be extended in some way that was not part of the original design. You actually have to do ‘the big refactor’ right at that point of extension such that it is as if the new requirements were kn
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by apantel 2y ago
There are no stupid answers, just stupid people.
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by apantel 2y ago
I can tell this is true because every now and then with enough syntactic sugar I write code that CAN be read almost like language, and reading it that way takes a shift of mind that feels weird. It’s like putting on a different set of gog
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by apantel 2y ago
Jeez, GPT4 would never make these mistakes. Me: “Can cockroaches live in your penis?” GPT4: “No, cockroaches cannot live inside the human penis. Cockroaches prefer environments that provide food, moisture, and warmth, but they do not inhabi
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by apantel 2y ago
The “fundamental purpose of invention in our society” has been for military advantage more often than not.
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by apantel 2y ago
I would be very intrigued to interact with a GPT-level model that had access to that much of my personal data, but I would never give that kind of data to a company that didn’t have some kind of legally-binding fiduciary-type privacy obliga
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by apantel 2y ago
I was going to post the same quote. If you have no visibility into the layer you depend on, you really can’t reason about it or write optimized code for it. The Hares are saying they require that, which I totally understand and respect.
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by apantel 2y ago
I think the root cause of this is feminism being hyper-focused for decades on getting women enfranchised in a male-dominated society which naturally overvalues traditionally-male archetypes, roles, and values like ‘the high achiever’, etc,
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by apantel 2y ago
Maybe if you had been making more noise the drivers would have noticed you!
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by apantel 2y ago
What we really need is Smart AI…
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by apantel 2y ago
> it is a toad skinned frog Throws phone on the floor and goes outside.
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by apantel 2y ago
Also: Smart Smart home Smart phone Smart watch Smart thermostat Etc.
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by apantel 2y ago
What costs money is mostly aggregating, packaging, and selling news. How many media establishments are actually the first to report on things? Most media establishments are just repackaging and selling stories that have already hit. Some
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by apantel 2y ago
Creating something like Her is creating something like Scarlet Johansson’s performance of her. The whole point is to hit the same note, which is a voice and an aesthetic and a sensibility. That’s the point! She wasn’t willing to do it.
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by apantel 2y ago
Yeah but follow the effects back to their causes: the colonies that became America were British colonies, not French or Spanish or Portuguese or Dutch colonies. In other words: America was founded by British people. Settlers/colonizer
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by apantel 2y ago
> The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% are in non-English languages. You have to hand it to the British: of all the different peoples and nations who tried their hand at world domination, the tiny little island of
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by apantel 2y ago
They can say they had a certain thing in mind, which was to produce something like ‘Her’, and obviously Scarjo would have sold it home for them if she participated. But in lieu of the fact that she didn’t, they still went out and created w
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by apantel 2y ago
They take the AI bus or subway.
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by apantel 2y ago
How about on one machine internally, for example, using NGINX to handle HTTPS then doing an HTTP proxy pass to another process on localhost?
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by apantel 2y ago
No. The backlash in this particular case is not against the AI itself. It is against companies abusing their users, i.e. enshittification.
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by apantel 2y ago
That’s not what this is about at all. This is about opting out of a bad GenAI experience that gets in the way of you finding the information you’re looking for.
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Ask HN: Are the Google AI releases lacking something?
6 points by apantel 2y ago|21 comments
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by apantel 2y ago
Yeah there’s a lot of pucking.
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by apantel 2y ago
It’s too nice. Nobody is this nice. It’s like Truman Show nice.

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