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by apantel 2y ago
The thinking is: ‘Anything that the little guy does to get ahead is justified; but if the rich do the same thing, that’s unfair.’
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by apantel 2y ago
I think there’s no stopping this train. Whoever doesn’t train on all available data will simply not produce the models that people actually use, because there will be people out there who do train models on all available data. And as I sa
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by apantel 2y ago
This is bigger than the greed of any group of people. This is a technological sea change that is going to displace and obsolesce certain kinds of work no matter where the money goes. Even if open models win where no single entity or group
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by apantel 2y ago
These models literally need ALL data. The amount of work it would take just to account for all the copyrights, let alone negotiate and compensate the creators, would be infeasible. I think it’s likely that the justice system will deem mode
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by apantel 2y ago
This is why it would be such a mistake to kneecap this process over copyright. The models needs ALL the data.
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by apantel 2y ago
I read the thread more closely and, you’re right, if men are not allowed to take the same amount of paternity leave as women, then that should be changed so that any person can take the same amount of parental leave. I didn’t realize that
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by apantel 2y ago
Sharks with frickin laser beams!
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by apantel 2y ago
It all hinges on whether or not sex/gender (and everything that comes with it) makes you more likely to enjoy and/or excel in certain roles. My gut feeling is it does. If it does, then the goal of that kind of equality is a false
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by apantel 2y ago
Yes. Trades == business. If you want to make a lot of money, you have to become a business owner.
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by apantel 2y ago
What if women are higher-value stay-at-home parents than men? Then maybe the optimal equilibrium is reached by more maternity leave taken on average by women than paternity leave taken by men… which produces an inverse result in the workpl
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by apantel 2y ago
Aka non-state welfare.
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by apantel 2y ago
> Please keep in mind that women seem to be disproportionately disadvantaged after having children That’s because children are a full time job — the hours, the energy required, but especially the cognitive load. If the woman takes on so
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by apantel 2y ago
Java is an extremely simple, non-scary language. It’s almost impossible to shoot yourself in the foot. The things that people build using “idiomatic Java” are scary.
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by apantel 2y ago
This to me feels like the natural rhythm of productive work, meaning: if money is no object and you’re working on something that you are intrinsically interested in, you will naturally work in a feats-and-famine pattern. There will be week
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by apantel 2y ago
The “100+ trusted partners” racket.
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by apantel 2y ago
I think it’s more that because there was so much capital looking for an outlet, anyone could suggest any big large thing and the money would be made available. Vs tight times where every expenditure is scrutinized.
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by apantel 2y ago
Zero interest rates -> huge surplus of capital looking for return -> investments in VC and tech -> explosion in tech projects without having to Keep It Simple Stupid -> explosion in complexity (i.e. micro services) and hiring.
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by apantel 2y ago
It depends if it sticks in the cultural memory. Their 1984 ad has been immortalized. And, “Hi, I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC.” Ads can have lasting impact.
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by apantel 2y ago
In reality, it is probably 100x more likely to be a man performing a MITM than a woman.
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by apantel 2y ago
No new technology peaks in a year.
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by apantel 2y ago
Seconded. It says it is downloading all information into LocalStorage.
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by apantel 2y ago
I want to hear from the base model.
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by apantel 2y ago
Time well wasted.
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by apantel 2y ago
I think it won’t be long before open source models will be good enough to be good enough, such that the responsible thing to do (for those technically capable) will be to learn how to self-host them. Give it two, three years and I think th
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by apantel 2y ago
Yeah with real-time deepfake audio this could be done by an attacker as an actual phone call in the voice of the person being impersonated.
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by apantel 2y ago
Smell is usually a great heuristic. If something has a bad smell, it’s probably problematic even if you can’t logically identify the problem.
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by apantel 2y ago
I mean, that’s too reductive. LLM’s can do all kinds of things, not just generate bullshit.
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by apantel 2y ago
You know what this is? Just another example of enshittification, specifically the attempt to create some sort of proprietary thing that customers get locked into, in this case branded drinks. Same story as Coke vs Pepsi: even though the r
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by apantel 2y ago
This is the nature of lower price points: economization, doing only what is needed, not what would be nice.
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by apantel 2y ago
With enough investment, a pet project can become a mature platform.

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