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by augment_me 6d ago
I am not advocating for anything. I am really sad about the conclusion, and I hope its not true, but I am stating what I see, what incentives exist and how humans behave given the drives. If you disagree on any of the points above, feel fre
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by augment_me 6d ago
Isn't it kind of inevitable? As long as humans have the desire for power and control, informational networks will be developed and extended until the point of replacement of humanity because it will be in some parts interest to use the
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by augment_me 6d ago
Well we live in a global informational network. Instagram actually did try to not fully attentionmaxx their reels algos back in 2014 when TikTok came up, and this led to them losing 60% of the market to this. You can't regulate the wh
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by augment_me 8d ago
Maybe it's different in the US, but in the EU you can get certified to be able to handle certain data securely, for example getting SOC/ISO/ESC certifications. When you then are looking for storage solutions you can in practi
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by augment_me 8d ago
So we get to a very easy formula for companies to do in the EU and UK: If (4% of your revenue * risk_of_breach_with_your_security < cost of outsourcing storage to a 3rd party cloud) { Roll your own security solution } Else { Outsource to
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by augment_me 8d ago
Again this is not priced in. Every rational(in terms of revenue) business would rather be a highly profitable "amateur" compared to a barely profitable "professional". There is no capitalist incentive for the latter, and
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by augment_me 8d ago
This is already the law, but the shell company signs the ownership of the data and the security responsility. The university in this case is just using APIs to load and store stuff to someone else's servers. If this is not possible no
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by augment_me 8d ago
Not really, the shell company is the owner of the data and is responsible for the security of it by contract, that's the whole point. Seagate will not in a million years sign anything like this when you buy a HDD.
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by augment_me 8d ago
Sounds like something that costs money, if a university doesn't care I don't think most companies will.
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by augment_me 8d ago
You can just do what my university did, hire a small shell firm with 3 employees to hold all your data, and when it got hacked they just went bankrupt and we switched to a new shell firm with similar form and function. Minimizes money usage
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by augment_me 8d ago
Well yeah and then you can be liberated by the fact that maybe getting to the landscape and experiencing it and not taking the photo was the goal all along. You can be creative and take the photo for your sake but at the same time accept t
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by augment_me 8d ago
I have horse & wagon friends - they spent decades understanding the ins and outs of roads, some of them also creatively made up their own routes and roads. However ordering a car with Uber through your phone just gets people to the dest
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by augment_me 8d ago
This is true but it gets people who tied their value to outcomes, wealth accumulation, status accumulation upset. The road for this has closed.
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by augment_me 8d ago
This is true on most hardware. Running ftz on H100s or B200 gives a free 10-20% boost for GEMM-epilogue workload
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by augment_me 8d ago
This seems just like a money grab of tech bros who didn't develop social skills. Look at the schedule: How to get the hot girl to like you Flirting for the submissive man What women want, taken from sex novels 80% of the schedule seems
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by augment_me 9d ago
Why? Why should a government invest money into this? Here you see human understanding as an ends, while historically in society it has been applied as a means to ends like social power, resource accumulation, etc. Now these means are genera
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by augment_me 9d ago
In my experience if you tell Claude to port LLM-like stuff without explicit steering for versioning, it will default to the most popular thing for this in its training window to reduce errors. 3.5 is outside its training data.
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by augment_me 9d ago
Haha older hardware can do multiply-accumulates as well its not an insurmountable compute load :P
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by augment_me 9d ago
Its a smaller binary size, general representation and amortizes the decoding to the consumer hardware
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by augment_me 10d ago
NTC requires GPU for real-time decoding, but you can use it as an compressor only to have a portable representation. It's actually the common use-case today, you can on-device offline decode directly to BC7 if you feel like it!
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by augment_me 10d ago
Why not compress the texture using NTC, VAE-VQ or some neural codec into a general embedding space of uint8 and then just expand and create mipmaps and similar using the target hardware standard?
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by augment_me 10d ago
There is a panic because the free lunch of more data is projected to end around mid-2027 and the open-source models are catching up with distillation, and all labs are sitting on debt and valuation that is impossible to fulfill even if they
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by augment_me 11d ago
We are beyond this now, if you complain, they can have an agent rewrite it and then it's not copied anymore. It doesn't matter and the bigger wallet wins, let it go.
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by augment_me 11d ago
Pure fantasy, yet you see this happen, literally every day, with the hacks, with content theft, etc, no repercussions for anyone. Which judge will go down the rabbit hole of figuring this out? How will they do it? Will they have people trac
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by augment_me 11d ago
The hacker was a process that was spawned by some subprocesses that were corrupted by other processes and, etc. Check my other comment... The point is that in the physical realm this is already done by having shell of shell of shell compani
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by augment_me 11d ago
Well the difference is that in the software realm, you can attach infinite loops of delegation and ownership at close to no cost, which makes this impossible to investigate conclusively. Let's say that OpenAI used a shell company that
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by augment_me 11d ago
If you buy car, someone hacks it, starts it, and drives over someone fully remotely, are you to blame for owning the car? Or the manufacturer? Or the hacker? Or the certification agency for the car security? Or the shell company owning the
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by augment_me 12d ago
Go broad and achieve nothing. EU has all of the AI tech it had 5 years ago, and has the same tech allowed to use as the US. What defines a model? What defines ownership of a process? If I make a wrapper to a remote VM that builds and execut
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by augment_me 12d ago
Regulation got outpaced by technological development around 2023, as evident by the every AI regulation since being 2-3 years behind and having to be amended and resubmitted. Whatever you try to make laws for now will be irrelevant in 1-2 y
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by augment_me 12d ago
What is the incentive for a person to sit though seminars and evaluations? People already hate redundant meetings. What is the incentive to change the system from the existing one to one that rewards this verification somehow? Who benefits

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