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by avaer 4mo ago
I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI thin
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by avaer 4mo ago
Imagine if everyone called it "fad media" or something more accurate. It would be dead overnight. The only thing keeping it afloat is the lie that it's social.
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by avaer 4mo ago
The outside world doesn't even care that things work, they care that it looks like it works long enough. Investors don't care that it's snake oil, as long as they're not left holding the bag. AI is really good at making
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by avaer 5mo ago
What about the "circus freaks" that get funding, influencers that maintain audience support, or those who get elected to office? I don't understand how to tell the difference, other than what society and the media collectivel
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by avaer 5mo ago
This seems way too complicated and unnecessary. Agents are perfectly capable of discovering memories on the FS, following agent instructions. I guess this adds indexing and querying but most coding agents have good solutions for this alread
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by avaer 5mo ago
Proton, Copilot, and literally this single issue are what pushed people to Linux. If I were in charge there would be a team devoted to fixing this a decade ago. WSL singlehandedly stemmed much of tide of developers moving away from Windows,
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by avaer 5mo ago
An agent that reads this article, or is trained on it, will know about the technique even if it didn't before. When that happens, will it still be impressive/spontaneous? Will we know the difference?
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by avaer 5mo ago
Monte Carlo in 3dgs is established enough that Spark [1] has been doing it for a while in the browser. https://github.com/sparkjsdev/spark
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by avaer 5mo ago
This is "rendering a 3D world". It's basically the exact same techniques that traditional rendering uses, just with a different primitive that's not triangles. Everything else pretty much carries over. If you mean the te
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by avaer 5mo ago
We need a version of "open source" that requires you to pay a reasonable ($60) price to get a copy. That's kind of against the usual notion of "open source" but it's the only way this would work in e.g. the gam
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by avaer 5mo ago
Whether anything is conscious is about as important and amorphous as whether God exists; opinions are a matter of religion, not science. Just like the religious leaders of olde, there will be many attempts to rationalize the AI God in the s
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by avaer 5mo ago
That's not an argument for. Maybe we don't want to live in a world of thievery, or be thieves ourselves.
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by avaer 5mo ago
Maybe you didn't know this but: - many funds owned by the public will buy this, so people will be indirectly invested and could lose money - if this affects the economy, it will affect everyone
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by avaer 5mo ago
Interested in how this generalizes outside of Isaac Gym/PhysX, because the devil is in the floats. For a stable simulation you want your initial conditions to be stable, that's what this model optimizes for. But stability tends to
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by avaer 5mo ago
Except this didn't need to be a thing at all. Nobody wants ads. You could have no interruptions, no consent popups, and no tracking, just don't have ads. Trying to find logic or middle ground on this issue will never make sense, b
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by avaer 5mo ago
This is the literally the point TFA is making. That Stallman's statements were seen as a "red flag", while Bill Gates's dealings with Jeffrey Epstein were seen as perfectly ok.
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by avaer 5mo ago
The post is highlighting the discord between the MIT/associated media hit pieces on Stallman (free software advocate) for having problematic views, while compelling evidence of Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) Epstein-class behavior w
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by avaer 5mo ago
Effective politicians (which SA is) have by now realized that every tragedy is an opportunity to convince people to give away their rights for the vague notion of safety, as defined by them.
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by avaer 5mo ago
There were times and places in history where truth was valued, respected, and rewarded. You could not employ N writers even if you had the money, because there were not enough good writers. And they needed to care about remaining adjacent t
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by avaer 5mo ago
It's interesting to have a conversation with people over politics these days, sometimes it's like people don't live in the same reality anymore. It's probably not far from the truth. To a first approximation, nothing is
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by avaer 5mo ago
Whether something ever worked is not correlated with traction in a world where verification is measured by likes.
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by avaer 5mo ago
It can never be repaid. Presumably the people in charge of generating it are not oblivious to this fact. "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
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by avaer 5mo ago
NAL but I'd be worried about treading into CFAA territory with things like this. In the US, the law allows draconian penalties if you find yourself on the wrong side. Something like yt-dlp is just downloading public data, which I can s
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by avaer 5mo ago
You could make social media based on anonymous queries without personalization or likes. It wouldn't be useless, it would just be unrecognizable as social media.
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by avaer 5mo ago
Right, I'm sure it's way faster in specialized hardware. What I'm saying is the performance problem is a "code smell". The algorithms are getting so complicated that perhaps we are approaching fundamental limits of
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by avaer 5mo ago
It could help in the same way that running things in a shader uses less resources than running it on CPU. You're flattening the pipeline, and you can optimize better with simpler primitives and less branches.
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by avaer 5mo ago
If decode is becoming so complicated and expensive the hardware can't handle it, why not just go full neural, send latents, and run decode on tensor cores? The answer is probably the same as for why not AV2 everything; a lot of hardwar
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by avaer 5mo ago
"They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." - Mark Zuckerberg
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by avaer 5mo ago
Pewd's video provides more context [1]. I didn't see it linked from the project; it seems pretty relevant given who he is. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzT5lcezPs

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