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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah... I don't think goodwill was ever a very central part of the Monroe doctrine. Its imperial expansionism, plain n' simple. Embargo + pressure who you can, depose any governments that resist, threaten the rest into silent comp
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by bbor 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what is it about an IDE that you find useful...? I'm probably just a heathen, but I've always done the build/run steps on the command line, and Sublime has LSP for all the syntax & semantics goodies othe
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by bbor 2y ago
Great point. Plus, the revival of serious talk of the Monroe Doctrine (!!!) in the U.S. government lends a possibly completely-new meaning to "western countries" -- i.e. the Americas...
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by bbor 2y ago
R1 is--as far as we know from good ol' ClosedAI--far more efficient. Even if it were a "clone", A) that would be a terribly impressive achievement on its own that Anthropic and Google would be mighty jealous of, and B) it&#x2
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by bbor 2y ago
I think you're missing the point being made here, IMHO: using an advanced model to build high quality training data (whatever that means for a given training paradigm) absolutely would increase the efficiency of the process. Remember
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by bbor 2y ago
Literally the best news I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Great job, looking forward to making some apps this time around!!
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by bbor 2y ago
Why not just use pastebin for a "hey I left ur drugs at this coord", or even just a plain ol' encrypted message over email, Signal, etc...? I'm a little lost here, probably due to naivete. Is the storage of URLs or crypt
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by bbor 2y ago
It's just one :) https://github.com/dddddddddzzzz/open-heart-element/blob/mai...
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, that's a really solid idea. I promise I'll credit you in the footer of my Reddit clone someday ;)
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by bbor 2y ago
NGL it would be pretty funny if Snowden gets to return to the west but we hadn't actually fixed any of the stuff he brought forward in the meantime. Not sure what I would do in his shoes... I guess a pardon is pretty impossible for fut
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by bbor 2y ago
Interesting -- what other system could you possibly have, other than votes...? I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. I guess traditional forum threads (sometimes with votes, a-la GitHub) are nice, but ultimately that&#
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by bbor 2y ago
No offense (really!!!) but "that's just how people of that race are" isn't a very cool thing to say, my friend. They're humans, just like us -- that's the problem!
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by bbor 2y ago
Hmm, what do you mean? Like, compared to ancient times, or compared to a previous point post-WWII? Certainly the organization of one side of this conflict into a state rather than militias naturally has tempered things since the early days
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by bbor 2y ago
Not to sound terse, but I think the retort here is clear: morality exists, and it's important that we do our best to follow its guidance. It matters who's right and who's wrong! I absolutely agree that deciding on absolute hi
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by bbor 2y ago
Love Proton, good shit! This is the kind of practically-minded activism that builds a foundation for more bold steps. Since this is partially advertising on their part, I’ll do my part and throw in an endorsement for their VPN, drive, and
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by bbor 2y ago
Heh, always fascinating to see how the term “AI” has been swallowed nigh-completely by the recent exciting developments in DL. All those papers and not a single mention of Russell & Norvig, Minsky, Shannon, Lenat, etc.! I’m sure it’s a
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by bbor 2y ago
A) Totally agree. This is a great, very short book -- I highly recommend for anyone in this industry, regardless of philosophy experience. The author is Byung-Chul Han. B) This is a great point to call out the author for a bit of a myopic v
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by bbor 2y ago
The stock market has crashes, yes, but I don't think that's proof that all previous tech was overhyped nonsense. I'm not just talking computers here, I'm talking steam, metal, agriculture. What proof do we have that we l
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by bbor 2y ago
TBF Stripe is a (effective!) middleman for (very common!) transactions, whereas Anthropic is selling a service with the potential to replace full time employees. It takes a lot of transaction margins to add up to how much a corporation wi
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by bbor 2y ago
Exactly. Overall the idea of selling more people its ad targeting service is peanuts compared to search ads, or more relevantly, selling people the ability participate in the Display Ads market at all in the first place (through the aforeme
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by bbor 2y ago
Ahh this one. Thanks for sharing, important point! Basically this is just a random small-ish company trying to get new clients with a flashy feature. Ultimately they have to use the same data as everyone else, which I’m 99.99% sure doesn’t
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, many advertisers go through the Google display network without having Google target their ads (AKA run their bidding algorithms). Typically they go through other middlemen agencies, who indeed would need at least some of this data t
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by bbor 2y ago
Yup - having worked at Google Display Ads (arguably the epicenter of such talk), I personally only ever witnessed people walking the walk, privacy-wise. The threats to our privacy are quite public and not at all illegal; IMO data brokers an
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by bbor 2y ago
Thank god I’m not the only one stunned by that. I don’t need IPA, but this isn’t even vaguely pronounceable!
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, tbf, he hasn't won a Turing yet, right? So the academy hasn't fully embraced him as a genius. VCs/SV are more fickle, but even they aren't necessarily in love -- his Superintelligence startup raised a modest bu
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by bbor 2y ago
"learn" is usually used in opposition to "taught", which refers to "expert systems"-type engineering; in other words, providing data and a success heuristic and asking it to devise its own optimal strategies vs
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by bbor 2y ago
Which is exactly the point he's making, I believe; that simply collecting more data isn't the next step. That we've reached a local plateau in scaling ability based on corpus size. Which was assumed by pretty much everyone
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by bbor 2y ago
Crazy stuff. Everyone’s covering how exciting all these are (especially LCM and the non-tokenizing-tokenizer), but I have to ask in case anyone’s been paying attention: why are they using the term “advanced machine intelligence”? My initial
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by bbor 2y ago
The future holds an unknowable amount of discovery and joy, for both you and your children to find together; however bleak it may seem, I hope it's not out of line to say that there's one internet stranger rooting for you to see t
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by bbor 2y ago
> They just sort of wake up and do whatever on autopilot and go to sleep and whatever happens to them happens. What's that all about? I absolutely agree, and commend your focus on understanding over condemnation. Despite all the jus

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