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by ben_w 1mo ago
Euronext collectively is big, but Euronext Dublin is about 1/27th the size of LSE by its own market cap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euronext_Dublin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stoc
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I'm not sure how good or bad any of the current self-driving AI are, but: > a horrendously bad driver that has injured 117 people and killed two. This is conflating "a Waymo vehicle was one of the involved vehicles" with &
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I don't know how much this would change things, expectations in particular, but there are guys like me who would like to be stay at home fathers.
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Surely that's Wilkinson's Razor: never use one blade when two will do?
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> It is truly saddening to think that machines will deprive us of this wonder and experience. It won't deprive us. Recent video I've watched from Brandon Sanderson, IMO also applies to all the things we love and not just art:
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We've been in a golden age of abundance since roughly when the industrial revolution started. It used to be required for us to work for it. It still does, but it used to too. Of the pontifications people have about what future that wil
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Some of them may be wrong enough to try, be that hubris or lack of awareness about the world; but 95% of the world isn't in the USA, and China in particular has no reason to care what US domestic regulations are about… well, anything
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> "They decided to not break the law by breaking the law and then getting worried so they tried to unbreak it." I did not say that. Try harder. I don't care to read the rest when you open with such an incorrect reading of
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> If doing the bad thing is just a fine for one person and a life altering consequence for someone else, it is not a fair and equally distributed form of justice and is a gameable function needing to be fixed. On that we agree. > So i
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> $3000 because I stole a book and did something bad ruins my life, and could put me in a room where my personal freedoms are infringed. It is designed to disincentivize me from doing the bad thing. Repeat after me: One point five billio
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> Each training would be a separate infringement. False. Training was found to be a legitimate use. The liability was specifically, solely, for copyright infringement specifically due to getting the works in the first place, not training
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The actual case was literally pursued as a civil offence. "Potentially" is not a useful adjective. The TLDR I've been given is that it's civil when the prosecution is a non-government entity (private person or company),
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> You are either deliberately or accidentally, and I'm too frustrated hearing this too often not to be biased it's the former, equating what is a large sum of money relative to your wallet and bank accounts and loan access and
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> I'm not saying give up doing things by hand, but also everyone needs to learn to work with AI to do advanced math. I started secondary school (British closest equivalent to highschool) in autumn 1995. One of the teachers opined th
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> 3000$ per book, split 50/50 between the author and publisher. > This is peanuts. If you consider it peanuts, I would like to sell you some books. Remember that in this case, the crime wasn't for training on the data (that
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by ben_w 1mo ago
It's not legal, they've just not yet had the book thrown at them yet. One thing I've taken a long time to internalise is the gap between the law as written vs. the judicial system. There's a famous meme that the average
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While humans can do this, it has historically been difficult for machine learning models to manage it. It is unclear if Transformers are "it" or not, because while they are much more general, they are also very spikey intelligence
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Even after everything else, this wasn't on my bingo card.
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I've been seeing such headlines for the last decade. What counts as "flatlining" when it's China would be above average for the USA. > The jobless rate among workers aged 16 to 24 stood at 18 percent last month. Headl
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Kinda. The default voice is full of what you referenced, but ask it to speak in some particular different voice e.g. like it's the old west, it speaks like a decent approximation of the modern pop culture understanding of the old west.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
More a vs. US strategy than a vs. Russia strategy. Russia has been weird for a long time, they are doing sub-threshold-of-war attacks for a while now. But the USA? Outright threatening allies, talking about annexing some of them, making mor
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Anyone can be held accountable for things they are responsible for, the question is how they'll react to being held thusly.
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Well, one of their near neighbouring countries is currently worried about Trump stealing their territory, and he's made threats to annex Canada too, so it's not exactly an unreasonable fear.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Sure, yes. Given the rumours that Anthropic will copy SpaceX with value-by-TAM, I suspect they'll be overvalued even if they did have a moat. My standard example for why not to price a stock by the TAM is how Wikipedia's not value
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We just watched them[0] secretly conspire[1], actively attempt to hide what they were doing from observation because they knew[2] they were doing something they were not meant to be doing even as part of the test they were in. We are lucky
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Irrelevant. If AI turns out to be a short-lived fad, a bubble that pops and we all laugh at in a few year's time, Google's investments in AI were simply wasted, it does not follow that Google itself will die from having made the i
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by ben_w 1mo ago
I'd like it if the voice synthesis mode was (licensed!) Majel Barrett's TNG-era computer voice.
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I can buy that Meta's model is that, and IDK about Grok because I stay far far away from it, and I think OpenAI are throwing business ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. The clear exception here is Anthropic, who seem to mostly b
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by ben_w 1mo ago
FWIW, I'd count that as a subset of "maybe actually half the country has a totally different worldview". Subset, propaganda is not strictly required for most of it, only for why e.g. Jan 6 didn't disqualify him.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> below average intelligence, along with 70-80 million voters Given what words mean, approximately 122.3 million US citizens eligible to vote ought to be below average. When you say bubble, I'm inclined to agree, though for reasons

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