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by bena 5d ago
I don't believe there is a true believer. I believe Sam Altman is the rule for these people, not the exception.
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by bena 5d ago
It's amazing that apparently the best way to save as much suffering and future lives as possible involves giving them obscene wealth and ignoring the very real problems we are dealing with today. Once again, I've said it elsewhere
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by bena 5d ago
Is he the one the proposed that airgapped models could still communicate with each other via CPU temperature? If so, he's the person that's made me lament one loss the progressives took from us. I think there's one phrase tha
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by bena 5d ago
I'm unsure. I believe I've seen Telemundo at certain events, but they could have deals to rebroadcast and they'd have the same options as Paramount+. They can run ads over the broadcast ads and swap the audio feed with their
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by bena 5d ago
Who is "they" in this situation? I noted that the streaming service, like Paramount+, would be able to overlay their own ads over the broadcasted commercials, but they won't have control over the cameras. That's on the b
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by bena 5d ago
Does uBlock work on commercials aired as part of a stream/broadcast? I don't mean where they interrupt the stream and insert an ad, I mean that it's part of the video produced. I genuinely don't know and am asking out of
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by bena 5d ago
No, there's nothing really to do. They aren't producing the feed, they're essentially hosting a stream from another broadcaster. For instance, if you have Paramount+, you can watch sports broadcast by your local CBS station t
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by bena 5d ago
One of the most egregious examples of this that's happened to me was with the DVD set of the second or third season of Mad Men. One of the unskippable pre-menu ads was for the next season. And I didn't know what to say. Either I l
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by bena 8d ago
I like to say "taxonomy is bullshit". Taxonomy is essentially building a metaphor or analogy. It's useful at times, but it often breaks down when you start looking at it too hard. Take everyone's favorite example: the to
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by bena 8d ago
Plausible abdication of thought. We put 2 + 2 in our calculator, we get 4. We've spent decades pushing computers as accurate. Making them accurate. We trust the machine and the process to give us the right answers when we put in the ri
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by bena 15d ago
Fear of a Black Hat, a rap mockumentary in the same vein as This is Spinal Tap, begins with a warning about the language in the movie that's essentially them repeating the offending words three or four times. https://www.you
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by bena 16d ago
I think this leads to an interesting question. What happens when the money runs out? Right now, a lot of money is going to train new models. And we need to train new models because they get gated by their training data. And models are only
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by bena 16d ago
This is literally "We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing" Why should we trust them?
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by bena 17d ago
If I were the band, I’d do the same. I would not want the potential fallout of the when the AI tool goes sideways. Or stupid requests. Etc Let meta handle redirecting band questions to the proper account.
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by bena 18d ago
To be fair, they don't have many levers to pull
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by bena 20d ago
If I’m encoding video or running a database, sure. But the OS should be as lean as possible because the entire reason is to run other programs.
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by bena 23d ago
That's exactly what happens. The life expectancy of a person who lives to 18 increases dramatically across the board. You even see this today. If you live to 70, you can expect to live 14 to 17 more years. So to about 84 on the short s
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by bena 23d ago
I died at 1 in Mesopotamia in 3966 BCE of dysentery.
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by bena 24d ago
They did it though. And I didn't say it would be easy, just possible. I think that's some of the disconnect for some people. They think that simply because a thing is possible, it should be easy.
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by bena 24d ago
I don't necessarily disagree. But this is getting rather forest for the trees. End point is: If you don't like who is making your software, make your own. Giving up is just letting them win.
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by bena 24d ago
A little bit sorta. Conservatives will come out to say that you can't force JK Rowling to be pro (or even neutral) on the trans issue. Now, they'll also say that certain people shouldn't be allowed to create. Or at the very l
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by bena 24d ago
If he feels that way, he feels that way. However, if you don't like the creator of Brave or Ladybird, and you don't believe Google or Mozilla can be trusted to make a browser that respects privacy, giving up is just ceding to thos
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by bena 25d ago
Are you actually reading my responses? I’m saying the formula is immaterial. It’s also about being able to produce at scale, market, and distribute.
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by bena 25d ago
The “machinery” being the marketing, distribution, and general scale, not the physical vats used to mix it. Even if you could replicate the exact flavor, you’d still need to do it at scale and get it into stores and convince people to buy i
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by bena 25d ago
No, it's because Pepsi isn't trying to be Coke, they're trying to be better than Coke. So having the recipe is kind of moot. Even if they were to take the recipe and publish it for all to see, you would still need all of the
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by bena 25d ago
The issue isn’t every other CEO having access to the “make game” button, but who will buy that game when the customers have access to their own “make game” button?
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by bena 25d ago
Yeah, that's why I can't take game developers too seriously when they harp on overall software quality. They write a specific type of software that is very forgiving of bad architecture. Hell, some games are very forgiving of sl
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by bena 25d ago
Why should patents stay protected? You yourself say that allowing cheap duplication and tweaking is what leads to fast innovation. Why should I be restricted from cheap use of a patent I could use to further innovation?
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by bena 26d ago
To be fair, there's another adage that comes into play here: Build one to throw away, you will anyhow. His second attempt, no matter how he made it, was made with the context of his earlier mistakes. RAII doesn't lead to spaghetti
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by bena 27d ago
I didn't say he didn't contribute. I said he wasn't famous for it. And he's not. He's famous for his streams and talks.

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