bevekspldnw

5 ms·

31.
by bevekspldnw 4mo ago
Absolute numbers with BigTech are never significant. Only viable paths for remedy anre outright divestment or revoking financial license in Sweden. The former is nigh impossible, the latter is fairly trivial with sufficient will.
32.
by bevekspldnw 4mo ago
Europe’s biggest problems are a cultural superiority complex (we’re better than brutish Americans who only care about money), combined with deep seated racism (we’re better than our former colonies, eg China), and a heavy dose of denialism
33.
by bevekspldnw 4mo ago
Lack of air conditioning is leading to massive excess deaths among the elderly during heat waves. Culling out the elderly during the annual heat waves is quickly becoming a European tradition. That said…refusing to adopt AC may be Europe’s
34.
by bevekspldnw 4mo ago
When it comes to avoiding the worst impacts of the current catastrophic path we’re on, “nothing will work, but everything might”. Do it all.
35.
by bevekspldnw 4mo ago
”I built the Torment Nexus and I’ll got was a few million dollars and this lousy job.”
36.
by bevekspldnw 5mo ago
How much of this is RL’ing a good coding model on every CVE ever?
37.
by bevekspldnw 5mo ago
I lived and worked in SV for several years. Basically people don’t see anything they do as wrong and have no concept of shame. It’s a combination of learned obedience to authority and greed. You just take a bunch of people who made all A’s
38.
by bevekspldnw 5mo ago
…Or the ML team is just going to eat all those juicy screen recordings of those teams doing their jobs and can them in 12 months. Your days are numbered, Zuck will get rid of you the second you’ve finished producing training data.
39.
by bevekspldnw 9mo ago
…and the guy shuffling the cups is Dave Chappell’s crackhead character. My theory has always been Trumps grand con was acting like what poor people thought a rich person was like, Elon acts like what morons think a genius is like.
40.
by bevekspldnw 1y ago
Telltale slop: "And honestly? I didn’t see it coming."
41.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
Very much wish I could.
42.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
Oh he did worse than that, far worse.
43.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
The majority of that revenue comes from violating data protection law and regulators and litigants are slowly racking up a series of wins which will gut ads margins. There is no Plan B, they are just going to break the law until they can’t
44.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
To appropriate a quote “you’ll take my guns from my cold dead hands”. There’s only one thing the agree on in DC: defense spending is the most important line item, and everything else is secondary. Also, turns out when you have the ability t
45.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
Exactly, flatten those in the first five minutes and that “shield” is gone.
46.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
Invasion by CCP followed by full ceasing of chip shipments.
47.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
These are military assets, the Pentagon gets what it wants. That’s why CHIPS was passed, the brass told Congress to get them some fancy new fabs, and like all requests the Pentagon makes, they got it. Long term it doesn’t matter if these fa
48.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
The Japanese figured out how to build and manage American auto factories, I’m hopeful the Taiwanese will figure it out as well.
49.
by bevekspldnw 2y ago
Exactly, at the root a lot of this about ATT.
50.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
I’m saying it’s not worth anything because it is a Bing wrapper. The other “products” are just to drive more traffic to Bing ads. There’s no there there.
51.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
This was the same premise when AOL released an “anonymized” set of search data and it was easy to find the original people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release
52.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Correct, that would be full communications content protection. This is not that, this is a pretty half assed product with a misleading set of promises. Either use one of the many open models that beat GPT-3.5 and you have a real, and better
53.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
“A number of products” that make no real revenue other than driving users to…Bing ads. The discussion here is what you would get if bought DDG, and the answer is…very little.
54.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
They could literally run Mixtral or Llama on their own machines and have total control. This is basically a ChatGPT VPN.
55.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Give me another one then? It’s a search engine with no search index. It’s an ads supported site without an ads network. What is it then if not a wrapper?
56.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
It’s just a Bing wrapper with Bing ads. What is there to sell?
57.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
That’s a pretty disingenuous framing. Obviously the content of the communication- what you ask the chatbot - can totally be personally identifiable, and is stored. You aren’t providing communications content privacy, you’re providing a meta
58.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Hate to break it to you but there’s a thousand court cases a day precisely because “specific legal definition” is a surprisingly flexible concept depending on context. Likewise when new technologies emerge it often requires reappraisal and
59.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
But it’s also a bit absurd in a sense - let’s say you have all of Meta’s code and training data. Ok, now what? Even if you also had a couple spare data centers, unlimited money, and an army of engineers, you can’t even find enough NVIDIA c
60.
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
I don’t understand how the idea of open source become some sort of pseudo-legalistic purity test on everything. Models aren’t code, some of the concepts of open source code don’t map 1:1 to freely available models. In spirit I think this is

More ›