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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
I know no one wants to hear this, but this “acquisition “ is nothing of the kind. It’s just Nvidia hiring the four or five guys they need without having to take on the rest of groq. Which, as it turns out, is worthless without those four or
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
It's the opposite of an acquisition. It's literally: "I don't want you and your 200 tensorflow/pytorch monkeys. I just want your top scientist and I need a clever way to offer him a nine figure salary. Good of you t
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Yeah but that's going nowhere in court right? You can't have the government coming in telling a scientist who he has to work for. People are free to take jobs at whatever company they like. This is just a clever mechanism of payin
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
Probably not. It's the arts, culture, politics and philosophies being kneecapped in the embeddings. Not really the physics, chemistry, and math. I could see them actually getting more of what they want: which is Chinese people using
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
I'm almost positive a lot of HN Users don't read the studies they comment on. They probably don't even read the articles. Which, ironically, given the topic of this post, speaks to the kinds of pathologies we find out on soci
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That's as may be, but still, remember what Lyndon B Johnson said about controlling the lower classes. Something about convincing the lowest white person that they're better than the best black guy. I don't see that ploy faili
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??? That's dumb. I mean.. what about ..the slightest political or economic valence to.. um.. the Attorney General? or even worse.. what about ..the slightest political or economic valence.. to ..independent agencies or private act
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
Just to give a hint of how we plan on dealing with this, how many of those cars can you buy in the US today? You can expect to be able to buy exactly that many chinese GPU or neural processors.
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
Frontier models are good at offensive capabilities. Scary good. But the good ones are not open. It's not even a matter of money. I know at OpenAI they are invite only for instance. Pretty sure there's vetting and tracking going on
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
Hate to be “that guy”, but this isn’t regulation or government. Rather it’s the free market with actors willing to do anything to make gentrification profits. Which are, unfortunately for our society, quite sizable. You can have flophouses.
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
Which is not to say there are no bitter grad students or colleagues at MIT. Which was gopher_space’s material point.
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Low percentage of grad students
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And to be frank, both are pretty far fetched. His thing was plasma and fusion. If people want a conspiracy theory, tell them to go with alien civilizations wanted to prevent humans from achieving fusion.
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Don't know about either of those? But militarily, it's suicide to set up all your generation in one area. Always overwhelm the enemy when possible. Even when he's planning.
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by bilbo0s 10mo ago
Well, yeah.. Devil's always in the details. But in this instance, any even partial win is still a win. Something is better than nothing.
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by bilbo0s 11mo ago
This. Don't believe for a second that Sora will allow you to make racist content with Disney characters. That said, there are a lot of other models out there that care about neither licensing nor alignment. So those will allow you to m
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by bilbo0s 11mo ago
> I don’t want to live in that world; where curiosity and thought are cast aside in favor of faster results. To be fair, we, all of us, have been living in that world for quite some time now. Not really sure how we'd ever slow down
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by bilbo0s 11mo ago
Let's be honest, it's not even that. It's more like "relative to historic trends, many people want houses [in desirable areas] who can't afford the current prices." Building tons of new houses outside of the ho
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by bilbo0s 11mo ago
Because AI, or rather, an LLM, is the consensus of many human experts as encoded in its embedding. So it is better, but only for those who are already expert in what they're asking. The problem is, you have to know enough about the
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> Maybe the media benefits from it? Nah. We just love our dog whistles. Abortion!! Immigrants!! The billionaires are stealing from you!! Libtards!! Right wing shooters!! Oh yeah, almost forgot.. Something, something blacks!!! That'
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by bilbo0s 11mo ago
> It’s already in use, or models like it, by companies selling access to The State Doesn't that pretty much cover Palantir as well?
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This. Anthropic is not going to interrupt their competitors if their competitors don't want to use trainium. Neither would you, I, nor anyone else. The only potential is downside. There's no upside potential for them at all in doi
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by bilbo0s 11mo ago
Mmmm.. I don’t know man? I actually don’t mind 14+14 for corps. Because corps could conceivably never “die”. (In fact, I wouldn’t even be too opposed to getting rid of the +14 part). But for individual people who make things, I think if the
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> Even in mainland China [..] Apple does not pre-install any apps from anyone. That's because China has no regulation obliging them to do so. China takes the other, more comprehensive, route to privacy invasion. Sucking up every bi
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> I guess it's counting on deepseek being banned And the people making the bets are in a position to make sure the banning happens. The US government system being what it is. Not that our leaders need any incentive to ban Chinese t
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The deaths of masons and builders. All the way back to Hammurabi. BTW, Hammurabi was particularly dastardly in his building code specifications. You could, of course, be put to death if a building or wall collapsed and killed someone. But t
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This is what most don’t understand. The reality is, we’re all villains. And we’re all angels. And the only thing that determines how we’re perceived, is the disposition of those perceiving us. This person is a villain, because you don’t lik
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To be fair, these advances are not being made in China due to "free industry". They have something of a command economy for their critical sectors. So it's unfair not to point out that it's easy to make advances if a nat
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No such place. Not in today's world. If you give a school enough evidence. Like, say, this email. Your career there is done. And that's any school.
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by bilbo0s 11mo ago
Um.. Just throwing it out there, but forget Epstein, I'm sure most of us would not believe what NYT is sitting on in general. This is effectively a defacto global intelligence gathering service. I bet if we could read through a lot of

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