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by bloppe 3mo ago
I support progressive income tax and very high capital gains tax. I do not support wealth tax. There are very sound economic and technical arguments against wealth taxes. You can oppose the wealth tax proposal while supporting higher taxes
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by bloppe 3mo ago
It's a limited area of desirable land zoned for housing. You could build all the tiny homes in the world in bum frick nowhere, but the unhoused would rather be homeless in a big city for various reasons. I probably would too.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Race-to-the-bottom Bob belongs with the likes of Ben Bitdiddle and Louis Reasoner
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by bloppe 3mo ago
All the golf courses in the US consume 3 orders of magnitude more water than all the data centers in the US. The fixation on water usage doesn't feel honest. The concern about energy makes more sense, particularly when DCs burn fossil
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Whether or not it's a bad deal depends on what you're comparing it to. Compared to API pricing, of course a subscription through CC is a good deal. But when OAI offers their super-subsidized plan and allows you to use your own h
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by bloppe 3mo ago
It's the same conflict of interest quite literally any business has. What stops any business from over-charging? Competition.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Sounds like they're modeling their PR on the classic Apple playbook: "choice is bad, and you should appreciate the constraints we've generously imposed"
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by bloppe 3mo ago
I'll do it for free
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by bloppe 3mo ago
If your fan isn't Byzantine fault tolerant, you're irrelevant
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Phasing out leap seconds is such a crack pot idea. Read the resolution [1]. The conclusion hinges entirely on accepting the immutability of these 2 premises: recalling that the CGPM at its 26th meeting (2018) - stated that UTC is th
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by bloppe 3mo ago
This is follows the classic AI policy influence playbook: enumerate a small handful of potential outcomes that make your preferred policy seem obviously correct, ignoring the fact that there are literally infinite more "plans" tha
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Sounds like they did have quorum (84% present). I'm assuming the "trick" is related to the fact that it was an expired law up for renewal instead of a brand new law, which sounds pretty dumb to me. Maybe I'm mistaken abo
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by bloppe 3mo ago
I'm constantly amazed at how far I can get in Portugal or Italy speaking only Spanish. They're different languages but you can make it work well enough in pretty much every situation I've been in.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
I don't think there's a meaningful difference between "deterministic" and "reproducible" the way you just used them. How can something be reproducible if you can't accurately predict what it will do? Regar
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Cannot recommend these enough. Watch the first one and you'll be hooked
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Imagine managing a team of people with no knowledge of their craft, like a team of doctors when you know nothing about being a doctor. You might be pretty confident that you can do it really well. The doctors would probably think that your
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by bloppe 3mo ago
If this is true, then at some point we will stop committing source code to repositories, and instead commit prompts. The LLM would be a "compiler" that can reliably turn a vast collection of natural-language prompts into a complet
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Hypothetically, maybe. In practice, probably not.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Let's assume for the sake of argument that Anthropic has a monopoly over significantly superior models. They will never be a perfect gatekeeper. The number of black hat hackers with access they shouldn't have will be highly correl
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Every single one of those sentences is highly dubious. Cyber-defenders would be pretty jazzed about having easier access to Mythos-class models. Cyber-defense is easier with better tools.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
I'm saying I would do the same thing if I were Dario. I don't think he's evil. I just think his hero complex is annoying.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
"if I don't do it, someone worse will" Of course that's what Dario thinks because that's what every tech CEO thinks. Dario, Sam, Sundar, probably many Chinese CEOs as well. It's what everyone thinks. That'
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by bloppe 3mo ago
I agree that Dario is pretty annoying, but I think the "tech villain" archetype is essentially survivorship bias. The tech leaders who don't act that way are not nearly as visible because they're not nearly as successful
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by bloppe 3mo ago
You could also audit the JavaScript / Wasm that's running in your browser. In fact, a security-focused e2e application might want to purposely keep all client-side code un-minified and highly readable for this very purpose, but de
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by bloppe 3mo ago
It takes a lot of callous and privilege to have this kind of opinion
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by bloppe 3mo ago
If AfD, RN, Futuro Nazionale and their ilk stay on their current trajectory, the identity crisis will become much harder to ignore
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Idk why you're perceiving silence. Feels to me like this is the main thing people talk about nowadays.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
When you're announcing a new model, typically, nobody else has benchmarked it yet, because it hasn't been released yet. You can still run 3p benchmarks on it and publish those results. If other parties later run the same benchmark
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by bloppe 3mo ago
There is far more human genetic diversity within Africa then there is in the rest of the world combined. Also, your notion that certain people are inherently tied to certain places is only true if you accept arbitrary cutoffs for arrival ti
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Anthropic always publishes 3p benchmarks every time they announce a new model

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