captainbland

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by captainbland 5d ago
Yeah it's just not economically viable for a single platform to license all high profile monopoly content and then sell it all as cheaply as netflix was. It was all an investment backed illusion. I think the interesting thing is that t
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by captainbland 6d ago
I think it really depends on what the universe looks like as you drill down into it. It seems like the further down into smaller systems you get, the more analytically complex it gets. And then there will always be more value in enhancing t
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by captainbland 12d ago
It's partly because of disagreement about what "complexity" and "simplicity" actually are. Many simple statements are in fact backed by massively complex, unstated assumptions. In attempting to deal with assumptions
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by captainbland 15d ago
For the most part yeah but does depend on scale. For Java there are lower cost migration pathways like native compilation anyway if that does become your concern
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by captainbland 15d ago
I think getting personal data collection out of the Thielverse is anything but a strange move
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by captainbland 15d ago
> or if it consumes 2, 3, or 4x the memory I think this used to be true more than it is now. Memory has been relatively expensive in cloud environments for a while (often 2x the price of an ec2 node for an equivalent with 2x RAM) and DRA
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by captainbland 17d ago
This is actually what keeps people using AI: variable reward schedule. It's basically gambling.
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by captainbland 18d ago
I also find IRL social interactions also want pacing to some degree. But I don't know, I find my brain is sort of wired for these sorts of novel, pseudonymous interactions from a young age.
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by captainbland 18d ago
It wouldn't surprise me. It seems like a mirror of the social media move from social graphs to recommendation engines. You are either producer or consumer and never shall consumer be promoted organically.
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by captainbland 21d ago
I expect many people would accept clicking "license" instead but it's unfair to assume that people don't value ownership as such or that they won't in the future. It's fair to ensure that people are made fully
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by captainbland 23d ago
If we're not owning it, you're not selling it, you're leasing it. Terminology on sales pages should reflect this. "Subscribe now" "purchase license" etc. should be mandated if this is the expectation. Term
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by captainbland 26d ago
I suppose at some point it could have had a wooden structure around it to make it harder to escape
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by captainbland 1mo ago
Imo it's a breakdown of trust of the startup ecosystem as a whole. Repeatedly startups have enshittified and it's become undeniable that the investment apparatus around startups is partly responsible. We have seen a great driver o
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by captainbland 1mo ago
The other thing to add as well is that the research teams who do the actual research work are relatively small and very specifically qualified which naturally keeps the barrier to entry high.
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by captainbland 1mo ago
I think the idea of moral agency in this context is more or less a consequence of accountability or the lack thereof. We don't know a way to punish or remove the threat of such a model when it does something wrong in a way which satisf
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by captainbland 1mo ago
Yeah this is it for me. What we're really interested in most of the time is whether something can suffer based on observed behaviour. We don't really believe LLMs can suffer so they don't need rights. We believe many animals
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by captainbland 1mo ago
This seems a lot like the parable of the broken window but for inefficiency rather than destruction per se.
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by captainbland 1mo ago
Bit of a tangent but at work we have GitHub Copilot and the VSCode harness is somehow night and day better than whatever happens in the IntelliJ plugin. Aside from having better features, for some reason prompts seem to be cheaper as well.
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by captainbland 2mo ago
Will it though? Where mastodon is much more distributed, bluesky/ATProto use is highly concentrated on bsky.app
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by captainbland 2mo ago
The internet might not be dead, but large parts of it are gangrenous and necrotic
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by captainbland 2mo ago
Unfortunately opinions don't change the reality of physical processes.
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by captainbland 2mo ago
To be honest the main issue with meta has never been around open/closed software. They've also done react, Cassandra and some other bits. But this, like their open weights is like a feather pressing down on the scale compared to t
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by captainbland 2mo ago
I think "code isn't the bottleneck" is often accurate though in organisations with high friction processes.
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by captainbland 2mo ago
I think making water expensive because of the fact that it's essential would be problematic at best
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by captainbland 2mo ago
I think single dynamic dispatch is one thing but ends up reasonably well optimised by modern compilers, especially the JVM. I think most code written since the 2010s prefers the composition over inheritance pattern for the most part so tend
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by captainbland 2mo ago
I'd be surprised if it were anything other than just an LLM only equivalent of Gemma some 4B param model, they can't be spending much money on it because each query essentially needs to be cheaper than the ad revenue per search.
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by captainbland 2mo ago
The discussion on filler tokens is interesting, but is it not just the case that these filler tokens end up being essentially substituted stand-ins for words we understand with all the same relationships encoded in the model and attention?
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by captainbland 2mo ago
This one is interesting as it's been hand verified. There was a recent proof that inadvertantly "proved" the collatz conjecture by triggering a bug in LEAN: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/1170021060
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by captainbland 2mo ago
To be fair we don't really know in terms of prices what's real and what's just investor subsidised attempts at market capture at this point. It could well be OpenAI's attempt to drown Anthropic while they've got the
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by captainbland 2mo ago
People are already doing it to some extent, especially the sort of technical non-programmer crowd. A member of my family was even having a (now pretty out of date) version of chatGPT spit out VBA macros for them with precisely no idea what

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