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by causal 2y ago
And I'm guessing none of that was documented. This is the other half of the problem - I can't even know what it's doing without a bunch of reverse engineering
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by causal 2y ago
This is my biggest issue with it. Security concerns aside, it's difficult to even debug when issues arise because of how opaque it is.
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by causal 2y ago
Note that your local plugins do not get installed on remote instances without manually doing so
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by causal 2y ago
Can you explain why though? I get that you had to put a lot of effort into blocking VSCode but it's not clear what have VSCode caused to motivate this.
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by causal 2y ago
Interesting. This might explain why racism so often shows up in crowds wanting to overthrow the government: if you genuinely believe your people are naturally superior to others, then you might actually come to believe your success has noth
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by causal 2y ago
In fact I have! And that has greatly informed my opinion: the people I encountered in those countries were every bit as capable as common Americans, but they lacked the institutional support which Americans so easily take for granted.
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by causal 2y ago
I suspect you greatly underestimate how much your life has been protected by the government you wish to eviscerate, but I suppose we shall see
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by causal 2y ago
Right, understanding that the government itself creates the space for the free market to operate, so any tinkering with it ought to be done carefully. New companies will replace old ones that die- and this is good. Failed states can and do
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by causal 2y ago
I'd like to offer: both can be bad. Any large system is going to have a lot of inefficiencies, and something to dislike for everyone. But its overall function can still be important enough that taking a sledge hammer to the whole thing
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by causal 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, worth having the full quote I think: > I'm generally sympathetic to what you're doing. But I hope you will take your time and do it carefully. This isn't just a company. Companies are born and die withi
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by causal 2y ago
This even points to a reason why OpenAI hides the "thinking" step: it would be too obvious that the context is being manipulated to induce more thinking.
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by causal 2y ago
LLMs can do more than whatever we had before. Sentiment analysis and keyword searches only worked so well; LLMs understand meaning and intent. Cost and scale are not bottlenecks for long.
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by causal 2y ago
One of my chief worries about LLMs for intelligence agencies is the ability to scale textual analysis. Previously there at least had to be an agent taking an interest in you; today an LLM could theoretically read all text you've ever t
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by causal 2y ago
This wasn't a random offer btw, Trump has been asking for it and is looking for a legal avenue https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-f...
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by causal 2y ago
I've felt this way since many of the other modalities they've announced to great fanfare fell by the wayside. Sora proved underwhelming. Likewise for voice mode. DALLE is far behind open alternatives. It's hard to know becaus
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by causal 2y ago
The broad definition of AI here makes Prop 65 look reasonable.
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by causal 2y ago
Yeah, seems designed to kill sharing research, or even studying Chinese publications. Self-imposed import restriction. Would be like if China banned NVIDIA imports without US prompting. Would harm US competitiveness tremendously, I think.
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by causal 2y ago
Ah yes asking people to consider how they can be inclusive. Such unabashed hate for merit. Literally 1984. Definitely deserves all the vitriole and backlash we're seeing. /s
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by causal 2y ago
That strikes me as a surprising choice given the amount of prebuilt integrations with n8n
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by causal 2y ago
Slick UI, curious how practical the workflows actually are. My suspicion is that this is automating the part humans would want to do (designing the workflow), whereas most of the hours put into workflow automation is integration (90% of whi
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by causal 2y ago
Expanding on this: It's shocking how quietly we accept that using a smartphone means fighting for and against the presence of an on-screen keyboard. Remember the Motorola Droid with its slide out physical keyboard? That was fantastic.
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by causal 2y ago
Yes, physical media requires a journey with a real aesthetic quality. I don't think an app can ever create that. Even console video games still come with controllers, that I think are a big reason people love their consoles. They feel
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by causal 2y ago
The emphasis on embodiment was particularly interesting I think - at least with 90s tech you generally had to push physical buttons to get a response. There was something kinetic about tech use, it felt more like using LEGOs. Now user inter
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by causal 2y ago
Opportunity cost is a good term for the problem with addictive tech. Any one of the little distractions it offers up seems harmless, but in aggregate they represent a massive time opportunity cost, and indulging a few without succumbing to
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by causal 2y ago
I think LLMs are transformative but it's incredible to me how unimaginative most product managers have been. It reminds me of the 90s when people discovered GIFs can be put on web pages so every page had to have a hundred of them. It w
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by causal 2y ago
The calculations are also just wrong. The author basically makes up the 2W figure, doesn't take batching into account, has bogus DAU numbers. Energy use is worth discussing, but this is worse than just guesswork.
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by causal 2y ago
Okay that's hilarious.
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by causal 2y ago
It is. And regardless, apologetics concerns absolute truths of the highest order. Marketing any LLM as being an authority on absolute truths has always been a terrible idea, which is why we do not use them instead of doctors and babysitters
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by causal 2y ago
If you literally believe that getting an answer wrong can send someone to hell, then I think the stakes are a little more dire than bad nutritional advice. Like imagine if this were a baby-care bot, dispensing advice on how to safely care f
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by causal 2y ago
But this isn't just claiming to produce some benign facts, it is trying to make claims on absolute truths with consequences as dire as "going to hell". Even if you don't believe, the creators certainly intend for their b

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