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1mo ago
completely expected, but still quite sad. But like hydra, cut off one head, and two shall spawn. It should never be illegal to proxy another site, if the information content from that site was originally user generated. Using copyright as a
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1mo ago
> start generating profit, and then you can start optimizing your costs. this assumes you can generate profit before you can get optimized - what if profit generation is only possible with optimized software? A lot of online MMO-style ga
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1mo ago
the price swings are part of the market's reaction to real life situations. The opposite of a market solving a resource allocation problem is the command economy, where some (small) group people are tasked with decisions like how much
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1mo ago
News and recency bias tend to cause people to make wrong (or non-optimal) choices. And in any case, a preventative measure, like thoroughly washing the lettuce is a good form of insurance for home made foods, regardless of what's repor
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1mo ago
but it's a really shallow form of discussion, as most tweets are the equivalent of short-form videos of tiktoks.
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1mo ago
collective intelligence is not a superhuman intelligence. Markets solves the resource allocation problem, but it doesn't and realistically cannot be called intelligent (even tho it's been called wisdom of the crowds), in the same
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1mo ago
> as a force to have open weight models run better on Nvidia against the rest. this is the crux - if nvidia makes it so that open weights end up running better on nvidia hardware than competitor's, then it's going to prevent ha
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1mo ago
it's a crude approximation to economies of scale. However, big doesn't always mean economies of scale because efficiency tends to drop when growing big, unless the head works hard to ensure it isnt bloating. Unfortunately, sometim
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2mo ago
> taxed electricity exports it is easy to tax exports, but this makes the export less profitable (for the entity making that export). Unless you mean the producer raises prices to cover the new tax - in which case, the export is now more
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2mo ago
> the other half were definitely "wow" moments. do you have some samples? It would be interesting to learn what it might be.
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2mo ago
and what stops the amazons of the world from paying the ai provider, and getting your ai to buy from them instead of the best deal? How are you going to check and verify you got the best deal? In the recent past, there was a browser extensi
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2mo ago
> de-identified De-identified but far from useless. as an example, they can remove the names off these sales data, so you can't identify who purchased what items. However, the purchaser would be identified by some sort of number, an
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2mo ago
> blindly trusting they won't train on any of that being allowed to train on any data that you can legally obtain ought to be a right for anyone. After all, i am allowed to learn off anything i can legally read (and perhaps even ill
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2mo ago
> becomes a commodity/race to the bottom. that's a good outcome - it means they're fungible, and easily available.
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2mo ago
china won't want to drop the advantages of being able to have such tight control over the flow of yuan. Maintaining control over capital flight from china, for example.
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2mo ago
This is exactly why ethics doesnt work, and it is why laws work. If ethics worked, we'd have no need for laws.
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2mo ago
> I had older NVIDIA card (RTX 3070) and llama.cpp instalation was smooth what model was it that you were able to run with the rtx 3070?
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2mo ago
The people making propaganda (and yes, this is propaganda) knows that people are not rational but emotional. The video targets emotions - that amazon shirks responsibility is an emotional appeal. The hidden assumption is that there is some
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2mo ago
grammar and rules of language has almost nothing to do with the difficulty of writing good text (ala, written prose fit for purpose). Understanding of grammar and rules of a language is like having good bricks, but building a stylish house
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2mo ago
Teach Yourself A* in Ten Years
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2mo ago
> Would you turn every leaf in the forest around twice if someone is paying for this, then it must mean it is useful to the one doing the paying. If you're not the one paying, you also cannot decide whether it's useful to the p
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> There's no way large companies outside the US will pay the "US AI lab" premium this has already happened with manufacturing, so it isn't surprising that other industries follow. The US premium in engineering and sci
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> much intrinsic meaning now work should not be considered to have to have intrinsic meaning for it to be worthwhile - you merely need to make sure your pay is worthwhile. Find intrinsic meaning outside of work. The best way, imho, is to
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2mo ago
And this is why you know age verification is not done to make sure kids are protected.
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> The foundational knowledge is lost, meaning that even if we do look at the code, we won't understand it anyway. but this is similar to a lot of other technical fields that have width and depth. People would not understand assembly
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2mo ago
He's basically asking other people to do his job for him, because he knows that the AI doesn't truly do it well enough. I would say to him that if he wants me to do his job, he needs to pay me his salary.
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Why is railroad a better comparison?
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> do you enjoy consuming AI-generated stuff? you might be in the minority, because a lot of people don't care for low quality, as long as it "works". The same effect happened with consumer appliances/products, softwar
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> require less employees, resulting to less positions in the market which i counter with the idea that more efficiency means more output for less - ala, more surplus. This extra surplus drives higher demand for more products/service
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2mo ago
The fear in most people is not of losing the job, but of losing their value in the market as ai raises the floor of capabilities of other people competing for the same job.
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