coldtea

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by coldtea 4mo ago
Yes, and they're all the worse, more at the mercy of car companies and mechanics, and less aware of the world they live and operate in, for it...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> When's the last time you shoed a horse? That skill died too, so what's your point?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> no need to learn, just ask it to do it for you And that's how skills die.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> now that everything looks like the same AI-slop online Designers have managed to make everything look the same pre-AI too, like the shitty "flat design" era.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Because, if we ignore the begging the question in your rhetorical question, we've found that probabilistic language prediction engines are quite good at many things, like translation, coding, apparently even theoritical mathematics.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> This is too oddly written to read in its entirety It's AI slop.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Ctrl+B is so hardwired in my fingers for scrolling back one screen that there's no way I'm remapping that one in vim itself. Give it a month and whatever you remapped will be "hardwired" too. In any case, no reason
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> I think everyone can agree that having O(100M) people vote on every local initiative is absurd. I'm one of those everyones, and I don't agree. Except if you mean local initiatives that don't concern 100M people, but e.g
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Is there such a thing as "unbiased public opinion" at all though? Doesn't really matter except philosophically. There's something close enough to unbiased public opinion when there are no government propaganda camp
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by coldtea 4mo ago
"Will ensure the complete collapse of education" ftfy
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by coldtea 4mo ago
"rote memorization" is not the right way to describe how an LLM works. The memorization of say 100000 world facts through training texts, which enrich model associations all around, is absolutely not the same as rote memorization
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> But in general it's self-evident that training the model on information that is irrelevant to your use case does not necessarily improve ability, otherwise you'd have AGI just from reinforcing your model on memorizing the fir
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by coldtea 4mo ago
"def" doing a lot of work here. It is more expensive? yeah Is it "definitely not below cost"? hardly except if as cost here only the inference cost is considered, and not the capital investment, and maintenance costs (no
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> All functional Western nations have voting mechanisms that allow for radical government change Voters never get what they vote for.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> There are at least some technological solutions here, such as anonymous credentials. Technological solutions for what problem?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Whether it matters for the consumer (who only sees released and announced end results) or not is irrelevant. It can still be a very real, not made-up distinction, if the actual facts on the ground are that Apple designed an M6 line, but the
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by coldtea 4mo ago
If anything, those countries have so much better outcomes, that it's not even funny...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
People say that in support of the current us system that achieves the opposite, getting far worse outcomes. Probably because what they really want is not safety or justice or rehabilitation, but retribution, revenge, and a non-criminal way
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by coldtea 4mo ago
I'd rather have a civilized prison system with human conditions, instead of an medieval revenge, profiteering, racism and exclusion, a prison-labor complex, and the death penalty - all created, ran, and cheered by bigoted Old Testament
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by coldtea 4mo ago
They swept it under the carpet, keeping the benefits, but keeping it a side part of their economy. Kind of like a modern country depending on unprotected labor and even child labor in the third world for its minerals or even for its Nikes.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> You can't unit test for taste if you haven't written down what you mean by taste. If you can externalize it, then you can. If you can externalize it, you only captured the small part of taste that can be externalized in conc
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Don't glorify Rome too much. It was a slavery based society that progressed sciences, technology and civilization little from what they inherited from the Mesopotamian's/Greeks. It progressed civic life, institutions, l
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by coldtea 4mo ago
OpenAI jealous of Mythos getting all the hype
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> we really have to start thinking about how to organize work at a fundamental level Who is this "we"? As if society at large gets a say? Do people owning land and houses ask the homeless of how to organize home ownership?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Why're living on a ball of gently (and not so gently) rising temperatures...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
And AI made it 1000x faster, more convincing, and expanded its scope, even allowed spam to get automated back and forth.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Companies will consume a lot of things offered below actual cost thanks to VC and cheap loans.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> What's OpenAI going to do? Close down would be a good idea.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
People will consume a lot of things offered below actual cost thanks to VC and cheap loans. Doesn't mean people would legitimately use them enough to warrant such infrastracture demand, if they were priced according to actual costs. So
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> I think we're going to see even further price increases across the industry. Between the dire economy, the oil and materials crisis due to conflict, the trade wars and the tarrifs, why would anyone expect it to be otherwise?

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