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by dofm 4mo ago
Where does this agricultural labour point come from? It's so common here and so obviously wobbly. That labour was displaced (and in most cases into way more gruelling and dangerous factory work). The AI pitch is that the giant superb
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by dofm 4mo ago
Literally Sam and Dario's.
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by dofm 4mo ago
What's a dirt farmer?
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by dofm 4mo ago
> AI is not cutting my hair anytime soon. This is an absolutely bizarre pitch for labour replacement for the very obvious reason that the rate at which the world's hair grows is not going to increase and nor are we going to suddenly
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by dofm 4mo ago
Tractors and looms displaced labour. Those people got other jobs. In many cases radically worse jobs for the first hundred years; living standards for those people dropped noticeably as they went into industrial mining and factory work. T
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by dofm 4mo ago
> People have been made to believe by very influential people (dario, sam, elon etc) that AI will replace them. As a result people are getting angry. Who did not see this coming? Cal Newport calls this "Doom-Trolling" — there w
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by dofm 4mo ago
Well, many of us who shared hardware also ran monitoring to make sure the share was fair; there used to be a whole industry for that sort of quota stuff. You can presumably hard-limit LLMs the same way — total, burst quotas etc. (Suddenly
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by dofm 4mo ago
The Neo is absolutely Apple's best-selling Mac; they've been caught off-guard in an epic way. (You could make the case that they shouldn't have been; I don't really know why the pundit class ever entertained the idea tha
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by dofm 4mo ago
The vast majority of active users of ChatGPT could successfully use a model like Gemma 4 12B with agentic search if x86 hardware didn't make that so difficult. Likely even the E4B, which is really both fun and impressive. That is clear
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by dofm 4mo ago
Back in the earlier days of the internet, when "dedicated servers" were a competitive advantage, hobbyists and small dev shops definitely shared dedicated hardware. So you could see small LLM co-operatives working out, yeah. But m
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by dofm 4mo ago
> Closed software still has many people with access to the code. But in the examples cited (and really any other large closed piece of code of any significance in this era) it also has owners with money, and they should be compelled to f
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by dofm 4mo ago
> that doesn't make security their number 1 priority. Well perhaps the companies who employ them to make that software they sell for profit should let them do that first rather than tokenmaxxing, and the great big non-profit effort
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by dofm 4mo ago
I think the idea is that automated source code processing is making it possible to find vulnerabilities at great speed and in an overwhelming way in software that does not have paid maintainers, whereas closed source software in active use
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by dofm 4mo ago
I was specifically referring to consumer AI, not agentic coding, and I really think Apple have a good chance of demonstrating smaller on-device LLMs plus traditional symbolic AI work (even just rules systems like evolved forms of Automator
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by dofm 4mo ago
The difference between these two is that one of them is an unsolved research problem that we’ve all spent far too much time on, and the other is just running an LLM.
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by dofm 4mo ago
This a significant misunderstanding of which party it is Apple wants to attend.
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by dofm 4mo ago
One of the things that really strikes me is that there are so many people talking about how great the frontier models are but there's nowhere near as many people talking about open weights and local models. There is this huge knowledge
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by dofm 4mo ago
> The leaks showed inference having positive margins. They don't. They show that OpenAI need to people to draw that conclusion, because of course they do. > The Zitronites will say that the data is fraudulent, and OpenAI must hav
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by dofm 4mo ago
> There is zero evidence of any causal link between him and this. How would there be? He's a blogger and a youtuber, they are a private company with secretive financials, bankers involved in pre-IPO work don't talk openly. Nobo
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by dofm 4mo ago
FWIW I think there's a "Y2K never happened" future here, where the bubble never bursts (in the sense of some insane market valuation proving to be lunatic) but everyone does what they can to make sure it doesn't burst on
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by dofm 4mo ago
> The ones I know who are leaving (including myself) are doing so because the industry has changed in ways they are not comfortable with. The AI doom-trolling (h/t Cal Newport) of the big two firms is so utterly disreputable, shamef
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by dofm 4mo ago
This comment is much more revealing about you than I think you realise, but it's good to know at least that there's no point in wasting time on arguing things on the merits.
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by dofm 4mo ago
> I'm not sure how it can be "likely factually wrong" that you are better off without paying a third party who does very little for you as an individual who is above average in your field than you would be if you didn&#x27
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by dofm 4mo ago
To be fair to Apple, their best selling laptop runs on the same chip as their best selling phone, so they are rather surprisingly on the forefront of this efficiency in consumer-facing devices. Not looked at Slint, thanks for the tip. Qt is
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by dofm 4mo ago
Right but I said nothing about bug fixes, which we'll continue to receive for some time. I have an Intel machine that Tahoe already doesn't support and I gather I am going to get patches and new Safari until at least autumn 2027,
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by dofm 4mo ago
Well, hopefully :-) I am personally working on the assumption that prices will go up again this year or say in January, though as I have an M1 Max here it's not massively urgent.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Yeah. I also meant that this is an inflexion point with Apple Intelligence at the OS level. I suspect you cannot simply sprinkle AI functionality through an OS and manage the difference between unified and non-unified VRAM without noticeabl
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by dofm 4mo ago
Though this window is very short. Apple don't leave much in retail channels.
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by dofm 4mo ago
I think it is fully likely that Apple will extend the life of the M1 in OS support terms because of this problem. They don't have much choice but to phase out Intel support, but they absolutely can make the choice to extend support for
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by dofm 4mo ago
Right — if we can know how long ago the contracts were agreed we can predict how much more the price will have to rise, because 20% sounds like the beginning of the problem.

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