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by dofm 1mo ago
> Anthropic leadership Which one? The main bit that reports to Daniela Amodei, or the little comfort blanket cabinet around Dario and his "chief of staff"? There is a leadership branch that can pretend to be morally qualified a
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by dofm 1mo ago
Now do Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk.
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by dofm 1mo ago
Obviously not that fast because then they wouldn't be useful. But fairly fast, actually — the pale green food caddy liners we use in the UK break down pretty fast in our wet environment and warm wet food starts working on them within a
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by dofm 1mo ago
> Can you use the cotton bag 173 times? Cotton wears out over time. Yeah, comfortably. Shopping bags don't actually get much "wear" in each active use period. The main issue will be the handles but good stitching will solv
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by dofm 1mo ago
Absolutely.
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"In total, Britain’s Environment Agency calculated that a conventional cotton bag needed to be reused 173 times to beat plastic. Denmark’s equivalent public body estimated a similar ratio." I think there's a thing about food
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by dofm 1mo ago
> OAI as we know it today is going to collapse due to running out of money around/at 20xx. Now what happens if that prediction is published in a popular, widely-consumed way? Pundits and analysts who are widely read, talking about a
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by dofm 1mo ago
> But predictions need to be specific and falsifable. This is only possible when the prediction is outside the system. Inside the system, betting can change outcomes.
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by dofm 1mo ago
Right, but you know the thing. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Predicting the medium future is hardest. Markets don't just pre-plan their behaviour three years earlier and act it out lock-step. Other ci
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by dofm 1mo ago
Is this perhaps because the aim is to read Office documents and there are (maybe, I don't know for sure) default components within Windows that can do that?
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by dofm 1mo ago
> Among programmers and other serious users of AI, I would guess that Willison has a larger audience than Zitron. You don't say.
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by dofm 1mo ago
> The bubble may still burst. That would validate the bubble thesis. It would not retroactively fix the prediction record. If it does not burst it will be because specific efforts have been taken to deflate it in the face of concerns l
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by dofm 1mo ago
> Who cares if their debt is junk. Non-rhetorical answer to your rhetorical question, but: The near future of the political right wing of the USA is dependent on the Ellisons staying afloat to create an impervious right-wing media spher
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by dofm 1mo ago
> After looking at Nvidia's orderbook, it's a reasonable conclusion that nothing bad will happen for at least another year. In which case Ed Zitron is off by at least a year. Zitron is fairly clear that nothing is going to happ
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by dofm 1mo ago
If you're saying that OpenAI forecast something and you're saying it's validation that the numbers match the forecast, I don't think you're really paying attention to the problems (with annualised run rate bullshit
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by dofm 1mo ago
The first correct, detailed prediction (in print) about the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as a result of the subprime crisis was made by Max Keiser, of Karmabanque, in (Zac Goldsmith's) The Ecologist magazine. In 2004 . And h
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by dofm 1mo ago
I mostly use Muse Glimmer, which runs quite well on my M1 Max as it is 30B but it also reasons very efficiently. I have tried the Qwen 3.8 27B which is also usable if quite slow to reason, but I guess like everyone the idea of the Flash-Nex
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by dofm 1mo ago
I'm only joking anyway — it's more a comment on the whole AI-accelerated trend of everyone having their own version of a thing. I do agree that, ultimately, combining your efforts with others working in this whole area is probably
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AI NIH
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by dofm 1mo ago
I tend to buy secondhand anyway, and yes, almost certainly it's best to wait. At the moment, speccing out a local box more powerful than the machine I am using is largely an intellectual exercise, but it does have some value for unders
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by dofm 1mo ago
Oh man. The gamer cult around RuneScape was so hardcore and evangelical in 2004 that it is when it acquired the nickname "Run! Escape!" I never fell in with the cult and I am glad I didn't. The Dofus cult in the next few year
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by dofm 1mo ago
I am also willing to overpay to not be reliant on cloud things, to have control of local hardware. My biggest problem with buying a Mac Studio is that even in the case of the M5 Max models, I can’t think of any non-AI macOS applications in
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by dofm 1mo ago
> Have they (the keir starmer bunch) or have they not issued a law without the crucial details - how to do it, the whole matter is absurd without full clarity on "how to do it"? This (a law with a separate binding statutory ins
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by dofm 1mo ago
> My to-go order is always just an Americano. Nothing better had been invented. Oh no. Now I feel sad. Because this is just not right. ;-)
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by dofm 1mo ago
I don't believe the Online Safety Act does require that. RIPA did. But again, most Brits are using WhatsApp anyway; end-to-end security is wholly meaningless in that context. I don't really recognise this "branded a child m
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by dofm 1mo ago
Tariffs on imported steel products. Perhaps the most ironic adversary of the $5 wrench strategy.
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by dofm 1mo ago
> In the US we have tech companies complying with sketchy DHS subpoenas that don’t require warrants. We have DoJ targeting political enemies. We have FISA mass surveillance. You also have a president who has just said he will "repor
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by dofm 1mo ago
The Online Safety Act has broad support from the people of the UK from the left and right combined. Nobody is stopping anyone protesting against it, but it is not imposed by some imaginary uniparty fascist regime, it is something people wan
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by dofm 1mo ago
FWIW, Brexit was never, ever, ever about stopping migration. It was about right wing elites deciding which migrants they wanted, and at best about regaining control of that policy from the EU. It was sold in a racist and bigoted way. The
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by dofm 1mo ago
This is pretty good already. It is essentially a modified experience of Unsloth Studio, I think — the whole of the unsloth package is there so you can install the desktop app and later use the CLI or the headless studio API server. You can

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