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by falcor84 1y ago
Option 3 is probably "engagement numbers go up -> investors happy"
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by falcor84 1y ago
It really lost me at >There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought this was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet. I can barely stomach it with John Olive
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by falcor84 1y ago
>The idea is that any software published under this license would be forbidden to be used by AI. If I'm reading this and the license text correctly, it assumes the AI as a principal in itself, but to the best of my knowledge, AI is
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by falcor84 1y ago
I just want to say how nice it was to read those clear bullet points in this press release. I know that bulleted lists have been getting a lot of flack because of AIs overusing them, but it's really nice sometimes to not having to go t
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Microsoft, OpenAI reach new deal to allow OpenAI to restructure(reuters.com)
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by falcor84 1y ago
> This is an extract from Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It by Cory Doctorow.
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by falcor84 1y ago
This seems to be the original post - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workfor... And this is the nod to AI: > This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the
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by falcor84 1y ago
https://archive.ph/CIQ6F
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by falcor84 1y ago
> but it can't make movies. To me this appears to be a very time-dependent assertion. 5 years ago, AI couldn't generate a good movie frame. 2 years ago, AI couldn't generate a good shot, but now in 2025, AI can generate a
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by falcor84 1y ago
I strongly disagree that it was bad faith or strawmanning. The ancestor comment had: > This makes no sense, and it’s absurd anyone thinks it does. If the AI PR were any good, it wouldn’t need review. And if it does need review, why would
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by falcor84 1y ago
Just to explain my brusque comment: the way I see it, civilization is populated with a large fraction of individuals whose intelligence or conscientiousness I wouldn't trust to mind my cactus, but that I'm ok with entrusting a lot
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by falcor84 1y ago
It's what is used to feed the flames.
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by falcor84 1y ago
> That’s just adding several layers of stupid on top of each other and praying that somehow the result is smart. That is literally how civilization works.
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by falcor84 1y ago
I've never worked in that area, but recall reading about how images of spectrograms are often superior inputs to neural nets in comparison to the raw audio data.
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Without a license, you have no rights at all to use the code. Exactly - that is what copyright was set up for (whereas before copyright, people could copy freely), and then copyleft comes and says that everyone can use and modify the c
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by falcor84 1y ago
Wasn't copyleft essentially intended to be "copyright violation as a service"? I.e. making it impossible for an individual working with copyleft code to use copyright to assert control over the code?
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by falcor84 1y ago
Agreed, it's almost like requiring that code always come with full transcripts of all the meetings where the team discussed the next steps.
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by falcor84 1y ago
I'm not sure what your point is, but I do absolutely think that getting proper toilet paper offers 50x returns and everyone should prioritize it.
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by falcor84 1y ago
I was more impressed when Emily the Engineer built an actual Wasp Launcher - https://youtu.be/mEn2kA0cAGw
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by falcor84 1y ago
Well, maybe not "this easy", but if we can all agree on an extensive test suite that all autonomous cars have to follow to be allowed on the road, it'd be almost like that, without the risk of a single bug taking down all of
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by falcor84 1y ago
Why? Planes also have rapidly spinning blades, but the actual risk from getting hurt by the blades is probably two full orders of magnitude lower than the risk from the whole thing crashing into something at speed, which is an inherent risk
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by falcor84 1y ago
In all seriousness, I found those sorting dance videos to be really educationally effective (when coupled with going over the pseudocode) - e.g. https://youtu.be/3San3uKKHgg?si=09EQYJNIkRqvQgWG
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by falcor84 1y ago
I love this idea, but can't find anything about it. Is this a neologism you just coined? If so, is there any particular paper or work that led you to think about in those terms?
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by falcor84 1y ago
Regardless of how you define "think", you still need to get a baseline of whether human reporters do that effectively.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Just regarding VTOL, we absolutely have figured out how to do it with quadcopter drones safely handling weights comparable to the largest birds, and it seems to me that scaling these up to carry humans will be relatively straightforward [0]
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by falcor84 1y ago
But the issue is that the vast majority of "human news" is second order (at best), essentially paraphrasing releases by news agencies like Reuters or Associated Press, or scientific articles, and typically doing a horrible job at
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Peer-reviewed science is as close as we can get to good consensus I think we're on the same side of this, but I just want to say that we can do a lot better. As per studies around the Replication Crisis over the last decade [0], a
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by falcor84 1y ago
> 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. > 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. > 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details
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by falcor84 1y ago
Yes, exactly - I was hoping to allude to that, but apparently wasn't clear in my writing. It seems to me that he has arrived at a "L'État, c'est moi" mentality, doing everything in his power (and consolidating as mu
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by falcor84 1y ago
Thinking about this some more, I'd like to offer an even more controversial opinion, being a proposal for a governance structure that I think would have entirely different failure modes: How about it if by a fuller acceptance that powe

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