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by fatherzine 26d ago
how is this different than translating user prompts to a different language (eg English => Dutch), retaining the translation and using it for training, while telling the user that he's technically covered under ZRP? article locked f
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by fatherzine 4mo ago
Of course recordings are to be used against those that threaten the people in power, while those in power enjoy a cone of silence. Same as it ever was. Power is silencing other people. Follows from the problem of coordinated action. Foundat
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by fatherzine 4mo ago
'you shall have no other gods before me'. operationally, a warning. false worship is dangerous. we get what we worship (value above all, orient towards, optimize for). heaven or hell, read it immanently or transcendentally, person
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by fatherzine 8mo ago
this is the business model bet. the codebase is a big ball of mud that only a superhuman ai can comprehend, therefore everyone must use superhuman ai make changes in the codebase. the selling point is iteration speed, especially early itera
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by fatherzine 8mo ago
copyright laundering machine. which could poison the very notion of ip / copyright, either open or close source. the only code that can't be laundered becomes code hidden behind a server api
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by fatherzine 8mo ago
> U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumption last year – and is roughly equivalent to the annual e
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by fatherzine 1y ago
Long term median purchasing power, especially of essentials eg housing / food / energy / education, matters more to the health of a nation than the price of hitech on open global markets at a specific time instant. Furthermor
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by fatherzine 1y ago
First, prices per se are irrelevant. The ratio of labor price to goods&services price is relevant. Second, the labor / goods&services price ratio itself is irrelevant, as measured in the short term. What is relevant is the long
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by fatherzine 2y ago
"How do you make sure that a hotel room cannot be booked by more than one person at a time" Excellent question! You don't. Instead, assuming a globally consistent transaction ordering, eg Spanner's TrueTime, but any uuid
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by fatherzine 2y ago
life is a game of balance in the sweet band between uninhabitable extremes. technology obeys the same law. both too little, and too much, are deadly.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
What an awesome article. Kudos to the author! On the core observation "there are too many implementation choices", that is not quite right. True, the author mentions 4, and there are further variations. In practice, a library can:
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by fatherzine 3y ago
BigTech, which critically depends on hyper-targeted ads for the lion share of its revenue, is incapable of offering AI model outputs that are plausible given the location / language of the request. The irony. - request from Ljubljana u
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by fatherzine 3y ago
The rationalization for injecting bias rests on two core ideas: A. It is claimed that all perspectives are 'inherently biased'. There is no objective truth. The bias the actor injects is just as valid as another. B. It is claimed
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by fatherzine 3y ago
<big tech> the building must make $10b/year in revenue, or else you are all fired.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
the attitude of those that do it: "what are you going to do about it?". escalatory power games, not an ounce of caring for your fellow man, barely a veneer of. we have entered very dark waters. unclear where the exit is.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"have scientific journals disappeared" -- ironically, in the AI field most of the action is on arxiv / github / twitter. journals have been obsolete for decades, and the '10s obsoleted conferences too. the only func
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by fatherzine 3y ago
fwiw, coca cola exists as a business in the attention space created (distorted?) through brand marketing
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by fatherzine 3y ago
hahaha, what do you think mass media is?!
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by fatherzine 3y ago
can photography be an art? all a photographer does is to run around the world with a camera and take snapshots. he has no creative control.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
there must be a fallacy name for 'more of a good thing is always a good thing' line of reasoning. almost every good out there is good in a certain range. outside of that range it becomes detrimental, possibly deadly. there is even
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by fatherzine 3y ago
at scale, delivering cost-effective infrastructure matters to the bottom line, even for seemingly unrelated cash cows like ads. the larger the infrastructure footprint, the better economies of scale and amortization of R&D. there is a r
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by fatherzine 3y ago
social media posting dynamics: * micro-dopamine hits from likes are the primary motivator * attention spans are wildly overtaxed * goal: maximize likes and minimize effort * maximize likes: focus on people on your team, ignore everyone else
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by fatherzine 3y ago
the search business has always been caught between delivering simple and to the point results to users and skewing results to generate return on investment to advertisers. in its early years google was also refreshingly simple and to the po
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by fatherzine 3y ago
if you were to get me in a lab right now, i'd had absolutely zero clue on how to multiply a virus. perhaps i'm old and behind the times. thing is, i'm not sure about the lab access requirement. i'd expect any number of d
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by fatherzine 3y ago
undergrad in molecular biology = 4k. assuming eg CS undergrads don't attend en-masse molecular biology classes and/or have lab access. edit: and one obvious error, it's graduates with molecular biology degrees, presumably the
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by fatherzine 3y ago
the man has left, or the man was pushed away. the man has left, or the man is providing financial support, while being deprived of contact with his children. when 1 in 3 children are raised in a single parent household, compared to the trad
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by fatherzine 3y ago
sadly, publicly only ever told to men. edit: whoa, given the quick downvotes on your comment, HN doesn't like it publicly said to men either.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
for example goog, +50% yoy, -12k layoffs in 2023, more in jan 2024. btw, this is expected impact of recent ai breakthroughs. no wonder the press picks up the vibe, there is a real fire beneath all that smoke.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
there is the VC casino, which approximates a method. cruel and wasteful at personal level, but so far viable at scale.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
agreed! at small scale, we are persons engaged in meaningful relationships. at large scale, we are faceless cogs in the machine, numbers on a spreadsheet. being a faceless cog is dehumanizing, stripping our very identity away. how to reconc

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