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by fidotron 26d ago
App store inertia has to be the decisive roadblock, and yeah, there would need to be some workaround. This could also be where China gets another win because of their de-Googled Android-not-Android ecosystem which would enable more competit
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by fidotron 26d ago
Android has a huge amount of battle tested stuff for running things like media codecs and GPUs connected to devices that are not rebooted for months on end by normal people. (The iPhone wasn't an entirely new OS either for a good reaso
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by fidotron 26d ago
This is like people that think FB is going under because they don't use it. ChatGPT is _enormous_. It doesn't matter if you don't trust it, half the planet does. They don't need to get the HN bubble on board. Edit to add
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by fidotron 26d ago
Both Apple and Google have dropped the ball enough with the state of recent releases that some iPhone-equivalent-disruption product from the AI industry is becoming conceivable, though I would be surprised if it turns out not to be running
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by fidotron 27d ago
While 90% of Canadian tech grads work in the US on TN visas. This stuff doesn't actually help Canada at all, it's in a bit of a development trap.
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by fidotron 27d ago
Does it really have enough fidelity of distinguishing gestures for that today? I was under the impression the set is pretty limited and maybe not completely robust (like per person setup/calibration etc.)
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by fidotron 27d ago
The vibe coders have finally discovered their killer interface, and it is kind of cool, especially if integrated with voice inputs.
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by fidotron 29d ago
Yes he does - it makes him one of the most powerful people on earth.
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by fidotron 29d ago
I mean, this seems fairly clear. Either OpenAI fails, and goes nowhere. Or it succeeds, in which case IPOing will be a quaint aspect of history. People really aren't following through on what it means for any of these companies to succ
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by fidotron 29d ago
So what you're saying is you're more valuable to advertisers . . . which means the amount you are worth to them grows with the amount you'd spend to avoid them. Unless this stuff is made literally illegal they will keep doing
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Well if it proves useless presumably they'd stop doing it. But if AI is to recursively self improve understanding and evolving its own foundations, which are clearly mathematical, is essential. There is no need for humans to grasp what
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by fidotron 1mo ago
> It's a bit like a tree falling in a forest. If an LLM proves a theorem but no one understands it, did it make a sound? But in future most proofs will be for consumption by other AI models in the pursuit of yet other proofs. It&#x2
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Given the rate of progress in robotics, if AI works then there won't be anyone left standing to worry about. That's the whole point of doing it fast, otherwise yes they will attempt to slow things down so they can take advantage o
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by fidotron 1mo ago
I see you don't understand the point, and you're doing that thing of imposing on me trying to help you understand it, which seems highly unlikely to work. Going back, again, to your quote: > I doubt that someone smart (as you p
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Disenfranchising everyone at once beats disenfranchising enough to be a problem but not enough to motivate a solution, which is what the drip feeding achieves.
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by fidotron 1mo ago
> really rapid change always creates huge openings for assholes and opportunists to take over. This all depends on where the change ends. If it ends with ASI existing then it all works out. If it ends with only sufficient AI to weaponise
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Honestly, I don't think any of us know exactly what's coming. The difficult part is preventing the humans from causing the collapse of civilisation in the time before AI actually gets to ASI.
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by fidotron 1mo ago
> I can't believe the AI boosters were right. Not even sure they can believe it. The AI field has known, but repeatedly ignored, that the knowledge work group would end up first on the chopping block, especially for those where ever
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by fidotron 1mo ago
> It is valuable to ask questions about why things are the way they are in order to understand the fundamentals of it vs we should change these things because I am 'smarter than you' and I don't understand why things are d
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Do any two teams actually operate it in anything like the same way though? What I saw of it, especially some years ago, was it was highly particular, and everyone had their own odd habits built around running it, ingestion, querying, everyt
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by fidotron 1mo ago
> You only responded to - * I doubt that someone smart (as you put it) would deliberately want things redone because they don't understand it, that's a trait borne of arrogance not intelligence.* > Your response claimed that
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by fidotron 1mo ago
> My point is that wanting things redone because you don’t understand it is dumb behaviour, not smart behaviour. Smart people can do very non smart things when they feel their status as smartest-person-in-the-room is threatened, which is
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by fidotron 1mo ago
> I doubt that someone smart (as you put it) would deliberately want things redone because they don't understand it You're actually doing the problem behavior right here: denying the validity of the experience of seeing exactly
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Guilty as charged, but at least somewhat self aware.
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Like your sibling comment I saw this mainly with physics people doing data science: > Eventually you have to understand something. And part of that process is being wrong and annoying people. There is nothing more frustrating as a collea
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by fidotron 1mo ago
It's a tough call but I'm not sure if physicist code or electronic engineer code is more frightening.
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Physics, and to a large degree pure mathematics, has attracted a critical mass of the personality type that needs to feel like the smartest person in the room in any given situation. It has given them a slightly notorious reputation in acad
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by fidotron 1mo ago
In the spirit of the "That's what she said" bot, you could train an LLM detector by accusing everything of being authored by an LLM and seeing which ones get voted up.
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by fidotron 1mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20140423121426/http://www.libres... I refer you to the footer. (All time classic).
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by fidotron 1mo ago
Underrated but true. It always was far easier to train a creative thinker in how to operate the tools needed to facilitate their vision than it is to get a great tools operator to have good ideas.

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