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by fyredge 6d ago
A disingenuous article. The 30% reduction of teen use is touted as a failure. If this was applied to cigarettes and alcohol, the solution would be stronger enforcement, but this is then labelled as doubling down. It is not. The sources prov
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by fyredge 6d ago
True as that may be, I find it unconvincing as it is the same argument that is used against teen bans. Do you believe the average parent will think twice when allowing their children to use social media? No, they'll do it without a sec
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by fyredge 6d ago
I disagree on the premise that the author is "using" shell. Often when reading about why the command line / shell is better than GUI, the salient advantage comes down to one thing, scripting. Yet scripting in an IDE, which is
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by fyredge 7d ago
> Go for a clean, unfussy, bright layout with a bold striking spring-themed graphic. Avoid pastel/airbrush/oil style art or images of people. This seems to be the crux of the issue. It's not that the AI posters were bad, b
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by fyredge 9d ago
Using this article as an example, there's a severed lack in intentionality in generative images. At a glance, a few questions already come to my mind: Why are lines coming out of the cups? Why are there coffee drip lines? Why is the pu
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by fyredge 9d ago
You'd be surprised at how many equal opportunist whores there are on earth. These are the countries that I believe Mark Carney referred to when he said "middle powers". It is simply the most rational choice for countries who
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by fyredge 12d ago
Let's take this to court then. The Uber driver that killed someone can be sentenced to prison. A regular person who convinced another person to commit suicide will also be legally liable. Has the last LLM induced suicide be taken to tr
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by fyredge 12d ago
You are conflating creation and instruction. Your birth is analogous to the creation of an LLM model. Your subsequent actions are a consequent of your bodily compulsions, tampered by your environment. The LLMs actions are governed by what i
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by fyredge 12d ago
I love the fire analogy. AI rhetoric is increasingly, "I created a fire to light my campfire. It did something really unexpected and burned the whole forest down, who's to say fire doesn't have consciousness?"
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by fyredge 13d ago
I don't follow, what would the strategy be? Canada can change it's internal policy, but still relies on free trade with the US. Until then, what they need is partnership with other countries to offload potential instabilities that
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by fyredge 13d ago
Enron's mistake was doing it too early. Nvidia investing in AI labs to use their own chips falls under anti trust, but I don't think the latest administration is interested in investigating it.
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by fyredge 13d ago
Even more reason to show that Canada is making a strategic decision. Both of them are so coupled to each other that they can't afford to hurt the other without hurting themselves. But now that the US has shown it's willingness for
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by fyredge 13d ago
It's a great discussion, but not one that I think applies to AI startups. Valve's business model takes the traditional path where profit is generated by selling a product and growing from there. Modern Startups now take large sums
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by fyredge 15d ago
I think these two concepts go hand in hand. Perceived cancel culture is the thing that pushed some people to disregard the concerns of others entirely and live without shame. Another example is the concept of involution and lying flat in Ch
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by fyredge 15d ago
Points 6 and 7 shows how well the students are intuiting LLMs. I think it ties very well into why they think progress from chatgpt 2 to chatgpt 5 was not a drastic improvement. After all, the first car Ford mass produced and current superca
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by fyredge 16d ago
Oh, that's not what I meant. It's the person who shared the content publicly that needs to be deanonymized, not the author. Think of it like advertising on billboards. When you partake in an activity with explicit intent to persua
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by fyredge 16d ago
PornHub is a great example! It is a public platform and thus posters have to be deanonymized. For one, this would provide traceability to people who revenge post intimate content. It would not block anonymous viewers. While that means minor
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by fyredge 16d ago
I completely understand and actually agree with your stance. Consider this, the personal blog we love reading can remain anonymous, because it is private in the sense that it is ostensibly the writings of a single person, it is not a platfo
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by fyredge 16d ago
I draw the line on discoverability. Reddit? Public. Hacker news? Public. 4chan? Public. Facebook and Instagram are also public with a slight caveat, private accounts will be considered private, otherwise public. Even ye old public forums ar
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by fyredge 16d ago
But why not? I want to make the distinction on public and private speech. In the physical world, no one should ever have their private speech scrutinized, that's why there are laws banning covert recording. But in public, speech is ver
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by fyredge 21d ago
You see funding of chatgpt as a panacea for progress. I see funding of chatgpt as one of small part of a history where governments and industry fund basic science and moonshot programs, not to generate revenue, but to explore what is possib
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by fyredge 22d ago
Like funding education. Let's build up human intelligence instead, they seem to have made great breakthroughs in every single field! The US doesn't pay too much to healthcare, they pay too much to health insurance. Too much for to
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by fyredge 23d ago
Google was not helpful to me, but what exactly is the deal being discussed? Is NYT going to allow readers to place kalshi bets on their website / app? That would be even more damaging to young men IMO.
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by fyredge 23d ago
> UK politicians had pushed for controls covering such features, either through the OSA or separate legislation, but none has materialized. So it's not that online safety act didn't work, but rather that it was not enforced? I&
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by fyredge 23d ago
From your comment, I noticed a sort of pattern that is often seen when discussing LLMs. That they are these amazing things that can run so fast they trip themselves in their attempts at achieving a task. So we resort to refining the models,
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by fyredge 24d ago
Don't worry about Jesus, he's fine. I'm the same as you sans 10 years of working experience, with similar experiences using LLMs. The distinction I would like to make is that it's not the models that are improving, but r
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by fyredge 24d ago
Agreed, though I do think that LLMs are still more similar than we think. Sometime after the first release, AI labs found that coding sat in the niche space of lots of easily digestible data and fast feedback from error messages and compile
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by fyredge 24d ago
I'll paste my response to your pre-edited questions: I think atomic weapons peaked during the trinity test. The subsequent creation of bigger explosions by packing more fissile material does not meaningfully improve the technology. Sin
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by fyredge 25d ago
Looking at the refutations of Zitrons predictions in TFA, it boils down to two categories: 1. Zitron claims model capability has peaked 2. Zitron claims AI lab growth (user and revenue) has stalled. In the first case, TFA refutes by claimin
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by fyredge 25d ago
Well, depending on how you define success, I'd say Trump is successful getting elected as POTUS twice. He sure is a brilliant man to be revered, and the people complaining about his allegations are surely losers... (sarcasm to be certa

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