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by garethsprice 5mo ago
Had a peek at Morland's book on Amazon and the headlines he pulls at the top of Chapter 1 for the impact of falling fertility on society: 'Russia running out of "single-use" soldiers; 'UK running low on fuel, truck
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by garethsprice 5mo ago
Another perspective from the posters saying "rich people"; in most advertising, it is aimed at aspiration and not reality - so "people who want to be rich leisure class people, or social media influencers", which tracks
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
One use of design is signaling, but not all - successful design is that which fulfills its purpose. Many designed things do not need to be differentiated and will benefit from a homogenous AI-powered design (internal documentation, local se
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
Failed for me - no identification of me by pasting text, and refused to search the web as it said that’d be a privacy violation. I have some writing around the Internet but not much, and less tagged with my real name. My guess is it limits
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
More like, society has a Facebook health scam problem (or just a "Facebook problem"). Facebook I'm sure does not think they have a problem, as they make a ton of money from running these garbage ads with no consequences.
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
This is what I am doing - it is rare that I'm in a situation with no Internet while traveling, but very often there is an intermittent connection. Using local models or even hosted foundation models is frustrating exercise in cancelled
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
Currently working on an Amtrak with XReal One Pro glasses and a ThinkPad bluetooth keyboard from my Macbook Pro that is folded up in the seat pocket. They are "OK enough" that it will be a matter of taste if they are acceptable or
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
> I don’t think it’s crazy to believe that people will also be running local inference on their phones in the next 5 years. How about now? https://apfel.franzai.com/ (iOS/MacOS, runs the 3B param model already bundl
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
This isn't new, Theodor Adorno was making the point in the 1940s that taste isn't something formed in a vacuum and then expressed in the market, it's something the market produces in you and sells back. Chaotic Good is just a
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
The data around media literacy is terrifying. "Fewer than 2 in 10 teens can correctly distinguish between news, advertisement, opinion and entertainment" https://newslit.org/news-and-research/news-literacy-in-
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
It was a good question. Investigating why people like $popular_thing that you just don't get is a good way to broaden the mind. I hope it leads to interesting discoveries and more art to appreciate for you!
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
It is not my field either except for amateur interest. My understanding is that because they are publicly disclosing it to investors, it's not fraud in the legal sense. Fraud requires deception. It could be that they do genuinely belie
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
This would be my bet - filing for an IPO or even direct listing is months of SEC review, audits, underwriters, due diligence, etc. A shell with an existing ticker gets you access to that sweet retail investor cash almost immediately, and wi
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by garethsprice 6mo ago
I didn't either until I saw some of his early paintings and learned he was a brilliant classical painter from a very young age (eg. "Portrait of aunt Pepa", at 14). The later surrealism and abstraction weren't due to a l
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by garethsprice 7mo ago
Ordered a hard copy of the book, don't trust that an eBook version won't get revoked or edited at some point. Timely given I just tried to sign into Meta for the first time in a year or two as I am being required to work on a Mark
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by garethsprice 7mo ago
How does ATProto solve the problems that the last 10–20 years have shown seem intrinsic to all social media once it hits a certain scale? For example: A simple simulation of social networks rapidly reproduced three well-documented dysfuncti
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by garethsprice 7mo ago
The vendor they used, Clearview AI, does not allow you to request data deletion unless you live in one of the half-dozen states that legally mandate it. https://www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-requests I have suddenly becomes
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by garethsprice 7mo ago
Working for me (Desktop + Code) but had a bunch of oauth issues this morning and it's been up and down like a drunken monkey on a trampoline all week, especially around start of biz times in the US. The Pentagon spat is having a hell o
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
The headline says these workers "might be bad at their jobs," but considered in the context of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" thesis - that a huge chunk of white-collar work is pointless make-work for surplus labor - the
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
Patek and Rolex have generally always held value well. The internet has brought price transparency and created a secondary market that has made this true for most well-known brands these days, with the caveat that there is not a high degree
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
Yes - though this isn't my theory so much as settled science. There are no substantial counter-theories to the concept that status desire is a fundamental and universal human motive. As for falsification: you'd need evidence like
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
It being an "acquired taste" is part of the appeal. A lot of high-end stuff is ass-ugly on purpose. If everyone liked it because it simply looked nice, you couldn't tell who's "in the club" of other rich people
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
Humans are status-seeking creatures, and status is expressed through signaling. If you're rich and so are the people around you, money alone ceases to be a differentiator. Ultra-luxury brands appeal to this by adding hoops that money a
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
Something like this? (Llama 3.1-8B etched into custom silicon delivering 16,000 tok/s, doesn't use much PCIe bandwidth): - https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/ - https://chatjimmy.ai/
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
Would it make sense to archive every word every person ever speaks? At what point does archiving everything people do constrain their ability to live freely in the present? Despite being in written form (decreasingly so), social media feels
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
> Orpheus pounds on the soundproof glass. He won’t get through—he’s mythical. Our industry would be improved by opening the door for Orpheus. There's a lot of interesting thinking in the last 100 years of literary theory for this ne
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by garethsprice 8mo ago
"While the social media revolution has come with extraordinary benefits..." curious what Khan would say those benefits are. It's certainly something a lot of people find entertaining but I would not say there have been "
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by garethsprice 10mo ago
Good paper from 2015: "Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation": https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/W... tl;dr: Technology elimi
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by garethsprice 1y ago
It's fun for me. This is a good enough reason to do anything. I learn a lot about how LLMs work and how to work with them. I can also ask my dumbest questions to a local model and get a response faster, without burning tokens that coun
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by garethsprice 1y ago
HP G9 Z2 Mini with a 20GB ADA 4000, 96GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Ubuntu. Would get a Macbook with a ton of RAM if I was buying today, a full form factor PC, the mini form factor looks nice but gets real hot and is hard to upgrade. Tools: LM Studio fo

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