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by gobdovan 4mo ago
As a former 7th grader, I liked the style. If anything, the over-the-top-ness makes it less bitter and more of a self-parody. It's honest about its own immaturity, making everything lighthearted again. It's also using only under-s
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Exactly, cops can impose force on you and their jobs requires them to do it. If they wouldn't have body cams, it would be hard to see if coercion was justified or not. Surveilling powerless folks works in the other direction. It only s
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
I think he's arguing about OpenAI vendoring specifically, where OpenAI has a lot of subprocessors, but AWS doesn't and there's not really a 3rd camp to choose from, yet. But even there you can't just choose AWS as I trie
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
This is too vague to respond to meaningfully.
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Yeah, I understood the original point. And I'm tired of it. I'm just tired of the 'everyone follows their immediate incentives while the system stays incoherent' as the de facto reality. I think shedding some light over
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
You're onto something, but from some Romanian local investigations and public statements into similar cluster of laws [0], it's just something banks lobby for, so they can have more control and consolidate their place in any trans
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Have you considered checking the actual AWS contract and the limited liability they explicitly stipulate in contracts and even linked docs from marketing materials? If you read the fine print, you'll notice something funny. You are lar
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Interestingly, many other insects need blood to reproduce because they cannot produce some of the required proteins on their own. Some common flies do this too, including horseflies, black flies, sand flies, and others. Some famously transm
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
In plain English, they made mosquitos like repellent.
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Now imagine Netherlands has a reputation in Europe as having the most bland and utilitarian cuisine.
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
If you want to see the extent of his respectfulness and depth, with his courage for self-analysis added on top, My Best Fiend would be my choice. It's a documentary about his relationship with Klaus Kinski, who was a pretty unhinged ac
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Yeah, but there's attempts to fix it. The Cholet paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 ) is a good attempt, shifting from measuring ~skill to measuring ~acquiring skill. It's the framework behind ARC-AGI ben
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
[0] JR Flynn: The mean IQ of Americans: Massive gains 1932 to 1978. [1] Legg, S., Hutter, M.: A collection of definitions of intelligence [2] François Chollet, On the Measure of Intelligence
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
IQ tests are restandardised from time to time. We could take the scores from 100 years ago and see that everybody would be gifted. Intelligence is usually defined as the skill in pursuing a goal, or speed of acquiring the ability for pursui
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
I was attacking the comparative framing of the article. Although there's a lot of private terms we don't know, the claim is taken for granted and overfocused on, either with people saying 'figures out since Altman=devil'
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Theoretically, I could sell 1 out of 100 trillion shares of my private startup for $1 and surpass all companies on Earth combined by implied valuation. I see people taking the article's comparative framing between OpenAI and Anthropic
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Remember when practically ~every company on the planet was building an NFT collection?
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
It doesn't seem to me that the author is saying 'AI bad, abstraction bad, knowing browser quirks GOOD'. Looks to me like someone making a specific claim about a trend where having an easier time getting off the ground can lea
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Read in context. He's referring to the evolution of skill at group level, he even puts out the definition of deskilling and mentions 'skilled labor'. He then explains how frontend used to be a 'highly specialized skill&#
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
As stated, this is too vague to be much of a hypothesis. Animals, including humans, communicate multimodally, so gesture and vocalisation are not mutually exclusive evolutionary stages. To claim that one evolved before the other, you'd
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
'Look at that cloud, dad! It's a bean with legs!' 'No son, that's a Cumulus cloud. Detached, dense, with sharp outlines.'
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
For most things, there aren't 50k reachable, aware, motivated, solvent buyers. Making enough people aware of your existence may be more expensive than the total profits made from your endeavour. I am only pointing this out because I kn
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
/thread
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Nietzsche might say this is not the fantasy of truth, but of comfort. The Last Man wants a machine to say 'fact wrong' or 'fact right' so the abyss of no ultimate truth can be made small enough to sleep beside.
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Why should I trust this without a paper, benchmark or at least a human-written README?
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
> and the whole history of computing is about how faster chips is an excellent answer to difficult computational problems. I don't really disagree, and I am definitely not taking their marketing pitch seriously. Yet, you could look
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
> a neuromorphic computer that combines quantum-tunnelling physics with a brain-inspired architecture This ought to be the most rhetorically compressed, stacked-legitimacy-seeking hype phrase I've ever seen in a tech description.
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Do it for VR
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Finally, a good use for LLMs. I would be so embarrassed to read old messages, yet LLMs just psychopatically chug along without flinching or cringing.
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by gobdovan 4mo ago
Yeah, the legislation is morally defensible on its own terms. But when you look at the full system, something funny happens: EU legislation is blocking data extraction and platform lock-in tactics that Big Tech already used to become mono

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