goldenarm

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by goldenarm 3mo ago
They complied by building a blocking system, instead of just disabling cookies with a flag, which would have taken exactly the same effort.
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
Why is this site blocked in the EU ? Was disabling cookies on your static page that hard ?
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
All Gemma models were <30B so far, Google doesn't want to cannibalize its Gemini line too much
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
IANAL, but is it illegal to have a "Buy" button that is just a disguised "Rent" button? If not, should we change the law?
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
Funny idea but wow the gameplay is terrible and full of bugs. Bad hitboxes, shells that bounce in front of holes, bad physics. AI still cannot oneshot 2D platformers, the most documented videogame genre with so much source code available.
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
100% agree. You could make the same argument for Hollywood : funding & revenue was always the goal, and we've been producing slop before AI was even a thing
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
The US built mass surveillance by bypassing congress, at least in the EU we do it democratically /s
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
The regulations are not meant to be productive, they are meant to reduce negative externalities. It's like minimizing the cop-to-criminal ratio. Sure it would save money, but would society come out improved ?
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
Maybe the current administration underestimates the impact of public research, and thinks Silicon Valley appeared out of nowhere.
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
The US is accidentally conducting Operation Paperclip but in reverse. Who will benefit the most from it, China or Europe ?
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
Why ?
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
What is our definition of progress ? We were progressing against world hunger but we decided to shut down efforts against it last year. Is it progress to invest $1T into semi-accurate plagiarism machines trained on stolen data ?
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
Is AGI really inevitable ? Claiming something is inevitable is a great way to disarm critical thinking.
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
Why post a Google docs copy of the original article? https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
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by goldenarm 3mo ago
I switched banks and made sure it doesn't require Android/iOS. Many banks propose FIDO2 + SMS, even bank of america does.
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
The old internet still exists, we're just distracted by commercial slopware. Switching back to RSS and Linux made me a much happier person.
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
Yes sorry for the typo
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
It's funny the exact same thing happened to Gemini 3.5 flash. Cheaper and more agentic model that ends up worse and more expensive than 3.5 pro low.
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it. I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
That depends on the reward function. Should society reward credentials or skill?
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
I know, but what about leaving the US entirely to escape the export bans ? Like ByteDance and Shein left China for Singapore.
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
Talent concentration, little tech regulation, English speaking, decent funding, close to GMT. There's a reason why a big chunk Google deepmind is already there.
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
Is there a world where frontier labs move to somewhere else like London to escape the business hurdles of the US? There are trillions at stake, is it a plausible scenario?
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
They could hold the GPT-6 name for the IPO
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
Are you suggesting Apple should have invested in internal DRAM production?
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
That's not how licenses work, Papermark is AGPL
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
Local social is one of the most attempted startup ideas of the 2010s. It is quite challenging because network effects are hard to reach at the local scale, and you need significant moderation to prevent bullying.
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
It's hilarious that most of these words are French
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by goldenarm 4mo ago
relevant xkcd : https://xkcd.com/2030/

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