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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
Is there any well known, successful FOSS that isn't also free as in gratis? I understand the distinction but have literally never encountered it in practice.
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by hn_throwaway_99 6d ago
I thought that at first, but a comment below enlightened me. These types of games are a great way to get free training data.
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by hn_throwaway_99 6d ago
There are tons of real stock photos with that type of mundane content.
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by hn_throwaway_99 6d ago
More powerful bots and more incentives to game the system.
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by hn_throwaway_99 6d ago
It's not just "lots of comments" though. It's more comments than upvotes. You may disagree, and it may not be a perfect metric, but in reality I think it's works very well. 90+% of the time when I look at a post wit
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by hn_throwaway_99 7d ago
The other thing that annoys me is that there are plenty of folks in the AI safety space who do not think very highly (at least now) of Yudkowsky. One of the comments I saw recently on a Substack article talked about how Yudkowsky has &quot
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by hn_throwaway_99 7d ago
> How do people not understand that some laws only make sense at a certain scale? 100% agree, and the problem is that technology moves a lot faster than law can keep up. Just look at the Flock brouhaha. Most people pre 2000 I think would
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by hn_throwaway_99 7d ago
While I agree, I still think it sucks that we are essentially now in a "pay-to-play" political environment. Any rich person who may be highly affected by government regulations (which is basically all of them) now is expected to d
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by hn_throwaway_99 7d ago
Uh, no. The premise (and this is how the GP comment put it) was that humans around Homer's time had fundamentally different brain structures, and that differences in poetry and thinking processes could be explained by looking at how br
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
Yeah, I agree that the "Blue Zone" theory is mostly explained by bad record keeping. Okinawa is one of the poorest areas of Japan, but was deemed a Blue Zone, despite that wealth is nearly always positively correlated with longevi
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
Ironically, I think "normal" people are more concerned about P(utopia) OR P(doom) than any folks in the groupthink bubble you are referring to. That is, I hear lots of techies talk about us living in an "age of boundless abun
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by hn_throwaway_99 9d ago
BS. While I agree the cutoffs are arbitrary, marking a cohort by, say, "people who graduated highschool before the advent of smart phones" or "people who went through childhood in the early years of social media" are val
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by hn_throwaway_99 9d ago
I thought this was a good read with good data analysis, but at the end of the day none of this matters if the political and democratic systems collapse. If there is broad displacement by AI, I find it really difficult to believe folks will
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by hn_throwaway_99 10d ago
It is misleading, even if it's true. The headline states "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals". Given that Hugging Face was the most prominent hacking scandal, it would be reasonable to think
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by hn_throwaway_99 10d ago
This title, and frankly the article, are way overstating Irregular's role in an attempt to make this sound like some sort of coordinated conspiracy. As another comment mentioned, Irregular was not part of the Hugging Face attack, a
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by hn_throwaway_99 10d ago
Just regarding "frontier model", it is most definitely not just a marketing term. It was borrowed from the financial concept of "efficient frontier", i.e. the best performance at a particular cost, though in the context
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by hn_throwaway_99 12d ago
None of those are frontier models, nor could they have been. E.g. DeepSeek's "$5 million" included piggybacking off OpenAI/Anthropic's hundreds of millions/billions by using distillation.
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by hn_throwaway_99 12d ago
> > AI executes on physical systems that have been engineered with human accountability and control. Intelligence does not exempt a system from the realities of the physical world! > For someone making a point about responsibility,
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by hn_throwaway_99 12d ago
There have been measured claims backed up by arguments and evidence. My frustration is that people aren't addressing the specific arguments that have been made: 1. https://www.aifutures.org/ outlines a number of specif
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by hn_throwaway_99 12d ago
Well, I'll have to disagree that this is an excellent piece, but that's another issue. And I do agree that AI killing all humans by 2036 doesn't appear plausible to me. But what is plausible is we could easily be down a path
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by hn_throwaway_99 12d ago
I found this post particularly uninformed. A lot of folks saying "I don't see how that could happen" don't seem to understand the steps that have been laid out that detail how this occurs. I really encourage folks to rea
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by hn_throwaway_99 13d ago
> There’s no moat People keep saying this, and while it may be partially true, it misses a very important detail. Right now, overall compute is a moat. Someone even commented on another of my comments that one reason Google is lagging
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by hn_throwaway_99 13d ago
Welcome to the quintessential problem of human society. There is no "god police" coming to save us.
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by hn_throwaway_99 13d ago
Not defending LG's stance, but hasn't LG always said they do this as part of ACR (automatic content recognition) for the purposes of targeted advertising? LG says it's opt in, and I think the devil is really in the details ab
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by hn_throwaway_99 13d ago
Somewhat off topic but also ironic - I recently upgraded my version of Android, and when I opened YouTube for the first time on this video it asked for permission to detect nearby devices. I get why it would need that to cast, but at this p
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by hn_throwaway_99 13d ago
There have been volumes written about this, just because you haven't read them doesn't mean they don't exist. I think the AI futures project, https://www.aifutures.org/ , is a good place to start. You definite
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by hn_throwaway_99 13d ago
I was joking, but there is a huge difference between using citrus zest/rind in cooking or as a garnish and eating the whole thing like an apple, including the pith.
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by hn_throwaway_99 14d ago
What a complete and total joke. One random Twitter thread from a guy "illuminati-ing" the events does not a conspiracy make. Besides, I would assume that someone who was genuinely concerned about the direction of AI research woul
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by hn_throwaway_99 14d ago
It's a lot more than just Jacob Coxon's resignation, and many have been talking about this (some for years) before now. Also, if you have actual proof Coxon's resignation "was a well coordinated campaign", show it,
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by hn_throwaway_99 14d ago
At least now I know psychopaths walk among us.

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