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by imiric 1y ago
This is not so much about income inequality, but about making sure that the rich actually pay their taxes, or even more proportionally to their wealth when compared to lower income individuals. Rich people will and should continue to exist.
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by imiric 1y ago
Shocking. At least they acknowledge it.
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by imiric 1y ago
The connection is that those wishing to influence public opinion can do so by running ad campaigns that target precisely the demographic they wish to manipulate. Adtech doesn't care whether you're promoting products or ideas. This
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by imiric 1y ago
Maybe. But at least transactions could be performed directly between consumers and publishers, and there wouldn't be incentives for companies to violate privacy laws and exploit user data. Of course, we would need to figure out solutio
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by imiric 1y ago
> Worth noting though that it's really just "document-ware" -- there's no code there That's not true. That project is a monorepo, with reference client and middleware implementations in TypeScript, Python, Java,
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by imiric 1y ago
Where did I say that all of those things would stop? What I said is that adtech systems are also used for it. So if they were to disappear overnight, a _proportion_ of those activities, and a pretty large one I reckon, would also disappear.
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by imiric 1y ago
A middleman is not strictly required for cryptocurrencies. Regulations around them and how international transactions are taxed will depend on each country, just like anything else. These matters can be handled by lawyers and accountants as
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by imiric 1y ago
This is because most of the time paying is not an option. And even when it is, there is a lot of friction to actually do that, even with streamlined payment services such as Stripe. The advertising business model and technology that powers
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by imiric 1y ago
Brave already does this with BAT[1]. It's a shame that it will never gain traction. Partly because of the cryptocurrency stigma, some missteps by Brave Inc. that have tarnished its credibility, and partly because of adtech's tight
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by imiric 1y ago
This should be the standard business model on the web, instead of the advertising middlemen that have corrupted all our media, and the adtech that exploits our data in perpetuity. All of which is also serving to spread propaganda, corrupt d
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by imiric 1y ago
That might be the case, but these tools are marketed as having close to superhuman intelligence, with the strong implication that AGI is right around the corner. It's obvious that engineering work is required to get them to perform cer
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by imiric 1y ago
> And when winter does arrive, then what? If the technology is useful, the Slope of Enlightenment, followed by the Plateau of Productivity.
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by imiric 1y ago
> Because they _are_. Not really. Most of those seemingly novel problems are permutations of existing ones, like the one you mentioned. A solution is simply a specific permutation of tokens in the training data which humans are not able
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by imiric 1y ago
LLMs don't "memorize" concepts like humans do. They generate output based on token patterns in their training data. So instead of having to be trained on every possible problem, they can still generate output that solves it b
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by imiric 1y ago
> I'm not really an artist but you see it everywhere on the internet too: people post something, and the first assumption is that it's AI-generated or 80% of the work has been sketched by AI and the final effort was by the huma
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by imiric 1y ago
I truly wish Brave would succeed, as we need more alternative browsers that go against the established tech, but when I see PR announcements like this I can't help but think that they're digging themselves deeper into irrelevance.
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by imiric 1y ago
> Globally, since the advent of widespread computer use, human life has improved by orders of magnitude along every metric we have: poverty, hunger, disease, literacy, child mortality, life expectancy, homicide rates, etc. Most of those
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by imiric 1y ago
This opinion will inevitably be seen as pessimistic tech doomerism, especially on forums like this. And yet, for all the glory and benefit that we were promised modern technology would bring, the average person only enjoys a small sliver of
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by imiric 1y ago
The vibe coders would tell you: you don't. You test the program, or ask the LLM to write tests for you, and if there are any issues, you ask it to fix them. And you do that in a loop until there are no more issues. I imagine that at
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by imiric 1y ago
It would be hypocritical to criticize DeepSeek if this is true, since OpenAI and all major players in this space train their models on everything they can get their hands on, with zero legal or moral concerns. Pot, meet kettle.
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by imiric 1y ago
> That irked me too. "_Bleeding edge" consumer GPUs are ...", sure, but you wait 6 months and you have it at a fraction of the cost. That's demonstrably false. The RTX 4090 released in 2022 with an MSRP of $1,600. Tod
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by imiric 1y ago
> You do it in a loop. Keep looping and fixing until the code runs. I suppose, but we shouldn't need to brute force our tools into working... And as you point out in that article, some of these issues won't be caught by the com
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by imiric 1y ago
> If you define "hallucinations" to mean "any mistakes at all" then yes, a compiler won't catch them for you. That's not quite my definition. If we're judging these tools by the same criteria we use to
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by imiric 1y ago
> I'm contemplating what exactly it means to "understand" the code though. You can't seriously be questioning the meaning of "understand"... That's straight from Jordan B. Peterson's debate playboo
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by imiric 1y ago
Hallucinations can be manifested in different ways. Using nonexistent APIs is just one of them. The LLM could just as well hallucinate code that doesn't fix a problem, or hallucinate that a problem exists in the first place, all while
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by imiric 1y ago
That might be the way to go. Someone else in the thread mentioned a similar reputation system. The problem is that such a system could be easily abused or misused. A bad actor could intentionally or mistakenly penalize users, which would ha
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm surprised to read that from a prominent figure in the industry such as yourself. The problem is that many hallucinations do not produce a runtime error, and can be very difficult to spot by a human, even if the code is thoroughly r
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by imiric 1y ago
This is great. We need more research into solving this fundamental problem, yet AI companies prefer to chase benchmarks and pump out value-added products. The RAG-based mitigation is interesting, but quite limited, as mentioned. It would on
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by imiric 1y ago
Kind of. A fingerprint is an implicit ID, whereas the ID suggested by GP would be semi-permanently associated to an individual. So it would make tracking even easier, since most web sites outside of adtech don't bother with sophisticat
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by imiric 1y ago
> Spam and abuse can come from computers, or from humans. > Productive use can come from humans, or from computers. I agree in principle, but the reality is that 37% of all internet traffic originates from bots[1]. The overwhelming ma

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