impossiblefork

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by impossiblefork 5d ago
No, it does not. There's a guy from Lebanon who ended up moving to Germany called Khaled El-Masri who got seized in Macedonia by the US and who got sent around a bunch of US black sites. Eventually people figured out he wasn't Kha
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by impossiblefork 5d ago
My objection is absolutely with Assange's case. I don't particularly approve of the idea of these sorts of plea deals, but they are not the core problem. The core problem is that Britain pressured Assange to enter into a US plea d
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by impossiblefork 5d ago
Yes, that he was forced to do so by the Brits in order to be release is what I referred to, so of course it is coercion. He is of not American and has no duty to be loyal to the US or to refrain from committing espionage against it.
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by impossiblefork 5d ago
No. Assange didn't commit a crime, and was still forced by the Brits to confess in order to be released. Snowdens situation is completely different. His only hope was a much wider view of the legality of the acts he'd taken to be
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by impossiblefork 8d ago
Generalization from few examples is something transformers are bad at. They memorize outright. This is probably in part the objective, but humans have multiple readings of something they see, so generalization. Transformers can also become
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by impossiblefork 8d ago
The profits of AI will itself will probably be small though. Most of the benefits of the extreme scenarios will probably accrue to normal capital owners-- basically, the useless landowner. Consequently things like "Sovereign AI dividen
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by impossiblefork 13d ago
Morally I agree, but since there's probably a lot of LLM text in the training data, distilling on another model will probably make your model copy the values encoded into the other model as well, even in cases where you only distill on
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by impossiblefork 14d ago
Even if you apply Goldfish loss or other things like that, they still understand the gist of the thing they're trained. That's of course the whole point of things like Goldfish loss.
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by impossiblefork 14d ago
Here in Sweden the murder of Salwan Momika makes me feel that states wanting to limit the anonymity of protesters must take rather great care to protect their rights. This, I think must involve at least two things: strong laws protecting ag
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by impossiblefork 14d ago
I really can't comprehend wanting to enforce this kind of thing at the EU level. It's not like they can't pass this locally if they want it, and leave it to others to have other rules. I think it's much more interesting
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by impossiblefork 15d ago
It's always good to set up objective criteria for decision so as to prevent corruption, yes. But when ad-hoc deals are made anyway, then it is more important that principles like those have been applied than that everything is ideal.
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by impossiblefork 15d ago
So, the problem in this case is that there's no gain for the country building the datacentre. If you're in Finland and there are two possible uses for electricity production, let's say, either a steel plant or a datacentre. T
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by impossiblefork 15d ago
Ah, I didn't intend to imply anything of that sort. It's just that I, having never seen what that would actually be like, imagine that I'd be fine with a genuinely democratic mass-organization for LLM development which has a
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by impossiblefork 16d ago
So you can make a huge internal model that you can then distill from?
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by impossiblefork 16d ago
As a Swede, I can't read the Emil books because of fremdscham for the parents from those scenes where Emil feels the need to run to the carpentry shed. The farmer class could actually be like this, before we banned it, even though she
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by impossiblefork 16d ago
Same way for me. Imagine what a genuinely openness-focused organization of this sort could be. Even if we imagined a commercial half, we could imagine a foundation with mass-membership, perhaps with a membership fee equal to 1/2 the ty
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by impossiblefork 16d ago
Why do you think it will be net-good for society in the long run? If wages go down, worker power goes down; and if dependence on labour goes down, you literally move closer to the situation of the extraction economies in things like petro-s
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by impossiblefork 17d ago
Models are very obviously continuously updated. Model editing to remove PII that slipped through, all sorts of things of that sort.
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by impossiblefork 17d ago
I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I think this is a really important paper. I used to despise this kind of thing but it sheds light on the enormous generalization problems that aren't even close to being solved.
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by impossiblefork 18d ago
If Mistral aren't going to distill other people's large models they obviously need to train their own large models. This obviously requires money for optimization, tuning and training hardware.
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by impossiblefork 18d ago
Preferences come from selection pressures and needs. Taking them as a foundation leads to excessive focus on trade and obscures the fact that humans in almost all cases need essentially the same things.
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by impossiblefork 18d ago
Yes, but the court in this case, is taking a particular interpretation that overstates the novelty of the rights claim. The people bringing the lawsuit are not in fact asserting a right to clean water, they are asserting a right to not be d
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by impossiblefork 20d ago
Still, it's very obviously a deprivation of right to deliberately trick people into drinking poisoned water or other poisoned things. The right not to be deliberately poisoned doesn't disappear just because the act was achieved by
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by impossiblefork 20d ago
Yes, but surely it's a deprivation of rights to trick someone into drinking poison? Isn't that even how the gas chambers at some extermination camps worked? They tell you it's showers and you go in "voluntarily"?
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by impossiblefork 20d ago
Yes, of course, but he interprets the arguments and evidence presented to them. Here he chooses to interpret what they say as demanding the recognition of a new constitutional right to safe water and to correct information. It is not at all
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by impossiblefork 20d ago
What I'm saying though, is that he has room enough to interpret things so that a dismissal isn't necessary. It isn't the job of the courts to make minimal rulings and avoiding all substantial questions, but to solve disputes.
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by impossiblefork 20d ago
I think this is a ruling that's hard to justify. There are many frameworks under which the judge could have chosen to rule, it could be treated as assault, or some type of aggravated assault/battery, if the lead can be measured in
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by impossiblefork 22d ago
Yes, I agree, and of course I sort of try to qualify it a bit. I think cheap, easy transportation has its own value. Creating a sort of fluidity, competition and so on, and it's not like one can't imagine a situation where somebod
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by impossiblefork 22d ago
Yes, but if you don't tax it correctly you will misallocate resources. Diesel will get used excessively and you will get more road wear, as the user proposed. If you tax it, you will pay more directly for goods, but as costs rise peopl
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by impossiblefork 22d ago
Yes, I'm specifically talking about the song. If propaganda is to be used, it should be to inform the public without deception as to the sender or the purpose, not used to push a political position with public money with deception abou

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