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by jaccola 10mo ago
Not even remotely true; corporations as we would recognise them today pre-date the legal system as we would recognise it today (and have existed in just about every legal system since). Certain configurations of the corporation are describe
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by jaccola 10mo ago
This is utterly backwards and your false statement leads to a completely wrong set of inferences. We don't let corporations do anything because they provide value through jobs and taxes. What company do you know that exists (beyond tra
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by jaccola 10mo ago
People doing jobs with no inherent value still need food, shelter, healthcare,… all provided by other people. Further, the cost difference (for there must be a cost difference or we wouldn’t have anyone choosing AI) must come from somewhere
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by jaccola 10mo ago
With enough money, at least here in the UK, it is possible to set up structures that endure for one sole purpose for many generations. It was quite common for rich Victorians to donate their grounds/houses to be used for the public goo
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by jaccola 10mo ago
I would take it one step further, often trying to eke out performance gains with clever tricks can hurt performance by causing you to "miss the forest for the trees". I work with Cuda kernels a lot for computer vision. I am able t
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by jaccola 10mo ago
This doesn't end at kid level maths either, I have seen people get bachelors and masters in maths without understanding much of it intuitively or being able to apply it. Mostly because they have rote memorised it (and partly because mu
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by jaccola 10mo ago
I feel the same fallacies happen with money and degrees: - People with more money live better lives, so let's just print/hand out money and everyone will live a better life! - People with college degrees live better lives, so let&
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by jaccola 11mo ago
I've noticed the new OpenAI models do self contradiction a lot more than I've ever noticed before! Things like: - Aha, the error clearly lies in X, because ... so X is fine, the real error is in Y ... so Y is working perfectly. Th
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by jaccola 11mo ago
There are a bunch of different approaches. Many are very expensive to run. You can play with the World Labs one, their approach is cheap to explore once generated (vs an approach that generates frame by frame). The quality is currently not
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by jaccola 11mo ago
This is potentially a lot more useful in creation pipelines than other demos (e.g. World Labs) if it uses explicit assets rather than a more implicit representation (gaussians are pretty explicit but not in the way we are used to working wi
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by jaccola 11mo ago
Yes. Many people still support it. Even if Brexit is objectively bad this is self-evidently obvious, people are very bad at changing their minds and lots of people voted for it. Maybe over half would now vote to remain, but most pundits tho
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by jaccola 11mo ago
VR is just as impressive. Doesn't mean I want my OS to be VR-only going forward.
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by jaccola 11mo ago
The thought experiment I do when speaking with graduates is: assume you could just buy the certificate from the institution you went to for the same price as the tuition you paid, would you do that? I do not always get a "yes" but
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by jaccola 11mo ago
Very cool. It definitely feels to me that the power of pro tools should be available to more people with AI. Would have been nice if there was a killer demo on your landing page of a video made with Mosaic.
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by jaccola 11mo ago
Even more amazing to me is that the tech to create these really existed 7 years ago (would have been slower to train but most methods don't need the latest GPUs). This means there are no doubt more improvements just waiting to be disco
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by jaccola 11mo ago
In this current generation, "world models" is basically a marketing term. You can research gaussian splatting, novel view synthesis, neural radiance fields (nerf), etc... I find Mr Nerf is good to follow: https://x.com&
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by jaccola 11mo ago
Should we be optimising for a world that makes software engineers (or animators) in particular happy? The seen is the lost jobs but the unseen is that everyone else gets software (and animated entertainment) cheaper. As it happens, I don&#x
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by jaccola 11mo ago
There are a finite number of people and unemployment is already low.
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by jaccola 11mo ago
It seems that most peoples of most countries have an unquenchable thirst for more, yes. No one forced the car, the smart phone, the sugary snacks, cheap plastic toys, ... to exist. They exist because people want them. Maybe certain people t
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by jaccola 11mo ago
I assume we agree that working less produces less (which reasonable people debate) since otherwise competition from abroad wouldn't be an issue. If that is the case, then adding trade barriers also doesn't fix anything. Adding the
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by jaccola 1y ago
You are correct, I meant regulate to ban them. No doubt when electric cars become better in every way than fossil fuel cars, the government will create a regulation banning fossil fuel cars. Everyone will rejoice that the government stopped
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by jaccola 1y ago
Yes of course it is in their interest to lie / hide until it becomes public knowledge. But regulation has the exact same problem (hence why Asbestos was not regulated for a long time, same with your other examples). When it is widely k
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by jaccola 1y ago
So have all unsuccessful markets. I think this says more about human power dynamics than the necessity of market regulation.
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by jaccola 1y ago
Asbestos is hard to hide, certainly competitors of the Asbestos-using company would know they were using Asbestos. They, at least, would have an incentive to advertise how bad their competitors product is because it uses Asbestos. Equally,
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by jaccola 1y ago
Would you buy a product with asbestos in if it wasn't regulated against? (Assuming we removed all similar regulation so the lack of regulation does not its self imply safety.) Of course you wouldn't. We have journalists to uncover
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by jaccola 1y ago
Regarding culture: Complete nonsense. The free market will tell him if he can do this or not. If he can get valid candidates pushing this culture and it’s legal, why shouldn’t he? You, anyone interviewing there or anyone working at their co
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by jaccola 1y ago
You are somewhat right re: control, but it is much more tangible and understandable than this. In my opinion it is the fundamental limit of LLMs as assistants, that for them to be useful they have to be able to do a lot of things and that t
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by jaccola 1y ago
You are mostly correct in my opinion. The fundamental problem is, there is really no "free market" of countries. A US citizen who hates what the country has become cannot go off and set up a new one, they have a choice of a few st
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by jaccola 1y ago
There are three competing factors at play: minimising false hires, minimising false no-hire, salary. Presumably I couldn't hire Casey for a team lead position paying £120k per year. Equally, I don't want to miss out on talent by t
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by jaccola 1y ago
I don't think any amount of money would allow you to wear these in public. You'd need some other form of power, maybe a dictator or similar could.

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