jackb4040

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by jackb4040 2mo ago
I mean it depends what you mean by "we". There are laws on the books to do so, they've just never been used against Epstein associates like Musk. We have a surface system of politics and laws, and then a deep system. Sovereig
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Agree. There is a wall coming for "retro" video game nostalgia once we reach the end of the purpose-specific hardware era. Like, you can build an emulator for WiiWare games, but what does it mean to release a "new" WiiWa
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Genuinely what am I supposed to do if you can't read? Participating in the global economy is not the same thing as enthusiastically giving money to a company that only makes weapons of war because you love war. If you try to not use
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Xbox is literally imploding right now, they laid off half the company and significantly raised the console price. If sales were good they never would've had to do game pass. Besides, it's a dumb argument to compare military purcha
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
I'm providing you with factual information and encouraging people to engage with his long-form content and not just caricatures and hostile MSM segments. Whether you do so is up to you, I'm not interested in sparring.
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Is that the prediction they're claiming is "wrong"? The year's nowhere near out yet.
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
This is his position, he doesn't have time to say it on corporate media that give him 5 minutes but he starts basically every podcast with (paraphrasing) "LLMs are rightfully a boring several-hundred-million-dollar business that w
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Dude. Trafficking minors is bad. Bantustans can literally help establish family relationships.
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Sorry, who do you think is going to pay for the bailout? The rich? Don't make me laugh
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Based on the timing, I assume this is a direct response to the US state directed revocation of certificates of Iran's Fars News Agency.
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
It's a dumb question anyways. What any individual will do to resist is determined by the existence of a social movement, or lack thereof. You don't have to be willing to sacrifice your life or freedom in vain to contribute to that
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
They don't mention this, but one major reason for apartheid's Bantustan policy was to recognize distinct homelands and preserve cultural communities. This is, I suspect, a good thing. The article never states any downsides, other
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
Ahaha thank you, I naively assumed the unlabeled graph in the readme was tps, not spt!
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
I actually didn't mean it literally, more just the general sense that any job you're doing that isn't sufficiently evil will eventually be rolled up. But that's interesting that there is now a literal connection between
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by jackb4040 2mo ago
The "greater work" is scanning then burning millions of books btw
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
Thank you! Looks cool | exo provides multiple API-compatible interfaces for maximum compatibility with existing tools: | | OpenAI Chat Completions API - Compatible with OpenAI clients | Claude Messages API - Compatible with Anthropic's
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
This. I was ready to be impressed if author had written some software abstraction layer that wrapped a remote GPU in a virtual device that could be used by existing programs running on the local CPU. But there is no novel software at all, t
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
Thank you, and now I'm flagging the OP
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
It doesn't really take into account that not all products are meant to be premium. Like it says to avoid Black & Decker because it's "Built to a price point, not a quality standard". Like we know, it's not the 1
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
Completely doesn't answer the AI question, nor the "who's paying for this" question. Because presumably it's not a hobbyist buying every tool, mattress, and boot in the world annually.
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
AI services becoming a commodity by definition means that the price will hover around cost to operate. That's just what commoditization means in tech. Free, as in Google creating a free browser for no profit in order to increase the si
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
AI investors are not sophisticated users nor product managers. They are by and large not technical at all. They are bureaucrats at a teachers' pension fund in the midwest, unscrupulous dealmakers at private credit firms, and Masayoshi
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
There is a clear difference between saying not to do something because it's immoral, and saying doing that thing would be futile. In the Sopranos, there's an episode where a coffee shop protection racket is ruined because a local
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
I always get that guy mixed up with the "Google hates straight white men" guy
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
Attention matters when a stock is rising, fundamentals matter when a stock is falling.
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
It does however totally abandon the question of making a profitable mass-market AI product upon which the scale of those investments was based.
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
> the extent to which these things go That's exactly it. If your prompt says "go to whatever lengths necessary to maximize your score", and then you spin up 100 agents, at least one of them will interpret that as you imply
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
So basically, apply Pascal's Wager to AGI? The problem is that unlike God, if PMF for OpenAI turns out to not be real it will have a real consequence measured in the trillions of dollars.
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
This is why I'm so convinced it was intentional. It's trivially easy to inform the model you can see everything it thinks and does, so don't bother gaming the scores. The only way it would decide to do this is prompting with
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by jackb4040 3mo ago
HN is and always will be brimming with temporarily embarrassed tech CEOs

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