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by karahime 3mo ago
You're being sarcastic, but I do enjoy it. I just took a Waymo recently and it was thrilling, it felt great to feel the wind and the sun, listen to music, and get where I was going without having to drive there. I still like driving, o
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by karahime 3mo ago
This has always been just a meme. Plenty of the people I know who know the most about tech are also very excited about it. Person B in this example is often miserable for a lot of other reasons that have nothing to do with tech, doesn'
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by karahime 3mo ago
This is an ongoing misunderstanding of the recent moves here. Willingness or unwillingness to spend on frontier models isn't derivable from whether cost caps exist. Comparing it to cloud spend, most companies have cap regimes to ensure
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by karahime 3mo ago
This probably isn't totally untrue, but, for example, 4chan is sorted by recency and has a lot of the same problems as other large sites online, which to me says that it can't just be complex recommendation systems driving problem
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by karahime 3mo ago
It should not be underrated how much of this is intentional policy environment shaping by the Bank of Japan and the Japanese government, rather than some inherently wiser management philosophy.
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by karahime 3mo ago
Doesn't really match my experience.
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by karahime 3mo ago
I agree that it shouldn't be outright illegal, but I will definitely be making the personal choice not to engage with model providers which do this. There's no amount of impressive results that could make me want to secretly pay m
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by karahime 1y ago
Personally, I would not want to be on the side of people openly saying that they are poisoning the well.
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by karahime 1y ago
It's in the megathread linked in this comment, but I want to specifically point to https://open-slum.org/ which is basically a status page for different sites dedicated to this purpose, and which I've found helpfu
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by karahime 1y ago
My best guess on this is that it's as simple as 1) most people are not Apple users (harder to reach critical mass online), 2) and most Apple users are aware of other ways to access things if that's what they want, while the ones w
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by karahime 1y ago
Having lived in both the US and Europe, I have to imagine at least some of that comes down to cost. In Europe, the plant based alternatives (at least where I lived) were actually cheaper, and meaningfully so.