llm_trw

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811.
by llm_trw 2y ago
Only if you're an oppressed puritan. I can make the case much more convincingly that food gives basically no intrinsic added value to your life and if most people could press a button to make themselves never eat again, they would. Or
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by llm_trw 2y ago
So your argument against digital simulation is that currently digital simulation isn't good enough today so it will never be good enough? May I introduce you to the exponential function? It's a little something that's been ca
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Funny you should mention porn: ai generated porn is now better than the real thing for images and >5s clips. At current rates for Moore's Law we're going to have 5 minute clips of anything you desire within the next decade on t
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by llm_trw 2y ago
What do we do when reality is a distant second to digital simulation? We're just seeing sparks of AI starting and it's already beating out people for tasks which were thought to be innately unautomatable. https://www.yo
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by llm_trw 2y ago
> The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unalte
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by llm_trw 2y ago
monkey paw curls Your AGPL code now only runs on amazon lambda functions. Stallman et. al. have not worked in big corp since the 80s so they don't understand how misaligned incentives are now. The AGPL is a solution to the issues we
817.
by llm_trw 2y ago
No one is asking you to.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
If you think companies care about embarrassment I have a nice house in Bhopal to sell you.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Yeah, source available is the way to go. I'm not here to make Bezos' yacht ten feet longer.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
It's funny how people point to how well adjusted we are today when in the west the well adjusted people have managed to do nothing of note, unless you count destroying corporation after corporation. It's the assholes like Elon Mus
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Excel is great until it you need to do something that takes up more space than a single screen. Then it isn't. Sending sqlite databases to the users which they can interact with using both sql and a viewer is where it's at.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
I have huge hopes that the expense of training and more importantly running the current generation of AI models will mean that for the first time since the 90s the cost of customer will be higher than the maximum possible advertising revenu
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Efficiency and resiliency are usually orthogonal.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
People saying that the government funds Tor so it's insecure is like saying that the government funds the army which kills people on purpose, so any government hospital will also kill people on purpose
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by llm_trw 2y ago
The issue is that the people making 'level headed' claims have read none of the literature and their mathematical ability seems to end at multiplying numbers together. It sounds reasonable to anyone who hasn't read the papers
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by llm_trw 2y ago
>Genuine question for the folks over at Amazon: What is the value of working at Amazon (or even just AWS) these days? I've interviewed with them three times, all before 2020. It seemed like a cult held together by the sunk cost fall
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by llm_trw 2y ago
So because macs are not the targets of malware ... we're locking them down tighter than any other system?
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by llm_trw 2y ago
I'm sorry but there comes a point where you have to call a spade a spade. When you have the trifecta of regex, *argv packing and uninitialized memory you're reaching levels of incompetence which require being actively malicious an
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Ok, suppose you're right. Why are they only doing it for macs then?
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by llm_trw 2y ago
>When (AI is) mentioned it has a negative correlation. I have an llm inference rig that I enjoy on the weekends and the problem for the first time in my life is that I have supernormal stimulus which doesn't seem to reduce in potenc
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by llm_trw 2y ago
To summarize: The people who ruined native GUIs moved to HTML pages. After ruining HTML pages they are now moving to terminals. In this very thread we're seeing people say "Well sure, but why not add ...". The reason why the
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by llm_trw 2y ago
>I would also argue that MS is nothing like the company that it was 30 years ago when that philosophy was a thing. This is like saying that a cannibal has stopped eating people because there have been no disappearances in the last two da
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by llm_trw 2y ago
The MIT license for one.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Being open source is not a great thing to aspire to. After all, it's just free software for people who don't want to give their users the source code.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Taking a swipe at Musk in an article about dating isn't any less weird.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
I don't know, ask the guardian why they had to take a swipe at free speech in an article about dating.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Pay me enough and I'll suck up everything about municipal waste management that any human being has ever said. Pay me 'market rates' and you'll get the type of work the market produces.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
2 water drops + 2 water drops = 1 water drop.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
In life there usually isn't an answer.
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by llm_trw 2y ago
Subs get bad with more people, to really ruin them you need power mods.

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