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mhuffman
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What is worse is that if you dig deep into current government spending the money has a strange way of ending back up in super-rich people's pockets anyway, just with extra steps.
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I would be very interested in you providing an example of Deep Learning offering more cultural or historical impact than Socrates / Wittgenstein.
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mhuffman
2y ago
My understanding is that they put a lot of pressure to block things and sometimes offer quid pro quo and sometimes even implant operatives in certain media positions, but legally they can't just come in and shut it down.
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mhuffman
2y ago
I think they meant mortality as in the old guard that have power and use it to protect their point of view die off and are replaced with a new guard that does the same.
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mhuffman
2y ago
>It ensures academic freedom. Perhaps it used to, however a tenured professor can easily be "cancelled" today if their academic research or writing strays too far from home base. Frankly, I am not sure it ever did. It seems lik
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2y ago
I don't think so, and I believe that it is related to the reasons you state, but a little more cynical. Corporate America has a very, very strong grip on politics now. For an eye-opening example, go fine graphs of the number of laws in
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mhuffman
2y ago
Same, Firefox in linux, also tried with all extensions disabled and same thing. Just flickering with an "error" modal.
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mhuffman
2y ago
Well that is what we are told to support the profiteering part, right?
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2y ago
This is true, and how I got into software development as a job, but going forward they will likely be replaced by AI agents off of some site like Zapier.
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2y ago
Except that the problems most (and by that I mean non-software, non-billion-dollar) businesses have are not wordle type puzzle problems. They are 'go through all of our invoices and put xxxx data in a spreadsheet for me please' ty
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mhuffman
2y ago
Individuals are usually the targets of companies and the government, whereas the government is immune from any blowback for with it does and has, right now, very cozy relationships with large corporations.
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2y ago
All good points, but then ask yourself why this [0] is being put under Homeland Security and not just a business lobbying group. [0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-homeland-security-names...
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2y ago
I am not making a judgement here, just stating the reasons why they would want to do it.
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2y ago
This is a snippet from OP site: >SB 1047 creates an unaccountable Frontier Model Division that will be staffed by EAs with police powers, and which can throw model developers in jail for the thoughtcrime of doing AI research. It’s being
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2y ago
I am not an AGI stan, but it is clear to me that this gap will close substantially, and quickly ... like 6 months or so. The break-neck speed of development and (to me) the counterintuitive zeal with which open source developers are just do
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2y ago
>As for LLMs making it easier to people to build destructive devices, Google can provide info about that. Or just read some "prepper" books and magazines. That ship sailed long ago. However, those can and are tracked. The thing
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2y ago
I am expecting Groq acquisition or merger at some point. I just makes sense. Especially considering the financial position of Nvidia right now.
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2y ago
It looks like a type of beta pdf distribution curve to me. Interesting!
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2y ago
I remember that they actually got a law passed in North Carolina, I believe, that had a hilariously named law like "Save NC Jobs Act" which straight up made it economically impossible to create municipal broadband if it didn'
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mhuffman
2y ago
millionaires and billionaires love this one weird trick!
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mhuffman
2y ago
This is the answer for what OP wants. It literally is built to do what he wants and shows a demo doing it on the front page of the site. Too bad they couldn't make it into a business, but the project seems to be alive and well.
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2y ago
Then again the food industry is pretty powerful. Remember when they legally forced Oprah to publicly apologize or saying that it could be dangerous to eat raw hamburger?
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2y ago
There is also a type of worry that if cyber surveillance suddenly doesn't need a warrant than any group that is targeted by whatever party is in power (ie. whoever they don't like) suddenly are being surveilled, possibly for priva
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There are many people that don't qualify for free health care (and some that do!) but can't afford co-pays and co-insurance, and must go without that medicine.
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>server side rendering and hydration is akin to discovering fire when they just brought back progressive enhancement from circa 2009. Active Server Pages and PHP from the mid-90's enter the chat... My favorite is "static site g
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>but why would it be blocked? Preventing hate speech in company culture? I suspect it is more about legal exposure, rather than thinking someone is going to come up with a new insult. For example, I suspect you can imagine some words tha
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3y ago
What if their definition of "toxic" makes me want to leave a discussion, are they moral enough to close down the entire thing?
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3y ago
works on mine (m2 max) but steals controls and no idea wtf I am looking at.
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mhuffman
3y ago
Cow magnets are great refrigerator magnets! Very cheap, can be used at different angles, and stronger than pretty much any other refrigerator magnet.
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I do not think embeddings would have too much trouble with a mult-topic document. It might have more trouble where words are phrases are used closed together in the same document but have different meanings.
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