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by munk-a 2mo ago
It's an unreasonable argument because the people who treat medication like candy are far less common than the people who are restricted from seeking medical assistance due to repressive family situations. In Italy these services are th
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by munk-a 2mo ago
It's torture because abortion is never a trivial decision to make - by the time a person has decided to get an abortion and not become a parent we should respect their wishes. If a decision has been made there's no reason to caus
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by munk-a 2mo ago
There's a different level of personal risk with these two things. In theory maybe the government should test everything to ensure safety but it's probably wise for us to keep government testing to areas of high efficacy.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Appeals to authority aren't necessarily bad. I would hold an opinion on the internals of postgres from someone who worked heavily on postgres internals for forty years quite highly. Robert Martin started coding in the late 60s and the
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Oh, I definitely agree that Google squandered their golden goose. Had they treated search as an independent business and not a piggy bank they'd be in a much better position. An independent business would still likely fall prey to gr
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by munk-a 2mo ago
AI just gives the answer... which you then need to sift through and interpret as it's often wrong. Google's UX is terrible - but a search engine (a tool that can put you right into contact with the FAQ or forum where actual expert
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by munk-a 2mo ago
If you're driving along normally and then tie a blindfold around your face and hit someone you've taken actions that still expose you to liability. And, in the case that you hit someone who is chasing their pet cat into traffic t
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Gross negligence can stand in for intent. I believe a rather compelling case could be developed on the basis that a system believed to be capable of this was developed and improperly secured.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Could you clarify your question? AI model training and neural network research has been popular for decades and the starts of the sector trace back to the 70s at least. We've had a model for document information extraction that we tr
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Just to reinforce - as a Canadian, from the perspective of Canada up here... it is insane how much American foreign policy took an extreme uturn with this administration. It's been impressive to see Carney manage to steer away from th
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by munk-a 2mo ago
> We have just recently established that: Especially for point #1 I don't think we've established that - we've been given information by a private company that makes their tooling look extremely valuable which may be true
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by munk-a 2mo ago
> Because it makes Anthropic burn more money Fixed that for you.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Sorry, to clarify - this isn't just "offering it at a loss" Anthropic is directly paying PE firms to enroll their held companies in their services[1]. When it comes to a question of whether this is a national security attack
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Only if you're going to use them to train an LLM! Also, more seriously, there are plenty of pieces of information that are compelled to be published that don't lose their confidentiality. There actually is a general concept that
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by munk-a 2mo ago
I really hope that when a sane administration returns to power in the US we'll actually get a reckoning over how irrational it was to not restrict training data.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
> their outputs are not IP and I can't imagine a court decision that would rule otherwise because that would set an extremely far reaching and dangerous precedent Assume that their model output is considered IP and that it's ru
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by munk-a 2mo ago
This is literally what all AI is right now. Anthropic has been paying companies to use its product to form that dependency and maybe they're not misaligned but there's no regulation in the US that'd in anyway deter them from
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by munk-a 2mo ago
> And of course they cant say that. It's hilarious because at this point it's clear they can say that. We've just had a coordinated talking points push that voter picture IDs should be required because "Olive Garden&
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by munk-a 2mo ago
As an excellent example of #2 we've got Bir Tawil and the Halaib Triangle - both exist along the Sudanese-Egyptian border. Two different historical border drawings have been presented which each argue that the Halaib Triangle belongs
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by munk-a 2mo ago
The website is down right now and the discord isn't private but I'm hesitant to personally publish it in such a public place.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
play.shadowsofisildur.com:4500 - if you'd like (it isn't on the old domain anymore) there's also a discord that I'm a bit hesitant to link to where all the discussion is taking place that has a lot of the old folks hangi
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by munk-a 2mo ago
The people who played MUDs for the grind will, genuinely, have a lot more fun playing PoE or some other modern adventure game. MUDs were the only option for that sort of adventure experience for a while but there are other options now that
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by munk-a 2mo ago
It's a method to grade LLM output - as such it's something that will receive focus in correcting for. As soon as people who have a say in where funding is going noticed it as a metric the labs started caring about their performan
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by munk-a 2mo ago
There is an ongoing project doing this (that launches this weekend I believe) to revive a MUD called Shadows of Isildur. I think a lot of effort has been put into the new changes to the codebase to bring QoL features that a modern audience
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by munk-a 2mo ago
A MUD exists as a platform for creative writing - introducing LLMs into one would deprive it of its primary function.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
MUDs are still kicking around and if you'd like to play in one you'll find a few solid communities with good engagement that would love to include you. They're in an odd spot though since MUDs existed in two sorts of categor
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Until you need to scale up it's perfectly acceptable to just run postgres on the same instance as the logic that's executing. It's not a great strategy in the long run due to all your eggs being in one basket and the need to
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by munk-a 2mo ago
> cheaper at a geometric rate Citation needed - my company is paying more than ever for code generation. I have no reason to believe (given anecdotes) that anyone finds themselves in the opposite situation.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
It's hilarious to me that one man has so single handedly destroyed the concept of "musk" (the smell) being attractive.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Ah creative writing - the domain where AI is failing to actually generate any economic value while absolutely devastating the ways in which people have traditionally found artistic expression.

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