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by naravara 5mo ago
There’s non-corpo reasons you might not want to expose all the content into an RSS feed. https://ciechanow.ski/ can only really be appreciated from the browser. In the salad days of blogging, it was as much about what kind
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by naravara 6mo ago
It’s not “transformatively better” but it definitely involves fewer frustrations to interact with. That’s always been Apple’s main value proposition, you’re not getting the most cutting-edge stuff but you’re supposed to have something that
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by naravara 6mo ago
> The irony is that AI is best at replacing the work of the upper classes. Synthesizing different opinions, summarizing them, and producing outputs based on statistics are things AI does well. It’s really not though. A lot of sort of inc
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by naravara 6mo ago
There’s a massive survivorship bias in the historical record that heavily weights the perspectives of wealthy and literate classes. We also just have much richer records of population centers in complex empires that keep detailed tax and ju
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by naravara 6mo ago
I think the culty element of AI development is really blinding a lot of these companies to what their tools are actually useful for. They’re genuinely great productivity enhancers, but the boosters are constantly going on about how it’s goi
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by naravara 6mo ago
> Delaying from 13 (COPPA) to 16 won't change a thing. There’s been a decent amount of studies to suggest it can actually, since you’ll be pushing the uptake of social media outside the peak age range where things like bullying, bod
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by naravara 6mo ago
They’re not proprietary but some of them are expensive and somewhat specialized. I don’t think it’ll be really economical for most normal people to self-service many repairs, but it’ll be very viable to have a corner hardware store that can
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by naravara 6mo ago
The iPhone was basically the apotheosis of the Internet. I don’t think we will ever see another consumer product able to have an impact like that unless there is some other kind of “substructure” technology with a vast amount of untapped po
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by naravara 6mo ago
It’s possible, but I know people felt the same during prior technological revolutions like the advent of broadcast media (which fascist movements took too with great enthusiasm). I think people are clever, we learn from every failure and ad
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by naravara 6mo ago
Thereby raising the average talent level of both companies. A truly Pareto optimal trade.
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by naravara 6mo ago
The more abstract the “wealth” becomes the less it means in practical terms. The class dynamics around money mostly has to do with the State actively preserving and protecting claims over assets. If that same wealth becomes sufficiently con
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by naravara 6mo ago
I believe Apple Maps uses Open Street Map data for the mapping, which it augments with its own data collection. So it shouldn’t be worse than other vendors, like TomTom, who use the same dataset. Google has its own map data that’s probably
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by naravara 6mo ago
I thought the touchbar was pretty neat, it was just a mistake to replace the function row with them. It also was hard to get adoption because it wasn’t available on desktop Macs or their cheaper laptops so developers had no incentive to rea
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by naravara 6mo ago
Functionally nobody was doing any of those things.
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by naravara 6mo ago
The closest thing I’ve heard of is genetically engineering some extremophile bacteria to seed some bacterial colonies with, and then building some domed habitats and dropping plants and fungi into it. And then you could allow some of that l
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by naravara 6mo ago
If you can kick off self-sustaining biological processes it’ll happen on its own eventually, but you’d just be looking at generational time scales to do it. Of course you’ll probably have lots of side-effects.
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by naravara 6mo ago
It also happened during a period where cities were polluted, noisy, and the middle-class housing was largely cramped tenements. Basically all of this has been/is being mitigated these days. City-center housing now looks more like luxur
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by naravara 6mo ago
I was pretty excited when I saw the premise behind what Apple was doing with VisionPro because I figured they were steering towards this, but it seems they’ve looked away and don’t really care about going deeper into this direction. I asked
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by naravara 6mo ago
I wonder how it would look if we gave the AI some kind of “needs” overlay. I know as part of the training it’s working off a reward function that tells it what output to roll with. But humans operate off a complicated mix of neurotransmitte
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by naravara 6mo ago
Eventually I’m sure they’ll figure out how to make these chatbots stop leaning so heavily into this “Not an X, not a Y, but a Z. . .” sentence structures. At this point my willingness to continue reading drops to 0 as soon as I see it.
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by naravara 6mo ago
This article reads like it’s been proofread or written out from an outline or bullet points given to an AI. And ALMA’s own posts that it references are just meandering ramblings, they’re really a slog to get through. I think I’ve always ten
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by naravara 6mo ago
Some references have been digitized but “Hinduism” is a broad collection of religious traditions with many different stories and folk practices and depictions of various deities and tales. Many of the depictions are considered “valid” only
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by naravara 6mo ago
The internet being flooded with AI slop masquerading as devotional artwork has been among the most depressing things about GenAI. It has no meaning or intention or devotion behind it, it’s just engagement farming. Nothing of value is added
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by naravara 6mo ago
I mean, if the work is novel it’s almost definitionally an edge case is it not?
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by naravara 6mo ago
Yeah I don’t think the models are meaningfully differentiated outside of very specific edge cases. I suspect this was the thinking behind OpenAI and Facebook and all trying to lean hard into presenting their chatbots as friends and romantic
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by naravara 7mo ago
Yeah one of the take-away interpretations I’ve always heard of it is the implication that the deferral to an authority figure led people to conscientiously proceed with administering fatal shocks. But this additional detail suggests that co
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by naravara 7mo ago
That’s because the past 15 years were dictated by Web 2.0 companies that make their money off keeping you glued to the screen. A AI assistant would work more like Planet Fitness where the goal is to figure out how to convince you to keep pa
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by naravara 7mo ago
That’s the wrong analogy. Model training is more like the setup costs of developing the menu and training staff. What’s driving the costs is important when talking about financial sustainability. If it’s mostly coming from optional R&D
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by naravara 7mo ago
The impetus to continue training at the pace they are is driven by the competition. So if the money starts drying up, then they’ll naturally slow down because they’ll have to figure out how to do more with less. I suspect that once the mode
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by naravara 7mo ago
I think they’re losing money because they have to amortize the costs of training the models in the first place, which is where most of the resource sink is. This is why they were freaking out about DeepSeek just taking the trained model wei

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