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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Well we know that the US government is pushing to restrict access to such models while the Chinese are publishing them for free, so it's mostly a matter of motivations, not the actual facts of the matter. And the USG has a documented h
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
The underlying technology enablers are from companies like Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, TSMC, Micron, all sorts of ISP/cell providers, etc. They're the reason why computers are over 10x faster than they were 10-15 years ago, storage is 1
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
My point here is that the reason any of this stuff is possible is because the underlying technology makes it extremely cheap. It's not ads that make it so anyone on Asia can have a video chat on a cheap phone; it's that even cheap
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Right, if you're at the level where you could afford the fanciest credentials, you don't actually need them. Then if you're upper middle class (so you don't have unlimited money, but they don't need the credentials)
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
The world's topmost universities (e.g. Yale, MIT) publish those same lectures on their own websites along with other course materials. We could demand public universities do the same for all courses. If they weren't part of monopo
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Or break the companies up like we did with Bell. Any social media platform with over 20 million MAU in the US gets broken in two, and companies with over 1M MAU must offer open federation under some reasonable terms.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Correct. "Collective bargaining" against society is called running a cartel. Having your cartel lobby the government to set the law to benefit it is called rent-seeking. They've caused massive damage to society, and limiting
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
I mean I've done very well in my life; my wife and I both moved up several classes, but I take ownership of educating my kids. My oldest started kindergarten today, but she's already a couple years ahead, and she's only reall
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Surely these hyper competitive neighborhoods are full of already wealthy people? I hear about people "needing" to spend a ton of money on kids as part of this competitive scene and I just don't get it. If you're that wor
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Ads and the surveillance ecosystem are more than just a company sending you information. They're paying another company, which that other company uses to provide services below cost (often free, and often creating network lock-in eff
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
I've never found that to be a problem (using codex since the beginning of the year and having it make dozens of shell scripts for itself). It adds usage/help without me ever having had to ask, and if the tool has an issue, I'
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Yes, one of the obvious ways to me to use these models is to tell them to write such a program. It can then go figure out data extraction and normalization. This is "the harness improving itself". Have it write tools to do its tas
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It seems very obviously detrimental to me (in the exact same way it's detrimental to people); e.g. use proper jargon with an LLM and you find it is suddenly an expert. The LLM has no trouble at all perfectly fluently using macros or mo
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Independent blogs are perfectly viable. It is basically free to publish. What's not viable and never was is to be a professional blogger. At best, some people could try to be professional shills with blogs as bait (it is good if these
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Perhaps it could benefit from being prompted to work more formally and make more incremental proofs? e.g. if it thinks it has an obstruction, it should prove that some example shows the obstruction, or prove that the property does in genera
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It doesn't seem clear to me at all. e.g. I've been having a fun time learning Godot this last week with codex laying down groundwork for logic, generating assets, etc. This gives me something concrete that I can work with and grou
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
That's great, then maybe in a century and a half our great great grandchildren can finally access those books assuming IA is still around. But ideally we'd simply make our government work for us instead of against us, and we could
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
My gaming PC that I built in January 2006 that IIRC I used to simultaneously run Battlefield 2, Trillian, Xfire, Thunderbird, and Winamp with a 1680x1050 monitor had 1 GB of total system RAM.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It's not really telling on oneself. Like you said, the easy stuff (e.g. basic business process automation i.e. constructing simple database queries) happens to be economically high ROI right now. Something like 3d graphics or signal pr
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It's doubly crazy to me that someone would let a machine take their time like that. An inanimate object, and they give it any amount of respect instead of fixing it to do what they want.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
At least in the US, bagged popcorn uses synthetic "butter" flavoring that can cause lung damage. Look up popcorn lung.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
With machine automated formalizations now feasible, I wonder whether git repos (which would automatically include attribution) wouldn't make more sense as modern journals. e.g. you could have the core mathlib as the "prestige&quot
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Perhaps we should not grant century+ long monopolies for out of print books, and even make copyright require a fee that the Library of Congress uses to add the material to a permanent digital archive available to the public. Then no one wou
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by ndriscoll 3mo ago
One obvious way to tighten such loopholes would be to ban indefinite licenses. It is either permanent or has a fixed, stated term. A permanent license must either entail no DRM or the entity must have a trust/endowment in place to ensu
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by ndriscoll 3mo ago
Hendrix has been dead for twice the length that copyright originally lasted, and for longer than the copyright period at the time he was alive (i.e. during his life when he was assessing the economic fairness of creating his music, he would
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by ndriscoll 3mo ago
The referenced config setting is apparently literally just whether to have the server authenticate accounts with Microsoft, so pirate and nonpirate players can play together on a server with checking off.
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by ndriscoll 3mo ago
That's why the nerd technical stuff isn't all that interesting to me; it's likely useless. But the idea that more democracy = better is an insidious one that I see often. Democracy is a means that applies in specific conditio
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by ndriscoll 3mo ago
Why do all individuals need to be in one network? There are literally zero decisions about my life that I want to allow people in China or Iran to vote on. I should hope they feel the same. There are almost no decisions (as someone in the U
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by ndriscoll 3mo ago
Nerd stuff aside, no voting system for socially significant decisions needs to scale to the planet. Democracies don't (or rather, shouldn't) scale. e.g. if the US and China or India formed a democratic superstate, the effect would
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by ndriscoll 3mo ago
You don't really need the Internet. Tons of documentation is available for download (either as a zip, or with the documentation site as its own git repo). Wikipedia is available for download. You can get reddit dumps, HN dumps, stack e

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