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by nr2x 4y ago
surveillance based adtech is collapsing already and is doomed in its present state. they are screwed with or without gpt.
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by nr2x 4y ago
sorry, but you may just be using it wrong. i've been doing very heavy green field systems infrastructure for my startup and gpt-4 is utterly indispensable for my postgres set up. huge time saver, and i was dealing with the exact issue
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by nr2x 4y ago
which is why they are doomed. they can't imagine a world where they aren't allowed to spy on everybody, but regulations are starting to have an impact there. they can't imagine a world where ads aren't the way to make mo
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by nr2x 4y ago
they'll cut anything they can't put an ad in before they figure out the days of silicon valley being ruled by adtech are over. surveillance-based adtech is, and has always been, the absolute lamest tech paradigm of all time.
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by nr2x 4y ago
if they applied same regulations to imports they'd be smart, instead they hobbled themselves, made a lot of grand gestures, but made no contribution to sustainability as they just outsourced the dirty work to former colonies. typical e
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by nr2x 4y ago
can't help but think the remaining days of google arts and culture aren't many. if they killed code jam and gutted the open source team to save a few bucks i can't imagine ruth will let this continue.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Yeah that’s super offensive, I would avoid it altogether.
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by nr2x 4y ago
That’s my point: I want an ANSWER not a LINK. They are incentives to provide the best LINK but not the best ANSWER. Whereas this product gives answers. Which is why I’m liking it a lot!
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by nr2x 4y ago
Do you not have a Google account?
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by nr2x 4y ago
Google has non-aligned incentives with users and the gulf has been growing. Showing me the best answer is not the goal, showing me an ad is. I’m ready and willing to pay somebody who has a clear incentive to give me correct answers.
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by nr2x 4y ago
I literally have a Linux machine that I’m ready to rig up were it not for Comcast being my internet provider. Maddening to live in “Silicon Valley” and be dealing with dog shit data caps and speeds.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Am I correct the upshot is the Stable Diffusion community is going to take this and make more weird shit? Because that is a good thing, especially since Ope AI has pretty much neglected Dall-E since launch.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Curious as why you think it is noise? My feeling, which may be wrong, is the stuff happening right now is going to have a massive impact and in this moment of chaos a new order is being formed. The combination of tech layoffs, dams breakin
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by nr2x 4y ago
Well, this site is a big reason I got the insight to focus on account redundancy over disk redundancy. Lots of posts over the years of people locked out from all the big clouds in a panic trying to see if an employee will see their cry for
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by nr2x 4y ago
Interesting parallel is I have an electric car, which I pay more for and has limitations. But for me I think the societal benefit is great enough I’ll eat the cost. So if it gets data centers to invest in energy savings because they pocket
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by nr2x 4y ago
I’m also thinking about buying a second hand server and racking it in a colocation joint just so I can physically get the disk. The client data I have is super important, and there is some level of comfort you only get from bare metal.
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by nr2x 4y ago
With the added environment benefits!
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by nr2x 4y ago
For me at least, if I knew I was getting same performance for less energy I’d actually be willing to pay a bit more. Data centers are big polluters still. I think we likely can get to nearly 100% renewables in the non-distant future, and lo
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by nr2x 4y ago
I’m currently setting up infrastructure for a startup and it’s been very interesting how the threat model of data loss and disaster recovery is no longer hardware failure: it’s account lock out. I’ve got streaming replication of my core dat
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by nr2x 4y ago
Honest question: why do you see it as your job to defend Elon Musk online? I see a lot of people doing it and I find it strange. Why do you care?
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by nr2x 4y ago
levels.fyi
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by nr2x 4y ago
More my point is they have as big a research budget as a corporate lab.
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by nr2x 4y ago
I wouldn’t rule out NSA being ahead of the curve, but you have a good point re: GPUs. Likely another factor in the CHIPS act.
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by nr2x 4y ago
AI isn’t the problem, capitalism is. I’m not worried about rogue AI taking over the nukes. I’m worried the same people who think it’s a great idea to charge so much for insulin that people start dying are the ones who will be using AI to hu
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by nr2x 4y ago
Yes, but GPT-5 will be better and the humans won’t. It’s very troubling.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Exactly, which is why this research is good to release. That’s my point.
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by nr2x 4y ago
I don’t think they helped them. Now, did they train off the same data sources? Well, since OpenAI isn’t saying what GPT-4 is trained on, and the NSA can hoover up all kinds of non-public data, it stands to reason they may both be doing som
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by nr2x 4y ago
I’m guessing they are, and have been, for a while.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Yes but you can get GPT to write structured queries based on natural language. It works very, very well at turning normal phrases into SQL.
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by nr2x 4y ago
How sure are you about that? The basic theories have been around since the 70s, have been proven at scale in the last decade, and the NSA has more data and compute than anybody else. I’d be shocked if they aren’t very far along in solving

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