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by observationist 4mo ago
If teachers could teach, students might be able to read. If students could read, maybe more of them would learn how to write. If more of them learned to write, maybe it'd be inspirational to their peers and future generations. It'
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by observationist 4mo ago
Yes. They're not in any danger of disappearing. They just don't have any purpose anymore. They don't provide anything to the market that can't be gotten elsewhere, more cheaply, at higher quality, with better support, or
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by observationist 4mo ago
How's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right? IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies. Microsoft is effectively dead. It&#
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by observationist 4mo ago
That level of local AI is also more or less what you need for competent autonomous robots, too. If your household robots are orchestrated from your phone, the local security and cloud convenience converge on a single device. No extra server
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by observationist 4mo ago
It's a huge difference. If you had AI sufficiently good running locally on a phone, you could devise workflows for things like basic digital hygiene, technical assistance, and tedious tasks like inbox management, image sorting, device
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by observationist 5mo ago
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords. They provide me with only the finest Gell-Mann amnesia, straight from the tap.
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by observationist 5mo ago
Credentials being positively correlated with resilience and having learned things would be great. It's too bad that's not what the institutions are doing.
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by observationist 5mo ago
All they need to do is "randomly" label 99,999 of every 100,000 as AI and they'll be right 99.999% of the time. Cryptographically verifiable provenance and chain of custody is going to be necessary to get to the human only st
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by observationist 5mo ago
It's strange - like someone went for brevity, but without the usual exercise of packing meaning into each sentence. There's a lot of fluff in the shape of serious writing, lol.
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by observationist 5mo ago
Developers Developers Developers!
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by observationist 5mo ago
fMRI is noisy, but there is definitely signal. https://medarc-ai.github.io/mindeye/ Recent studies have demonstrated using fMRI data to reconstruct the images of what the person being scanned is seeing. There's en
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by observationist 5mo ago
The low bar for human quality makes this a more or less nonsensical endeavour. Trivial edits like introducing deliberate misspellings, common transposes, and an occasional autocorrect candidate breaks the semantic patterns that LLMs are des
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by observationist 5mo ago
The problem has been differing narratives from different sources with different biases, motives, and objectives. The solution is a thorough interrogation of different sources, cross-checking and validating novel claims, using a Bayesian app
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by observationist 5mo ago
Not even sniffing - no special action need be taken, simply looking at the code which they are legally obligated to provide is sufficient. It's like putting up a sign that says "No trespassing, unless you know the secret code word
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by observationist 5mo ago
Crazy people, like Amazon, and Google, and the RNC and DNC think tanks. To maximize the extraction of value from your life, of course. Enjoy the ride.
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by observationist 5mo ago
> Im pretty sure Google wouldn’t intentionally cut marginalized people like this off from the entire internet, would they? Sure they would. Cloudflare has already arbitrarily blocked entire swathes of the internet. Captcha as well. Your
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by observationist 5mo ago
That means you're a peasant, and don't matter. Don't worry, they'll work with telecoms and carriers to ensure devices matching your budget are subsidized and made available at every possible opportunity.
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by observationist 6mo ago
>>> Barring them from leaving the country feels a bit sinister for people who haven't been accused of committing any crimes. This is standard operating procedure for the CCP. They are a truly ruthless, sinister group who have
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by observationist 6mo ago
This is a bizarre take that doesn't account for the impact google has had. Over the last 15 years, Google has steadily and deliberately maximized the commoditization of user data, single handedly driven the adtech industry into an unst
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by observationist 6mo ago
The problem with this idea is that someone can, and likely will, come up with the next best architecture that leapfrogs the current frontier models at least once a year, likely faster, for the foreseeable future. This means by the time you&
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by observationist 6mo ago
Burger chizutsugi needs to be a thing.
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by observationist 6mo ago
Maybe the old man is on to something.
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by observationist 6mo ago
We're teetering on the brink of highly capable software agents that can run on a phone using a local model, that can manage things like basic digital hygiene, operating a self-hosted cloud, with tailscale and other private vpns that ca
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by observationist 6mo ago
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm If it catches engagement, the main firehose feed will show it. They've begun using Grok and AI processes, which is hit and miss, but definitely improving. Having Japanese,
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by observationist 6mo ago
I'm kinda hoping AI agents pass the threshold of being able to reliably do a complete production migration sometime this year. We've got a couple years left on the vmware contract, and it's just obscene what they've done
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by observationist 6mo ago
It's awesome if you mod your own gear, and 3d printing / one off part services are ubiquitous, so if you see something you like online, it's cheap and easy to do little upgrades. More companies should do what they do - the le
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by observationist 6mo ago
It's worth it. The increased participation and discussion have given a little momentum in usability, and AI on hand makes the learning curve very manageable. If you're already familiar with vmware, virtualization in general, it&#x
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by observationist 6mo ago
"Short stories from before the fall"
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by observationist 6mo ago
qntm has a wonderfully strange mind.
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by observationist 6mo ago
That can be a type of mind, though? It can also be a type of interface - a tap into a system not fully understood, controlling the perspective or view but not the process. The whole "mind of god" Deus/Devs, etc - I think it&#

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