olalonde

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by olalonde 3mo ago
Regurgitating existing ideas is not copyright infringement. Reproducing works verbatim is and AI companies already implement guardrails to prevent that.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
I still can’t wrap my head around how transferring all assets from a non-profit foundation to a for-profit company was legal.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
It can do it over 8 hours while you're sleeping though.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956153
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Back then there was no versioning. When you imported a URL, you had to hope that all your projects and transient dependencies happened to be compatible with whatever commit was currently sitting on the master branch. Because one update coul
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Interesting. When I learned Go a while ago, it didn't have a package manager. You just pulled down master branches directly into your global GOPATH. So pulling in a dependency was a big decision and people naturally favored "batte
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by olalonde 3mo ago
I'd say ease of package management. You can see this with Python too.
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking(hermit-tech.com)
10 points by olalonde 3mo ago|0 comments
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by olalonde 3mo ago
It depends what you mean by "technology" but if you include hypothetical milestones like AGI/ASI, it is the last technology we need to invent.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
I thought that's what it was going to be when I read the submission title. But like the other methods of obfuscation, it only works until the model learns about it.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
Unauthorized credit card transactions. Adult content, for example, is known to have a high chargeback rates.
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Lingbot-map: A 3D foundation model for reconstructing scenes from streaming data(github.com)
26 points by olalonde 3mo ago|1 comments
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Would a Stanford Taurus Actually Work?(old.reddit.com)
2 points by olalonde 3mo ago|0 comments
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by olalonde 3mo ago
You said it was about morality, so it was not clear you knew it was actually about risk. Each payment company has to set their own policies because regulations tend to be (intentionally) vague and not all companies have the same risk tolera
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by olalonde 3mo ago
It has nothing to do with morality. It has to do with compliance and fraud risk.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
> Don't forget that part about understanding and being responsible. It's important. Shouldn't open-source projects like Linux operate under the assumption that contributors might immediately disappear?
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by olalonde 3mo ago
What is Linux with agent support?
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by olalonde 3mo ago
They play better with statically typed languages, not compiled ones in particular. Rust's typing is stricter than Typescript though so that probably helps.
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by olalonde 3mo ago
There's an important difference between "knowing" and "believing".
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China tests sea-based rocket booster recovery system(reuters.com)
3 points by olalonde 3mo ago|0 comments
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by olalonde 4mo ago
I second. I live right above a shopping mall and next to Dongmen, which is easily one of the largest shopping areas in the world, yet I still end up ordering most things online.
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by olalonde 4mo ago
True, but we know Opus is more like a "spear" and a progressive enhancement over it still leaves us firmly in the "spear" category, not the "nuke" category. Drawing lines makes sense, but this is premature. Eve
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by olalonde 4mo ago
Milton Friedman was prescient on this: > The two biggest enemies of the free market are two separate groups: my academic colleagues and business people. Business people are enemies of free markets, not friends. > [...] > The busine
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by olalonde 4mo ago
It feels the U.S. is moving closer to a textbook definition of crony capitalism. Really sad but unsurprising with the current administration.
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by olalonde 4mo ago
Why would global talent and capital migrate to go to a country with greater regulatory barriers? Why would "some models are illegal to use here" be a selling point for the US?
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by olalonde 4mo ago
China didn't even blanket ban them. They established laws that Internet companies have to follow and most U.S. tech companies refused to comply. Some did (e.g. Bing) and aren't banned.
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by olalonde 4mo ago
You think the US can tell the rest of the world "we're the only ones allowed to use frontier models" and that the rest of the world will just comply? There's just no way. Not even close US allies would go along with that
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by olalonde 4mo ago
> given all the negative externalities that are becoming apparent What specific externalities are you referring to? The only I can think of is high electricity usage, but consuming energy isn't an externality in itself. It depends e
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by olalonde 4mo ago
Brilliant strategy if the goal is to make sure the next major breakthrough happens anywhere but in the US.
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by olalonde 4mo ago
I doubt inference costs will scale up significantly, but even if they do, it simply strengthens the strategic case for Apple's focus on local inference.

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