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by otterley 6mo ago
I made clear that some of these were past (and they reverberate still today), and some are present: "America still has or once had " > exaggerating the scale of things that are still present What am I exaggerating, exactly? h
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by otterley 6mo ago
I don't want performative apologetics; I want the still-existing problems to be remediated. I also want my fellow Americans not to deny our history and present reality. Recognition and apology are not identical.
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by otterley 6mo ago
I'm not an apologist for Chinese repression, but America still has or once had slavery, child labor, torture (Abu Ghraib), patent medicine and unsafe food, racist policies that prevent wealth accumulation (redlining), mass pollution, r
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by otterley 6mo ago
I'm sure you were kidding, but seriously, the fact that AI-produced music pretty much all sounds the same is a good indicator that AI isn't particularly creative.
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by otterley 6mo ago
I’m going to stick my neck out a bit and predict that model commoditization will never happen as long as humans keep producing new content and innovation for models to train on. Sure, some open models will be good enough to write software
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by otterley 6mo ago
They stopped producing Inferentia altogether and are only investing in Trainium now. They also announced a partnership with Cerebras not long ago. That should give you a clue. https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/awsco
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by otterley 6mo ago
And what, exactly, is your knowledge based on? I take it you've designed and shipped a working phone that meets IP68 standards for water intrusion?
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by otterley 6mo ago
The iPhone 4 was not water resistant. I remember owning one and being absolutely freaked out about it getting wet. Talk about an expensive paperweight.
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by otterley 6mo ago
There is a bright side, though: At least we’ve stopped talking about crypto.
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by otterley 6mo ago
There is, as you suspect, a carveout: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXV/Cha... (i) ...if there is a discrepancy between the advertised price, the sticker price, the scanner price o
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by otterley 6mo ago
Really? It's at practically every hardware store I've been to (US, things may be different elsewhere).
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by otterley 6mo ago
It’s a reference to a very old SNL sketch called “shimmer”. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/03lLPUYkpYM It probably won’t be up very long but it’s a classic.
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by otterley 6mo ago
Bias and censorship are not identical. The subject of this thread is censorship, not bias. Besides, why do you want a model to produce propaganda? Surely you have better things to do.
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by otterley 6mo ago
You keep saying that word, "censorship." I do not think it means what you think it means. To prove your point, give us a working example of something you literally cannot get a mainstream frontier model to say, no matter how hard
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by otterley 6mo ago
That executive order only applies to Federal procurement. It doesn’t force anything upon vendors for publicly used models. (That order, like many, will probably be rescinded as soon as a Democrat holds the Presidency again.)
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by otterley 6mo ago
> I don't see how that means that they as a country moved away from the goal, it just means there's issues They're further from Communism than they've ever been since the PRC was founded. The gap between rich and poor
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by otterley 6mo ago
The threshold here is "completely refuses to discuss a scientific or political view". Not something less. None of those were refusals, they were prompting for additional focus. I see nothing wrong with that. Perhaps the inconsiste
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by otterley 6mo ago
The one-child policy died a long time ago. Also, the accumulation of wealth by connected politicians and businesspeople flies in the face of what communism is supposed to stand for. There is a reason real estate values in popular cities has
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by otterley 6mo ago
Can you provide a concrete example of a US built model that completely refuses to discuss a scientific or political view? Show us the receipt.
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by otterley 6mo ago
That’s how most operating systems have worked for over two decades. Most OSes support USB devices that present themselves as HID, mass storage, audio, etc. without any dedicated drivers needed. It’s only specialized devices or functionality
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by otterley 6mo ago
A solid article, but missing discussion of XFS and Btrfs. I would have enjoyed the author’s analysis of the former in particular, especially as compared to ext4.
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by otterley 6mo ago
Hey, knock it off. If you disagree with someone, present a substantive counterargument.
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by otterley 6mo ago
It is how (unregulated) markets work, but is this the right outcome? What do you think would happen if this were allowed to play out to its logical extent?
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by otterley 6mo ago
Who is this “theo” person and why are multiple people quoting him? He seems to have little to say that’s substantive at this point.
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by otterley 6mo ago
Those factors are tied together and aren’t easily separable. The racism and classism comes in because they believe that people of a different race or class will diminish the value of their investment.
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by otterley 7mo ago
I think the key question is “when”? In a highly competitive business environment, companies are going to naturally be attracted to the most capable model if it leads to a competitive advantage and the switching costs are low. This suggests
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by otterley 7mo ago
What do you think about the very salient criticisms of your approach that people are discussing here?
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by otterley 7mo ago
What if Mythos didn't need the narrowing harness? That's still the burning question that has yet to be answered. Anthropic suggested very strongly that Mythos did not need it.
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by otterley 7mo ago
These posts read a lot like "I also solved Fermat's last theorem and spent only an hour on it" after reading the solution of Fermat's last theorem. How valuable is that?
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by otterley 7mo ago
I don't think it's anti-LLM bias--or, if it is, it's ironic, because this post smells a lot like it was written by one. (BTW, I don't necessarily think LLMs helping to write is a bad thing, in and of itself. It's wh

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