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by p-e-w 5d ago
> 8 billion people matter I doubt that even 8,000 people “matter” in the sense of having meaningful power.
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by p-e-w 5d ago
At this point, I suspect that comments like this one are part of an astroturfing campaign by the ruling class. It’s the same bullshit as “we could stop climate change if only we bothered to bring cloth bags to the store instead of picking u
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by p-e-w 5d ago
Heretic author here. Those are the standard metrics used in the relevant literature, including in the paper that originally introduced directional ablation. KLD is also the standard metric for evaluating quality degradation in model quants.
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by p-e-w 5d ago
AI does NOT “brute-force”, else we could have had those math breakthroughs decades ago. Seeing this dishonest goalpost-moving every few months is so tiring.
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by p-e-w 5d ago
> And some studios will go that route. All of them will. It can save nearly 100% of costs for art production. Nobody can afford not to use it, unless they aren’t developing the game to make a profit. > Although I don't see AI in
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by p-e-w 6d ago
I am, in fact, I’m offering something much better, a compact format that exactly restores an abliterated model from a tiny JSON file: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/iksvmXBzuC
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by p-e-w 6d ago
A desktop is many things to many people, some of which use computers very differently from how engineers use them. If a desktop was only a tool, background images, Xeyes, theming, and many other standard features wouldn’t exist. There are n
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by p-e-w 6d ago
There have certainly been huge changes regarding the handling of political topics. Such topics used to be an anathema in general, and then three years ago, there were four posts about the Palestine conflict on the front page for many hour
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by p-e-w 8d ago
Presumably the repo was force-pushed (breaking all clones and forks in the process).
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by p-e-w 9d ago
Not really. The answer is completely obvious: Take over and destroy the digital infrastructure that humans have spent the past 30 years connecting every aspect of civilization to. Good luck ordering supplies for a hospital or grocery store
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by p-e-w 9d ago
What can one actually do with Servo today? It’s apparently still not ready to be used as a browser engine (and may never be), so what exactly is it for?
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by p-e-w 10d ago
> but isn't it nice to have a society where at least some people can enjoy their work? That’s an interesting question. I thought about it for a minute and was surprised that I came to the conclusion that the answer isn’t obviously “
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by p-e-w 12d ago
There are also various metaphysical theories that posit that the universe is algorithmically generated in some sense or the other, and from many of those theories it follows that simplicity is a fundamental feature of reality, which yields
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by p-e-w 12d ago
Unless it involves LLMs of course, in which case it’s fine to state 200 times per day that it is “obvious” that they can’t possibly do X.
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by p-e-w 14d ago
The comment was about harm . Mens rea is about guilt. “No harm, no foul” is completely and utterly false as a general rule in criminal law.
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by p-e-w 14d ago
> No harm, no foul. What? That’s not how criminal law works, at all.
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by p-e-w 15d ago
> This line of reasoning doesn't hold up for many harmful habits that people voluntarily partake in. It absolutely does, you just believe you can decide for others what’s harmful for them.
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by p-e-w 15d ago
Tens of millions of people disagree with you. What makes you think you know better than them what is right for them?
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by p-e-w 15d ago
Decent physicians do the same: “And the next time you feel your heart going out of rhythm, just hold your breath, and remember I will see you again a couple of weeks from now.” Ah wait, no they don’t, because “resilience” is a worthless con
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by p-e-w 15d ago
Then you probably believe that the US government only consists of the half dozen clowns you see on TV every day.
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by p-e-w 16d ago
> But, once you've exhausted those human stories, it's like wandering around a few billion abandoned malls. Interesting the first few times, but grows boring pretty fast. Ironically, that’s how I always imagined actual space
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by p-e-w 17d ago
> You try to build a mental model of this mystery person from a mysterious time I’ve read many ancient texts with great delight, and not once have I tried to “build a mental model” of their authors. It’s a dimension of literary analysis
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by p-e-w 17d ago
> By “police state” people generally mean one where day to day behavior, speech, and thought are tightly controlled by the government. That describes most Western countries today.
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by p-e-w 17d ago
> The value of the emotion it elicits is much lower than knowing the person who wrote it or in what historical or social background they did so. Then the value of many ancient texts must be close to zero, because we often know nothing ab
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by p-e-w 17d ago
> And very little ability for anyone or any group of people from any walk of life to resist getting screwed by the government if the government chooses to screw them. There isn’t, and has never been, a nation in human history where regul
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by p-e-w 17d ago
The funny thing is that countries commonly called “police states” aren’t, while countries not thought of as such are. Most Western countries have 2-3 times as many police officers per capita as China and Russia. Many people in China have ha
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by p-e-w 17d ago
> Don't be silly, only our high priests can. A strange framing, given that a gaming PC can now run models that absolutely crush frontier models from 18 months ago. You can do whatever you want with those, and 2 years from now, you’l
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by p-e-w 17d ago
> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery Because people desire owning ancient pottery and are therefore willing to pay for it.
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by p-e-w 17d ago
> Well, we name conjectures after the conjecturer not the (dis)prover That’s not universally true. Some conjectures are renamed after being proven. For example, Fermat’s Last Theorem is now sometimes called the Fermat-Wiles Theorem, the
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by p-e-w 18d ago
Sure. But a government agency has secretly rebuilt all the same infrastructure without Python, on a shoestring budget compared to what Big Tech is spending, yet it’s a lot more efficient than what they use, right?

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