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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Yes, that is pretty much VC enterprenour philosophy in nutshell. It's time we all admit the VCs are the best people, and we're just worthless in comparison. Anyone with any value at all is an investor or a founder. No one els
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> I think universities should focus on academic studies, not as a pipeline to YC. No, they should focus on providing investors the resources they want to get richer. Investors are the only people who matter in the world. Academic studies
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> If only you were able to take your perspective one step farther. Why did he commit suicide? If I get dumped and I commit suicide because of it, does that mean I was "executed by proxy" by my girlfriend/boyfriend? "E
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> If China has technological superiority to the US in every facet of science and engineering, is that really good for us though? I'm too stupid or too mad a Trump to care.
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>> 1. As a practical matter, no one can audit systems so thoroughly to determine a system built by an adversary won't act adversarially. > Can we audit American corporations? What's your point? Did you even read what I wr
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> Sounds like a loser diatribe. Nobody asked your country to do anything with China. Was your government's and corporations choice and yes they had to pay for the privilege of cheap labor and later for advanced manufacturing capacit
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> China is not a threat to the daily life of individual Americans in the way Russia has always presented a threat to Ukrainians. My whole point is that looking at it from the perspective of the "daily life of individual Americans&qu
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> You'd probably have to go back to Leonid Kuchma's term to find average Ukrainians not profoundly concerned about Russia, and that was a relative high point. You're being too literal. I'm sure Ukrainians weren't
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> 3. China was not stupid enough to rely solely on the free market to develop strategic industries. A few deliberately old sources: Yeah, I agree. The US and its allies took the wrong lessons from the economic aspect of the cold war. The
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> Also, who decides which entities are adversaries? I don't personally consider "China" my adversary. As an American who has to deal with US companies, many of them are far more antagonistic to me than a foreign country 10
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> I can feel the scores of messages being sent to the federal government from lobbyists saying what a threat Chinese hardware is to national security. The motivation for such messages may be greedy, but it doesn't mean the facts are
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> Depends on the distribution of bodies, which ones you focus on, and your attitudes to beauty in general. Seeing a bunch of normal things doesn't magically make those normal things all suddenly beautiful or okay, beauty and aesthet
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And some idiots actually want to live in a cyberpunk dystopia (some dude literally said to me one he would "do anything he could to bring it about"), because they were so enamored with the tech the dystopia part flew over their he
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> Whenever I need something from Google Books I inevitably reach the message that this is a limited preview and the part I need is not included. > I therefore feel the same way about Google Books that how I felt when I learned that Wh
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> Did it work for non-cryptographic DRM? (Broadcast flag, Macrovision, deliberately miswritten floppy sectors, port dongles, physical manual challenge-response...) Yes? Did those measures stop piracy completely? No. Did they raise the co
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> Because the effect of the technological measures is an arms race; presumably, universally so. It's a net negative. The article captures the principle in a nutshell. It's not that simple. What you say may be true, but the reas
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Step 3: PROFIT!!! (for Anthropic and OpenAI)
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> The fact that companies with access to SOTA non-public AI keep having these kinds of dumb bugs in something as simple as a chat app helps validate my disbelief of people claiming AI is ready to replace all software development. Except
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Why not both? Better that than putting all eggs in one basket.
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> The public posts and discussions being had about this subject are already informing AI companies on how to train their multimodal models to get around these obfuscations, most of which have already been broken. I'd argue every new
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> ...if you (still) think Trump is the right man for the job, then you are either a criminal or other subversive agent, a glassy-eyed cultist, or stupid. No. I personally don't like Trump, and looking forward to the day he's go
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> ...some of our customers were 3-letter govt agencies. We'd get support requests / bug reports with almost no details from random aol.com addresses. It was bizarre. You'd think they could at least setup a front company at
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> The baked in communication style of these models is so obnoxious it's impacting my work. The best way I can describe it is that everything is optimized to impress the user and make the agent sound more authoritative, but the way t
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>> No, the point is the logic of your initial dismissal was asinine > See? You think people who disagree with you are stupid! No. What I wrote was your "argument" was asinine. Read it again. However, the pattern of your r
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> The gotcha here is that I must hate politics that address the destruction of the planet so i am self-destructive. But you seem reluctant to ascribe working brain cells to people you disagree with, so your gotcha is worded to get a dumm
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> Have you seen pictures of Los Angeles from space? It's a grey speck. I grew up in the smog layer, let me tell you it was disgusting and I'm sure it gave me respiratory disease. But from space, the smog blowing off every day l
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> BUT , we've been building huge data centers for decades and they are minuscule compared to the size of the earth. Come on. That's a misleading way to minimize anything you don't want to deal with . What's the big
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> I have a hunch what this is for. AI companies want to make bigger inroads into nontechnical work settings. But LLM progress outside of fields where verifiable rewards for RL post-training can be synthetically generated (coding, math) h
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> Donald Trump still maintains a 39% approval rating among the electorate. It turns out that a lot of people are indeed quite stupid. No. It's partisanship and polarization, which has little to do with intelligence. But there's
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> AI is awesome as a consumer. You can just build whatever bespoke thing you want. It can walk you through a myriad of home improvement projects. I hear AI is especially awesome in domains you personally don't understand.

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