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by pembrook 11mo ago
If the models from the big US labs are being overfit to benchmarks, than we also need to account for HN commenters overfitting positive evaluations to Chinese or European models based on their political biases (US big tech = default bad, an
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by pembrook 11mo ago
It absolutely does, and the fact that now 2 marxists (which I can see from your comment history) have a total inability to offer any actual rebuttal, does not surprise me.
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Because within a few decades this would literally turn the Netherlands into the USSR. Compounding, but in reverse, away from individuals and into the inefficient state to manage and run all businesses. I know we have a lot of communists in
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by pembrook 11mo ago
Sometimes we have to place our hand on the stove to learn why we shouldn’t place our hand on the stove. There’s a bizarre silliness to implementing this compared the relative ease of just increasing capital gains taxes (accrued capital gain
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by pembrook 11mo ago
Yes, he did, and it was fundamental to his entire economic philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
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by pembrook 11mo ago
I call this the "Karl Marx Fallacy." It assumes a static basket of human wants and needs over time, leading to the conclusion competition will inevitably erode all profit and lead to market collapse. It ignores the reality of huma
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by pembrook 11mo ago
If you're talking emergency medicine and old age care, yes, it's not able to function as a market. Hence why the US already has government healthcare that covers almost half the population (Medicaid and Medicare cover the old, you
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by pembrook 11mo ago
I prefer the profit motive over the authoritarian "altruist" motive. Pessimists before ads: OpenAI is a bubble fueled by dumb money waiting to pop, they'll never be profitable! Pessimists after ads: Ok it's not a bubb
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by pembrook 11mo ago
Ah, you again! I see you’ve looked up all my comments to respond with vitriol to all of them. Doesn’t help to undermine my point that this has become a topic of religious dogma here. No, I am not selling user data, nor is the vast vast majo
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by pembrook 11mo ago
The current internet zeitgeist is ironically anti-tech and pro AI doomer communism. Patent trolls hurt tech so thats now a good thing on new HN (now filled with normies like most tech companies these days). The enemy of my enemy is my frien
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by pembrook 11mo ago
Literally everything. The fundamental issue is the EU doesn't like that US intelligence agencies have the ability to subpoena any server associated with US firms or companies that use US firms. However, the vast majority of the entire
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by pembrook 11mo ago
I would call this the religious zeal response, it's been parroted so many times here that it's become fact, even though this is false. The full text of GDPR is 261 pages long with 99 articles and 173 recitals. Here's a conden
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by pembrook 11mo ago
I get it, it's fun to take wildly impractical ideological stances on things and ignore reality. However, this generation is beginning to learn the lesson every generation learns: one has to deal with the world as it is, not as one wish
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by pembrook 11mo ago
Unfortunately politics has become the religion of modernity. Nuance and sober analysis like you've suggested do not mix well with religious dogma. It's much easier for people to react emotionally to symbols. For many here, 'G
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by pembrook 11mo ago
Ughhh here we go again. Every time GDPR is brought up on HN, the same "it's super simple to comply, just read it yourself!" religious incantation gets repeated ad-nauseam. I think it's because people love the idea of wha
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by pembrook 11mo ago
The number of laws/rules added vs. removed in any given year is like 100:1. New rules lead to profitable business opportunities (and future lobbies), incumbents get to entrench their positions using the new rules, and people get stockh
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by pembrook 11mo ago
As of 2024 it was actually 50% last I saw. This trend is increasing across the whole continent and it's extremely bleak. The only growth sector in all of Europe is government spending. Aging populations mean social outlays are increasi
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by pembrook 1y ago
In attacks on software systems specifically though, I always find this aggressive stance toward the victimized business odd, especially when otherwise reasonable security standards have been met. You simply cannot plug all holes. As AI tool
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by pembrook 1y ago
The problem isn't that a news site is monetizing with a paywall. Totally fine, monetize how you want! The problem is that prominent news orgs have lobbied governments all over the world to threaten google, apple, etc. for preferential
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by pembrook 1y ago
> slippery slope dangerous thinking > If I am eating a delicious meal but the people preparing it had a miserable time, or it was prepared entirely by robots controlled by nefarious people using the profits to harm society, I don’t
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by pembrook 1y ago
I’d start by not setting them up a Linux computer. In both school and work it’s overwhelmingly likely they will either be asked to do things in MacOS or Windows only. Make sure they’re proficient there first. Linux as a personal OS, regar
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by pembrook 1y ago
When appealing to the authority of academic studies, it's very important to be aware of the replication crisis for studies in the field of Psychology specifically, which is one of the worst offenders. Reproducibility has been found to
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by pembrook 1y ago
You can argue this, but if you hand over this authority to government, it will not be up to you. Fundamentally this is an upvote driven social media platform no different from Reddit, which everyone agrees is social media. If you live in De
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by pembrook 1y ago
Lots of bending over backwards and appeals to authority to rationalize an emotional feeling of "This time is different." Again, every generation thinks that. This time might be different. But it's probably not.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Bans that don't make sense at an individual level do not suddenly make sense at a community level. This is terrible "we'll make it up on volume" logic. It's also the justification used for some of the dumbest laws i
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by pembrook 1y ago
Denmark's government has authoritarian aims and are one of the primary groups pushing chat control in the EU. I think you are falling for the "think of the children..." fallacy here. This is a stepping stone towards further c
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by pembrook 1y ago
> The U.K. and European Union joined China, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and dozens of other nations in signing the convention...Human rights groups warned on Friday that it effectively forces member states to create a broad electronic surve
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by pembrook 1y ago
I live in Finland, ChatGPT is great at Finnish and far better at it than EuroLLM. EuroLLM doesn't even beat the open source Gemma 2, and Gemma 3 is already out.
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by pembrook 1y ago
All the models from all the big providers (even the Chinese models!) support all of these languages already. The big win for accessibility has already been won...3 years ago.
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by pembrook 1y ago
If it's publicly available data, books and research, I can assure you the big models have already all been trained on it. European culture is already embedded in all the models, unless the people involved in this project have some hidd

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