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by pradn 3y ago
The people who use these open models are doing it because they find them useful. That's already plenty of benefit for them. The "ecosystem play" of benefiting from volunteers' mods to open models is certainly a benefit f
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How is this a problem? So many companies have been founded around premium versions of open-source products. It's good that they've even given us as much as they have. They have to make the economics work somehow.
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> It is also really unfortunate that in the west we miss out on tons of fungi based foods (not talking about anything psychedelic here) as many mushrooms contain tons of prebiotic fiber like substances that feed the probiotics already fo
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All my life, I thought "sadism" had to do with the word "sad"!
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saxophone - Adolphe Sax sadism - the Marquis de Sade masochism - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Bias is a real problem, but more than that - an adversarial press and public won't forgive massive brands like Google for making AIs that spit out racist answers.
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Many academics lean left, but some of the biggest academic impacts on the real world came from conservatives. The Chicago-school economists were behind the Neoliberal turn -- directly causing the overthrow of Allende, the market shocks afte
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by pradn 3y ago
Oh sure, for "low end" applications, even this wave of generative AI is going to pull the rug under artists. I'm talking about, say, art for video games and actual movies.
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by pradn 3y ago
The line between delusional and visionary is thin! I know I'm too grounded in "expected value" math to do super outlier stuff like starting a video game company...
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It's impressive, but I think it's still in the same category as even the best LLMs: the demos look good and they can be quite useful, but you can never quite trust them. You really can't just have an LLM write a whole report
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by pradn 3y ago
Yes, explicitly! There are these things called "moral rights". "The moral rights include the right of attribution, the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, and the right to the integrity of the work.
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If I had a cupcake shop, someone came in to buy a cupcake, and then immediately threw it on the floor - I'd be aghast. Regular people take pride in their work. Market abstractions of "it's yours now" don't approxima
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I dig your optimism!
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This is again "slippery slope" thinking. Just because it's possible to go to an extreme - and this is possible in everything humans do - that doesn't mean we don't go somewhere along the line. We have laws to ban po
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by pradn 3y ago
Why does someone have to demarcate exactly where "the line" is to make a judgement on this situation? You can simply ask yourself "do I want to live in a world where this happens" - and any decent person would say "
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It's clearly a bad deal for Australians, who now pay higher gas prices, but not for international importers, who probably pay less because of increased competition. Higher gas prices is good for fighting climate change - it makes renew
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by pradn 3y ago
This is exactly the sort of artifact you expect a wizard to have floating above their hand on a fantasy pulp's cover, circa 1955.
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Publishers already get micropayments from you when you visit their site - just not from you directly, but from advertisers. The same incentives for click-bait and low-quality journalism will exist in a world with reader-driven micropayments
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by pradn 3y ago
This problem exists with all shared code. Shared code, shared fate. You hope that with more eyes on a library, it'll be more secure. It may also mean vulnerabilities have a higher blast radius. You have to choose where you want to lie
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by pradn 3y ago
The general shift to infrastructure-as-code is tied to a number of new trends and requirements: 1) Code review (config code can be reviewed by humans) 2) Automated pre-submit checks (config code can passed through automated pre-submit check
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by pradn 3y ago
Did they have samosas from Ken’s at grad tea time back then? :)
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It’s not novel so much as an invitation to do the same.
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by pradn 3y ago
The reading experience on print is infinitely better, just because it’s not tied to an electronic device. It’s too easy to be distracted on a phone or even an e-reader. Every magazine, no matter how good the quality, has annoyances on their
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by pradn 3y ago
This is just like FAANG where they forget to include a major player like Microsoft. (Maybe it was legacy before Satya, but Azure and AI have brought it back to the front.)
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It's a mixed bag. Only sheer scale allowed Apple to pour in a huge amount of money into their M chips, probably the most important consumer-facing innovation on desktops in the past 5 years.
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Google has as good a track record as anyone else for not shutting down Cloud services. Consumer services are a different category of product.
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Europe isn't good at building massive tech companies. But its hard to say Europe is not a leader in scientific and technological innovation. Just in tech, Europe developed ARM chips, ASML lithography machines, and DeepMind's AI br
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by pradn 3y ago
Yes, should have local models in addition to remote models. Remote ones are always going to be more capable, and we shouldn't throw that away. Augmentation is orthogonal - you can augment either of these with your own data.
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But Steam updates happen in the background! It's pretty rare for me to be waiting for an update.
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I'll bite - I've yet to see a big difference between 300mbps and 1GBps speeds. It's completely marginal. Being able to save 8 minutes downloading Fortnite isn't a big enough deal. For video calling, you're limited b

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