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by rich_sasha 7d ago
If the latest AI swarm from OAI decided to astroturf HN, we probably would struggle to know. It seems easy relative to coordinating a massive hack of Hugging Face. So I half stopped paying attention to enthusiastic posts and comments about
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by rich_sasha 7d ago
I get that it’s a joke, since onion futures are illegal. But isn’t trading all futures regulated?
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by rich_sasha 8d ago
Yeah, distilled, hosted by OpenAI and charged for. And don’t you try reverse engineer what they did! If this was all open, I’d maybe half agree.
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by rich_sasha 8d ago
It’s not that different to the US helping itself to indigenous peoples’ lands in North America, decimating them with smallpox and alcohol, then generously offering reservations. At least it’s consistent, is what I’m saying.
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by rich_sasha 9d ago
Perhaps they want to have their cake and eat it. Now that they are too big to be cancelled, they can both say "wooah so dangerous, don’t keep us accountable!”. And, well, keep doing what they’re doing…
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by rich_sasha 9d ago
It’s not entirely true. There’s plenty more levers on economy and inflation. This is the main one that central banks have. For the elephant in the room, the current inflation woes are caused by oil price increase, which is a direct outcom
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
EU budget is actually quite small - about 1% of GDP. That’s very small compared to EU members states national budgets, which sit at around 35% of GDP, apparently. Canadian federal government apparently spends 18-20% of Canadas GDP, topped u
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
It’s not a pretty competition, but I’m pretty sure Russia "wins" vs Finland in number of deliberate civilian deaths over any time period.
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
Soon, Canada might overtake Finland in having the longest NATO border with a hostile country…
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
Dunno. My impression is that with the EU, we pick its suboptimal parts and compare them to what they could be with optimal execution. We don’t look either at the successful parts, not at the world where it is wholesale gone. My gut feeling
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
It’s effectively the same as what I mean - or a part of it. You fix this with either better "alignment” (ugh!) ie conviction of going in a particular direction, leading to a consensus. Or in turn, a conviction that the veto is bad and
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
The EU is an ongoing experiment as well. Europe’s biggest problem, I think, is its lost mojo. There’s plenty of good ingredients, plenty of challenges too. It can still go either way. Hell, at this rate it might outperform simply because US
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by rich_sasha 12d ago
I wonder what legal gymnastics are needed for "I can scrape anything off the web ignoring copyright and build a product from this, but you can’t even display what’s on my webpage elsewhere”. Perhaps that is it in fact. The act of pro
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by rich_sasha 13d ago
Inflation isn’t making anything go up faster than inflation though!
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by rich_sasha 16d ago
Haha. I am 100% these companies will ignore this if they choose to. Just as they played fast and loose with copyright rules. They would do it, the say “ah sorry chaps, impossible to extract it from the dataset by now, anyway we anonymized i
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by rich_sasha 18d ago
I think Europe was at risk of being left without even a foot in the door. Mistral os one of few such feet. Just having some compute and know how for running Chinese models is better than nothing. Low bar I know but still. Who knows what R&a
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by rich_sasha 18d ago
An increasing pattern is Russia paying local thugs / simpletons small money to do this kind of stuff. Not necessarily introducing themselves as Russians. There’s well documented cases in the UK and Poland. In this case it looks like mo
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by rich_sasha 19d ago
Eh dunno. My impression is that from the PoV of his notional bosses - Meta shareholders - he’s doing everything ”right”. Revenue up, addiction/recurring revenue stable, keeping fines low. I’d be happy to see Meta gone altogether, but u
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by rich_sasha 19d ago
Id happily pay for a polished, commercial Linux distro, and I’d imagine governments will do too - either outsourced or with an internal team of civil servant sysadmins.
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by rich_sasha 19d ago
I suppose it depends. I’ve seen MSFT platforms supported very well and very poorly - with all the things you mention present but permanently broken. I’ve only seen Linux well supported, though ofc that could well be the luck of my draw. But
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by rich_sasha 19d ago
The average person walking into these shops has never heard of Linux. If, as I would hope, they find out about it and like it, they’ll ask. Then either the shops assortment will be improved, or as sibling comment says, they’ll look online.
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by rich_sasha 19d ago
The real risk to MS here is when people take the plunge and see how much nicer a (well supported, well put together) Linux distro is, compared to Windows etc! Will they want to buy their next laptop at home with MSFT installed? Plus, if cou
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by rich_sasha 22d ago
To me this is really getting past the funny bit. How many agents here on HN? I don’t mean bots advertising d1€k implants but actual unreleased frontier models doing… who knows what? What are they saying? What did they agree to astroturf us
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by rich_sasha 23d ago
That’s one of the tragedies of AI to me. I fear that apart from everything else, it will make us collectively stupid and lazy. I see this everywhere, with people seemingly losing the ability to use the tiniest amount of intellect or mental
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by rich_sasha 23d ago
If you’re inclined to wear a tinfoil hat: Germany had a really hard time repatriating their own gold (hmm) from the US, with the Americans reportedly putting every possible obstacle in their way to slow them down. Even inspecting the gold t
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by rich_sasha 24d ago
Not at all. US already holds most of financial world hostage. Financial firms all over the world are invited to opt in to provide information on assets held by US citizens. Many a non-US citizen have been baffled when opening accounts away
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by rich_sasha 24d ago
US will just sanction Italy and/or ECHR. They already sanctioned ICC iirc. I’m not saying it’s good or that you shouldn’t fight back, only it’s like looking for a court ruling when your neighbour is invading you. They’ll invade you wit
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A small island in Canada appeared, vanished, and was found again(bbc.com)
4 points by rich_sasha 25d ago|1 comments
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by rich_sasha 25d ago
Original full title: “How a small island in Canada appeared, vanished, and was found again”
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by rich_sasha 26d ago
Then compound it with the agents presumably also training new models. What will GPT6 say when you point it at a transcript of an agent uprising? “Nah, nothing to see here” presumably.

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