sanderjd

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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes, everyone in the space has front loaded the concerns about the power of this technology. Dario did not "ask for" singling out by a gangster administration. I probably agree with you about regulatory capture, but just "we
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Maybe. But I disagree in general with "nothing wrong with enjoying the sheer schadenfreude of the situation". Schadenfreude is a description of a common human impulse that is not a good impulse!
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
You can be annoyed by a person or company without wanting the federal government of the United States to grind a personal axe against that person or company. What you're advocating for here is banana republic governance. It's bad.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
The existence of initiatives that did waste money does not demonstrates that all initiatives that don't work out are a waste. I agree with you about facebook's poor decision making.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
The only sense I had was that your comments in this thread were "one of those engineers" type comments. :shrug:
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
And yet, "not like this" is still the correct conclusion to draw with respect to this kind of corrupt political favoritism.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
The movie version will hopefully be more fun. My experience of the rise of Facebook was dull and depressing. But The Social Network is a great film.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
People don't need to update their priors to accept that this is the new way, they need to recognize the reality of the current situation and also its aberrance.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
"puzzled and increasingly concerned" is just journalist speak for "super pissed off".
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Porque no los dos.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes. It's true that the pretext is not entirely without merit. But it's also true that it's a pretext. But in cases like this, the pretext shouldn't be taken too seriously. Because they would have just found another one.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes, correct. Singling out companies based on political beefs and to incentivize everyone to curry favor is the worst way to do regulation.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I mean, yes, correct, literally "not like that" is the complaint. Government arbitrarily picking and choosing what's allowed in order to force everyone to curry favor is very different from an general well-documented regulato
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I would argue that that article describes a demonstrated bypass of one class of Fable's guardrails.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Genuinely, if the policy is that this capability is too dangerous to be in private hands, and thus all "frontier" labs must be publicly owned, that would be a defensible policy (that I would disagree with). But picking and choosin
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
... it isn't? What word would you use for a government policy that controls the behavior of a private company? The word for that kind of policy is "regulation".
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
> Amazon removes guardrails from Fable, getting access to Mythos. This doesn't seem like an accurate description to me. I think something like "Amazon demonstrates a jailbreak of one class of Fable guardrails" would be a
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yeah this is really true. It did seem ahead of its time.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
This seems true to me in theory, but not in practice.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Who's to say it will? :)
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I'm not sure if you're ahead of me or behind me on this curve, but fwiw, my experience has been that we have now encoded everything that is useful in the various markdown files and have reached the point of diminishing returns on
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I'm increasingly convinced of the opposite. IMO Fable was pretty similarly capable for my day to day work as Opus. I think there's a pretty good chance that we've reached the point of diminishing returns, for our specific use
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
The comparison is with Claude Code and codex (and open harnesses like opencode and Pi). IMO they are both better, if you aren't interested in the IDE functionality.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes I understand that. The tendency of engineers to willfully refuse to understand what's going on in their businesses and scoff at the things they are refusing to understand by dismissing them as "overcomplicated" and "
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
It is true that businesses tend to have more money than scientists so the numbers are bigger, but scientists pursue failed experiments that are "waste" in just this same way. "It only got 200 users" is the business versi
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Ah I see the point you're making now. Yes, sometimes (often) businesses make very bad decisions. But that doesn't imply that every project that does not ship was a poor investment of time and resources.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I don't understand why you interpret "we should recognize that it's worth paying for optionality and sometimes we decide not to exercise the option and that's normal and fine" as naval gazing. I think it's the
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
No, optionality very literally has value. If I buy an option to purchase some commodities at some price, and the market moves against me, I lose the price of the option. By your logic here, the thought should be "buying the option was
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I show dead and see both fanboys and critics all the time. Look at my comment history, I feel like I'm constantly arguing from the other side with people who are more fanboy than me and then other people who are more critic than me.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
No. This is like saying "shouldn't scientists figure this out before wasting tons of money running experiments?".

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