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by spacebanana7 6d ago
Local machines are a sunk cost, so using them is effectively free. Why would you pay a cloud host to run a model that can happily work on your MacBook?
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by spacebanana7 6d ago
There is a coherent argument that once LLMs reach the top of their S curve, the gap between small/medium local models and large cloud hosted ones converges. Especially if GPU performance increases or market oversupply mean you can get
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by spacebanana7 6d ago
It’s already fairly realistic to get 2022 era frontier models running on prosumer hardware, which is pretty good for freedom.
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by spacebanana7 8d ago
Strategic industries generally get subsidised/free power. Perhaps more than the price advantage is the prioritisation in grid infrastructure. As a strategic industrial concern in China you almost certainly get easy access to transforme
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by spacebanana7 8d ago
Assuming paper maps were the only alternative - absolutely yes. I probably would, and least on a pro rata basis for bigger weekend trips in unfamiliar areas.
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by spacebanana7 8d ago
I believe in general flash models prioritise speed, ultra/pro/omni do more slow reasoning to the effect of sometimes better intelligence, and lite models prioritise cost.
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by spacebanana7 9d ago
Taxing capital assets by taking large portions of their value destroys value by forcing liquidity events. Think forcing sales of farms, factories and domain names. I much prefer land value taxes (and similar taxes on non capital wealth like
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by spacebanana7 12d ago
That depends on your threat model. Realistically intelligence agencies aren’t too interested in my grandma, but malware/scams/bloatware absolutely are.
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by spacebanana7 16d ago
Ideally it’d be linked to public key on a DNS txt record or similar, and trustworthy clients (including social media apps) show the domain linked to the photo.
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by spacebanana7 17d ago
And even then the price of the phone ex memory is staying stable. Even Apple can’t eat hundreds of dollars in extra cost per phone in competition with AI memory consumption.
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by spacebanana7 17d ago
The weakness of this is that a person can take a picture of a high resolution screen or print. We really need Apple to open up true depth APIs to make forgery non trivial.
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by spacebanana7 18d ago
What about the Chinese clouds? It’s hard to imagine Alibaba etc being cooperative with western intelligence
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by spacebanana7 24d ago
I suspect Gemini doesn’t focus that much on coding, at least compared to frontier labs. It’s not part of Gemini’s core business case. Gemini’s integration with maps and search is more important for Google.
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by spacebanana7 27d ago
Tolkien did the human creative work - I just want a movie adaptation that’s as honest to the original text as possible. Think translating the text into video.
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by spacebanana7 27d ago
> Have you seriously considered solving it? Sort of, but I want it to be relatively low on human effort. I feel burned by spending lots of time in 2023 learning image generation pipelines (using control net etc) only for that to be rende
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by spacebanana7 28d ago
I want to be able to generate my own Simlilirian movie by dumping the content of a book into an LLM. Both animated and live action results would be acceptable. Unfortunately most existing LLMs lack the capability to maintain context across
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by spacebanana7 1mo ago
Thanks for sharing - I get the concerns people have raised in those threads, however I still feel something in this space could be useful. Even a duress PIN which triggers predefined deletion of certain folders, messages and apps could redu
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by spacebanana7 1mo ago
I wonder whether it'd be better for a duress PIN to delete existing data and also create a semi plausible artificial profile to hide the deletion event.
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by spacebanana7 1mo ago
It's reasonable to say that current or near future AI can find novel mathematical results and develop applications from those. The idea of AI stepping from a graph theory/combinatorics innovation to some new and useful algorithm i
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
Twitter's first mover advantage meant that it was the first place analogue celebs/politicians/etc went to share content with the general public. Much of this has eroded over the years because of competitive platforms like Ins
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
In an enterprise setting Chinese models are often discouraged due to political risk. They don't want to need to remove a model that's deeply embedded in their stack. And it's entirely feasible that the US gov bans federal con
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
“Our deployments are intelligence-led and focused on identifying people wanted by the police or courts, including those suspected of serious offences and those who may be breaching bail conditions or court orders” This is crazy. Could easil
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
Exactly- owning one home is actually the neutral position. Renters are persistently taking a short position on real estate and landlords/multiple owners are effectively long.
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
In the UK at least there’s significant tax advantages to home ownership compared to renting. Easily 30-50% of the money you pay in rent is immediately burned in tax/letting agent fees that don’t happen to a homeowner who “is their own
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
The negative metric is more important - if you can cut staff costs by 20% with only 5% reduction in revenue/innovation that’s a win from an investor’s perspective.
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
> They discuss the changes as the team are doing them (software design and architecture) I find the format of PRs to be better suited to discussion than slack/teams messages. Key developers need to actively sign off, code suggestion
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
Rome lost loads of soldiers in the Germanic wars too. The parallel is that these wars are too expensive (for a non-existential conflict) to take to fulfilment, but also can't easily be disengaged from.
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
From Ukraine's perspective it's existential for sure. Russia however, just revises its objectives every few months according to how well/badly its prospects on the battlefield are looking.
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
The “special military operation” euphemism that both the US/Russia used in Iran/Ukraine does have a degree of truth. These wars are really military engagements with directional objectives rather than truly existential wars with bi
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by spacebanana7 2mo ago
This makes stripe more valuable. No company on the web wants to manage dozens of local payment methods with slightly different rules and possible local bank account requirements. Stripe is a much stronger company when they're able to a

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