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by squidbeak 3mo ago
Russia's meddling is malign. But did Russia send the USA's Vice President to Hungary to campaign on behalf of Viktor Orban?
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by squidbeak 3mo ago
Seeing the word 'cope' lobbed out is usually a sure sign a poster is projecting, and so it is here. What exactly is there in the USA's destruction of the economic norms that have always served it, or in the pointless dumping
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by squidbeak 3mo ago
Europe may face technological and economic challenges, but one thing it isn't suffering is 'an identity' crisis - except in the daydreams of right wing propagandists. The EU's identity is represented in its charter and t
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by squidbeak 3mo ago
It's still clickbait and a good example of how infantile these publications are today. Ars and Nature really should be above all these bullshit headline games, but the fact they aren't explains a large part of their general degrad
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by squidbeak 3mo ago
> but at the same time it can’t be good for society that so much capital is localized with a few people (bezos, musk etc.). Besides the tendency to absolute oligarchy, there's the small matter of wholesale resource consumption and p
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by squidbeak 3mo ago
> Considering how necessary economies are and how economists claim economists are unnecessary to run an economy, I wonder why economists even exist. Biological processes are also 'necessary', and work just as well without biolo
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
Google said June, and all its model updates seem to be on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. So unless the release is slipping, either tomorrow or Tuesday.
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
I've never seen it used that way. Any compliment can be repurposed as sarcasm, but it's obscenely cynical to immediately assume a compliment is sarcastic - instead of just a compliment. And by the way, there's no 'real&#
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
I agree but subscriptions have limits, openrouter's very handy for excess.
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
Be fair - Gemini 3.5 hasn't been released yet. You're talking about Gemini's flash model, but when are flash models ever SOTA?
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
You're on the hook for their work in the way a manager is for their staff's output. The insistence of AI being a mere tool very often comes with this strange desire to be free of responsibility for its work. People seem to forget
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
At IO, google said 3.5 pro would be released this month.
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
This is the denialist Hy-Brasil line of thought. But superintelligence won't be a tool or a toaster and it would be reckless in the extreme for policy makers to adopt your line of thought.
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
> There's issues where bad people with bad intentions use AI to do bad things. But to an extent the guardrails already built-in are sufficient. The real danger in AI is how it impacts society, our economy, and our perception of self
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
Without international treaty and regulation restricting frontier capabilities globally, any attempt to outlaw open source models will only be as effective as King Canute ordering the tide to turn. Unless the USA fancies bombing those who re
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
It depends on how far your own development tasks are beneath the higher levels of complexity and sophistication. The trade-offs for most ordinary developers will be minimal or nothing.
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
I'm interested to hear what architecture and regulations prevent the use of something that is foundational to web develpment and backwards compatible by design? Which also, by the way, comes with the advantage of not incinerating other
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
On top of which, as the article mentions, it delegates simpler tasks to cheaper models.
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
> I think these authors are making a much stronger claim that AI is proficient or even an expert at software engineering. The author specifically says: > I am sure it is not perfect (I only spent an hour working with the results), but
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
That's the point though isn't it? Those readers / maintainers / modifiers won't be developers.
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
GB News has emerged out of the Reform movement, which in turn is the child of UKIP. And there are good grounds to think UKIP was bankrolled in part by Russia. It's covered in part by Carol Cadwallader in the excellent "Sergei and
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
> The question you always have to ask is what problems does it directly solve Most directly, human labour. Labour is always a problem for capital. At a certain level of AI competence, businesses don't need to pay humans to complete
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
> Much like for many the point of chess is that it's played by humans, with truly superhuman AI relegated to a training aid It's much more than just training. Humans use the engines to prepare openings and find promising novelt
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
> Otherwise it would be like Intel and Microsoft had decided in the year 2000 that computers are "good enough" now and we would have explored what's possible with that hardware ever since. I think you've misunderstood
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
They learn between model iterations. You're right, it isn't the same thing as Junior developers' competence improving with experience - the current model's weaknesses are locked in. But it does mean that much of the Juni
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
3 seems the strongest of these arguments. The 'other techs plateaued' argument ignores that this is the first tech ever to convert electricity into thought and agency. There isn't a precedent for AI, and until intelligence st
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
You're arguing that the limits will appear because they usually do. (Correct my paraphrase if this is unfair.) Apart from being blind faith, this argument is oblivious to the fact that capability so far has scaled directly with compute
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by squidbeak 4mo ago
> All of that said, AI is going to directly cause job loss, I’m calling it now. Not as much as the doomsayers predict, but more than most people expect. Unless there is some limit to model development we can't currently foresee, pla
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by squidbeak 5mo ago
Where are these profits coming from? Remember, under full automation there aren't any workers earning salaries. Meanwhile, costs of production fall to zero. So what will there be for these profitable companies to spend their profits on
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by squidbeak 5mo ago
There aren't any profits with full automation - but there is instead total power for whoever owns that automation.

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