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by tivert 2y ago
> If my boss asked me to build the Torment Nexus, I'd resist up to and including quitting. A disappointingly high number of us wouldn't even put up a fight. A big reason for that is most people don't have the "fuck yo
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by tivert 2y ago
> [OpenAI] definitely can't argue that using copyrighted material for training is fine, but using output from other commercial models isn't. That's too inconsistent. Well, they can argue that, if they're fine with
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by tivert 2y ago
> If I said I don’t like Truth Social. But I’m always on it, what does that tell you? Let's not play that game anymore. Be clear. What do you think that's supposed to tell me? Flip your question around: If I said I don’t lik
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by tivert 2y ago
Are you , scarface_74, a US teen? If you are, are you a typical US teen? Because if you aren't, you are probably missing something relevant about being a US teen, if you're thinking they should just do what you do.
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by tivert 2y ago
> There is a revealed preferences of use vs non use. If you, scarface_74, are locked in a cell and fed rotten food, and you choose to eat it instead of starve, it means you like it, right? You've revealed your preference for rott
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by tivert 2y ago
> They have no realistic option than use the social media sites in the link I included? Perhaps. What options do you see, and how do those options meet their requirements? How well do you understand their requirements? IMHO &quot
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by tivert 2y ago
> In economics, there is a concept of “revealed preference”. What's your point? If it's "you teens actually love and trust big tech," I don't think you can make that leap from "revealed preference" da
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by tivert 2y ago
> A lot of jobs are truly meaningless, dull, uninteresting, especially in the office space. If AI lives up to the hype, it will kill most jobs that aren't "meaningless, dull, uninteresting." Shareholders will realize more
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by tivert 2y ago
> I remember a lot of praise for duck "typing" as if it was an innovation, and claims you should just write unit tests to catch type errors. > People kept glossing over the fact that writing typed code would be so much easie
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by tivert 2y ago
> The data we have is 500 years of free markets in the western world and the verdict is overwhelmingly: Yes, more freedom means more winning. No, more freedom means more winning to a point . Past that point it does not, and I'd arg
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by tivert 2y ago
> Hi small comment, please remember in china many things are sponsored by or subsidized by the government. "We[china] can do it for less.." , "it's cheaper in china.." only means the government gave us a pile of
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by tivert 2y ago
> If i asked an LLM explicitly to list the entire Bee Movie script it would probably do it, which means it was trained on it, but that's through a direct and clear request to copy the original verbatim. Huh? The "request"
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by tivert 2y ago
> Facts themselves are not protected by copyright. But don't LLMs encode language, not facts? > If there's no unauthorized reproduction/copying then it's not a copyright issue. I'm pretty sure copyright holder
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by tivert 2y ago
> AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music” in what sounds like yet another justification of Suno’s prompt-based (and very popular) gene
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by tivert 2y ago
> I just don’t understand why they shut them down in the first place. They couldn’t have cost much to keep running. They provide a huge amount of value in the form of free support for their products. What am I missing? Businesses are act
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by tivert 2y ago
I'm looking forward to "If Python Were a GUI."
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by tivert 2y ago
> If you're arguing that voters choose a person who is less qualified, can you explain how Harris is a Nazi? Why? Harris isn't a Nazi. The hypothetical was exaggerated to emphasize a specific point. Don't take it too lit
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by tivert 2y ago
> a voting majority decided that he was the most qualified person for the job. There's your mistake: the technocratic assumption that elections are job interviews selecting for the "most qualified" candidate. That's
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by tivert 2y ago
> On the Operator release blog, OpenAI shows an example where they ask Operator to find the highest rated day tour in Rome on TripAdvisor, and then book it. This seems fairly innocuous and cool, remember how we used to do this? You'
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by tivert 2y ago
> While this behavior may exist in pockets, my experience suggests that this is not broadly the general mental model / approach by executives. I think this is a narrative in some peoples heads, but is neither an accurate reflection
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by tivert 2y ago
> Of course, the repair works had 6,000 people. Who were also experts working full time, with plenty of practice with that specific model , and loads of specialized equipment. vs. a handful of hobbyists.
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by tivert 2y ago
Long ago, I had a 5 character username (first-name + last initial) on a decent sized ISP's email system. Eventually it got a ton of spam, and it was pretty clear a lot of that was from brute forcing emails at the ISP. > This email a
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by tivert 2y ago
> seems to be working fine, people seem to care what Sam Altman says and Elon Musk is making himself deputy emperor of a nuclear weapons state. For the billionaires and chatterers. But even for non-chatterers, you probably should pay att
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by tivert 2y ago
> So f&@@&?@&!& annoying to login to do something and have things moved around for zero benefit, but it really is the icing on the cake when they put a pop-up over the UI declaring the change with pride, which further dis
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by tivert 2y ago
> That, and probably a great deal of what we'd consider rotten meat: Natural human stomach pH is low, like carrion-eating scavenger-low: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid#Comparison_betwee... .
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by tivert 2y ago
> I read "drop-in remote worker" as AGI. You can give it any task and it performs at-or-exceeding human level. The real question to me then becomes the implications for the rest of the economy, not simply a question of what hap
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by tivert 2y ago
> interesting. Why are you required to pay US taxes if you are a resident of India now. The US taxes global income for all residents: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/freq...
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by tivert 2y ago
IANAL, but that sounds like a situation where you need hire an actual immigration attorney.
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by tivert 2y ago
>> The US has nothing similar > this reminds me another brilliant comment: Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Because all the stuff you were reminded of has nothing to do with the kind of "illiberal censorship regime
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by tivert 2y ago
> If you look at the point of a Chinese, the block of Google/Facebook certainly can be justified by "geopolitical adversary has control". The exactly same reasoning of data security and propaganda manipulation can be appli

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