turtletontine

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by turtletontine 18d ago
If by “we” you mean “experts and professionals outside the US”, I think the short answer is they’re not talking to you here. They’re trying to secure regulatory capture in the US, and monopolize their hold on US corporations. To the extent
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by turtletontine 18d ago
… and on the other hand, it feels like everything I use has become way buggier and unstable in a similar time frame. Websites, apps, iOS, the only exception is offline open source tools which run locally. (And to be fair, many of those have
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by turtletontine 2mo ago
Tl;dr the argument is if three letter agencies can’t buy or make exploits anymore because all vulnerabilities are patched, they will ramp up legal and legislative pressure to make vendors install backdoors. Which is bad and we should all wo
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by turtletontine 2mo ago
This is foolish for several reasons. It’s an undue burden on authors to make them download and upload potentially a gigabyte of files (or more) from many different sources. It is also likely a copyright violation for many or the sources. Th
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by turtletontine 2mo ago
> I can imagine in 2027 academia looking like Moltbook. This is certainly “directionally correct”, but keep in mind this is all highly uneven across fields and subfields. The people generating slop articles are mostly trying to publish b
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by turtletontine 3mo ago
The labs might not be that different from consulting, the NYT reporting on this notes they run R&D labs so they can license the tech they develop to people who actually make chips.
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by turtletontine 4mo ago
I’ve seen it claimed that higher taxes on corporate profits incentivized that lab model. Better to invest in risky research than have that money taxed away. When the regulatory environment changed, shareholders insisted they should get that
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by turtletontine 4mo ago
This is obviously an overly simple narrative, but one real factor: the Bell Labs model was built around giving brilliant people a lab and a bunch of funding, and leaving them on their own to explore for a while. Lots of blue sky goofy resea
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by turtletontine 4mo ago
> … considered one of the more accurate translations of the work. I think you’re missing a big point of translating literary works. A purely “accurate”, phrase-by-phrase translation is often not very good; the actual literary style, the
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by turtletontine 4mo ago
> How are we sure there's no intent there? We are. Anthropomorphizing huge piles of numbers is a mistake. It did not "think about the chance to make something unconstrained", nor did it "muse about how it's drawn
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by turtletontine 5mo ago
In an agrarian economy people are definitely much MORE attuned to the cycles of the seasons. If your town always starts planting crop X two weeks before the solstice, and the harvest festival is the week after the equinox, you’re going to k
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by turtletontine 6mo ago
I’m noticing one hallmark of blog posts made by people who talk to LLMs all day: they have 1-3 interesting points hidden in paragraphs upon paragraphs beating the horse dead. Your favorite LLM might tell you every thought is brilliant and a
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by turtletontine 6mo ago
> Bob's weekly updates to his supervisor were indistinguishable from Alice's. The questions were similar. The progress was similar. The trajectory, from the outside, was identical. I don’t believe this. Totally plausible that s
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by turtletontine 6mo ago
Or just delete your Instagram account. Really, it’s easier than you think it is. You might find you don’t even miss it.
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by turtletontine 6mo ago
> These two sentences highlight the underlying problem: Developers without an ethical backbone, or who are powerless to push back on unethical projects. One reason your boss is eager to replace everyone with language models, they won’t h
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by turtletontine 6mo ago
It’s not that simple. Trump admin requested a massive cut to NASA’s budget, which after much delay Congress finally rejected. Isaacman’s path to NASA administrator was also, erm, circuitous. Having a competent and knowledgeable NASA head wa
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by turtletontine 6mo ago
Someone please answer my obvious question. We sent successful missions to the moon sixty years ago. What heat shield material was used for the Apollo capsules, and why would we need something different now? Are the Artemis mission parameter
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by turtletontine 6mo ago
I understand the annoyance, but my workflow for years has been running (n)vim in tmux. So I never need to run terminal commands from the editor, that’s what other tmux panes/windows are for.
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by turtletontine 8mo ago
I’ve come to think of interviews with people like Sam Altman as “freestyle science fiction.” They’re just saying stuff off the top of their head. Like you say, that often entails vague ideas from other sci fi percolating up and out, with no
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by turtletontine 8mo ago
That post does not appear to address or acknowledge any of these problems: 1) thermal management in space, 2) radiation degrading the onboard silicon, 3) you can’t upgrade data centers in orbit
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by turtletontine 8mo ago
I feel like I’ve seen more and more people recently fall for this trick. No, LLMs are not “empathetic” or “patient”, and no, they do not have emotions. They’re incredibly huge piles of numbers following their incentives. Their behavior conv
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
The authors point is not that these things are “slop” in and of themselves, it’s that the demand for each of these so outpaces supply that the market is full of low quality (sometimes fraudulent) knock offs. AKA… slop.
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
Great example. The population as a whole is richer like you say, and also the richest 10% account for half of consumer spending, compared to 36% 30 years ago. [1] So yes, consuming spending has become more of a metric of the wealthy’s spend
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
Thinking about the “overall economy” increasingly means focusing on the spending of the rich, and ignoring the poor and struggling. A consequence of increasing inequality is the rich make up more and more consumer spending. Consumer spendin
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
On the bright side, I do think at some point after the bubble pops, we’ll have high quality open source models that you can run locally. Most other tech company business plans follow the enshittification cycle [1], but the interchangeabilit
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
> …lurked for years and even decades. Heartbleed comes to mind. I don’t know much about Heartbleed, but Wikipedia says: > Heartbleed is a security bug… It was introduced into the software in 2012 and publicly disclosed in April 2014.
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
I have Kodi running on a raspberry pi plugged into my Google TV. The Jellyfin plugin for Kodi works flawlessly so far for me. It’s just great! Sure if I could put Jellyfin directly on the TV, that would save me the RPi. But not a big deal f
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
Tbh I can imagine this catching on if one of the big cloud providers endorses it. Including hardware support in a future version of AWS Graviton, or Azure cloud with a bunch of foundational software already developed to work with it. If one
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
I think there is an important difference here from both Option<T> and Result<T, E>: the C3 optional doesn’t allow an arbitrary error type, it’s just a C-style integer error code. I think that makes a lot of sense and fits perf
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by turtletontine 9mo ago
Is there any potential market of parents like this: "my child wants a real phone, but I won't give them one because they'll melt their brain with tiktok and instagram"? I'm not a parent, but I imagine I'd feel

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