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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I suspect with modern CPU pipelining and branch prediction that most of the (very interesting) debates about exactly how to tag values and pointers have become inconsequential above the noise level. Would love to see recent work demonstrati
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Great list. The one that grates most for me not on this list is aggressive use of first-person-plural and second-person perspective: “We’ve all been there.” “Your first instinct might be…” “Now you have a…”
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Something that’s only peripherally interconnected is not a tapestry, but an LLM falling victim to these tropes will describe it as such for “punch”. Not just style with the absence of substance, but misleading substance.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Writing like this (say a technical blogpost) is supposed to communicate ideas effectively. Rhetoric, vocabulary, metaphors all aid this communication in good writing. But the prompt is usually bereft of fully fleshed out ideas, so the LLM s
425.
by twoodfin 8mo ago
Sure, but there’s some level of slavish copying with the serial numbers filed off that would convince a judge or a jury that it’s derivative.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I’m told that Germans in general are “cheap” and that this is an expected consequence of their economic policies designed to reinforce their industrial base. I wish I could find the reference I’m thinking of, but the idea was that Germans b
427.
by twoodfin 8mo ago
I’m not sure what you’re objecting to about my comment, except a bunch of “implicit premises” you read into it.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
If I read Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and then proceed to write a structurally identical novel with many of the same story beats and character types, it will not be difficult to convince a jury exposed to these facts that I’ve created a de
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Since the beginning of the nuclear age, literally billions of dollars have been spent paying incredibly smart people to model all aspects of nuclear war, including the chain of escalation under uncertainty. Not to discount the importance of
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Determining abuse is not a simple plug&chug exercise. I’m not asking about abuse, I’m asking about monopoly. As I’m sure you’re aware, it’s possible to become a monopoly through legitimate competitive action, and indeed similarly pres
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Reminds me of those absurd “selling web sites & apps like cable channels” graphics from the Net Neutrality wars. This one apparently originated at Reddit, natch: https://cordcutting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015&
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
There was a cottage industry in elaborating the theory that Bush and his administration were unnecessarily caught flat-footed or even knew the attacks were imminent. Richard Clarke is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
This isn’t surprising: XML’s core purpose was to simplify SGML for a wider breadth of applications on the web. HTML also descended from SGML, and it’s hard to imagine a more deeply grooved structure in these models, given their training dat
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Rail strike response casualties? Can you flesh that out a bit?
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I guess I’m looking for a definition of the market for which Amazon holds a “near monopoly” and the criteria for establishing that designation. It can’t be because 99% of people shop at Amazon to the exclusion of other retailers, because th
436.
by twoodfin 8mo ago
Is Walmart a “near monopoly”? How about Costco? They both have significant pricing power over their suppliers. How would you differential them from Amazon, if at all? If we’re using your definition and not anything directly alleged in the
437.
by twoodfin 8mo ago
More, “If your LLM comes up with a strategy to ‘solve programming’ …”
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
If maintenance schedules and insurance regulations are “moral” issues, what isn’t?
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I’m struggling to understand the moral character of taxi service regulatory capture and monopolization.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
California’s complaint alleges that Amazon is a monopoly? That word is not used in the injunction request or the original complaint, except in the title of an article cited by the latter.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
To be fair, Canticle is soul-crushingly bleak in a way that Hyperion only dances around.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Small but significant. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller comes immediately to mind. (And readers of this thread who did appreciate the religious themes of Hyperion may be interested.)
443.
by twoodfin 8mo ago
You don’t need to be a monopoly for anti-trust law to come into play. Airlines can’t collude on pricing, for example, even though no single airline is a monopoly.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
In what sense does Amazon have “near monopoly power”? Elsewhere in this thread we find shock that American households spend a few thousand dollars on average between Whole Foods and Amazon.com. I assure you that’s a small fraction of househ
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
If you’re confident that AI won’t raise productivity significantly in a broad range of industries, there are likely some very attractive bets out there in the market to take the other side of.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
I’d be comfortable assuming household income and household Amazon spend are highly correlated.
447.
by twoodfin 8mo ago
Sure, but I’m certain US household income is not normally distributed, and I’d bet all the money in my pockets that US household Amazon spend isn’t normally distributed, either.
448.
by twoodfin 8mo ago
I dunno, going in with the starting assumption that Matt Stoller is innumerate and/or will twist statistics to support his otherwise specious arguments is not a terrible approach. On the particulars of this number, he seems to be close
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Be that as it may, the point at issue was the Amazon spending of the average US household. I’m not sure what point relevant to the discussion you’re trying to make, other than reflexively arguing with any use of means in economic analysis.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Median isn’t the average and Matt was computing the average household Amazon spend.

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