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by visarga 1y ago
> Losing your book to AI for a one time $3000 settlement feels like a bad deal to me. I'm wondering how lost would the book be? What would be the difference in sales.
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by visarga 1y ago
Copyright should be about copying rights, not statistical similarities. Similarity vs causal link - a different standard all together.
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by visarga 1y ago
How is it fair? Do you expect 9,000 from Google, Meta, OpenAI, and everyone else? Were your books imitated by AI? Infringement was supposed to imply substantial similarity. Now it is supposed to mean statistical similarity?
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by visarga 1y ago
Claude has no TTS while most LLMs have it. It makes the text more accessible.
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by visarga 1y ago
You should also consider that people have AI too, everyone has AI, AI makes no difference in competition. Like having Linux, or Google Search - immensely useful but not a differential. So "capital -> AI -> capital" would jus
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by visarga 1y ago
This is why it is hard to take a subscription or dependency on them, if they degrade the services willy nilly. Bait and switch tactic. In Cursor I am seeing varying degrees of delays after exhausting my points, for On-Demand Usage. Some day
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by visarga 1y ago
> The perceived 'strictness' provides flexibility within proven constraints. Developers retain complete freedom in implementation approaches, but the constraints prevent common pitfalls like monolithic files or tangled dependen
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by visarga 1y ago
> the phenomenon is more like a diffuse productivity gain across a large team or organization AI alone can't do that, even if you make the weakest link in the chain stronger, there are probably more weak links. In a complex system t
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by visarga 1y ago
The resemblance is pretty good, they can't show all details because the diagram would be hard to see. But the essential parts are there. I find the model to be extremely simple, you can write the attention equation on a napkin. This is
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by visarga 1y ago
I disagree, it is not universal. 1+1=2 is just a specific system of notation with consistency. There was a time when no human conceptualized this idea of 1+1=2, they did not have numerals or know about addition. Before you get to 1+1=2 you
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by visarga 1y ago
Companies can choose to reduce costs by firing people, or to improve outcomes using both humans and AI. When they fire people they are saying they have no idea what to do with them. But people have AI too, we are no worse than AI.
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by visarga 1y ago
> This doesn't mean that there's no such thing as truth, or that we can't generate knowledge Oh I agree we can generate knowledge, but it is never the Truth, it can't be. Any knowledge is composed from imperfect abstr
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by visarga 1y ago
> In fact it’s the same values that “science” stands on: do our best everyday and continue to try improving. Scientists realized there is no "Truth", only a series of better and better models approximating it. But philosophers
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by visarga 1y ago
> I understand that we may not have demonstrated to a level of absolutely provable certainty that bats are definitely conscious We have not proven "to a level of absolutely provable certainty" that other humans are also conscio
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by visarga 1y ago
Interesting topic, but I can only see one chapter. Based on chapter names it seems you lean closer to cybernetics or process philosophy. Is that true? I find ignoring time and process to be the greatest sin in the field of consciousness. Th
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by visarga 1y ago
I have made 100MB of my own chat logs into a RAG memory and was surprised I didn't like using it much. Why? it floods the LLM with so much prior thinking that it loses the creative spark. I now realize the sweet spot is in the middle -
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by visarga 1y ago
Export your old chats and put them in a RAG system accessible on the new LLM provider. I did it. I made my chat history into a MCP tool I can use with Claude Desktop or Cursor. Ever since I started taking care of my LLM logs and memory, I h
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by visarga 1y ago
If websites use Cloudflare to block AI bots the next wave of AI will rely on computer-use or browser-use to get in. Can you allow just humans and specific bots? I don't think so. The user problem is that web is borderline unusable beca
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by visarga 1y ago
Question answering and learning are just a corner of LLM usage, but they have learning signals for the AI. Say a user asks about Pythagoras, the LLM provides an explanation, the user doesn't get it. The LLM tries again. Repeat this loo
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by visarga 1y ago
The AI model chats with the human, and the human uses AI generations in the real world. The real world provides feedback through the human back to AI.
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by visarga 1y ago
What happens when AI helps you on a task? You usually use its outputs to do something, and if that works, you come back for further assistance. If it doesn't work, you come back to correct the model. Either way a signal from the real w
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by visarga 1y ago
The content is now created in private chats with AI, probably a trillion tokens per day flow between humans and LLMs. When new AI models are made they will incorporate some experience from past usage. This dataset might be the most valuable
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by visarga 1y ago
Did the cost reduction have more value than the change in ad outcomes?
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by visarga 1y ago
I did something like this myself. Take a large PDF, summarize each page. Make sure to have the titles of previous 3 pages, it helps with consistency and detecting transitions from one part to another. Then you take all page summaries in a l
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by visarga 1y ago
I think there is amazing signal inside the chat logs. Every idea or decision taken can be analyzed in hindsight 20 messages later, or days later. Eventually a feedback signal or outcome lands back in the chat logs. That is real world idea v
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by visarga 1y ago
> When the Internet arrived, it opened up the floodgates of information. But initially is was non commercial and good. Not perfect, but much more interesting than today. What changed is advertising and competition for scarce attention. C
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by visarga 1y ago
No, it does not stand, because you think linearly. Companies can't simply drop 33% of employees because there is competition. If competition uses both humans and AI they will get more value from both. No AI has sufficient autonomy or c
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by visarga 1y ago
No it can't replace graphical designers except in low stakes projects. Companies won't risk their projects on cheap AI with other larger costs on the line.
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by visarga 1y ago
LLMs chat with 1B people for the estimated amount of 1T tokens per day. That is 1T tokens flowing into human brains every day. It certainly has to cause some effects on our language use and skills. I rarely use Google Search anymore.
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by visarga 1y ago
Our society would break down without language. Without math there would be much fewer people because we would not be able to have large cities and commerce. Without technology we can't manage anymore. The moral? It's always been a

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