warkdarrior

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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
> OpenAI employee Why would you think it was an employee who did the push, instead of a random GPT agent?
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
Privacy is not free. They make it quite clear that they charge more if you don't want your data used by Meta.
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
In the case of this thread, the OP is protecting themselves from Google tracking by using a de-Googled phone. But they do not seem to care that Google is tracking their spouse.
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
Of course, privacy seeking is a selfish personality trait. I'm protecting myself, everyone else be damned.
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
Plot twist: you can use the same device for mouth and colon cleaning.
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
How do you know an LLM provider does not kill puppies every time you send a prompt longer than 14 words?
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
Microsoft Word has not claimed ownership in 40 years. Why would Anthropic do?
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
And those classrooms had no AC (probably), no WiFi, no projectors, no access to (almost unlimited) online resources, no fancy gym, etc etc.
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
> Running a server used to be trivial: run an executable, tell people your address, done... This works, until you have more than one person accessing your server. Then you need to worry about accounts, credentials, data isolation, etc. A
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
That is how you end up with walled-garden OSes. Users plug in random device into their computer, the OS vendor tries to simplify operation by installing a device driver that was not vetted, and then users complain they are not protected. Th
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
> The US has hardly any factories left. Feel free to start your own factory in US, nobody is stopping you. Just keep in mind that for commoditized products (most consumer stuff, for example), prices are all that matter. "Buy America
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
They're are getting better. There is ongoing research on how to make them more manipulative and better at negotiating.
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
The algorithm is free, it's the data that matters.
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by warkdarrior 1mo ago
Gates is worth about $100B, Elon Musk about $850B. Let's call it $1T altogether. That would be at most about $115 per human on Earth (~8.5B humans). Not sure that is sufficient to "end hunger and homelessness."
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
Is cache hierarchy considered part of the microarchitecture?
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
> Today, though, almost everyone carries either a contactless credit card or a phone with an NFC wallet. I would pay $0.25 for access to a clean public toilet if I could swipe one of those instead of having to carry change. Nowadays it&#
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
Yes, of course. They need to be aware of regulations in all aspects of their business (manufacturing electronics, shipping, consumer warranty, and taxation seem applicable).
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
That's fine, US can export movies and alfalfa.
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
That journalist may not want to buy American cars, but thanks to our enlightened government, they must buy American cars, since everything else is taxed significantly or banned altogether. Free market for all! /s
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
And how are you going to prevent an AI-managed company? I'm working on the software stack for that, so it'd be useful to think through options.
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
We do not have high unemployment (yet?). And the economy is growing, just slowly.
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
The 1950s in US didn't have vaccines, robots, or data centers.
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
Are you worried about Neo-nazi DRAM?
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
They will sell DRAM at whatever price the market will bear. They do make it at a affordable cost, the difference is all profit.
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
Don't worry, your comment is going into the next training set for ChatGPT. I expect we'll see a "human mode" option soon, where typos are generated every 5-10 sentences.
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
> Our ideal is to scan and upload all the world’s publications before publishers completely block knowledge, and before AI companies scan and destroy all the world’s books and papers. Isn't this just doing the work for the AI compan
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
On Amazon right now, retail prices for e-book copies are higher than for the corresponding paperbacks.
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
If they were not accurate about history, what else did they get wrong?
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
X serves lots of low-quality content at scale and it's running off Elon's laptop from what I can tell. So why can't these guys do the same?
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by warkdarrior 2mo ago
I guess they want to save on storage, so providing the service without really providing it.

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