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by wpietri 2y ago
Exactly. A fundamental question for any platform is, "How much harm do we want to enable?" The answer can't in practice be "none". But "well fuck it" isn't a tenable answer either, because reasonable
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by wpietri 2y ago
I'm glad they're being transparent like this, but problems like this are why I have big questions about their ability to keep going. Social media Trust and Safety is hard work, and because it's adversarial, the job is never,
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by wpietri 2y ago
The specific number of $3.4 billion is not a stat. It's what Altmain claims they are "on pace" for. Even taking it as real, you're the one making claims about how much of it is "real usage revenue". The burden
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by wpietri 2y ago
I guess I'm not persuaded that a system like you describe wouldn't have its own lower layers that serve equivalent functions to IP. While what you describe is something that sounds plausible to implement as application-layer stuff
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by wpietri 2y ago
Do you have stats on that "real usage revenue"? Because I don't think inference revenue alone qualifies. There are a lot of "AI" applications that are pumping money into the inference providers, but how much is real
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by wpietri 2y ago
I guess I wasn't clear enough. Regarding blockchain, I was responding to the point that revenue was proof. A shit-ton of money went into blockchain projects. VR has also had significant sales. Both of these are fine analogies to demons
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by wpietri 2y ago
I think you lost me at the point where the truck was hopping on and off home wifi networks. That doesn't really match with our current notion of local networks as security contexts. I'm also not clear about exactly who the truck w
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by wpietri 2y ago
I would suggest that the Venn diagram for "people building things" and "people who understand LLMs" is worth contemplating here. ChatGPT is certainly interesting, and some people are paying for it, but I think a) it&#x27
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by wpietri 2y ago
Most people working on these things are still riding a wave of investor funding. The investor hype wave lags the media hype wave. We'll see how bullish they are once that wave crests and we hit AI Winter #3 (or however many waves you w
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by wpietri 2y ago
Is that really a problem with IP? IP doesn't require connection state. If you want resilience in the face of loss you need to add more, like holding the data until a transmission has been acknowledged as received. TCP does that fine fo
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by wpietri 2y ago
Could you say more about this? I took a look at this page and it seems to be mainly about having a window manager in a terminal: https://zellij.dev/about/ But I have a window manager, so all I ever want out of somethin
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by wpietri 2y ago
I look forward to seeing your evidence for that theory. But you write a lot about what you want and what you find personally offensive, but not at all about your experiences getting people to do things, so I don't see much reason to th
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by wpietri 2y ago
I think one needs to have different standards for an academic discussion versus a public health campaign. For example, taking drinking and driving. If we're talking academically, it's an incredibly nuanced topic, and I'm sure
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by wpietri 2y ago
Then that too would be ironic.
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by wpietri 2y ago
Oh, is that what the FTX marketing materials said?
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by wpietri 2y ago
It's a good thing I never claimed "ethics expert = more ethical", then. What I'm saying is that I agree there's an irony here. It's true that, as you say, she could use her knowledge of ethics to be less ethica
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by wpietri 2y ago
> Had it not been for SBF's political contributions/connections, he would most certainly be locked away for life. Well gosh, if you're that certain, you must have a fair bit of evidence here, right? If so, let's see i
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by wpietri 2y ago
> do not claim to, act morally better than others They do however claim a better understanding of ethics. So unless she's been saying, "Gosh, I knew it was wrong but did it anyway," then it looks like the contrast betwee
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by wpietri 2y ago
For those in the field, is this surprising? From long-ago tinkering with neural networks, it seems to me like it would be expected that things that are correlated in inputs would hopefully produce "specific combinations of neurons&quot
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by wpietri 2y ago
I think you're right, but historically there have been problems. Frans de Waal has written about how in his field there was a lot of early egregious anthropomorphizing. As people realized how flawed that was, they swung around the othe
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by wpietri 2y ago
They have a product, but do they have a business? I haven't kept up with them lately; do they have anything approaching a revenue model that would sustain them and provide good returns to their investors?
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by wpietri 2y ago
It's reasonable for you to offer your firsthand experience. It's unreasonable for you to think that you can offer a determination broader than that experience. For example, I might note that a couple weeks ago a Tesla almost crash
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by wpietri 2y ago
No, I am not saying that.
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What's your evidence for that? As I said, I've seen them do things that make me give them a wide berth. And as I explained, that berth would only get wider on a bike, when I'm more vulnerable.
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by wpietri 2y ago
As the article explains, Apollo was cheaper per mission than this.
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Sorry, I'm not following. I don't bike as much lately, but I was an ardent cyclist here for more than a decade. If I won't trust a vehicle as a pedestrian, where speeds are lower and I'm more maneuverable, I'm going
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by wpietri 2y ago
It's wild to me that people argue automated driving is great based on individual personal experience. If I were to argue about manual driving from my personal driving, I'd be way off. I haven't had an accident in decades. Not
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by wpietri 2y ago
People seem to think you're joking, but I think you're spot on. Putting it in the best possible light, Tesla represented a bet on developing both a new carmaker and the dominant car of the future: electric and fully automated. Tha
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by wpietri 2y ago
I'm a pedestrian in SF, and I definitely trust the automated cars less. I pretty rapidly slot a given driver into one mental model or another. But I have no idea what the automated cars are up to, and so have to give them a very wide b
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by wpietri 2y ago
No, comparing against a general population average is way too low, because automated cars won't randomly replace drivers. They need to be at least as good as the sort of good driver that self-driving cars would replace. Taxi drivers, f

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