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by zamnos 4y ago
> … your system is completely broken. Emails are for communicating between people: if they're not being used for that, you need to fix that problem first. Can you explain a bit more? I don't think I'm understanding your po
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by zamnos 4y ago
Compared to IBM of yore, where only wizards were allowed in the computer room, you wouldn't be wrong. It's not open source according to Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation, and a pox on OpenAI for being misleading w
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by zamnos 4y ago
I'm not in other countries so this is a genuine question - does using a Google or Microsoft login not obviate that need?
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Thanks. :)
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Even the Apple I needed electricity to be useful.
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by zamnos 4y ago
Your absolutely right. I am so grateful for my washing machines (dishes+clothes). Emotional labor is labor too. Raising children is subsidized and still ridiculously expensive. They're also generally unpaid, and thus don't get c
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by zamnos 4y ago
I agree, but PublicAccessAI doesn't roll off the tongue quite so well, and brings to mind images of bad public access cable TV shows. Hardly the image a cutting-edge company wants to project.
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by zamnos 4y ago
It already is if you want your productivity to be competitive in a post ChatGPT world, if you're in an role where it's already proven invaluable. There are many roles where this is not the case. There are many roles where it is. H
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by zamnos 4y ago
Lol and with the immediate downvotes I got for pointing that out say the masses agree with you. I mean look, I get it, if you're in an industry where ChatGPT isn't immediately useful (it's shit at hard-level leet code questio
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by zamnos 4y ago
You're absolutely right - there are a ton of measures by which QoL today is better than in the past thanks to technology. I have access to the Internet . Holy shit how I love (and hate) it! Certain types of cancers are survivable, th
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by zamnos 4y ago
I'm sure your housing, food, possibility car subscription are far more expensive. :)
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Where every idiot with a Google account/Microsoft account/phone number can sign up for their service and start churning out tokens per second by the query, I'd say it's pretty open to the public. The far more closed alte
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Unless you're in an impoverished part of the world, $20/month seems pretty friggin cheap (for user-level access) to me.
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> Half of US employees aren't paid enough by first job, must take second to survive. If you consider that most of these could be two income households, then that's a drastic difference from the post WWII era US where a single
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The solution to avoid, or at least lessen the moral hazard that I've not seen mentioned in the press, is for accounts that are specifically for payroll to get special fidc protection. sure there's gonna be an accounting overhead t
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The Fed is playing a game of chicken with the economy to make it collapse, so we'll have to wait a bit longer because Google laid them off*. Hopefully Tesla's everyday robot attempt will be successful. * https://www.wir
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by zamnos 4y ago
> I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to mov
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by zamnos 4y ago
Ew, no. The point that mjg59 points out, just not super explicitly and using many more words, is that the confirmation step wouldn't be necessary, if only all of our tooling were just a little bit better. Instead of ssh $ip_address a
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by zamnos 4y ago
On the other hand, who doesn't have an Amazon account these days? Selling to a local independent store (especially these days when Safeway/Albertsons/Ralphs /Whole Foods dominates the landscape) means actually finding un
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use GPT4." Now they have two problems. And Skynet.
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by zamnos 4y ago
https://www.rewind.ai/ is one that I know of. it only works on apple Silicon but their software records the shit out of everything you do on your computer, so you never have that moment when you half remember something you
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by zamnos 4y ago
Interesting! My "I'm not a lawyer" read of that is that if Facebook did actually inject some opinion like that some specific subreddit is toxic, then the model would be covered under copyright.
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by zamnos 4y ago
Yeah there have been studies that as soon as you tell someone about the thing you're intending to go, be it go to the gym or become a musician, that causes you to lose motivation. But in today's Instagram, pour your heart out onli
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by zamnos 4y ago
Doesn't that also imply that it would be possible to fly a modified plane at the regular speed of a regular aircraft at that much higher altitude, and use way less fuel? Airlines' main cost driver is fuel, so it seems like they&#x
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by zamnos 4y ago
Interesting. I pasted in the outage report, and then asked ChatGPT to give me a single sentence summary and it gave me an answer way longer than a sentence. I pointed out that it wasn't a single sentence and it gave me: > ChatGPT ex
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Given the content used to create the model was created mostly by humans, what separates copyright being granted to a collection of text files (source code) being run through a highly mechanized process (compiled) to produce a copyrightable
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by zamnos 4y ago
Or to put a concrete point on it, Photoshop's content aware fill is ("merely") the implementation of a particular SIGGRAPH paper. The math itself isn't copyrightable, but Adobe is going to come after you if you stick the
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They might, but legal contracts are considered, well, legally binding. A lot of software has free/low cost educational editions, protected by access .edu address and a licensing agreement, and that's considered enough to protect c
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by zamnos 4y ago
Basically they're tuned for sentence completion rather than chat/being asked questions. Plugging > Nancy has two apples and Becky has one apple. Becky gives 1 apple to Nancy. Becky now has into GPT-2 via HuggingFaces at https:
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by zamnos 4y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1638769434763608064.html

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