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by zerobees 3mo ago
I'll take a contrarian view and probably get downvoted for it, but many people are adamant about the benefits of indiscriminate archiving, and I just don't see it. Do we have a moral right to keep a copy of everything that's
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by zerobees 3mo ago
Cuts both ways. When I go to the grocery store, I buy 30-40 items at once. When I buy them Amazon with Prime delivery, I usually order stuff piecemeal, in the heat of the moment. Sometimes, Amazon will consolidate two orders in a single pac
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by zerobees 3mo ago
You start with instincts that are more easily ascribed to ethically-neutral or ethically-positive reasoning, and then turn them into a spurious criticism of capitalism. Case in point: in the USSR, the means of producing chairs were 100% sta
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by zerobees 3mo ago
I remarked a couple of times that the same thing crops up on HN. Many high-ranking blog posts about AI appear AI-generated, and the funny thing is that this holds true not only for pro-AI content, but also for anti-AI posts. Ultimately, a l
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by zerobees 3mo ago
I think the nostalgia here is misplaced. No one took the forums from us. They're still around. They're just not fun to use unless you're already invested in the community and its lore. And truth to be told, I don't want
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by zerobees 3mo ago
And a market cap that exceeded 4.5 trillion dollars. I think we can all agree that Google is a legit business. But they were doing fine in 2023 too and had solid y/y revenue growth for much of their history. Their market cap tripled si
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by zerobees 3mo ago
I am invested in some of the companies that are downstream of the capital expenditures of Big Tech (e.g., COHR), so I have nothing to complain about. I am really struggling to see what's the investment thesis behind Google valuation in
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Yes, because I attach value to human life, experience, effort, and expression that I do not attach to the output of an LLMs. Call it irrational, but you exhibit the same irrationality. I'm sure you dread the idea of your consciousness
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by zerobees 4mo ago
The lack of effort is the point. This is the equivalent of SEO spam, meant to extract money from the ecosystem by crowding out books that earned their position in the marketplace. The difference is that multimodal generative AI lets you can
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by zerobees 4mo ago
California constantly passes all kinds of weird, pointless, and burdensome gun laws. There are so many of them, and they're so poorly written, that no lawyer in the state who can confidently tell you what's legal and what isn&#x27
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by zerobees 4mo ago
It'd be a fairly major faux pas to release a "non-product" open-source project in a way that smells like a product, but I don't think it's an automatic firing offense in most of big tech, especially if you're j
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Some folks described it as genius. I guess it's my turn to play the role of an annoying HN skeptic: I find it somewhat silly. Data compression formats are secondary to what you're planning to do with the data once decoded. An audi
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by zerobees 4mo ago
In my experience, it's usually a partly-rotten deer leg found in the bushes on a nature walk.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
> Basically it's either this or pay for your apps. And then paid apps show you ads and monetize anyway.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
In this instance, it's directed at people who are literally at the top of the world, having amassed almost unthinkable power and influence, and want to start a fashion trend specifically to grow their business empires. So yeah, it&#x27
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Right, and that's what I find frustrating. There are so many use cases where a local, purpose-built model that's dependably good at one thing would really make a difference. But no one is going to throw a billion dollars to give u
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Somewhat tangentially, I think the term "NIMBY" is actually one of the most significant impediments to getting rid of NIMBYism. It reduces the debate to fighting some imagined, small class of property owners who oppose progress. I
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I've been consciously doing that for reference books for the past three years because Amazon is absolutely littered with AI-generated non-fiction. I have my own ideological reasons too, but the main problem is that most of that AI-ge
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by zerobees 4mo ago
OK, but that's tangential to what the article is about. The article says "export controls can't work", not "export controls are not in our best interest".
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by zerobees 4mo ago
It's a very brief history: it consists of three examples, only one of which isn't in the title. And the middle one is arguably a success story because the government did stop a bunch of spyware vendors it particularly disliked. Th
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by zerobees 4mo ago
This is an interesting article backed by months of hard work. It offers perspectives we probably won't find anywhere else. The quote is pretty tangential. I see this over and over again on HN: pick the weakest sentence, attack it, proc
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by zerobees 4mo ago
And you're gonna review that voluminous academic literature in a field you're not familiar with, right?... That is my point: an LLM can be great if you know the field and can spot errors. Or, to a lesser extent, if you have some a
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I don't know this applies to you, but I've had several friends who convinced themselves they're exploring the frontiers of science, and it always turns out that their conversations spiraled into some sort of weird quantum-met
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by zerobees 4mo ago
The premise of the article seems odd. It essentially says that AI is a threat to labor no matter if it works, because even if it doesn't, it still gives companies an excuse to fire people. But... companies can always fire people? Yes,
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by zerobees 4mo ago
That is the question. Someone spent a non-trivial amount money to produce this pile of LLM-generated nonsense that will now pollute online searches for years to come... and I can't think of any reason to do it unless they're eithe
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by zerobees 4mo ago
> Nobody important or worth following uses Mastodon. So? I don't use social media to receive curated, hourly dispatches from Barack Obama or Taylor Swift (or, more likely, their account managers). And it might feel important to ge
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I don't recall Anthropic checking the terms of service on my webpage.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
This doesn't at all change the irony of big AI labs complaining about Chinese startups stealing the labs' IP, essentially by scraping the responses. HN has a higher proportion of AI promoters than AI skeptics, and for a good while
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by zerobees 4mo ago
The actual calculus is that you spent 30 minutes on something that should have taken 30 seconds, but then you're done with it. The "proper" solution is to spend months or years fixing the workflow for complete strangers for f
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by zerobees 4mo ago
> The article also doesn't really outline anything that makes sense as a motive. That is the whole point. You can't maintain a dictatorship if you let people get to the point of being a clear threat, because sooner or later, so

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