GeneralMayhem

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by GeneralMayhem 4d ago
There is a specific, unilateral action that he is taking described in the article. And the "why are they developing AI if they think it's so dangerous" argument is neither new nor persuasive. They're developing it becaus
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
Yes, that is exactly Dario's concern. Either one of the US labs or one of the Chinese ones will eventually release something with insufficient safety controls for its power level because it gives them slightly better user retention (lo
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
Sure, I acknowledge that it was incredibly rare and lucky for "the thing I enjoy doing" and "the thing that pays" to have been the same for so long. That doesn't mean it's not painful for that to change out fro
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
What supply chain controls can you have on biotech? Part of the problem is that you can do a lot of damage with ingredients you can buy over the counter or make at home.
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
Except that there are finite hours in the day. I enjoy the process and craft very much, but I also enjoy making high tech salaries. Up until a year or so ago, those weren't contradictory, because the craft paid well. Now, continuing to
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
Cynicism is fine. They don't have to believe in any sort of ideal to do this. They just have to be thinking more than a couple months ahead to realize the math favors quality.
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
Related in that some of the same organized groups tend to be carrying out every kind of attack at once, but operationally a different thing. In the ad marketplace there are four participants: the advertiser, the user, the network (Google),
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
I don't understand what point you're making. Your "point 1" is literally the argument of the paper. If that scenario arises, the market collapses and no further sales can be made. That's the whole problem. As someon
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
Google is also competent enough to know that taking spam & fraud seriously is incentive-aligned in the medium term. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons .
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by GeneralMayhem 5d ago
Google's AdSpam/fraud/bot-prevention team was, when I worked there, world class and fairly well funded, took their job seriously, and had access to all the data. It's an existential threat to the ad business, because i
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by GeneralMayhem 21d ago
They come with renewal expectations , assuming the situation hasn't changed. Reserving the right to change the rules unilaterally doesn't make you not an asshole if you actually exercise that right. And government only functions
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by GeneralMayhem 21d ago
> the point isn't that "Leave to renew" is some kind of horrible policy I mean... "leave to renew" is a horrible policy, it's just one that we've normalized since 9/11. It's incredibly waste
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by GeneralMayhem 21d ago
They say it out loud . The people writing these policies are vocally proud of being white nationalists . Defending them with "well maybe they have a good reason!" is evidence that you're either on board with their actual ag
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by GeneralMayhem 21d ago
First, that's not what this is talking about. "Leave to renew" becoming "leave, and you will not be renewed" on a whim is insane, self-destructive cruelty. But also, it's only been "the policy" since
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by GeneralMayhem 29d ago
In what universe is Russia "doing just fine"?
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by GeneralMayhem 29d ago
> Russia Totalitarian, and trending toward failed state. > US Not eligible for the reason I stated: the US economy is much less than 10% petroleum. We have a lot of oil, but we have a lot more of everything else. > gulf states Mo
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by GeneralMayhem 1mo ago
Norway is pretty much the only country with oil wealth that can reasonably be considered well run (unless you count Canada or the US, which, while resource-rich, have a lot of other things going on and aren't dependent on their petrole
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by GeneralMayhem 3mo ago
Is your argument that anyone saying "there should be laws about this" should spell out "and we mean actual laws, not arbitrary misapplication of existing law by one petulant executive"? I don't know how they could h
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by GeneralMayhem 4mo ago
Accepting your dichotomy for the sake of argument, I'm in camp 1, but camp 2 could still be humane and comprehensible. Many countries have strict immigration rules, and while I disagree with that philosophy, it's not necessarily
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by GeneralMayhem 5mo ago
Oh... that's embarrassing. Honest mistake, I swear.
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by GeneralMayhem 5mo ago
In FY25, according to their budget [1], TriMet - the Portland public transit authority - spent $19M on bus services. In that same budget, PDOT spent $56M on streets, signs and streetlights, before you even consider the $242M spent on "
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by GeneralMayhem 5mo ago
If you only wanted to run buses, you would not build nearly as many roads as we do.
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by GeneralMayhem 5mo ago
> by simple virtue of being a car State and local governments spend a truly obscene amount of money building and repairing roads, and set aside a nauseating amount of publicly owned land to serve as roads, street parking, and parking lot
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by GeneralMayhem 5mo ago
Right, but the impressive part is finding addresses that are actually on different memory channels.
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by GeneralMayhem 7mo ago
> My current thinking is that queues don’t increase average throughput. Instead, they act as buffers that absorb short-term bursts and timing differences between senders and receivers Absorbing bursts is one purpose for a queue, but ofte
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by GeneralMayhem 9mo ago
Do you take down all of your projects and then bring them back up at the new version? If not, then you have times at which the change is only partially complete.
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by GeneralMayhem 9mo ago
Same here. I've worked on one project that used code generation to implement a DSL, but that would have been the same in any implementation language, it was basically transpiring. And protobufs, of course, but again, that's true i
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by GeneralMayhem 9mo ago
Really only prefixes, without a significant loss in accuracy. The point is that because later tokens can't influence earlier ones, the post-attention embeddings for those first tokens can't change. But the post-attention embedding
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by GeneralMayhem 9mo ago
Go with Bazel gives you a couple options: * You can use gazelle to auto-generate Bazel rules across many modules - I think the most up to date usage guide is https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_go/blob/mast
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by GeneralMayhem 9mo ago
> if updating that shared library automatically updates everyone and isn’t backward compatible you’re doing it wrong that library should be published as a v2 or dependents should pin to a specific version ...but why ? You're beggi

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