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by alpha_squared 5mo ago
If we start from the position of the marketing hype and even Sam Altman's statements, these tools will "solve all of physics". To me it's laughable, but that's also what's driven their outsized valuations. Usin
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SpaceX Targets More Than $2T Valuation in IPO(bloomberg.com)
2 points by alpha_squared 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
> You're perfectly free to scrape the web yourself and train your own model. Actually, not anymore as a result of OpenAI and Anthropic's scraping. For example, Reddit came down hard on access to their APIs as a response to Chat
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
You're talking about the metadata of the files, which can always be edited and someone will inevitably try to make software to do exactly that. Also, Adobe's proposal for handling generated content is exactly this and they're
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
A couple things here: 1. This should have a 2022 tag 2. This is ripe "red pill" fodder and many of the comments here are "red pill" coded.
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
You can be laid off at small companies too. For example, a company may be running out of runway and it's looking increasingly likely the next round of funding will not materialize in time. It needs to control expenses and extend runway
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
Something tells me you haven't been laid off before. I think the overconfidence you're displaying here will be shattered if that were to happen. I hope it doesn't happen to you, but if it does I hope you remember that you are
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
I've attempted to take your responses as made in good faith twice now, despite evidence to the contrary in other threads. I understand if this topic is uncomfortable for you, either because it challenges your world view or because it f
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
You don't see how an organization founded to enforce a cornerstone of white supremacy may have a statistical likelihood of its members being white supremacists?
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
The American police force originally started as a formalized slave patrol to capture runaway slaves [0]. It's well-documented [1]. We can try to argue whether modern policing carries that tradition, but case [2] after documented case [
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by alpha_squared 6mo ago
> Or do I want an insightful, well-thought-out response, even if it is LLM-enhanced? I'd argue that anything insightful or well-though-out doesn't use LLMs at all. We can quibble over whether discussions with an LLM lead to ins
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by alpha_squared 7mo ago
> Was this because they were threatened with ~a fine~ being designated a supply chain risk ? Seems like it, yes.
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by alpha_squared 7mo ago
From what I was reading, it appears that their tools were used outside the scope of their contract with DoD via Palantir's work that also used Claude. Anthropic freaked out, DoD freaked out that Anthropic freaked out and threatened to
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by alpha_squared 7mo ago
I generally agree with this, but I want to add another thing that I feel is easily overlooked in both the groups you listed and your post: having men who'd make women comfortable having kids. The alpha-bro intimidation, casual assault&
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by alpha_squared 7mo ago
> it's why Larry Ellison desperately wants to buy CBS. I think this specific take is wrong. For example, Netflix doesn't want CNN/cable in the WB deal, so that's still up for grabs if Netflix acquires WB but Ellison s
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by alpha_squared 8mo ago
This is probably just the first big step (communications) in a series of big steps.
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by alpha_squared 8mo ago
The really skeptical take here is that eventually all of Musk's companies merge, or at least the biggest ones, for juicing that market value to get that $1T payout. Looking at Tesla.
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by alpha_squared 8mo ago
You're in half the comment replies with a confrontational tone and, at times, quite aggressively. It does not feel as though you're sincerely engaging, but instead have an ideological world view that makes it difficult to reconcil
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by alpha_squared 9mo ago
> Two engineers walked into the government six months ago to drag federal retirements from an underground mine onto the Internet. They built retire.opm.gov and are poised to turn six-month waits into near-instant processing for hundreds
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by alpha_squared 9mo ago
Unequivocally, yes. There are plenty of "useful" things that can come out of doing unethical things, that doesn't make it okay. And, arguably, ChatGPT isn't nearly as useful as it is at convincing you it is.
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by alpha_squared 9mo ago
This is so strange to me. It's the news, it's supposed to report on the uncommon. No one cares that the morning commute's traffic is just as it was the day before and the day before that, but they do care that an accident shu
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by alpha_squared 9mo ago
I kind of agree here. The mental model that works for me is "search results passed through a rock tumbler". Search results without attribution and mixed-and-matched across reputable and non-reputable sources, with a bias toward wh
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by alpha_squared 9mo ago
They're neither smart nor dumb and I think that trying to measure them along that scale is a fool's errand. They're combinatorial regurgitation machines. The fact that we keep pointing to that as an approximation of intellige
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by alpha_squared 10mo ago
Someone "actually working with it" checking in, if that matters at all to this conversation. I'm very bearish on the industry even if I think the tech is going to stick around. If we separate the tech from the industry, it&#x
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AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it(npr.org)
8 points by alpha_squared 10mo ago|2 comments
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by alpha_squared 1y ago
I'm unsure where we as a society go from here. The left's cancel culture resulted in the firing of private citizens from their jobs, or at least some reprimand. The right's cancel culture is the full weight of the federal gov
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by alpha_squared 1y ago
From what I'm gathering, the quote she attributes to Kirk appears to not be a statement he made. I'm not able to find a source for that quote anywhere, but I'm also not about to go watch/listen to everything Kirk ever sa
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by alpha_squared 1y ago
No one else is adding the context of where things were at the time in tech... > The instagram purchase felt insane at the time ($1b to share photos) but facebook was able to convert it into a moneymaking juggernaut in time for the flatte
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by alpha_squared 1y ago
It's a little unfair to blame startups, they largely just set up shop where the capital is. Most VCs required startups to be headquartered near by for easier management/communication. The tech scene in SV had such exceptionalism t
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Companies Are Pouring Billions into A.I. It Has yet to Pay Off(nytimes.com)
15 points by alpha_squared 1y ago|4 comments

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