bigfudge

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by bigfudge 10d ago
Containers as a service are ludicrously expensive as a way to buy compute though. It’s just amazing how much a poxy 1cpu 1gb instance is on azure.
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by bigfudge 13d ago
Read only or not, relying on Chinese or Russian gps data for increased accuracy even in civilian increases dependency no? That seems like a bad idea to me. I’ve thought for about 20 years that increasing our dependence on anti democratic r
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by bigfudge 13d ago
I might be out of date but my understanding was that STOP was just another token that gets predicted.
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by bigfudge 15d ago
Yes for kids. And highly regulated for everyone else (especially in Europe but also in the US)
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by bigfudge 15d ago
All meaningful research on SM is highly gatekept by the industry. There is plenty of evidence from whistleblowers that internal assessments were that the services were causing harm.
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by bigfudge 15d ago
Do you have teenage kids? It feels highly urgent to me because the generation of kids aged 12-21 are severely impacted by the harms and cultural distortion these services cause. I think it would be hard to imagine their hold on this generat
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by bigfudge 15d ago
Peer pressure is one thing. The entire commercial might of the US tech and cultural industry is harder to resist. It’s not fair to put responsibility on children to have willpower in their use of SM when thousands of PHds are actively resea
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by bigfudge 15d ago
They do have plenty of influence over the environment your child lives in. Vaccination for public school entry would be a good example.
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by bigfudge 15d ago
The point that HN libertarians miss is that the whole point of social networks is that they benefit from network effects. This is what makes them profitable. But it’s also what makes it necessary to subject them to democratic accountability
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by bigfudge 1mo ago
Not the masked cops shooting people in the streets then?
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by bigfudge 2mo ago
Being “unenforceable” doesn’t stop them making your life a misery in the process, ruining your credit rating etc.
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by bigfudge 2mo ago
Can someone explain to me why any farmer buys JD? It seems like $1000 oil filters is something farmers would notice and talk about in that community?
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
I agree. Beyond scale and inertia against moving (and frontier AI models) it’s not obvious to me what would be hard to replicate in Europe given regulation that mandated non-US hosting. Most companies using hyper scalers are doing weird sup
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
Even if these companies monopoly falters after IPO the disruption and distraction to a focus on producing can be a problem.
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
But now your argument also depends on no opportunity costs for doing unneeded mri, or infinite medical resources. As I said … we really don’t known how much harm billionaires are suffering (sob) and there are much simpler explanations for t
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
As someone who was self taught as a programmer and has a reasonable high level understanding of some CS concepts but not lots of experience applying them, and no good mentor, I’ve found working with an LLM really englightening. Asking Claud
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
A good harness and engineering is important no matter which model you use. But Sovereignty of hosting is also important because without it all pii is being leaked.
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
The EU economy has absorbed covid and the Russian war in that time. It’s pretty unsurprising that things are flat. The main thing Europe lacks is economies of scale in investment in tech, and a common language. Big data tech wasn’t a priori
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
First, many regular people are “stupid” in the sense that they do get anxious about things that ar slow probability and are not anxious about things that are high probability. If you are a billionaire you also have a doctor with the time an
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
I mostly agree with you by one small wrinkle is that the evaluation of screening is normally against a criteria of cost effectiveness as well as safety. So for some conditions, if cost effectiveness was the barrier to rollout it might still
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
This kind of thinking (that it’s an obvious lie, perpetrated by a cabal) is the sort of superstitious bullshit that is going to jet us all killed. Look up Bayes theorem. As yourself how good a test would have to be if the base rate is low.
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
Europe is currently hosed because we made the mistake of trying to develop economies complementary to the US and china. That was a big strategic mistake. In the US case it was borne of the mistaken belief that we shared values and were part
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
Support bots and question answering with access to sensitive pii?
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
But if a teenager says he’s going to spend 50k going to university to study engineering you might support then. I agree there is likely some hubris in this sort of announcement, but investing in European expertise and industrial base in thi
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
The culture shift that has generated this is the same one that causes the other story on HN this morning about xAIs gas generators being a national security issue. Ie one towards corruption graft and the public ill. I don’t want Europe to m
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The end is not nigh(ckarchive.com)
4 points by bigfudge 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1319/ I think there will be a lot of this going on for the first few years, till everyone remembers this: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
Probably true. But that’s not the position we are in now. Apple is much better aligned with users interests than any one else, at least for short/medium term.
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
You’re shifting the goalposts somewhat, but the thing this misses is that the cookie banners are the least important aspect of EU data regulation. The principle of consent and of minimising data held has actually made a substantial differen
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by bigfudge 3mo ago
It's shallow because it doesn't acknowledge that there is a real tradeoff. I share a lot of your cynicism about US tech companies, but I think you need to be realistic about the state of the market and how the incentives align. Ap

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