bilbo0s

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by bilbo0s 7d ago
> Assuming everyone in public is a suspect and continually investigating them, is a big change in how society works. Well that's not exactly how it would work. Everyone is tracked, but only certain people are watched. That added
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by bilbo0s 7d ago
I loathe surveillance networks. As much as I loathe them, I'm sadly forced to concede that probably citizens setting up a trivially join-able, anonymous, open source surveillance network is probably the only way to get the powerful t
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by bilbo0s 10d ago
> Who then gets to decide? You? It's a new world. He who has the biggest guns makes the rules. I don't like it, but in the Caribbean [probably throughout the world] these days, you really are dealing with the raw realities of
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by bilbo0s 15d ago
This is the actual answer. Things like this need to be a criminal offense. Monetary fines have a tendency to simply be modeled in as a cost of doing business. Going to prison is far more effective when the goal is to concentrate minds.
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by bilbo0s 16d ago
> when someone projects opinion or attitude on "all [ anyone ] ", that person is just full of it. It's just that our society, at least in the US, is pretty much built around projecting opinions, and a whole lot of other
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by bilbo0s 16d ago
> Have you met moms? Have you?
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by bilbo0s 18d ago
Depends on who you ask? Are you asking someone who just had their car stolen? Or are you asking a mom who just found out there's a Flock camera that has been filming her 6 year old daughter playing in a splash pad all summer?
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by bilbo0s 19d ago
There are many, many people who are betraying a lack of facility with these models. Why is anyone trying to run these on an M3? I thought it was common knowledge that, if you insist on using Apple, only M5 processors and higher have matrix
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by bilbo0s 19d ago
Well, yes and no. The author has an M3. Here's reality, MLX on the software layer will not magically place hardware matrix multiplication units in your GPU cores. Newer Macs are always just gonna smoke anything earlier than an M5. Not
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by bilbo0s 22d ago
> Where is the competitive spirit? To be fair, where is the competitor at this form factor?
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by bilbo0s 22d ago
This is the real answer. Unless you need privacy for your inference this instant, paying for credits can get 80 to 90 percent of people everything they need. Of course if you do need that privacy, then forking the $25K over to Apple is a
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by bilbo0s 23d ago
In fairness, Texas is a place where they make elementary school kids stand up every morning and say the Pledge of Allegiance... to the TEXAS flag. Just pointing out that the educational experience in Texas is not necessarily indicative of
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by bilbo0s 23d ago
>* What most people want out of AI is for no leader to emerge and wield supremacy against the rest of us. People are afraid of it in ways they weren't afraid of mobile, so they're more willing to work together against whoever i
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by bilbo0s 24d ago
The point was that we can’t change the fact that horrible things will befall children today. You’re making the argument that human nature could change in the future. My argument is that human nature has shown no particular evidence of bei
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by bilbo0s 25d ago
> Point being, a world where children are not made to suffer is a world that can't exist as long as humans are humans. And, Any way though, I'm not really sure what your point is. You quoted the part where I said what my po
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by bilbo0s 25d ago
Well, to be fair, that's also hundreds of thousands of impoverished kids in in the US as well. (In fact, sometimes the kids don't even need to be impoverished for the mom to fail to feed them and beat them silly every night.) Also
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by bilbo0s 25d ago
> and reasonable energy price Nice Jedi Hand Wave there. That's the issue. China invested in producing cheap energy. Most of the rest of the world did not. At root, economics is about turning energy into goods and services. If th
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by bilbo0s 1mo ago
Now I know I'm the big bad military guy saying this, but just give it a chance. Do you think that maybe the reluctance to engage in large wars over the last 75 years is a benefit of the nuclear deterrent rather than political ideologie
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by bilbo0s 1mo ago
This is why people, organizations, and nations really should be holding multiple currencies. Holding only Yuan isn't necessarily going to save you from what's coming. I completely understand the growing need to reduce the US dolla
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by bilbo0s 1mo ago
Not sure how valuable it would be for interrogations of state level actors? Ironically, I'd think it might even be better for your adversary if the technology does work? We know that we can use classical techniques, (non-AI), to psycho
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by bilbo0s 1mo ago
This. I'm unsure why people still believe we need the middle class to lead consumption for our economy to be "good"? At this point I feel like there is a lot of evidence out there directly contradicting that belief. Do I thin
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
> They will probably never release the training data because that represents a large part of their competitive moat Not that what you've written isn't the case. However, in addition to what you've written, (or probably
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
Reasonable for people at the bottom of the tech pyramid. Certainly for startup guys this is heaven sent. For people at the top of the tech pyramid, I could totally see why they'd want to put an end to all this "Open Source LLM&quo
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
I tell everyone whenever I get a chance, download any open weights models you can as soon as possible. Buy extra hardrives. Borrow them. Do whatever you have to do. But to paraphrase Éomer, don't trust to hope, it has abandoned these l
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
> but seem unlikely to surpass the companies that are training these models from scratch Then why is it a problem? Another serious question. Trying to get my head around what the root of the objection is here. There must be some fear, b
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
Why? Serious question. I'm from the US, and I think it's hilarious.
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
None of which would have happened if we had not gotten so complacent about defending our democracy through vigorous enforcement of the Constitution, and voting in a fashion more informed by wisdom than emotion. At the root of all you lame
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
The entire point of the Constitution was to not trust each other. We wouldn't even need checks or balances if trust were a reasonable governing philosophy. Nor a Bill of Rights, nor any explicit admonition against slavery. The reason
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
Together, both comments make a good example of the reason one should not trust what one reads on the internet. It sucks. But there's just too much astro-turfing.
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by bilbo0s 2mo ago
> trustworthy search makes a huge difference That's the rub. Today on the internet, no one can validate that there exists any "trustworthy search". If we don't control the servers and validate the software on it, the

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