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by c1sc0 6d ago
Why not just "Watcher" ... as in "He's such a Watcher ..." sounds appropriately ominous ...
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by c1sc0 2mo ago
What about movie directors? Aren't they celebrated as creative geniuses? They're also just leading a team.
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by c1sc0 3mo ago
At the very least the public should receive full open-weight open-source models in return for their transgressions. Failing that, may I suggest the guillotine?
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by c1sc0 3mo ago
Hey, if the bastards can use residential IPs to suck all information into their models with their crawlers, so can we!
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by c1sc0 3mo ago
Maybe these things should be utilities that can be swapped out at will and shouldn’t even be privately owned at all? Heresy, I know!
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by c1sc0 3mo ago
DIt disn’t even occur to me that I need voice control. Stop car. Enter destination. Drive. How hard is that?
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by c1sc0 4mo ago
Are you sure about that? Tech cuts both ways & asymmetric drone warfare has become cheaper than ever … how hard it is it to sink some yachts or down some jets?
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by c1sc0 4mo ago
But will you need overpriced Codex and Claude? Most business code is crappy SaaS and glorified CRUD apps & I can build those with Sonnet / DeepSeek just fine …
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by c1sc0 4mo ago
Besides the language barrier it’s actually also just simpler to do business with the Chinese. There are issues like censorship but they are known & can be routed around. It’s best to just ignore the US and move your business elsewhere.
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by c1sc0 5mo ago
Why microservices when small composable CLI tools seem a better fit for LLMs?
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by c1sc0 6mo ago
Good! Then a much-needed correction in behavior will follow.
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by c1sc0 6mo ago
How do I get a domain name? What is a VPS? What the hell is nginx? How do I write a plain text file in Word? I don't have time for this ...
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by c1sc0 9mo ago
No that’s the system working as intended: there’s good private money to be made on incarcerating the poor and uneducated!
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by c1sc0 10mo ago
Because Apple won’t give you access to what you need as a dev for this kind of thing on iPhone: always-on audio listening to multiple streams : ambient sound, my voice, whatever is playing in my headphones … think an AI assistant listens to
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Why? Europe is a collection of sovereign nations, not a federation of states like the US?
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Arguably what they win in input training cost they may lose in output censorship cost? But then again the line between Western “Guardrails” and Eastern “Censorship” isn’t all that clear.
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by c1sc0 2y ago
But what about “assisted by” AI? Plenty of people use LLMs to enhance their writing abilities, like, say, ‘90s era grammar & spell check. Plenty of AI users are sophisticated enough to understand that dumping pure AI-Gen content is a ba
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by c1sc0 2y ago
“Linked their identities to X” is the key behavior to understand here. A lot of creative people have linked their identities to activities that are low on the food chain for AI. The close-minded creatives will resist AI because it threatens
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by c1sc0 2y ago
I thought the explicit goal of AI was to create systems that can do tasks that typically require human intelligence. That includes beneficial things like finding cures for diseases, technology innovation, etc … Wouldn’t it be a shame to lim
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by c1sc0 2y ago
This is going onto be extremely unpopular, but I think an argument could be made that we need to give AI research an exemption from copyright enforcement until we have a significant lead on China in AI development. They sure as hell are not
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Maybe the energy demand of AI will finally get us to invest in nuclear at the scale it deserves?
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by c1sc0 2y ago
… and this is how you lose an AI war to an enemy who has been ignoring copyright laws for decades. Unless it’s clear that “more data” does NOT produce faster progress it’s just safer to anllow indiscriminate scraping.
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by c1sc0 2y ago
I sometimes worry that qualms about copyright & ethics will make us lose the machine learning arms race with China. If « The unreasonable effectiveness of data » still holds true then we are in big trouble.
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Why would a Chinese vendor not be able to offer AI in Western makrkets. Qwen is pretty good in English too.
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Airdrop just about never works for me. It’s slow to connect if it connects at all. And this is between my own devices connected to the same iCloud account.
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Selling art as a way of making a living actually is a pretty recent thing. Up until not too long ago patronage was pretty much the only way to survive for artists. Maybe we will go back to that model?
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by c1sc0 2y ago
In my view it’s ethical even if it’s just for taking revenge on the ad-driven model that has caused the enshittification of the web.
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Not necessarily, that entirely depends on the reward function being used, but I get your point.
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by c1sc0 2y ago
The platform talk had a bit more architectural details and it looks like they heavily optimize / compress the Foundation model to run for specific tasks on-device. I'm guessing that sticking to US English allows them to compress t
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by c1sc0 2y ago
Me! I’m dumping text I write into an LLM all-day to help with editing. And I often start brainstorming / research by opening ChatGPT in voice mode, talk to it and keep a browser open at the same time to fact-check the output.

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