dalbasal

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by dalbasal 2mo ago
So... This is more comparable to a guppy tank than a farm. Generally, yes you are right. Home farming (eg vegetable gardening) generally isn't economical. That doesn't mean it's not valuable. Besides being fun... I do think
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by dalbasal 3mo ago
Our one dominant model of technology-driven economic progress is the industrial revolution. Manufacturing. As Ai companies argue for market cap based on projected economic output... I'm increasingly thinking this model can be badly mis
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by dalbasal 2y ago
Bingo. This is the literal answer to "why." Also bans on various casino hacks.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Can anyone bring this down to earth for me? What's the actual state of these "ML compilers" currently, and what is rhe near term promise?
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by dalbasal 3y ago
So... Bodybuilders do this thing called "bulking and cutting." The best way to add muscle fast is to overeat. Work out lots. Sleep lots. Eat lots. You get fat, but you also get muscular because food is never a limiting factor. The
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Yiooo!
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by dalbasal 3y ago
What makes this hard to read/follow is the grandiose moral vision... and the various levels of credulity it's met with. If it's words from Ilya, Sam, the board... the words are all about alignment, benefiting humanity and suc
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>>Many corporations work like this also. One of those things that are widely true, but rarely admitted to. It seems to be very much a maturity thing. The older,larger and more governed an org is, the more likely such a pattern is. Hab
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Precisely. Sure, considering the platform-game paradigm different products sources cross subsidize one another a different stages of their life cycles. This is just how firms work, and is often mostly a matter of accounting.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Yes... Investors and executives.. everyone in 2023 is hyper focused on "Thiel Monopoly." Platform, moat, aggregation theory, network effects, first mover advantages.. all those ways of thinking about it. There's no point in b
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by dalbasal 3y ago
It's all very abstract, and hard to narrow objectively, considering considering that we don't really know what a "memory" or skill is. The mechanism.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Ok... So the alternative to great man theory, in this case, is terrible man theory... I'm not following. If focusing on control over openai, is great man theory... What's the contrary notion?
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Objective in what way? What claim are you rejecting? Anyway.. if you want to have a conversation about childhood, parenting, suburbs.. quantifications and statistics (assuming that is what you're looking for) are allowed.. but the conv
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by dalbasal 3y ago
True. Arguably, work and social life have also gotten more difficult, at least for some. Meanwhile.. it's also not overwhelmingly true that administration, and other things heavily affected by computerisation are "better," mo
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Perhaps, but that is a seperate debate. Arguably everyone has always been in the bubble of our own life. OP had an intention, using the term. He's not talking about stereotypes or extremes. He's talking about the normal life of of
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>>Parents, meanwhile, can either work to balance the easy sources with... It's possible to some extent. Different parents will have different levels of ability and success. This is relevant (but difficult) advice for individual p
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The bubble op referred to is not a particular place or lifestyle. The bubble, in this context, is the average/representative lifestyle and parenting depicted in lifestyle journalism/blogging space. The proverbial TED abstraction.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Is the alternative theory that the ownership, control and leadership of OpenAI is immaterial?
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I'm not criticizing these projects, their current legal structure. What I mean is that these were created as public goods and functioned as such. Each had unique way of being open, spreading the value of their work as far as possible.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>Joining a corporate behemoth like Microsoft and all the complications it brings with it will mean a massive reduction in the freedom and innovation that Sam is used to from OpenAI (prior to this mess). Well.. he requires tens of billion
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Well written. Well done. Early hn vibes. A lot more in here, that actually helps to understand what's going on with openai, and what might happen next in the space. I think the last paragraph is a key point/question. "Ultimat
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by dalbasal 3y ago
IDK. Let's proceed with caution in gauging intentions and interests. Altamans', Microsoft's, the Jedi council's. "Humanity's interest at heart" is a mouthful. I'm not denigrating it. I think it is rea
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>> There's a thin possibility that Microsoft would have to write-off its whole $10B (or more?) investment in OpenAI, but that isn't Satya's focus. The focus is on what he can do next. Maybe, recruit the most formidable
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>I'd recommend not reading rumors and waiting for things to come out officially. Thanks for the breakdown. Unfortunately, you have just made things too saucy for me to take that advice :-) Also, the rumors and machinations are a pre
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Tweaking and twiddling with pricing structure... It's just what happens in a mature market. Every year, you need new ideas to make business better. This is something that you can usually futz with, and maybe get a little bit of bang. I
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by dalbasal 3y ago
This is the sort of thing, we have to have an adult in the room. When complex, confusing pricing structures exist.. fiddling with them becomes a salesman / marketers main tool. It's what they do everyday, how they operate, the win
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The majority of all argument, debates, polemics... it's all "hacks." We're all dirty tricks, if we're being honest. Formalizing and naming templates of fallacies and dirty tricks... it's kind of a fallacious tr
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Idk. Tech bubbles, hype cycles.. they're weird, sometimes unhinged.. they're not entirely irrational. In aggregate, they are just the phenomenal of an extremely high risk high reward investment environment. Most tech companies do
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>Am I the only one becoming less impressed by LLMs as time passes Jaron Lanier has some ideas about the space in between turing test and blade runner. The first film goers, watching simple black and white movies thought that they were un
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by dalbasal 3y ago
How sloped are water tables, typically?

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