danlitt

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by danlitt 27d ago
I jailbroke my kindle and this was what the guide I followed installed. I don't know what else is available! My experience has been "fine" - I don't use anything fancy like dictionary lookup or OCR, I just put epubs&#x2F
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by danlitt 29d ago
>>> Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%. Medicare pays 50% less than private insurance. The hospital can be paid less without reducing their margin if they can remove a cost from their balance sheet. It does not make the sys
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by danlitt 29d ago
They are already playing as dirty as possible.
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by danlitt 29d ago
Nazi Germany?
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by danlitt 1mo ago
Perhaps this is sufficient reason to connect my KOreader to the internet for the first time...
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by danlitt 1mo ago
How many leadership meetings have you been in where some profitable approach was refused on an ethical basis? (rather than the basis that behaving ethically is actually more profitable, which is totally different) By contrast, how many conv
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by danlitt 1mo ago
Many people have strong morals, and might resist profit-maximising behaviours, but they will be outcompeted and replaced by less scrupulous people. There is actually no sharp difference between a person and a one-person-company, but: to t
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by danlitt 1mo ago
Which perspective? I said two things.
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by danlitt 1mo ago
> ethical approaches to model development, how humans interact with AI and debate over machine consciousness So, pseudo-philosophical mumbo jumbo. There is of course no-one responsible for the ethical framework of the company's acti
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by danlitt 2mo ago
I am implying that they will subsidise the LLM inference product by increasing the prices of other products.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
Not sure what you're getting at here. Hetzner has not spent 1 trillion dollars!
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by danlitt 2mo ago
Hasn't that already happened?
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by danlitt 2mo ago
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
Excited to see the price of every other product they offer triple for no reason.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
> Karpathy described it as a form of coding where you "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists" If that's not "turning your brain off", what is?
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by danlitt 2mo ago
By that logic every appeal to the truth is a No True Scotsman fallacy.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
Just one more hit. Just one more hit. We're gonna make it this time. It's going to the moon....
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by danlitt 2mo ago
If we are going to be honest we should be completely honest. "We want to increase our profits and hence we choose to lay people off."
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by danlitt 2mo ago
Is there any evidence of people actually using it?
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by danlitt 2mo ago
> By 'business perspective,' I mean it's immoral but profitable. So, the purest form of evil there is? > Sometimes I wonder why people don't get as angry at Apple as they do at Microsoft. They are indeed just as ba
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by danlitt 2mo ago
I presume you mean "the maximum physical limit of bad ethics" rather than any particular ethical standard.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
Omarchy is basically just Arch with a bunch of configuration. It's not a particularly useful project, and the author is noted fascist DHH. So probably not worth your time.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
I don't think there is a technocratic solution to this problem. Very rich people are using their money to DDoS the internet, for no good reason. We just need to identify these people and fine or imprison them until they stop doing it.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
> it cost hundreds of millions of dollars to generate the weights It cost hundreds of billions of dollars to generate the training data, they just didn't get paid .
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by danlitt 2mo ago
I think the sheer magnitude of the economics have made the scales fall from a lot of people's eyes. For decades people put stuff on the internet for free on the assumption it was "not worth" anything. It turns out that as soo
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by danlitt 2mo ago
If LLM training is found to be a fair use (looks likely), no license will help.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
Not Stalin: https://klangable.com/blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-ow...
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by danlitt 2mo ago
I think this post finally convinced me shells are awful and should be avoided.
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by danlitt 2mo ago
This does not sound like an accurate description of "rational agents". A rational agent may value something less because of a perceived second-order effect (e.g. "If I accept a price hike, there will be more price hikes in th
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by danlitt 2mo ago
That specific conclusion is unaffected, but that doesn't make it okay. If they used fake numbers, but the conclusion were still the same, you presumably wouldn't think that was okay either?

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