eaglelamp

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by eaglelamp 15d ago
The first section of this post responding to "Meta, Google, and Microsoft are dying" is completely misrepresenting Zitron's arguments in the linked video. Zitron is making essentially an enshitification argument concerning Go
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by eaglelamp 17d ago
My cognition is outmatched by predicting the impact of throwing a brick over my neighbor's fence. I have no idea if it will land harmlessly in a patch of grass or fracture her skull. Once I've thrown the brick, even if I see my
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by eaglelamp 26d ago
I'm not. As it stands LLMs are not intelligent, they have no agency, they only produce output in response to input. Ultimately this input comes from a human who is an intelligent agent and should be held responsible for the consequenc
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by eaglelamp 26d ago
Of course there is more to be learned by exposing the entire world to your dangerous creation, that doesn't justify doing it. I'm sure we could learn a ton about infectious diseases by designing new ones and unleashing them on th
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by eaglelamp 4mo ago
From Wikipedia: >After graduation, she worked on Wall Street, first at JPMorgan Chase and then Lehman Brothers. She later joined the United States Foreign Service. Looks pretty wall street to me.
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by eaglelamp 4mo ago
Also you regarding Claude usage limits: > Before the doomers come in, you get $200 in API credits every month for claude -p usage. Usage counts against those API credits. So which is it $300/day is trivial to consume or $200/mo
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by eaglelamp 4mo ago
Inference might be unreasonable for a royalty agreement, but, in assessing damages, it is certainly relevant. "I made enough copies for everyone" isn't a valid defense for copyright infringement.
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by eaglelamp 5mo ago
You're misinterpreting the quote. Socrates is saying that being able to find a written quotation will replace fully understanding a concept. It's the difference between being able to quote the pythagorean theorem and understanding
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by eaglelamp 6mo ago
China is not the only nation that depends on Gulf oil, all of SEA does as well. If the strait remains closed it will destabilize the region and diminish the prestige of the US, and with the US military focused on the strait China will bene
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by eaglelamp 6mo ago
No one ever asks how much it costs Facebook or Uber to serve requests because it is irrelevant, they set prices to maximize their profit like any good monopolist. Similarly the future cartel of big providers will charge their captive users
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by eaglelamp 6mo ago
If they have spare capacity then there is no opportunity cost to selling $100 subscriptions for exactly that reason. If they don’t have spare capacity then, at the margin, they could replace a subscription user with API calls that make the
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by eaglelamp 6mo ago
You’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope. An investor is buying opportunity and it is a real cost to them.
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by eaglelamp 6mo ago
If Anthropic's compute is fully saturated then the Claude code power users do represent an opportunity cost to Anthropic much closer to $5,000 then $500. Anthropic's models may be similar in parameter size to model's on open
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by eaglelamp 7mo ago
Anthropic knew they were going to lose this contract to OpenAI, and this is an attempt to salvage publicity from the loss. This administration is comfortable with blatantly picking winners and OpenAI is better connected with the admin than
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by eaglelamp 7mo ago
> The politicians' initial efforts caused a public outcry though, when they stipulated that all samples should be destroyed on a donor's death. Looks like you're right.
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by eaglelamp 7mo ago
As an investor in Anthropic which pricing strategy would you support? That's the question you need to ask, not what there current pricing strategy in the win the market phase happens to be.
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by eaglelamp 8mo ago
In my experience the most common use of this data is to build case for firing someone for cause when upper management wants them out. It's rarely used for actual security purposes.
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by eaglelamp 8mo ago
Capitalism is the only economic system that has the privilege of being evaluated outside of the context of the society in which it exists. When socialism is criticized the political system is always, justly, included; so the purges of Stal
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by eaglelamp 8mo ago
You're misinterpreting the quote. Socrates is saying that being able to find a written quotation will replace fully understanding a concept. It's the difference between being able to quote the pythagorean theorem and understandi
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by eaglelamp 8mo ago
All employees solve problems. Developers have benefited from the special techniques they have learned to solve problems. If these techniques are obsolete, or are largely replaced by minding a massive machine, the character of the work, th
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by eaglelamp 11mo ago
Normal Erlang code has a fixed number of reductions (function calls) before it must yield to a scheduler. Processes also have their own stacks and heaps and run garbage collection independently. The result is that no single process can st
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by eaglelamp 11mo ago
Higher level abstractions are built on rational foundations, that is the distinction. I may not understand byte code generated by a compiler, but I could research the compiler and understand how it is generated. No matter how much I study
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by eaglelamp 1y ago
I don’t think the author is hiding his economic anxiety behind solipsism. He states plainly he doesn’t like the deskilling of work. My point is why are your economic motivations valid while his aren’t?
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by eaglelamp 1y ago
If you dig deep enough isn’t the same thing true of people like yourself? Do you truly believe that the large language models we currently have, not some fantasy AI of the distant future, are emotional and intellectual beings? Or, are you
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by eaglelamp 1y ago
The primary harm of a bubble is *not* a crash in equity values, it is the misallocation of capital. The worst outcome would be for the misallocation to continue due to the intervention of asset owners with the most to lose who are also in
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by eaglelamp 1y ago
It looks like security/surveillance play more than anything. Scale has strong relationships with the US MIC, the current administration (predating Zuck's rebranding), and gulf states. Their Wikipedia history section lists accompl
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by eaglelamp 1y ago
There is no meaningful discourse because there is no meaningful decision at stake. The owning class has decided that “AI” will be shoved into any plausible orifice and the “discourse” online is just a reaction to a decision that has alread
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by eaglelamp 1y ago
If we are going to have a general discussion about copyright reform at a national level, I'm all for it. If we are going to let billion dollar corporations break the law to make even more money and invent legal fictions after the fact
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by eaglelamp 2y ago
Couldn't the same guarantees be achieved with immutability? Of course this would be setting aside concerns with performance/resource usage, but the parent is describing an environment where these concerns are not primary. Persona
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by eaglelamp 2y ago
ChatGPT gov launched in January. Musk is using DOGE to hoover up tons of government data and reportedly using 'AI' technology to analyze it. There seems to be a rush to insert 'AI' into government processes, and with t

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