equestria

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by equestria 2y ago
Of course, but I'd rather not share it for obvious reasons. It is a nonsensical biography of a non-existing person.
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by equestria 2y ago
Google does the "ransacking" for them - ContentID.
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by equestria 2y ago
I exclude all the published LLM User-Agents and have a content honeypot on my website. Google obeys, but ChatGPT and Bing still clearly know the content of the honeypot.
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by equestria 2y ago
I don't know. The reality is just that most business ideas don't pan out. There were hundreds of well-funded efforts to build online retailers before Amazon happened. If you're well-off, it's obviously easier to try and
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by equestria 2y ago
That last part makes me a bit nervous. It's dangerously close to the EA belief that it's actually OK to be a ruthless exec for a tobacco company, because you can do good things with your money that you wouldn't be able to do
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by equestria 2y ago
The wifi protocol is computationally intensive. The wifi module is effectively a fast 32-bit computer with fairly complex firmware. And then, there's all the RF engineering that needs to happen to make it work. So, the original thinkin
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by equestria 2y ago
I think it's one of these things that people like to talk about in the abstract, but how many people really want a big CRT taking up space in their home? Modern OLED displays are superior in every way and CRT aesthetics can be replicat
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by equestria 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. The point of these (ill-defined) alignment exercises is not to achieve parity with humans, but to constrain AI systems so that they behave in our best interest. Or, more prosaically, that they
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by equestria 2y ago
I doubt it works this way. People at Google use search too, and they don't like what they see. Part of the problem is that they're fighting against financial incentives that they themselves created. There's plenty of upside a
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by equestria 2y ago
Oh, come on. Not everything is addiction. I can accept that algorithmic doom-scrolling is somewhat habit-forming, but even there, we have agency. But background music? Yeah, I like it, but I don't get restless or frustrated when it&#
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by equestria 2y ago
Well, then again: maybe Spotify was hoping you wouldn't notice, but by now, the problem has been exposed publicly a number of times. This article is one of many. How many of us are canceling their Spotify subscriptions over this? It wo
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by equestria 2y ago
If a customer wants endless elevator music, then I don't think that Spotify is wrong to generate endless elevator music for them. The problem is deception. If you want to listen to human performances, then Spotify should give you cho
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by equestria 2y ago
Most homes of people who are reasonably well-off - including most people on HN - go through three distinct stages. The first stage is right after you spend an insane amount of money to buy the property. At that point, you want to validate t
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by equestria 2y ago
I don't think it's a useful way to frame it. Model training is very compute-intensive. Generation isn't. You can run it on locally on consumer hardware. It's just not very monetizable, so we're converging on a black
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by equestria 2y ago
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Is there demand for AI-generated images in general? No, it's just that there is a lot of demand for middling, utilitarian artwork. And as it happens, AI can generate it more quickly and
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by equestria 2y ago
So you paid another fee for a checked bag (or soon will, given that more and more airlines are converging on that). Either way, you're paying less for the base fare, but more for extras that most passengers need and that used to be fre
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by equestria 2y ago
But that's not making the actual price lower. There are few situations where you don't need carry-on, so almost everyone will end up booking a "cheaper" flight, but then paying extra for carry-on. In fact, obfuscation li
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by equestria 2y ago
Eh, kinda. It technically preserves content, but it has almost zero discoverability. The site disappears from Google & co, so unless you come across a dead link in some old HN or Reddit thread, you won't even know it's there.
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by equestria 2y ago
In my experience, it's more common than we suspect. I've met quite a few people in their 60s with fascinating hobbies. Some of it boils down to the fact that they had many decades to get good - and with career in the rearview mirr
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by equestria 2y ago
What's interesting is that in many cases, you will not be given a vaccine. A skunk bite will do the trick, but if you were bitten by a squirrel, you probably won't be getting any. You can probably read your state's guidelin
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by equestria 2y ago
We have trillions of dollars riding on one-person open-source projects. This is not the barrier for "serious businesses" that it used to be.
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by equestria 2y ago
Airlines are trying to squeeze every penny out in a depressing race to the bottom because they couldn't really differentiate themselves and travelers overwhelmingly just pick the cheapest flight. Public transit is quite different. It&#
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by equestria 2y ago
We have already thrown and will throw a lot of wrenches into the works. We have extensively reshaped the planet to the benefit of some species and the detriment of many others. It's a risk, but it's not worse than the thousands of
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by equestria 2y ago
Huh? The bulk of your local taxes probably funds public schools. As for federal taxes, the bulk is social security, followed by defense, Medicare & Medicaid, and various unemployment benefits. It can be argued that we should be spending
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by equestria 2y ago
Here's the thing about the average career in big tech: five years after you leave, almost no one will remember you were there . Most of your old team mates will leave for other other jobs. Your code will get refactored or rewritten. D
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by equestria 2y ago
> I think it's fair. It's the same thing humans do with their own art. No, hold on. The key part is that you have a quiz that purports to test the ability of an average human to tell AI artwork from human artwork. So if you spe
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by equestria 2y ago
Eh, this is pretty unfair. That's a test of how good humans are at deceiving other humans, not a of how hard it is to distinguish run-of-the-mill AI art from run-of-the-mill human art in real life. First, by their own admission, the au
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by equestria 2y ago
This is such a weird take. There are countless platforms that do try to lock content creators in. Substack doesn't - you can literally export the list of all email addresses of your subscribers at any time, with a single click of a but
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by equestria 2y ago
The parent described it as "mind-blowing"; I was curious about that.
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by equestria 2y ago
Why? 20 ms is a very long time in the world of digital electronics. 1 MHz = 1 microsecond ticks, and most embedded MCUs run 10x to 100x faster than that. Sensors and ADCs commonly have microsecond-range response times, too. The mechanical p

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