jprete

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by jprete 2y ago
I think you're arguing in good faith, so my response is that I think the legal-piracy world would make it very easy to download things, on par with going to YouTube, something anyone could and would do. I don't think Netflix would
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by jprete 2y ago
Not that Trump is directly trying to solve it, but TSMC being in Taiwan has been a geopolitical problem for a long time. It's even more of a problem in a situation where China catches up on fabbing, which feels less like an "if&qu
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by jprete 2y ago
I was talking about a world where piracy is legal, which this one is not.
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by jprete 2y ago
China doesn't care about climate change either.
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by jprete 2y ago
Cancel culture was systematically supported and promoted by the most powerful people in our society.
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by jprete 2y ago
If it were legal to download movies and music, Netflix and Spotify would absolutely not exist. Steam is an unusual case, because games are running software and can't be trivially reproduced in their unencoded form. The publishers can i
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by jprete 2y ago
None of those services could exist today if copyright didn't exist, because streaming services wouldn't be able to compete with free downloads. I think Patreon and Kickstarter are how creative work is funded in that world.
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by jprete 2y ago
If you're looking for that kind of content, you could remove the minus sign?
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by jprete 2y ago
Your comment about looky-loos got me thinking about real-world socialization. People who hang around the edge of a group in the real world, looking like they're trying not to be noticed, get pegged as creepy - it looks like predator be
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by jprete 2y ago
A little off-topic, but have you found spam or fake content to be a problem in the last year or two?
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by jprete 2y ago
I don't think the memo mentions training data sources; it's about usage and impact.
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by jprete 2y ago
I think people are looking for the term "freeware" although the connotations don't match.
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by jprete 2y ago
I don't think anyone would not give the new administration credit or blame after they came out of the gate wrecking-ball style.
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by jprete 2y ago
There's no meaningful inspection of LLM code, because the real code is the model weights.
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by jprete 2y ago
The way to get better is to do it a lot. Every time you dig through a problem to solve it, you're not just learning about that problem - you're learning about every problem near it in the problem space, including the meta-problems
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by jprete 2y ago
I definitely think it's doing more than that here (at least inside of the vector-space computations). The model probably directly contains the paper-wood-log association.
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by jprete 2y ago
Codenames is absolutely dead-center of what I expect Large Language Models to be good at. The fundamental skills of the game are: having an excellent embedding for word semantics and connotations; modeling other people's embeddings;
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by jprete 2y ago
I was disappointed to realize how thin the veneer really is. And sometimes a music-carrying video will be unavailable in the music app because YT music and YT as video service apparently aren't subject to the same region rules.
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by jprete 2y ago
Why would developers do that? The developer's incentive is to control the experience for a mix of the users' ends and the developer's ends. Functionality being what users want and monetization being what developers want. Devs
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by jprete 2y ago
The link doesn't say that. The phrase you use is a reference in the Wikipedia article to the DOJ's characterization of Dmytry Firtash, "a Ukrainian oligarch who is prominent in the natural gas sector", not Giuliani.
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by jprete 2y ago
Alexander the Great made his conquests by building a really good reputation for war, then leveraging it to get tribute agreements while leaving the local governments intact. This is a good way to do it when communication lines are slow and
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by jprete 2y ago
Quite a few have succeeded in conquering large fractions of the Earth's population: Napoleon, Hitler, Genghis Khan, the Roman emperors, Alexander the Great, Mao Zedong. America and Britain as systems did so for long periods of time. Al
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by jprete 2y ago
A long time ago I had the idea that maybe Guinness started a "book of world records" precisely because it answers exactly the kind of question that will routinely pop up at the pub.
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by jprete 2y ago
In the absence of a definition I'd read it straightforwardly - it means that someone stops making an effort to learn better ways to learn. I.e. if they start using chatbots to learn, they stop practicing other methods and just rely on
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by jprete 2y ago
I get your point, and my first question was "what operations are even atomic here for this problem to be well-defined?". But I think "language operations are atomic and everything else isn't" is a reasonable inferen
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by jprete 2y ago
Totally fair. I was thinking more in terms of the rate at which people can consume it; if your primary interest is following a sport, or current reality-TV shows, you can only consume content as quickly as it is released.
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by jprete 2y ago
The GP's statement doesn't work with reality TV or televised sports. Both of those are produced with a lot of human effort, and the cycle time for new content is way too large to form addictions. Gambling, alcohol, and gacha games
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by jprete 2y ago
I'm imagining exactly who makes these calls, if a human is even involved, as someone spending five seconds on a moderation app looking at screenshots and immediately pushing the "gambling" button so they can go on to the next
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by jprete 2y ago
Those are two different concepts hiding in similar words. You can't [numerically or precisely] measure productivity, but some engineers are vastly more productive [such that you can easily tell the difference without a formal measureme
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by jprete 2y ago
I love Factorio, although I haven't gone far in the expansion. I don't expect any more from them. They've done a lot for this game and they've done it for a very long time. I assume they're now interested in doing s

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