kmeisthax

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by kmeisthax 3d ago
It's not one person, one vote, so it's not democracy. It's very explicitly plutocracy (rule by money) as the operating principle of voting power is one share, one vote. Except there's also a bunch of companies with spe
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by kmeisthax 4d ago
> Err, no? That's not at all how llms work. The Transformer architecture that almost all LLMs use are composed of many layers in sequence, each containing an attention component and a neural network component. The attention componen
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by kmeisthax 7d ago
Apple Silicon was autopilot. Or more specifically the insanely cool decision happened under Jobs, and everything else is just coasting (i.e. repeating the same business success again and again without taking very many risks). Their first
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by kmeisthax 7d ago
The uptick in Webflow usage alone would suggest the damage has already been done.
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by kmeisthax 7d ago
WP Engine's "forking" consisted of disabling the revisions feature by default. As someone who's personally been bitten by this particular WP Engine misfeature, describing this as a "fork" is disingenuous at bes
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by kmeisthax 7d ago
I am saying this as someone who has had repeated and ongoing issues with WP Engine as a hosting platform: no, Matt Mullenweg was not even valid in his basic assumptions motivating his lawsuit against WP Engine. The idea that a hosting plat
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by kmeisthax 7d ago
To add onto this, if you use a shiny new model and it gives you a turd, you're not going to tweet about it ("hey guys, look what I made with Astra! Nothing!"), and even if you do nobody is going to interact with it so it does
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by kmeisthax 10d ago
Yes and no. The biggest historical commonality between the American South and Japan - or, at least, the Tokugawa shogunate that was ruling around the same time as the South - was that both of them were at one point ruled by a cabal of essen
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by kmeisthax 10d ago
I am now imagining GPT-7 convincing a bunch of OpenAI executives to go ahead with a destructive "mind upload" process involving a high-resolution X-ray and a neurotoxic tracer agent that happens to look like Flavor-Aid.
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by kmeisthax 10d ago
The "neuralese" in a looped model is a residual stream vector. We already know how to decode these vectors into tokens; it seems pretty straightforward that a model could be built to decode a series of residual stream vectors into
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by kmeisthax 11d ago
I am very confused as to why LLM proponents insist that I can be left behind by a technology that takes almost 0 seconds to adopt. In the event that I realize "Oh no, I got left behind!" I can just ask an LLM to catch me up.
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by kmeisthax 12d ago
No, the freights are NOT OK. US freight railways are responsible for the "precision scheduled railroading" brainworm that makes freight genuinely worse for anything that can be carried by truck and isn't good for anyone: 1. F
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by kmeisthax 13d ago
I just finished writing a long rant on the other Project Xanadu related submission today where I specifically noted that Xanadu has a feature called a "permascroll" where everything you publish gets written into the permascroll an
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by kmeisthax 13d ago
I first read about Xanadu very early in my life, and this project is an absolute miracle in terms of how much it can hold my interest for something that could not and never would work. The crazy irritating zig-zagging split document view ha
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by kmeisthax 13d ago
You can fix the density problem, at least on one end, with park-and-ride lots; every successful commuter / regional[3] rail service puts parking next to the suburban train stations. You just need a dense corridor for people to go to
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by kmeisthax 13d ago
USA's lacking rail commutes come down to the fact that America's leaders made the deliberate decision to destroy its own rail network and force people onto planes. The electric range of this aircraft is 125 miles[0], which is at t
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by kmeisthax 13d ago
> This feels like a strange reductio ad absurdum argument in reverse, where the argument isn’t disproven by reducing it: it is instead proven that merchandise and specifically software is sold as copies not as a singular entity. I’m not
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by kmeisthax 13d ago
There have been cases in which friends or family of Google employees have gotten the Google Death Penalty. In those cases they were internally stonewalled about this for weeks. Google's risk department works like secret police[0] and I
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by kmeisthax 14d ago
...then how do you maintain an adversarial proceeding? Like, it's a pretty basic part of American law that courts only hear "cases and controversies" - that is to say, you need to have two parties who disagree before judges
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by kmeisthax 15d ago
No. In fact, Sony had their own version of this that had three generations of media before getting shitcanned. I think it wound up going to something like 300GB discs - which is like 2.5x what consumers can do with BDXLs.
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
The funny thing is, Rust doesn't quite have a destructive move either . Or, at the very least, it's not exposed to the type system. The Drop trait that tells you if a value of a type T was destroyed can only give you a &mut T
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
Yes, but at this point the critical piece that made no-GC memory safety possible - linear types - had already been researched and known in the FP community. Rust's critical invention was "what if we modeled heap ownership and borr
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
There was a point in time in the mid-2000s when P2P networking had briefly made running your own server attractive to end-users again. And then the iPhone came out and completely killed any hope of that becoming the norm. The thing about sm
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by kmeisthax 16d ago
Between how long it took us to get standard library hardening in C++ and seeing what ISO did to the co-founder of MPEG, I'm convinced ISO is fundamentally incapable of actually being responsive to stakeholders, specifically because of
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by kmeisthax 17d ago
I don't think I'm ever going to have time to read all of this, and I didn't finish reading the METR report, but... > I don’t think the distortion is that large, but yes METR warns that Sol may be presenting all this as mor
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by kmeisthax 17d ago
Let's say a magical enviro-fascist cabal of superhumans appears tomorrow and are somehow able to completely dismantle and ban all sources of energy that emit large amounts of CO2 while also somehow providing replacement quantities of n
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by kmeisthax 19d ago
As I hinted at before, "left" and "right" aren't very well defined and it's easy to confuse one for the other, especially when cultural or national barriers are in the way. But I also do not want to spend parag
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by kmeisthax 19d ago
Yes. However, there are a lot of attorneys who do not want to take on the risk of representing a small client[0] and advise them to just settle - that's why copyright trolling works. In addition, some platforms have their own parallel
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by kmeisthax 19d ago
Yes, the Ayatollahs were very notable in using foreign media to provide cover while they turned a liberal revolution into a far-right Islamist one. I believe there was also a few radical feminists who were so pissed off about America they t
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by kmeisthax 19d ago
> OK, let's go 30 years back and see how many terror attacks, worldwide, were from islamists: it's something like 95% of all terror attacks. Islamism is a far-right ideology. Islamists even collaborate with other flavors of far

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