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by m4x 2mo ago
The study looks at forms of AI that have existed for a long time, as well as newer LLMs. From the article: "Their dataset included 41.3 million English-language papers published between 1980 and 2025 in ..." Earlier studies looked
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by m4x 2mo ago
I'm genuinely curious how you think we should avoid it? If I had to buy a household appliance tomorrow, or a new car, I cannot think of a single company I'd feel safe purchasing from.
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by m4x 2mo ago
There are many beautiful parks and it's wonderful to spend time in them. But at some point you have to return to domesticity, and if you can't live that part of your life without being repeatedly screwed over by greedy corporation
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by m4x 2mo ago
What do you do when the expensive options are also junk? Relatively few manufacturers actually focus on quality today.
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by m4x 2mo ago
> you're trying to compete with millions of square miles of naturally sun-lit dirt You're begging the question with this statement. Indoor growing is used when you don't have access to this kind of resource. There are m
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by m4x 2mo ago
There currently isn't a effective treatment for varroa that doesn't also kill the hive. It is not a solved problem, and there is certainly room for more research in this space.
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by m4x 3mo ago
I agree with your point, but to play devils advocate: doesn't a competitor arguably need access to these beyond-frontier models to even become an effective competitor to OpenAI and Anthropic?
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by m4x 4mo ago
I'm not sure what you think I'm saying, but in case it needs clarifying, it is not that Apple should have built fabs 3.5 years ago, or today, or at any other point in time. What I did say is that in a hypothetical world where Appl
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by m4x 4mo ago
Isn't one of the points of the article that memory manufacturers leave demand unmet for their own financial safety? In which case, nobody (including Apple) is paying close to manufacturing costs. There isn't enough memory to go ar
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by m4x 4mo ago
A world where Apple has invested in their own fabs, so they can sell devices with drastically more RAM than their competition at entry-level prices.
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by m4x 4mo ago
I think your comment about inventing new words is an interesting one. One of the things that I believe limits our ability to discover new ideas is our ability to describe related concepts. For example, the reason we still can't have cl
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by m4x 4mo ago
I'm not making a circular argument, nor one based on legality. You explicitly changed your example to use "public domain" content, and ignoring the legal specifics of that it's clear that's a separate category of co
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by m4x 4mo ago
If AI turns out to be a bust, ignoring it could become a significant win. One possible outcome of AI adoption is that existing code bases are degraded, and existing programmer capability is allowed to atrophy. In that situation, companies t
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by m4x 4mo ago
Your examples, as you say, are all public domain. Are all the works we train LLMs on public domain too? Was the original book in my analogy in the public domain? What do you think about training on material that isn't yet in the public
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by m4x 4mo ago
A better analogy would be that you do original research or work and produce a valuable book. Somebody else looks at your work, decides it has value, and reproduces it in a new book under their name. The new book is cheaper, or easier to fin
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by m4x 5mo ago
What kind of work are you applying Opus and other LLMs to? I'm quite curious to understand how other people are using these tools. At the moment neither Opus nor any open weights models seem to be capable of doing complex work, and for
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by m4x 5mo ago
No one at my company cares about OpenClaw either. We do care that we can be billed unexpectedly (either usage quota immediately being consumed, or being charged additional costs), generally with zero recourse, because a particular set of
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by m4x 5mo ago
Yes, fully agree. Nonetheless, I suspect violence can be used more effectively and more minimally if it's considered and performed by a group rather than haphazardly by individuals. I recognise that's a very simplistic view.
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by m4x 5mo ago
There's still a meaningful difference between violence wielded by a single individual who feels angry or unheard, and violence wielded by a large representative group who has invested genuine effort in conversation before collectively
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by m4x 6mo ago
Tools do author commits in my code bases, for example during a release pipeline. If I had commits being made by Claude I would expect that to be recorded too. It isn't for recording a bill of tools, just to help understand a projects e
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by m4x 6mo ago
Vendramini's theory appears to be built upon some fairly extraordinary ideas that are not supported by actual evidence. In fact some of his claims (e.g. about face shape and skull placement) are directly contradicted by actual evidence
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by m4x 6mo ago
This is rather disingenuous. It can be hard to overcome momentum in research, but most researchers would be giddy with excitement if they could show our (extremely disturbing) forecasts regarding climate change are wrong and that things are
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by m4x 7mo ago
There's a case cited in that paper which does suggest something similar: > A report in the lay literature describes the case of Claire Sylvia who reported changes in her personality, preferences, and behaviors following a heart and
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by m4x 1y ago
Would you consider that any current LLM is close to passing the Turing test? If you think there's an LLM that can do so, I'd love to try it out! Even talking to the best models available today, it's disappointingly clear I&#x
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by m4x 1y ago
It's quite possible that the models from different companies are clustering together now because we're at a plateau point in model development, and won't see much in terms in further advances until we make the next significan
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by m4x 1y ago
Aaron Swartz wanted to provide the public with open access to paywalled journal articles, while Anthropic want to use other people's copyrighted material to train their own private models that they restrict access to via a paywall. It&
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by m4x 1y ago
He did not cause a serious hazmat situation. The authorities decided to evacuate a street, and are responsible for the seriousness of their over-reaction. The packages were labelled correctly, and blocked at the border, and USPS delivered t
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by m4x 1y ago
The article says “the quantities of material were so small they were safe to eat” If that’s true, the overreaction and evacuation is higher risk than possession of the elements You can’t blame Lidden for the overreaction of others
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by m4x 2y ago
Do you think we can avoid multiple-degree temperature increases with the amount of CO2 (and equivalents) in the atmosphere already? If not, how do we mitigate those increases without CDR?
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by m4x 2y ago
What you think the purpose of determining the error of an instrument is, if not to calibrate it?

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