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by overfeed 4d ago
> then language alone wouldn't be enough to encode and embody reasoning capabilities I disagree, language is the product of, not the mechanism for thought. People who lose their faculty of speech (or haven't gained them) have
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by overfeed 4d ago
> if we transcribe your brain into a simulation and give it a tickrate, you will be just autocomplete too. The underlying mechanisms for producing language are very different, in the same way birds and airplanes have different mechanisms
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by overfeed 5d ago
> AI is now capable of constructions so complex that no human or human team can unpack Can you give an example of this?
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by overfeed 5d ago
> I'm not sure if you've tried to use Wordpress for a simple site. I did recently and it was a horrendous experience. As someone who made a number of bespoke backends, WordPress wins on turnkey host-support, ease of content-aut
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by overfeed 5d ago
TBF, I hadn't heard of the guy before this thread either, but I don't hang out in the unexpected-scaling-demand-with-no-infra-team circles, which appears to he the target market.
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by overfeed 5d ago
> OP never took jets 101. Neither have I. So what? So you,me and OP will likely miss a lot of nuance when discussing jets - after all, reality has a lot of detail. Stating the existence of blindspots is not condescension, having blin
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by overfeed 5d ago
> Your bet is wrong sadly E-ink devices place no demand on fine-motor skills the way turning a page does. I'll stand by by bet. I'm not defensive about the fact that the experience of reading vs listening are different - I ch
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by overfeed 6d ago
> How can you comment as if you are knowledgeable enough about aviation to speak on this with authority, but you aren't aware that ... This is par for the course for HN; smart people applying first-principle thinking on unfamiliar d
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by overfeed 6d ago
Oh no, how am I ever going to avoid giving my custom to someone who has allegedly cornered the market on - checks notes - a db proxy? Give me a break. I can think of at least 4 other ways of scaling horizontally without switching DB engi
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by overfeed 6d ago
touché
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by overfeed 6d ago
lol are you an amazon wannabe?
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by overfeed 6d ago
> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him. Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, o
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by overfeed 6d ago
> Forgejo disallows LLM contributions You're misreading the rule. >> 5. Using general AI for review is forbidden. The second sentence makes it even clearer, as it would have been unnecessary under a blanket ban scenario >
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by overfeed 6d ago
> If manufacturing ever became Google's Achilles heel, they can take a majority stake in something like VinFast and manufacture a Google car. They won't even have to (partially) buy any manufacturer - they can utilize contract
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by overfeed 6d ago
I can't wait for OpenAI to do this to companies firing people to free up AI budgets
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by overfeed 7d ago
This comic from 14 years ago remains evergreen https://hijinksensue.com/comic/surface-tension/
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by overfeed 8d ago
> That sucks for search quality. I was shocked to see Google's AI panel show my niece Bluey fan-fiction[1] as authoritative fact, sourced from an wiki (may have been a fandom wiki, IIRC). Independent wikis have variable quality, pag
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by overfeed 8d ago
> reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently This doesn't matter. What matters to me is I experienced the stories conveyed by the words. I bet reading a hardback lights u
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by overfeed 9d ago
I "read" 6 audiobooks on my phone last month. Listening to audiobooks counts as reading, text-snobs be damned.
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by overfeed 10d ago
> Nothing we do today will be even remotely important in 1,000 years The irony of quoting the work of a poet who died over 200 years ago is thick.
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by overfeed 10d ago
The US free speech advocates had plenty to day about Julian Assange, an Australian stuck in the Ecuadorean embassy all the way across the Atlantic.
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by overfeed 11d ago
i.e. if some crazy, cartoon villain scientist were to create the perfect tool to enable fishing for crimes, the Flock cameras and drones would be the first.
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by overfeed 12d ago
> Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law Corporate lawlessness has no good outcomes for humans.
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by overfeed 12d ago
Its not just about saving $0.05. There are many legitimate reasons to not want the AI to do the thinking (aka architecting or planning) for you. In those cases where one-shotting is undesirable or unnecessary, closed frontier AIaaS has no a
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by overfeed 12d ago
I'm just glad the dweebs who were parroting "OMG, Distillation attacks!!1!" have been empirically proven wrong, and discussion around open-weight models are more rational now.
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by overfeed 12d ago
> licencing the models for local use Who's going to be the new Bill Gates, with a vision for "a GPU cluster in every home?"
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by overfeed 12d ago
Its almost as if NYT has had a hawkish agenda for the past few ...generations.
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by overfeed 12d ago
I don't think most motorists would care if OpenAI's gas stations just released 106-Octane "Intersteller" gas, unless their cars specifically require it.
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by overfeed 13d ago
> I know discs are just physical licenses at this point in time, not actual software on disc like the old school days. I don't understand why people keep repeating this meme when emulation exists, and discs remain the easiest legal
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by overfeed 15d ago
> These companies subsidizing green energy expansion, because it's now the cheapest power to expand. Unless you consider natural gass green energy, it's quite the opposite for the moment. This is because the AI build-out is abo

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