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by overvale 3mo ago
I mean... isn't this the entire point of font-family fallbacks?
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by overvale 3mo ago
This article (saw it somewhere years ago) was a large influence on my emacs config. Because of it I discovered emacs' secondary selection feature, which I use all the time now.
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by overvale 3mo ago
They're interactive art projects!
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by overvale 6mo ago
I had no idea there were people this optimistic still left in the world.
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by overvale 6mo ago
Feelings about Palantir aside, this is a really misleading headline. The FCA has hired Palantir to "investigate the watchdog’s internal intelligence data", which presumably requires Palantir to have access to that sensitive data.
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by overvale 6mo ago
Isn't that what the web is for?
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by overvale 6mo ago
Great write-up. But is the classified-network moat meaningful when the product is inference on a foundation model? The Last Supper primes locked in because the technology itself was bespoke.
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by overvale 6mo ago
They also had to reintroduce motion blur since the per frame exposure time is half. A totally fascinating experiment.
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by overvale 6mo ago
I managed to build myself exactly this with Claude's help. There are 3 levels of protection. 1. I use an app called SelfControl, which blocks websites temporarily. 2. I have a script which watches `/etc/hosts` with launchd an
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by overvale 6mo ago
Debevec tried a version of this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13702
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by overvale 6mo ago
Not just PR. I mean... they got fired over those limits.
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Artifacts: A Visual History of Technology from 1965 to the Present(tmls.com)
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by overvale 11mo ago
A great point! I've experienced the same. We reshape reality to match the mental models we create. To the extent this has always been the case I have to accept it, but it feels like we're in a logarithmic curve of that pattern bec
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by overvale 11mo ago
I'm genuinely interested in the world around me, and I like being entertained as much as the next person, but the problem with social media for me is that it creates a simulacrum of the world which does not correspond to the tangible r
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by overvale 11mo ago
I'm not 100% clear myself but I think that the criticism is that what was supposed to be a non-profit delivering world-changing technology for the public good was bullied/manipulated into a for-profit entity that would enrich inve
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by overvale 11mo ago
I should have structured my sentences a little better. I'm not confused about why he has detractors, I'm confused as to why people thought it would go any other way with this munch money on the line. But, you're right, that&#
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by overvale 11mo ago
No, I'm saying I'm cynical because I assume that whenever this much money is involved there's no way events unfold in a fair, ethical, utopian way. It always turns into a knife fight in the mud.
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by overvale 11mo ago
Yeah, you're right, it's not a fair comparison.
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by overvale 11mo ago
I'm so genuinely confused by all this. It seems that Altman has a lot of detractors here, and I'm not sure why (my fault for not keeping up I guess). But a company that wants to spend trillions of dollars on AGI infrastructure and
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by overvale 11mo ago
The Politics of Succession, by Andrej Kokkonen, Jørgen Møller, Anders Sundell https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Politics_of_Success... > this book also shows that the development and spread of primogenit
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by overvale 11mo ago
History says: proved useful.
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by overvale 11mo ago
> It turns out hereditary succession is not a good way to choose a competent political leader. I'm not sure republics have cracked that one either.
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by overvale 11mo ago
Farcical aquatic ceremonies have their uses.
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by overvale 11mo ago
Hot take: hereditary kingdoms were a reasonably successful solution to curbing constant civil war in a time when representative democracies might not have been viable (for various reasons).
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by overvale 11mo ago
I don’t agree with that. I see people carrying around iPads, clipboards, physical books, sheets of paper, paper notebooks, dedicated cameras, even walkie talkies. All of those people have smartphones in their pockets as well.
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by overvale 11mo ago
Constantinople.
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by overvale 11mo ago
I think you could make identical arguments about any new technology. Amazingly expensive computers were once not very practical, it’s easy to point at any massive world changing tech and call it unethical, you can find these arguments about
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by overvale 11mo ago
> Ultimately, the answer is simple: reinventing AI is essentially reinventing the smartphone. I don’t think this is true at all. The smartphone is not some kind of endgame device after which there is no future. No more so than the train
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by overvale 11mo ago
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's inve
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by overvale 11mo ago
Other people have said this, but I don’t think it’s going to be any different than living in a world where people can spread rumors orally or print lies with a printing press. We’ve been dealing with those challenges for a long time. Our wa

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