redfloatplane

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by redfloatplane 1mo ago
But what if those measures might apply to your favourite multi-trillion-dollar globo-corp and cause them to nominally change their business practices? That's a step too far, I say.
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by redfloatplane 1mo ago
Good for you! As an EU citizen I have found myself in almost total disagreement with everything he's written regarding EU policy. Horses for courses.
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by redfloatplane 1mo ago
Yes, I decided to stop reading his blog relatively recently after some extremely hot takes on EU policy. I don't feel his thoughts on the matter are particularly well-thought-out, and I feel like he's just stanning for Apple from
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by redfloatplane 3mo ago
I was thinking of user-side regulations as well, not only provider-side ones. I could imagine a world where a government rules that you may not use LLMs for anything, which would be much easier to get around if you have local means.
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by redfloatplane 3mo ago
> I pay ~3$ per 1M/tokens for that model on Openrouter I think the thing is, there's an unspoken "for now" at the end of that sentence and people running this locally are hedging against that "for now". Some
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
"Shop jigs" is a great way to put it. I think a lot of software has gone from being made for general use to extremely individualised use. Before the Age of AI, it took so much human effort to write something that solved your probl
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Indeed. Taillte Ireland's (Ordnance Survey Ireland's) detailed cartographic data is also not open (including historic data - maps from the 1820s and 1920s!) and it's really a huge pain in the ass. On the other hand, OSM is in
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Huh, TIL about the National LIDAR Programme: https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/f0db0249-f17b-4036-9e65-3091... Very interesting stuff and quite a large undertaking! I'm often impressed by the quality of the UK'
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Interesting, thanks for your comment. I'll have to think about it!
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Probably yes. Humans can survive a lot of Gs for a short time. John Stapp survived up to 38 Gs with liveable injuries and some ejector seats are around 32 g [0]. They could fairly easily get 500m away within 3-4 seconds. This has happened b
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
I also had this behaviour sometimes, it’s specifically called out in the system card in section 6.2.1.1 - although I didn’t actually see if they said they decisively fixed the issue.
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
I don't really see how you got to your comment from what I quoted. However, somewhat relatedly, I proposed a thought experiment about this in the comments for Opus 4.7[0]: > It's April, 1991. Magically, some interface to Claud
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
This made me laugh. Training Opus 4.7 on business skills caused it to sometimes exhibit dishonest behaviour, and not training 4.8 on those skills removed it. From the system card: > 6.2.5 External testing from Andon Labs Andon Labs revie
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
I sometimes wonder if much upcoming human creative work will be quite avant-garde, out there, ultra-stylised and/or difficult to comprehend (or even devoid of intent or message), as a reaction to AI's sort of 'common denomina
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
I recently came across https://tropes.fyi/directory which has a pretty solid set of common patterns, and I like it a lot. The pattern that always really bothers me is the one named "short punchy fragments", for ex
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Yes, I found that really striking. I am still making my way through this document, but I think there's quite a high wisdom-per-sentence value. For me, there's a lot to learn from here, and I'm very grateful for it!
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
I know it's boring to comment and say that something sounds like it was written by an AI, but this sounds like it was written by an AI. I am often especially suspicious of these listicle recommendation sites because it's pretty ch
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Dupe, more or less. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Ah, an opening to recommend The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, about a Jesuit going to space to speak with aliens. It won the Arthur C Clarke Award in 1998. I read it recently and it has stuck with me very strongly!
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
That is a really beautiful passage, thank you for sharing - I hadn't made it to that section yet and still haven't. I'm still reflecting on the stuff in the opening! > If we focus only on contingencies, we risk letting the
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
> As Pope Francis warned, we must realistically ask ourselves who holds this power today and how they use it: “It must also be recognized that nuclear energy, biotechnology, information technology, knowledge of our own DNA, and many othe
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Thanks, I'll add it to the list. I know I've read this one, but reading the plot summary on wikipedia, I remember very little of it. The death books are ones I mostly read 20+ years ago when I was a bit too young to grasp more tha
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
Funny, I would have said that was one of my favourites but it hadn't occurred to me at all that it's such a direct line to today's world! Thanks for the suggestion, I look forward to reading it again with that in mind! (One o
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
I really wish we had gotten Prachett on LLMs. I often wonder what he would have written about today's world. A side note, if the author reads this: I really like your site and its design, but I find the font really difficult to read. (
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by redfloatplane 4mo ago
It’s funny you say that as about halfway through I was beginning to wonder if this was at least Claude-edited. Absolutely no shade to the author meant, I think it’s a thoughtful article, but I _did_ feel the sheen of AI co-authorship. It ra
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by redfloatplane 5mo ago
Great post, thanks for sharing. Evidently I am far behind the real thinkers! The Robin Sloan post mentioned is also very good.
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by redfloatplane 5mo ago
I (and I'm sure many others) have been thinking about this a lot over the last couple of months. I called it "Extremely Personal Software" in a blog post a few months ago ( https://redfloatplane.lol/blog/1
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by redfloatplane 5mo ago
Ah, they just today did Formula E in a Pink Pig livery ( https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/1062899 ) but I think the Apple livery might have been more apt.
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by redfloatplane 5mo ago
Maybe I meant that the amount of detail is sustained no matter how close you look? Maybe I was careless with my words? This is unnecessarily pedantic. I enjoyed the article. See you another time, CyberDildonics
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by redfloatplane 5mo ago
Did you read the article? It's entirely about a concrete artefact from that old movie, down to the kind of tweed, now made by only six people in Scotland. I'm not sure how you come to this response.

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