sholain

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by sholain 9mo ago
A complete mischaracterization. George Floyd ingested quite a lot of fentanyl, enough to die though it was inconclusive - it's a biological and medical reality that characterized the situation in a very real way. Snowden released a lot
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by sholain 9mo ago
Whistle-blowing is not illegal (in the US) that's what the laws are there for, though obviously it's dicey and depends on media portrayal, and those laws could stand to be reinforced. The Abu Ghraib (Iraq prison scandal) whistle-b
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by sholain 9mo ago
One cannot just release whatever one wants, and some of the docs should not have been released. There were huge variations in the nature of the content that he released, and this is the problem with the narrative. He's a 'whistle
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by sholain 9mo ago
+ Once again: 1000 K people coming up with some arbitrary bit of content is already understood in basically every legal regime in the world as 'public domain'. "Can you explain how you think this works? Can a person's wo
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by sholain 9mo ago
- I don't think it's even reasonable to suggest that 1000 people all coming up with variations of some arbitrary bit of code either deserve credit - or certainly 'financial remuneration' because they wrote some arbitrary
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by sholain 9mo ago
Yes agree with the sentiment - G has the reach for sure.
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by sholain 9mo ago
RAG and LLMs are not the same thing, but 'Agents' incorporate both. Maybe we could resolve the bit of a conundrum by the op in requiring 'agents' to give credit for things if they did rag them or pull them off the web? I
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by sholain 10mo ago
"it would struggle to honor its long-term agreements. That failure would cascade. Oracle, for example, could be left with massive liabilities and no matching revenue stream," No, there's a not of noise about this but these ar
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by sholain 10mo ago
We need strong regulation.
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by sholain 10mo ago
" Switching between models can be done by a single person in an afternoon (often just 5 minutes). That's what we're talking about." Good gosh, no, for comprehensive systems it's considerably more complicated than th
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by sholain 10mo ago
There are quite large 'switching costs' from moving a solution that's dependent on on model and ecosystem, to another. Models have to significantly outperform on some metric in order to even justify looking at it. Even for sm
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by sholain 10mo ago
Gemeni does not have 'the lead' in anything but a benchmark. The most applicable benchmarks right now are in software, and devs will not switch from Claude Code or Codex to Antigravity, it's not even a complete product. This
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by sholain 10mo ago
"don't have anything else of any value. " ? OpenAI is still de facto the market leader in terms of selling tokens. "zero moat" - it's a big enough moat that only maybe four companies in the world have that leve
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by sholain 10mo ago
Don't really think the thesis is fair. SDD as it's presented is a bit heavy weight, if you experimented with a bit, there is a lighter version that can work. For some mini modules, we keep a single page spec as 'source of tru
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by sholain 10mo ago
You started by saying 'There's no way to judge!' - but then bring out 'Benchmarks!' ... and hypocritically infer that I have 'dual standards'? The snark and ad hominem really undermine your case. I won&#x2
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by sholain 10mo ago
Kimi is plausibly near the frontier but definitely not up to GPT5 spec, the rest are definitely not 'frontier models'. There are objective ways of 'judging' them.
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by sholain 10mo ago
Why 'host' just to tap a few prompts in and see what happens? Worst case, you loose an account. Usually the answer has to do with people being less sophisticated than otherwise.
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by sholain 10mo ago
Nobody has access to 'frontier quality models' except Open AI, Anthropic, Google, maybe Grok, maybe Meta etc. aka nobody in China quite yet. And - there are 'layers' of Engineering beyond just model that make quite a big
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by sholain 11mo ago
The author is mixing a lot of issues here. Especially the GPL vs Permissive License conflation with the Corporate Hosting problem. Also, the sociological phenom of tech people falling into culty ideals is really interesting and maybe a bit
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by sholain 11mo ago
$TRUMP is managed by World Liberty. The money is coming into $TRUMP and WLF at the same time as Trump is announcing deals with those parties.
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by sholain 11mo ago
Trump's personal, newfound multi-billion dollar crypto fortune is hosted by Zhao. I don't mean to be breaking any etiquette her by re-indicating this, but it's I think it's unreasonable to suggest that Trump could not kn
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by sholain 11mo ago
To the contrary, this is possibly an extremely dangerous and corrupt action (I'm saying 'possible' here). Zhao manages Binance upon which Trump's nefarious crypto operation - World Liberty Financial is hosted. Zhao is gu
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by sholain 11mo ago
The US President and his family's newfound crypto fortune, worth billions, managed by himself, his sons and 'Steve Witkoff' (his business partner who is 'negotiating' deals in the Middle East and Russia, and whereup
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by sholain 11mo ago
Share buybacks are are at least nominally a financially neutral exercise - it generally does not benefit either shareholders or executives. They can however signal 'strength' in stock price by creating more demand and signalling t
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by sholain 11mo ago
The West is relatively clean at least in this; they had fair and open terms for China which were not reciprocated. Even those 'local partnerships' in China were not above board - they existed to steal the intellectual property fro
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by sholain 11mo ago
"enforces restrictions that are similar to the ones China " No; the restrictions the West places on Chinese companies are not remotely comparable in proportionality or form. But worse - China does not just have the opportunity to