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by svnt 1mo ago
If you log and view your "Usage" page there is a blue banner near the top in a blue box saying: > We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please p
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by svnt 2mo ago
There are few conspiracies where the vectors between "capitalist organization makes more money" and "user can't reliably distinguish tiers of product quality" overlap.
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by svnt 2mo ago
I replied to the user above that referenced marginlab, but I believe marginlab uses the API. It is possible (arguably likely, in MBA-land) that the API and subscription accounts hit different sub-models. Even if they use a subscription acco
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by svnt 2mo ago
Is this using the api or using a subscription, though? The incentives are different for each, and it isn't the least bit unexpected that they would maintain API access quality while 'optimizing' the subscription experience to
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by svnt 3mo ago
It's because really what they are doing is using chemistry to split a cell. Adamala is a chemist. They have just bolted an unsynchronized physicochemical process onto the boundary of the cell. It doesn't coordinate with anything t
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by svnt 3mo ago
18,600 engineering years sounds impressive to someone because it is the bulk of a career for 1,000 engineers. But it is less than two years for 10,000 engineers. The depth of understanding really hinges on which version is closer to reality
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by svnt 3mo ago
It has very human aspects, such as the beginning. So people switch off. And then it has long stretches where it is bulked up by claude and opus-4.8’s obsession with “honestly true,” “narrower” claims, how concepts “rhyme” etc. I guess it is
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by svnt 3mo ago
Right, this is cyborg text. The opening is in human voice. I am acknowledging that. Then it ebbs and flows over llm rocks. The piece would be maybe 6-8 grafs without claude, and much of claude is papered over.
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by svnt 3mo ago
The one they claim is in their voice [1] has zero of the tells I am referring to. You can compare and contrast it with your fully/generated reference 0 (although that is fable and I have little experience reading its writing it seems t
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by svnt 3mo ago
Parts of it seem not to be, but the bulk of it is. Here is a particularly clear example of opus-4.8-speak. > Now, I want to be careful here, because this is the part where it would be very easy to start waving my arms around. Every singl
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by svnt 3mo ago
It is mostly written by llm. “narrower” and “I want to put a fence here” hedging, etc. This is very 4.8. Maybe llm that has been somewhat massaged by a human to sound less ai.
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by svnt 3mo ago
Founders are often synonymous with their businesses. In the case of celebrities the relevant exploitation is carried out by others in the value chain, they are just the lure/source.
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by svnt 3mo ago
It makes the government stupider so there are more excuses to bring in better private solutions. Handicap the public services if they are working well, then talk about how bad they are to justify for-profit replacement. Or don’t and just ex
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by svnt 3mo ago
They are all about science and research. What they don’t want is for scientific discoveries to be publicly available, because then it is harder to leverage them for absurd profit margins.
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by svnt 3mo ago
Which they anticipated, which is why they were flagging and dropping back to opus on anything they could even potentially be called on.
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by svnt 3mo ago
Not sure but a green screen version of AWS for $500 is totally plausible and a decent metaphor for what you’d get with AI anyway.
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by svnt 3mo ago
I have found that on long-running tasks, many of the communication (and other) invariants get dropped at seemingly arbitrary points along the way. It probably just stopped doing the log.
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by svnt 4mo ago
As I see the perspective of a typical vp champion/customer/middle manager at a large org that buys their services: if my vendor increases their prices that is usually an indication they have something of value and things are going
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by svnt 4mo ago
They are because they can, because it serves as social proof, which convinces their customers that they are doing something of deeper value. Then in reality they will use it to develop channels preparing to use their customers (and the data
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by svnt 4mo ago
The play is the same as it always was, I assume: your data is the long term product.
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by svnt 4mo ago
IIUC in this particular instance of corporate <-> government space warfare, orbital decay should clear out the debris relatively quickly.
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by svnt 4mo ago
I agree with that as a premise, but again it seems to me you are selectively jumping way into the end game. There were early networks that did not standardize, and these nonstandard networks had advantages, and some of those advantages were
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by svnt 4mo ago
It isn’t animated at all for me?
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by svnt 4mo ago
I agree with much of what you’ve written but think you are missing the correct alignment of the mobile data timeline — mobile data had standards because it was forced to. It was forced to early because it was not a fundamental innovation, t
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by svnt 4mo ago
This argument sounds nice at a surface level, but seems deeply incoherent and wrong in a way I haven’t yet put my finger on precisely. How can you say this: > We have souls. We have an inner self. We can treat ourselves as transcendental
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by svnt 4mo ago
Closest thing is probably Bernardo Kastrup’s analytic idealism.
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by svnt 4mo ago
This is essentially where the field is going, started with predictive processing by Friston with his free energy principle, combined into Hofstadter’s “I am a strange loop” and then the continuing thrust with applying the FEP as well as Ros
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by svnt 4mo ago
I’m not sure you and the parent are talking about the same thing. I think they were making a joke about us getting dumber that I am confused about the premise of. You seem to be suggesting we are going to fill spreadsheets (which claude alr
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by svnt 4mo ago
A higher level of abstraction that doesn't require thinking? Did you mean to write thinking here?
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by svnt 4mo ago
The accurate version of the result would be something like: “if you model lifespan as aging + i.i.d. noise and dial the noise to zero, heritability of the aging component is ~40-50% in our model.” Which is barely a finding, since by constru

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