vlyan

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by vlyan 3d ago
that's how it would've been up if genai happened in the 90's, and I wish it did. in the current era of omnipartisan authoritarianism, such things are no longer possible.
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by vlyan 3d ago
alas, unlike the moral panics of old this one has the capital behind it.
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by vlyan 4d ago
I can't imagine a grown adult genuinely believing that an American company funded with over $100 billion of venture capital values the best interests of mankind over the best interests of its investors. while not everyone may recogni
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by vlyan 4d ago
>so you'd expect them to be wary of doing it for no reason average skyrim patch notes: - added no features - fixed no bugs - moved around some buttons in the paid mods menu
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by vlyan 4d ago
people have been putting their fuckass blogs with 0.5 visitors a day behind Cloudflare long before the increase in bot traffic. and that increase makes fuck all any difference for them anyway.
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by vlyan 4d ago
I think curated directories from prehistory might make a comeback eventually, maybe combined with a search engine that indexes only the whitelisted websites. ironically, we can use LLMs to filter out AI slop by measuring the signal-to-noise
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by vlyan 5d ago
which, unfortunately, empowers the professional crybullies behind such articles further. imagine the current year reaction to the Judas Priest trial. we'd have instagram newspeak like "unalive" in album titles and song lyrics
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by vlyan 5d ago
if/when music gen gets to the point of being able to convincingly emulate given source material, it would be genuinely amazing. I don't really care whether it's manmade or not if it's the only way to get more of the thin
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by vlyan 7d ago
>the photons aren't travelling in a direct path down the fiber like water down a pipe. They're bouncing off the interior walls of it at like a 45 degree angle billions/trillions of times before it reaches the other end of
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by vlyan 7d ago
I don't think his base is as happy as you seem to believe. I lurked thedonald during the early days of your Special Military Operation, and it is now as anally moderated as r/politics, r/europe, and Russian social media -- in
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by vlyan 7d ago
yes, the conclusive evidence you're missing is that GPT-2 could do those things about as convincingly as a Markov chain.
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by vlyan 7d ago
yes, but it will be the size of the market for smiths, coopers, and arkwrights.
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by vlyan 7d ago
flex is not a collection of aliases for <td>s and <tr>s
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by vlyan 7d ago
this. leftpad as a service bullshit SaaS companies somehow raising millions was a temporary insanity driven by ZIRP and incestuous VC money currents. we see the same thing happening now with companies whose products are paper-thin vibecoded
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by vlyan 7d ago
not just the internet, but every commercially published written work in existence, and I doubt their highly publicized destructive scanning thing had managed to legitimize even a fraction of a percent. this what is permissible for Jupiter
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by vlyan 7d ago
that it was bullshit and they knew it. GPT-2 wasn't capable of anything other than imitating a stroke victim.
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by vlyan 7d ago
yes, exactly, that's what they claimed that incoherent gibberish generator to be capable of.
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by vlyan 8d ago
>After the events of the summer After the blatant marketing campaigns of the summer, you mean. do you need a reminder that those very same people had touted GPT-2 as a dangerous model? worrying about sci-fi doomsday scenarios with the
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by vlyan 8d ago
>NEVER TOP YOUR TREES they do it where I live because the branches bang against apartments' windows when it's windy. I don't think there's another low-maintenance solution.
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by vlyan 8d ago
>Warcraft 3 style agentic dev interface I can forgive the randumb placement of chains but not that sovlless icon of a person from the wow era. wc3 era UI would've used a character portrait.
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by vlyan 8d ago
selective outrage, on the other hand, already has a name.
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by vlyan 8d ago
would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?
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by vlyan 8d ago
to be fair, there is no plausible explanation for Mistral's fall into irrelevance other than having to deal with regulatory burden. US and CN labs get to feed their models all the data in the world while Mistral has to comply with Let&
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by vlyan 9d ago
not so long ago it was very fashionable to include DEI/ESG/etc lip service in those things, regardless of whether it made sense. for example, I've read a study comparing leather tanning compounds and it had a completely out o
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by vlyan 11d ago
>Shareholders. All the frontier models are going public, what I meant is that there isn't a singular entity capable of doing such a rag pull. even if/when closedai and misanthropic do it, open-weights models obviously won'
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by vlyan 11d ago
>There's no incentive to serve underprivileged kids there isn't. AI labs don't give a flying fuck about kids, underprivileged or otherwise -- why should they? LLMs being useful for education is a side effect of them being
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by vlyan 11d ago
the demand for diamonds is artificial, the demand for meat is very much organic. the only thing stopping most people from consuming more of it is the cost -- driven by demand.
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by vlyan 11d ago
my point of view is that "better educational budgets" is a fantasy and kids whose parents can't afford tutors -- the overwhelming majority of them -- are infinitely better off now, with LLMs being able to explain virtually an
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by vlyan 11d ago
you people pretend to hold a rather romantic notion about what school education is. most kids are being educated by indifferent teachers, 40 kids at a time, with little to no opportunity to ask questions. LLMs are an incredible boon for sel
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by vlyan 11d ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... works for now. it's no longer just a redirect. in the week or so it didn't function, I used https://photon-reddit.com/

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