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Nope. I'm out. I might still use the API, but the monthly subscription is already gone and I'm on to Claude.

Is it prohibitively larger? And is the size a fundamental constraint of the technology, or is it possible to reduce the size?

Hey - this is awesome. I've been working on a small local app like this to import financial data and present a dashboard, for the family to use together (wife and I). So yeah - gre…

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Be careful what you wish for. VS Code is maybe the best product Microsoft has ever released, largely because the extension market. If Microsoft polices the marketplace more, you ca…

Using a random walk algorithm through genetic space over millions (or billions) of years.

If you don't like the equivalence to slavery, pick a different example, there are three I posted and more you can probably think of on your own. We know that the idea of a rational…

> not all students get the benefit, some already paid off their debts or a large part of it. I'm one of the people who paid off a large portion of debt and probably don't need this…

Given the Cambridge Analytica scandal, why wouldn't it be achievable at Facebook, let alone TikTok. The CCP could mandate that the TikTok algorithm display certain types of politic…

One way could be age limits and more stringent verification of age for all social media platforms. Another way could be limiting feed algorithms to chronological order only. Anothe…

> but it looks at times like the company is less an organism and more a writhing mass of creatures in a thin, shared skin trying to make it appear as one. This is pretty accurate. …

The why is not trivial to explain, but it's related to the petrodollar system. It's good for the USA if we create markets with countries that are developing by moving manufacturing…

Just calling out that worker protections and increased labor costs seem to be the result of workers making more money. As the work force becomes wealthier, they _need_ less money, …

That's true - their revenue from VR/MR hardware is less than 2.5% of revenue though. Meanwhile, ads make up the other 97.5% of their revenue. 97.5% of everything Meta does is to ho…

> Users must take responsibility for knowing how software works and the motivations of its creators. This doesn't seem reasonable. Let's try to apply the logic elsewhere: > Patient…

side-step flamebait like winnie the poo

Sure - there is plenty of attention grabbing AI content - it doesn't have to grab _your_ attention, and it won't work for everyone. I have seen people engaging with apps that redo …

I really think the value of this for Meta is content generation. More open models (especially state of the art) means more content is being generated, and more content is being sha…

Meta makes their money off advertising, which means they profit from attention. This means they need content that will grab attention, and creating open source models that allow an…

I read the whole article, that's where I found the quote attribution. Like I said, I'm not here to defend Altman, or attack him. It's just disingenuous journalism - or click-bait j…

> "We want to make sure you understand that if you don't sign, it could impact your equity," one rep told an outgoing employee, according to Vox. The article is doing a lot of clic…

Until people complain that Apple is being anti-competitive by not making vision tracking open, or allowing third-party eye-tracking controls, etc. etc.

I have a similar view to you and not much to add to your comment, other than to reference a couple books that you might like if you enjoyed 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'. 'The Righteou…

Don't people often fall into the "vaccines cause autism" trap from Google?