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Sure but the first step to having something that is physically small, small enough to cram into an iPhone, is to have something that, at first, isn't.

I don't understand why OP cut that off... that's a completely different title.

As they say, the day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.

If the thesis that "If anybody builds it, everyone dies" is true, or has any chance of becoming true, then it is the logical thing to do. As Geoffrey Hinton said, "If you want to k…

The current project I am developing with AI is so bloated that I've spent more time and tokens cleaning up the repo (to the tune of tens of thousands of lines removed) than actuall…

The law is not software. It would be very easy to argue that a streaming stick that automatically downloads malware is no different from one that came with malware.

Online it still seems like for the most part if you buy from something a bit more specialty (e.g. McMaster, Digikey, etc) you still get really good vetting and high quality stuff, …

Nope, it was actual 1.6.4 (and probably beyond that too). It wasn't amazing but consistent 30fps with some ATI card from the time. It had a Pentium D of some sort, can't remember e…

I don't love that I need a Microsoft account to log into minecraft, but the alternative was losing it permanently.

I remember playing back in like the 1.6.4 era on a piece of garbage from 2005 with a monstrous 1GB of ram.

But "its specifically engineered to ensure that nobody reads it" is a real argument

The same reason gambling is. No, I'm serious. Theres a psychological phenomenon where things which are reliably positive are less enjoyable (or addictive) than something that is di…

It is interesting how Linux and FOSS in general is just providing a better UX these days. I have to think its because without profit motives, people do things for passion and maybe…

Sure but Orange Catholicism hasn't quite caught on yet.

I do wonder if their "fair use" argument preempts them from actually being able to claim copyright over the model weights, since it can be argued that the vast majority of what the…

The only good arguments I see against open weight AI also apply to closed AI. And regardless, the box is open, nobody can stop it even if stopping it was a good thing.

You can totally mark up your books. No issue with that, if you like it. I don't personally, but I don't see why someone shouldn't do it. Now should you sell those books? Probably n…

Intel had something very close to a monopoly for a long time. ARM wasn't taken seriously for desktop or server applications, and AMD was unable to compete with Intel's top-end CPUs…

Who cares. Anthropic distilled the entire internet, and then a good bit more beyond that.

Go read a few fanfics and tell me you still think that theres added value.

Great, that way is called copyright. The author has the right to control who has the rights to distribute their work, and can require compensation in exchange for that right; what …

Because by the time it goes out to clients it (should be) thoroughly tested and aligned for safety, but at the present moment it isn't.

People have been sounding that alarm for well over a year now, just not anyone who has the power to do anything about it.

Its a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy (that happens to be absurdly profitable for certain people). AGI is inevitable, so we need to gear our entire economy towards building it fi…

And nobody would post "I did it for free!" if they had done it themselves, but somehow spending $25 on tokens changes how we're supposed to look at it