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No major language model I am aware of meets the polar extreme that I describe as unmistakably open source, because even those with transparent training data (like IBM Granite) gene…

If the weight, training and inference code, and training data are all released under of Open Source (OSI definition) license, the it is unmistakably “open source”. As you drift fro…

> Wasn't LLaMA or Llama 2 the first ever open weight LLM through a leak No. GPT-2, I think, was the first, four(ish) years before Llama, and there were a bunch in between GPT-2 and…

A Georgist LVT is based on the value of the bare land, which is constrained by permitted uses. Adopting it without first removing zoning restrictions would increase the incentive f…

How would an LVT do that when the barrier to dense housing is zoning restrictions? Changing the tax structure doesn't remove that restriction.

A land value tax without changes in non-tax land use regulations would not fix, and a land value tax would not be necessary after removing the non-tax land use restrictions which t…

> US laboratories are currently unable to contain their agents while doing security testing Alternative interpretation: US labs are using the supposed inability to control their fr…

Even if by “open models” you specifically restrict that to LLM or LLM-backbone models with different or additional modalities to text released by major American firms then there ar…

> The data centers in Aurora are surrounded with prairie green space; everything else, including the nicest office buildings, are a sea of eyesore asphalt parking lots. The concern…

Which makes it a clear price win if you already subscribe to Pro for some other reason, otherwise the price crossover where ChatGPT Pro unlimited beats the per-image pricing cited …

You are, of course, correct about determinism. In the grandparent post I was accepting the previous poster’s somewhat sloppy use of “nondeterministic” because I was focussed on oth…

> The only realistic low-error approach is incremental step-by-step migration using Cursor or similar tools. Correction: AI is not deterministic, the only realistic low-error solut…

The penalty for not honoring a DROP “request” is more severe than perjury (and, conversely, there is no penalty at all for not honoring a DMCA notice, the only effect is that you d…

> Also let me ask you why we need better and better and models if what we have already can produce good output with 'all the tooling to verify its hypotheses' “Good” isn’t “perfect…

Love this line in the critical material quoted there: “Writing correctly in STE is not an easy task as it requires a good command of the English language together with a good knowl…

> Today, humans convert their labor to capital. Capital holders need labor (humans) to acquire more capital. When the price of inference for these robots becomes less than the pric…

Mean personal disposable income being comparable to median household income isn't too surprising and doesn't necessarily indicate any error. Mean is much higher than median, indivi…

In finance and VC-funded -startup worshipping circles it is derogatory, because it means you aren't trying to scale like a VC-funded-startup. That space is often confused with “tec…

“Didn’t forbid”, if referring to the framers of the Constitution, is a bit of an understatement, given that they created multiple layers of protection to prevent dismantling slaver…

Franklin also supported universal male suffrage, wrote Pennsulvania’s 1776 constitution which adopted universal male suffrage, and condemned property requirements for the franchise…

The founding fathers, the framers (a different and later group, though the two overlap and are often conflated) and original states had a variety of (and evolving in some cases bet…

Any data that is consulted in the course of deciding how to use the capabilities of a system are instructions (they are a different and less privileged level of instruction than th…

> Quick version: “abliteration” (basically removing the direction in the model that causes it to refuse) is the go-to method people use to make open models uncensored. Tru-ish (lot…

> if copyright wasn't a thing, there would be much less need to scan any physical media. Because there’d be much less content created in any media to capture in the first place.

> I have seen many economists argue that austerity is the first sign of a country down turning, funnily enough these are usually also the same people that advocate for smaller gove…