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you're describing a pre-20th century guild, not a union

always? like amd64 vs itanium? (and AMD is still serious challenging Intel in x86 and GPUs today)

Sounds like you've interpreted the "stochastic parrot" metaphor dismissively, and/or that it somehow precludes potential LLM risks.

That's part of the philosophical change that led to GNOME 2.0 https://ometer.com/preferences.html

It's a question about systemic exposure, not my account (I'm Australian).

You understand that those are different kinds of "truth", right?

With his shitty cars, orbital garbage, or CSAM generator? Or his moneyed attacks on democracy and communications? Or his vandalism of government programs without insight, experienc…

... which would make (our current model of) capitalism especially evil. Compared to a supermarket.

Are you sure? What is the 401(k) exposure to "AI" related stocks and broader market shocks?

"Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it's stupid , but I'm gonna do it! Okay?" - Gwen DeMarco, Galaxy Quest

the phrase "[LLM] thinks X is happening" is good chunk of the problem it didn't. it produced an output, and you hopefully invoked some human judgement before believing it was worth…

Doesn't sound nearly as good in the original Austrian (accent).

"that is not an established precedent" in response to a specific claim and "there is no established precedent" can both be true without laying down a verbose foundation of caveats

Given a nation* that decides "corporations are people" and "money is speech", let's not be unduly optimistic about (even temporary) legislation or interpretation. * focusing on the…

(c.f. other comments about confusing misuse of security terminology) An easy way to remember the difference between the As in AAA: Who is your daddy, and what does he do? ^ authent…

That is not an established precedent. (It's not what that case decided.)

Ladies and gentlemen, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which is terrible, but I would be delighted if they breached it and got thoroughly spanked)

"Malcolm Gladwell has a few episodes of revisionist history" that's a complete sentence already

This is the initial endorphin rush you get when wielding a complex system. The feeling changes when the complexity explodes in your face.

A positive vision of humanity alone doesn't bestow personal agency. Personal agency alone doesn't solve structural dystopia.

you don't deserve your user name

You reckon large language models run by this mob of billionaire boot-licking dweebs will lead to a Star Trek style utopia? Come on.

Take a look at how modern PCs enumerate all of their non-PCI hardware. I'll put a bucket over here.

Because they're designed for different things. Ampere's primary focus is running lots of simple tasks concurrently, at relatively low power, with lots of I/O. So, many tens to hund…

"first principles" and "from scratch" are predictable failure modes... he had very good reason to pursue a Python-like language given the circumstances and objectives