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I am reading a translation, so I might be off base, but not being a monopoly is not a defense. EU competition regulations are not like American antitrust laws. They do not care abo…

The law draws a line. Plaintiffs think that line was crossed, Sony thinks they it was not. We have mechanisms to arbitrate this kind of dispute, and I am not taking sides. My point…

> Sorry, this only works when you've got a robust market with lots of competition. It’s even worse than that. It only works with goods that are fungible and suppliers that are inte…

> Sony sells their consoles at break even or sometimes at a loss. They hope to make money from their software sales. I don’t have a strong opinion in this case (of the games market…

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Or, if you want to be less philosophical: anything that other pe…

There is quite a bit of literature about the Palantir and the related philosophy, whether thy were allegories, etc. AFAICT the consensus is that they are a very catholic concept an…

Sometimes, I wonder how these guys are doing these days. They were utterly, spectacularly wrong about almost all their points. What do they do now? Are they grumpy libertarians liv…

> If a business is inefficient and has projects that go over budget, that's not my problem in the same way it is if the city government where I live does. Right, but if someone’s p…

That’s something I can get behind. A man living in somewhat similar times said something along the lines of "I hasten to laugh at all, lest I have to cry instead". (If you want a r…

Yes, all those examples show that AI labs should be heavily regulated instead of given free rein.

Of course they think that. Everybody else should be revolted at that thought. We would point and laugh if they weren’t so serious about it, and if this were not resonating with som…

I did not choose this world, it’s just the one I live in. If enough people believe something, it’s not really surprising to see it written, even if it is wrong. According to many c…

> Personally, I ditched almost all western media outlets altogether because of their zionist and fascist tendencies. That is not helpful, and a very good way of falling down rabbit…

> I really do not see how one could seriously still argue among the lines of AI being a scam, and the demand not being there to support the size of the investments. I don’t think m…

If that’s really the case, then white males have a lot to answer for, and some soul-searching to do. There is nothing intrinsically non-white about socialism. Plenty of whites in E…

> You can (re-) derive a lot of existing stuff. Einstein was aware of Lorentz and the transform. He was aware of Poincaré as well. He knew the state of the art for his time.

By which other mechanism could American AI companies prevent this? Other companies don’t really care about EULAs and even if they needed to care it’s trivial to let third parties d…

> Distilling is unsafe from export control perspective That is not the direction American judges are taking. Right now, they are saying that LLM output cannot be copyrighted. And i…

> It does seem to be a very European approach to AI that their flagship AI lab is just making models that do nothing other than monitor and moderate internet content. Well, first M…

> The great problem is in a few years of this that market won’t be worth anything. To be fair, we don’t know how much resources they put into this and how much of a distraction it …

I am not sure how reliable it is in the real world. Also, in terms of liability, I don’t know how effective it would be to satisfy various regulations compared to a human moderator…

> - Playdate video encoder and muxer That’s got to be the nichest of niche codecs, maybe second only to the Lucas Arts one. Very impressive.

> I’m not one to say who really should be learning from whom. We can learn from both! We can appreciate the intuitiveness of languages with looser grammar, and the rational eleganc…

The good thing is that there is nothing preventing anyone from adjusting their thermostat with a decikelvin precision. Or hell, even centikelvin if they’re pushing it.