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The main fuel is the internet , followed by mobile phones and social media. AI definitely makes the scams more believable, a Nigerian Prince can now easily forge documents. But at …

I think you misunderstood what I said. Let me rephrase. Would you rather watch a chess tournament between two of the best human players in world, or between two of the best bots in…

This is not surprising. Would you rather have handmade Italian shoes or factory made shoes sewn by a robot. Humans assign quality relative to themselves. A chess game between to bo…

Great stuff. Wonder how many of the ten problems where solved by independent mathematicians not linked to OpenAI

There is a view where developers think of a forge as a place where they host their code. Than there is another view where the forge is where you go to get code others have written,…

Learn JavaScript/Dart and Rust/Zig. Have a mono repo of all your code modules, never rewrite code, as you switch between projects. Because AI is trained on the web, expect the fund…

Why's this not the top comment?

Why should consumers care what Coca-cola thinks about Pepsi?

This will be used as an argument to ban opensource models.

There has always been room for both closed and open source software. In this context, open source/self-host means do it yourself, closed source means you trust someone else to do i…

If they outlaw open source models that'll just handicap American companies, the rest of the world will be running open source and have an arbitrage against US companies.

So what now? USA blocks Chinese AI. US companies use expansive closed source AI while the rest of the world use cheap self hostable open source AI from China?

How will this be enforced, at least with financial markets money is discrete, can largely be counted. This seems like a slippery slope to full blown surveillance of the internet an…

I don't think that's their biggest mistake. Their downfall was because they where mainly a hardware company without any network effects. Customers could easily switch from Nokia to…

Because of asymmetric differences, I don't have access to powerful LLMs but attackers might. And also the complexities of software dependencies (supply chain vulnerabilities), my s…

"one ought to design systems under the assumption that the enemy will immediately gain full familiarity with them" - Claude Shannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_pri…

Fair point but it assumes we all have access to LLMs with the same capabilities.