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Comment #44020551
Money laundering is also a pretty large use case ( https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/additional-12-defendants-... )
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Comment #43604363
> There is no credible accusation that X itself is tricking people here. That is a purely subjective opinion, since I have talked to elderly people who assumed “blue checkmark = ce…
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Comment #43604185
> To take a hypothetical extreme: If all cars but one on the road were Teslas, it would not be meaningful to point out that there have been far more fatalities with Teslas. However…
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Comment #43604170
> As such, while 5 > 0, and that's a problem, what we don't know (and perhaps can't know), is how that adjusts for population size. This puts the burden on companies which may hesi…
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Comment #43601781
There can still be product catalogues, people will still shop in person or on online resellers. You can still start off with a limited time discount so people can try your product.…
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Comment #43601471
> If somebody believes that their message is important enough to outbid everybody else, their message ought to be the one that is displayed. Sometimes (often?) people with a lot of…
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Comment #43599074
> Letting people communicate freely is a good thing in its own right, and fundamental to so many other good things we enjoy I would argue that paid advertisement is a force distort…
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Comment #43599063
Good information is valuable. When internet didn’t exist people paid good money for newspaper and magazines because they provided good information which people found valuable.
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Comment #42841865
o1 does not show the reasoning trace at this point. You may be confusing the final answer for the reasoning trace in the middle, it's shown pretty clearly on r1.
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Comment #42841848
> The part of this that doesn’t jibe with me is the fact that they also released this incredibly detailed technical report on their architecture and training strategy. The paper is…
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Comment #41595653
> I think a better example would be You (AirBnB Host) rent a house to Person and Person loses the house key. This is not a direct analogue, a closer analogy would be when the guest…
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Comment #41404626
Elon loves collaborating with tyrants though [1-2], so that theory doesn't check out. [1] https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja... [2] https://arstechnica.co…
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Comment #41404585
The difference is: Brazil is being run by Lula Silva, who opposes Bolsonaro, while Turkey is run by Erdogan, and India is run by Modi. If you want to connect the thread, look into …
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Comment #41404546
The missing context here is that the "misinformation accounts" that X was supposed to remove here are spreading the right wing propaganda saying the election was stolen from far-ri…
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Comment #40337958
This is an interesting question. Is there a “controversy-benchmark” perhaps, to measure this?
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Comment #40252490
I assume selection bias is in play: for every post on the internet there are many more who did break their hand and ended up in ER, they were just too ashamed to talk about it.
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Comment #40226449
Does your libertarian attitude extend to your neighbors burning tires in their backyards? Individual actions can incur communal costs. “Freedom” doesn’t mean “freedom from the cons…
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Comment #40187768
The synergy is off the charts!
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Comment #40164343
> keeping the government away from internet is a good thing See, I would have agreed more with this if most of our internet infrastructures were not controlled by three megacorps w…
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Comment #40107735
A small addendum: the only people I know who uses Jax are people who work at Google, or people who had a big GCP grant and needed to use TPUs as a result.
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Comment #40081654
You don’t need a 1.8T parameter LLM to control an AI guided missile. In all likelihood, the model to control these can be run on an iPhone-level computer, which is max $1000. The b…
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Comment #40077772
> Why not just emailed the original authors for the raw data? Industry research labs, especially Google deepmind, are notoriously closed up about their “proprietary” data. I’ve hit…
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Comment #40077742
Why would the CTO/lead engineer admit that they nerfed the model even if they did? It’s all closed, how does admitting it benefit them? I would much rather trust the people using i…
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Comment #40077587
That’s the point though, AI is replicable. You don’t have to create the AI every time you fire, just once, and then copy it over forevermore.
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Comment #40066766
Surely it was Oxford, the institute older than most nations, being incompetent, and nothing to do with the easy money tap called Sam Bankman Fraud being thrown in jail. Oxford just…