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You have to consider that there is a chilling effect in the open source space because llm use has now become an ideological battle, and people have lost their collective minds over…

No you just get watch listed and deported for attending a free Palestine demonstration.

Ah, uk research institutions. The paragon of austerity for the common man. How are we going to fix the climate crises? Not a sensible carbon policy and mandates on international co…

There are (very coarsely) two types of people: - people who like writing code for codes sake - people who like writing code to build things In the past, these folks have lived more…

Upfront: I read your article because I was genuinely interested. Im genuinely annoyed when hackernews filled top comments that complain about llm assisted articles. Having said tha…

I don't disagree, but I'd point out that this is a weak steeleman. Essentially it's, "past performance guarantees future results." We only have a limited sample size of economic da…

> We now have nearly-perfect AI image generation No, we don't. It's quite good, but it's nowhere near perfect. For example, you can see: https://genai-showdown.specr.net/ or others…

It's good he is getting it out in the public, on record. He'll lie, conveniently ignore techno fascist astroturfing, selectively moderate on hot topic issues and then point to some…

> It sounds scary, but is actually safe Posted by the account, BurningFrog. You can't make this shit up. Forgive me if I do not take "making sunsets" as a credible source of inform…

I work with these people every day. They are brilliant for sure, in their domain. But their confidence over extends into areas where they are totally ignorant. So much so that it m…

You can always tell an effective altruist by the distinct tone of disdain they have for people they deem less educated. (Quick Google search, "lesswrong 'reducesuffering'", yep.) A…

Not financial advice. The most straightforward thing to do that would have saved you in 2008, 2000 (and even 1929 to some extent), is to limit debt exposure and have enough cash si…

What happens when a country doesn't agree to play along with this little decel game? The genie is already out of the bottle and now a bunch of people who helped release it think th…

People increasingly do not understand that there can be nuanced criticism of things they liked. It seems like most people can still understand, "I didn't care for it." Even if some…

Is the basilisk in the room with us now?

Posting ai doomer fud and lessworng articles on hackernews, a tale as old as time itself.

There's a scene in the movie Clifford, starring martin short. "I just need you to talk to me like a real human boy! You can't do it, can you???" "...the load bearing seam is the se…

> Dario doesn’t realize that by not offering self-hosting of closed-weight models and fine-tuning, alongside overly strict refusals for legitimate needs, he ceded this corner of th…

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I don't disagree with you, but also sometimes I feel like Anthropic really are huffing their own gas. Recently, I discovered that if you berate Claude, it will refuse to continue t…