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> This is a typical tech echo chamber. There is a significant number of people who make direct purchases through ads. Even if its not, TV ads, newspaper ads, magazine ads, billboar…

I don't see why, unless you think they're lying and they filmed their demos, or used some other preexisting model. I didn't ignore the JWST launch just because I haven't been grant…

Her approach might not be the literal peak healthiest, but that doesn't mean its wrong. If she's only having a drink every once in a while and is getting 7+ hours of sleep most nig…

Not the person you're responding to, but no, it doesn't really bother me at all. What does bother me is that I don't have confidence in the value of the output, where as if I liste…

I don't doubt you're right about social media and smartphones rotting our attention spans. But also, peripatetic philosophy is ancient. I spend most of my day sitting. Whether its …

While you're right that the Internet contains a lot of wonder and exploration, the vast majority of people (and kids) will not interact much with that part of the Internet, if at a…

> Many of these alternatives failed because they were forced onto users who had already paid over $60 for a game I really doubt that hurt their adoption. Yes, it pissed people off,…

> 1 - https://www.smh.com.au/national/human-brain-tissue-made-up-o ... holy shit 1/200 molecules in your fucking brain is straight up plastic jesus christ

Extremely pedantic, but is "non-deterministic" really the right language? The same input will always produce the same output, provided you haven't intentionally configured the syst…

This is absolutely wild.

JPEGs and 3D models are also executable binaries. They, like model weights, contain domain specific instructions that execute in a domain specific and turing incomplete environment…

Its not really an analogy. LLMs are quite literally executables in the same way that jpegs are executables. They both specify machine readable (but not human readable) domain speci…

As I said, "there's a place for that too, of course." I don't think Claude is a good choice if you're trying to prototype a project which uses tools that you don't understand conce…

I've used both Bitbucket and Azure in the corporate world.

I gotta say, Claude is a godsend for building out quick prototypes of ideas, especially when those ideas require domain specific knowledge that you know a little about but aren't s…

Videos and images are software. They are compiled binaries with very domain specific instructions executed in a very non-turing complete context. They are generally not released as…

"LLMs are fundamentally different to software and using terms from software just muddies the waters." They're still software, they just don't have source code (yet).

"Be charitable and intellectually curious. What would "open" look like?" To really be intellectually curious we need to be open to the idea that there is not (yet) a solution to th…

I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I don't think its technically feasible for current models to be open source, because there is no source code to open. Yes, there is…

> Actually, the fact that the model weights are available means that you can even ignore any limitations that you think are on it, and you'll probably just get away with it. You ar…

> No one on the planet understands how the model weights work exactly Which is my point. These models aren't open source because there is no source code to open. Maybe one day we w…

"My understanding is that a few years ago, if we knew the degree of interpretability we have today (compared to capability) it would have been devastatingly disappointing." I think…

I'm not the person you replied directly to so I can't speak for them, but I did start this thread, and I just wanted to clarify what I meant in my OP, because I see a lot of people…

"In practice it is intractably hard to make any significant modification to a binary, and even if you could, you would then not be legally allowed to e.g. redistribute." It depends…

"You can modify individual neurons if you are so inclined." You can also modify a binary, but that doesn't mean that binaries are open source. "That's what Anthropic have done with…