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The USG getting involved might actually harm US AI efforts. It's not just about money. Who would want to use Claude or ChatGPT if it were run by the US government? Yet these produc…

Note to the momentarily shocked: this is in Canadian dollars.

Clean room implementation is not a concept in copyright law. It's a defensive legal strategy to avoid expensive lawsuits. Copyright law does not require a clean room implementation…

All of that is true, Google should be winning. We underestimated Google's determination to fail.

Either teach your children moderation or else be disappointed when they become teenagers with their own money to spend. Helicopter don't fly forever.

> But also: apple didn’t make the new list. Neither did fork, soap, umbrella or leaf, for example. It’s not that these things vanished from everyday life, but many hands-on words b…

Xkcd 538. Hardware attestation is not required because it's not sufficient , you need to plug all the other much easier ways to get around the system. Firstly, you need to comprehe…

You should invest in different things depending on your age. An old person might want to have more of their money in yielding assets. They are withdrawing from the account so the c…

> We can't know any more about an apple than an LLM can When I hold and taste an apple I know that the apple exists. Not an issue for apples, you might say, but there's plenty of r…

This is true for music because the labels decided that they would upload their catalogs to every streaming service. It's not true for movies, because the movie industry decided to …

If I were 18 I'd be sceptical about the value of degrees compared to the value of trades. Yes degrees are a prerequisite for white collar jobs but if there is competition for ever …

LLMs lack qualia, among other things. If I ask an LLM "what is an apple?" it tells me: > An apple is the edible fruit of the apple tree, scientifically known as Malus domestica. It…

LLMs are not optimized only for truth they are optimized for a more complicated objective that includes e.g. humans liking their output. It is a universal truth that to get humans …

There's a difference between: > Something should be done and > Something can be done In this case, nothing can be done to stop bad actors from using open models. As the article poi…

It's possible that could be destruction of evidence as well. Why should it matter whose meat sticks type in the decoy pin?

This sounds like someone has swallowed too many sci-fi novels. Both the US and China can already nuke each other, they don't need AGI to that. The reason they don't is because it's…

It's true, even if you lose your job as a programmer you can still get a job as a barista.

A man with one LLM knows if his code has errors. A man with two LLMs is never sure.

Parsing HTML with a regex is never a good option, but it's sometimes the only option.

Codeberg market themselves as not just a host but a community, so mass banning projects that didn't do anything wrong and were previously operating within the rules feels more like…

This might work if Chinese models are on par with US models or slightly worse. However if Chinese models start to become noticeably better[0] than US models, it will be hard to hol…

It's probably too slow for them. Anthropic and OpenAI need Chinese models banned soon to stay in business. The moment China has the most capable model it's game over for them. They…

Someone explain to me how the US would stop people from using Chinese models? Anyone in Europe can download and run a Chinese model and serve it up on the open internet to people i…

Banning projects that haven't done anything wrong except implement algorithms that the Karen committee disagrees with is clearly an attack. If they want to ban scammers then why do…

Pretending to run an inclusive git hosting service for FOSS and then attacking your own users because their code is the wrong type of algorithm isn't politics, it's just being an a…