It's a civil issue because the criminal case doesn't exist; training an LLM is fair use.
You can brew alcohol with atmospheric yeast, yeast on the surface of fruits, etc., and you could just as easily hide drugs in toothpaste. That might be their explanation but IMO it doesn't make sense.
That whole town (Bentonville) is essentially run by Walmart.
Language is a tool for abstraction, and AI is just an imperfect tool for working with language. In the sense that "down the stack" is well-captured by existing language, AI is absolutely moving programmers up the stack.…
Western countries with freedom of speech have ALWAYS been open for information warfare. Governments and special interests have always spread propaganda, and they've frequently made criticizing it illegal. People still…
We need hard math for statistical construction of probable cause. Probably a public model, which is independently vetted against actual detentions, needs to show a 99% probability of an actual crime being committed for…
Having a frontier model is worth something beyond just inference costs, I'm sure. It seems likely that the labs will maintain at least a small lead.
I think that prisoners should be fed normal food which makes them feel comfortable. I'm not saying that it needs to be luxury meals, but there isn't a good reason for prisons in a free country to feed their prisoners…
DeepSeek announced that each GPU they have makes about $38 an hour in revenue during off-peak times. That's $331k a year, and DeepSeek is cheap. I think that it's not only possible but likely that the frontier labs are…
Nobody is a hero for lighting a historical building on fire, even if its old purpose was to help Nazis relax.
Previous generations of the 737 are among the safest jetliners ever built. The MAX will eventually end up there, too - keep in mind that aviation disasters are increasingly less common as time goes on. This issue…
It's not the people around him, it's the states. The US is somewhat unusual in that American federalism treats each state as inherently sovereign, but limited by the Constitution. What the Constitution says matters.…
The tragic truth is that we live in a world where open models are perpetually only a few months behind frontier models. Opus 4.6 was "good enough." Having a frontier model is no longer a requirement to print cash with a…
It's definitely why roads and parking are congested! People don't value access to roads properly, that's a big part of why driving became the default mode of transit. The main reason why we should charge money for…
Blue states have a higher reliance on local taxes (which makes sense when you consider that one of the things that makes them "blue" is higher taxes). Remember the drama over the SALT deduction?
But this is crazy! Property taxes have been around since the 1800s and are used today to fund local spending, the kind of stuff that the federal government is either averse to or constitutionally barred from. The…
I imagine that Chinese AI labs would be more than happy to pay for tokens to train on. If Anthropic goes and bans them as quickly as it can identify to them, of course they'll shift to using lots of cheaply obtained…
Nurse salaries are already pretty high in a lot of places, but imo the American healthcare system has a longstanding issue with asking too much work from doctors and nurses. Almost nobody would say that a shift longer…
Yes it was! Transformers came out of a Google lab. In the 2020 Google I/O Sundar Pichai even demoed a transformer based chatbot smart enough to larp as a paper airplane. These things are the work of many hands, mostly…
They don't need to seek cooperation, they can order domestic blocks and come after the registrar's operations in Italy.
Well, not countries which have large amounts of immigration and robust systems to integrate immigrants. Unless of course they elect anti-immigration populists and ruin their appeal. Then they're doomed to shrink.
Yeah, I haven't seen too many convincing arguments that the law needs reform. I am very convinced that lots of proposed reforms are self-serving and bad for society at large.
I am not sure that "someone understood it well enough to take responsibility" means what you think it means. I have definitely come across old systems which have had addons bolted on to them in so many places that the…
Nothing happens, dude. Having lockpicking tools is not enough on its own to make an arrest, and a few dumb cops doing it anyways and having their cases get thrown out only proves the system works.
> Remember, Musk would have been entirely within his right to explicitly refuse all military use of consumer Starlink. Sure, he could have - and then Biden would have invoked the DPA and forced him to do so anyways,…
It's a civil issue because the criminal case doesn't exist; training an LLM is fair use.
You can brew alcohol with atmospheric yeast, yeast on the surface of fruits, etc., and you could just as easily hide drugs in toothpaste. That might be their explanation but IMO it doesn't make sense.
That whole town (Bentonville) is essentially run by Walmart.
Language is a tool for abstraction, and AI is just an imperfect tool for working with language. In the sense that "down the stack" is well-captured by existing language, AI is absolutely moving programmers up the stack.…
Western countries with freedom of speech have ALWAYS been open for information warfare. Governments and special interests have always spread propaganda, and they've frequently made criticizing it illegal. People still…
We need hard math for statistical construction of probable cause. Probably a public model, which is independently vetted against actual detentions, needs to show a 99% probability of an actual crime being committed for…
Having a frontier model is worth something beyond just inference costs, I'm sure. It seems likely that the labs will maintain at least a small lead.
I think that prisoners should be fed normal food which makes them feel comfortable. I'm not saying that it needs to be luxury meals, but there isn't a good reason for prisons in a free country to feed their prisoners…
DeepSeek announced that each GPU they have makes about $38 an hour in revenue during off-peak times. That's $331k a year, and DeepSeek is cheap. I think that it's not only possible but likely that the frontier labs are…
Nobody is a hero for lighting a historical building on fire, even if its old purpose was to help Nazis relax.
Previous generations of the 737 are among the safest jetliners ever built. The MAX will eventually end up there, too - keep in mind that aviation disasters are increasingly less common as time goes on. This issue…
It's not the people around him, it's the states. The US is somewhat unusual in that American federalism treats each state as inherently sovereign, but limited by the Constitution. What the Constitution says matters.…
The tragic truth is that we live in a world where open models are perpetually only a few months behind frontier models. Opus 4.6 was "good enough." Having a frontier model is no longer a requirement to print cash with a…
It's definitely why roads and parking are congested! People don't value access to roads properly, that's a big part of why driving became the default mode of transit. The main reason why we should charge money for…
Blue states have a higher reliance on local taxes (which makes sense when you consider that one of the things that makes them "blue" is higher taxes). Remember the drama over the SALT deduction?
But this is crazy! Property taxes have been around since the 1800s and are used today to fund local spending, the kind of stuff that the federal government is either averse to or constitutionally barred from. The…
I imagine that Chinese AI labs would be more than happy to pay for tokens to train on. If Anthropic goes and bans them as quickly as it can identify to them, of course they'll shift to using lots of cheaply obtained…
Nurse salaries are already pretty high in a lot of places, but imo the American healthcare system has a longstanding issue with asking too much work from doctors and nurses. Almost nobody would say that a shift longer…
Yes it was! Transformers came out of a Google lab. In the 2020 Google I/O Sundar Pichai even demoed a transformer based chatbot smart enough to larp as a paper airplane. These things are the work of many hands, mostly…
They don't need to seek cooperation, they can order domestic blocks and come after the registrar's operations in Italy.
Well, not countries which have large amounts of immigration and robust systems to integrate immigrants. Unless of course they elect anti-immigration populists and ruin their appeal. Then they're doomed to shrink.
Yeah, I haven't seen too many convincing arguments that the law needs reform. I am very convinced that lots of proposed reforms are self-serving and bad for society at large.
I am not sure that "someone understood it well enough to take responsibility" means what you think it means. I have definitely come across old systems which have had addons bolted on to them in so many places that the…
Nothing happens, dude. Having lockpicking tools is not enough on its own to make an arrest, and a few dumb cops doing it anyways and having their cases get thrown out only proves the system works.
> Remember, Musk would have been entirely within his right to explicitly refuse all military use of consumer Starlink. Sure, he could have - and then Biden would have invoked the DPA and forced him to do so anyways,…