Isn't that exactly what Plato's saying? The books cannot understand themselves, and we rely upon them, and in doing so that changes us.
Plato on how reading and writing make us more forgetful as we rely on this new technology: > And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite…
I think this works unironically. My mother is an avid gardener and can spend 8 hours a day gardening. When her life circumstances allowed for it, she hired a once a week gardener to do the tasks she didn't like (or had…
Executing people guilty of serious crimes is good and just. They should have a proper trial, and the crimes should be sufficiently serious, but execution is no more or less "barbaric" than the alternatives. As Adam…
What about longer rest periods? For example if I wait 1hr between sets I can do full weight again without dropping down weights with a 2-5min break. In fact I can get multiple more sets in and significantly increase my…
> And LLMs slurped some of those together with the output of thousands of people who’d do the task worse, and you have no way of forcing it to be the good one every time. That's solvable though, whether through changing…
There is none, it's the most respected/widely read conservative publication. Calling Rebel News the Breitbart equivalent is more fair. CBC is definitely left wing[1], with a bias towards the liberal party (centre-left).…
It's completely unreasonable. Calling someone a dickhead in any professional environment is unprofessional and should be grounds for dismissal. Should bosses also get one free insult for their employees too? Obviously…
Yes, the type system basically replaces a degree of unit tests. You no longer need unit tests that are basically just type checking. And it's more comprehensive too. It's much easier to have incomplete test coverage…
> We only have access to local models because they're subsidized too. Yes, and the flow of future models may dry up, but the current local models we'll have forever.
I'm sympathetic to the issue of services getting worse, it sucks, but > If an API delivers very solid results one day and crap the next and I spent a lot of money, how does that work? There are many people on…
> Because memory bandwidth is the #1 bottleneck for inference, even more than capacity. But there are a ton of models I can't run at all locally due to VRAM limitations. I'd take being able to run those models slower. I…
But it seems like Airbus is the exception to the rule, by and large. For example, the Typhoon Eurofighter has had disappointing exports.
> My next question is are there downsides to proof-of-stake, and why has bitcoin not moved towards it? There are minor downsides in theory. Proof-of-stake is a bit less "democratic" and gives more voting share to those…
> Unsaid is of course that the USA accused, found guilty, and executed someone without trial, where evidence is shown of their guilt. Sure on balance I think Bin Laden is responsible for 9/11, but I think the source for…
To be fair, reality can often conflate those two concepts too. What I mean is that in some cases a lack of sovereignty can lead to economic catastrophe if people are willing to pillage your economy by force. As you note…
> Why? A bit of a head scratcher. It is because not everyone sees Israel as committing war crimes. I'm not looking in getting into a debate about it, I don't think this is the appropriate thread and do not want to run…
True, but this ignores the fact that Boeing employees were actively "designing new planes" in that time, and thus had the skill set. From your wiki link, some choice excerpts (not one whole paragraph): > In 1963 [edit:…
This principle is already in use in "Ski-jump" aircraft carriers[0] like the British and Chinese use, compared to the catapult operated American carriers. The problem is it isn't remotely high enough. It does have an…
NATO does not have air superiority in Ukraine. The skies are contested in many areas. Recently Ukraine lost a number of Bradley’s and when a Ka-52 ambushed them in Zaporizhzhia. If you’re making the point that America…
Ukraine is holding territory. They are not fighting like an insurgency. Stringers are absolutely useful in LSCO. Soviet doctrine made heavy use of MANPADS (man portable air defense systems, of which Stinger counts) when…
> Probably an unpopular opinion, but it's sucky to see these tools constantly getting nerfed. Why would it be popular to nerf tools? I thought people all preferred the more powerful LLM models.
Copying already copyrighted assets is clearly regulated. Valve knows what to do in this situation, and simply pulling down the offending game complies with the copyright regime. It's unclear what the rules are going to…
It’s about legal copyright exposure. The copyright status of AI art is unclear, it has not been legislated or tried before the courts. In a worst case scenario, Steam could allow “AI generated games” on, after which AI…
Conway's Law: > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. [0] But I think OP is implying the opposite, sort…
Isn't that exactly what Plato's saying? The books cannot understand themselves, and we rely upon them, and in doing so that changes us.
Plato on how reading and writing make us more forgetful as we rely on this new technology: > And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite…
I think this works unironically. My mother is an avid gardener and can spend 8 hours a day gardening. When her life circumstances allowed for it, she hired a once a week gardener to do the tasks she didn't like (or had…
Executing people guilty of serious crimes is good and just. They should have a proper trial, and the crimes should be sufficiently serious, but execution is no more or less "barbaric" than the alternatives. As Adam…
What about longer rest periods? For example if I wait 1hr between sets I can do full weight again without dropping down weights with a 2-5min break. In fact I can get multiple more sets in and significantly increase my…
> And LLMs slurped some of those together with the output of thousands of people who’d do the task worse, and you have no way of forcing it to be the good one every time. That's solvable though, whether through changing…
There is none, it's the most respected/widely read conservative publication. Calling Rebel News the Breitbart equivalent is more fair. CBC is definitely left wing[1], with a bias towards the liberal party (centre-left).…
It's completely unreasonable. Calling someone a dickhead in any professional environment is unprofessional and should be grounds for dismissal. Should bosses also get one free insult for their employees too? Obviously…
Yes, the type system basically replaces a degree of unit tests. You no longer need unit tests that are basically just type checking. And it's more comprehensive too. It's much easier to have incomplete test coverage…
> We only have access to local models because they're subsidized too. Yes, and the flow of future models may dry up, but the current local models we'll have forever.
I'm sympathetic to the issue of services getting worse, it sucks, but > If an API delivers very solid results one day and crap the next and I spent a lot of money, how does that work? There are many people on…
> Because memory bandwidth is the #1 bottleneck for inference, even more than capacity. But there are a ton of models I can't run at all locally due to VRAM limitations. I'd take being able to run those models slower. I…
But it seems like Airbus is the exception to the rule, by and large. For example, the Typhoon Eurofighter has had disappointing exports.
> My next question is are there downsides to proof-of-stake, and why has bitcoin not moved towards it? There are minor downsides in theory. Proof-of-stake is a bit less "democratic" and gives more voting share to those…
> Unsaid is of course that the USA accused, found guilty, and executed someone without trial, where evidence is shown of their guilt. Sure on balance I think Bin Laden is responsible for 9/11, but I think the source for…
To be fair, reality can often conflate those two concepts too. What I mean is that in some cases a lack of sovereignty can lead to economic catastrophe if people are willing to pillage your economy by force. As you note…
> Why? A bit of a head scratcher. It is because not everyone sees Israel as committing war crimes. I'm not looking in getting into a debate about it, I don't think this is the appropriate thread and do not want to run…
True, but this ignores the fact that Boeing employees were actively "designing new planes" in that time, and thus had the skill set. From your wiki link, some choice excerpts (not one whole paragraph): > In 1963 [edit:…
This principle is already in use in "Ski-jump" aircraft carriers[0] like the British and Chinese use, compared to the catapult operated American carriers. The problem is it isn't remotely high enough. It does have an…
NATO does not have air superiority in Ukraine. The skies are contested in many areas. Recently Ukraine lost a number of Bradley’s and when a Ka-52 ambushed them in Zaporizhzhia. If you’re making the point that America…
Ukraine is holding territory. They are not fighting like an insurgency. Stringers are absolutely useful in LSCO. Soviet doctrine made heavy use of MANPADS (man portable air defense systems, of which Stinger counts) when…
> Probably an unpopular opinion, but it's sucky to see these tools constantly getting nerfed. Why would it be popular to nerf tools? I thought people all preferred the more powerful LLM models.
Copying already copyrighted assets is clearly regulated. Valve knows what to do in this situation, and simply pulling down the offending game complies with the copyright regime. It's unclear what the rules are going to…
It’s about legal copyright exposure. The copyright status of AI art is unclear, it has not been legislated or tried before the courts. In a worst case scenario, Steam could allow “AI generated games” on, after which AI…
Conway's Law: > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. [0] But I think OP is implying the opposite, sort…