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The "run locally" thing is a red herring. The fact that anyone can be an inference providers and offer them as a service is what we need to focus on. If they are "good enough" then market forces will stop Anthropic/OpenAI from charging monopoly rents.

I'm getting a Poe's Law feeling. I'm genuinely unsure about whether this post is a stone cold parody or not. I think I need to turn off the internet and go to bed.

EDIT: Your username doesn't help, either.

Nothing you wrote contradicts the post you are replying to.

Older Wittgenstein meet younger Wittgenstein.

It can also be "mostly true but exaggerated for polemic effect".

Or your definition of political might be different to the speakers.

Or it could be intended to highlight a way of perceiving the world and thus not be subject to truth claims.

Etc. This list can be extended indefinitely.

Language is not a game of symbol manipulation.

"Proofs" in this sense of the word are things that apply to mathematics and formal systems. Language is squishy. A minimal counterexample is potentially squishy enough to be meaningless.

> You might be too familiar with "activism" as a perjurative

Do people generally regard it as a perjurative? I always assumed it ranged from neutral to positive. I do wonder how off my calibration is sometimes.

At the risk of posting without adding anything substantive, I find this an exceedingly convincing argument.

Is this another post title that was mangled into ambiguity because of trying to hit the arbitrary HN word count restriction?

Ironically (for my generation in the UK at least) "Asian" meant "South Asian" and for a long time we didn't have a useful shorthand for "all parts of Asia"

Sometimes I wish there was a Hacker News comment hall of fame.

My entire digital existence for the last 20 years or so has been a parasitical relationship with VC funding. They keep throwing money at business models that involve building market share and I keep benefiting. It hasn't stopped working yet.

According to this my garden is almost entirely in the shade but I have a suntan to disprove it.

Is "Lindy" a typo or have I missed another linguistic innovation?

I get tired of saying this but "got misidentified by the police" is somewhere between an annoyance and a humourous anecdote in most developed countries that aren't the USA where it appears to be justifiably regarded as a near death experience.

> Many buildings are copyrighted

Well, let me stop you right there. That's the bit that needs fixing.

It won't matter. People will assume it has a camera. The product category is most likely (and rather predictably) dead if it depends on people wearing them ubiquitously and in public.

> frogmaxxed

raninemandibularprognathism-maxxed?

Don Draper in the elevator meme?

> but the productivity gains and economic surplus.

I think you might be missing out vast swathes of human experience here. Some things are about joy, or god help me - fun.

(For the record I think AI has a role to play here as well)

I'm happy for Simon to post what he wants, when he wants. He's earned it.

> I can't say I've been impressed with LLMs generating code

What the hell are these people doing? Running 2 year old models on the lowest settings and then throwing their hands in the air?

If there's one type of beer I didn't associate with Burton on Trent it was lager.

If it was still possible to get verbatim results from Google then I believe "mwah mwah vision" would have been an authentic Googlewhack pointing at this comment thread.

Ok but you're commenting on the general concept of animated gaussian splats. That's existed for a while and it's unrelated to what this actual post is about which is a new compression method.

> I don't feel like I was getting anything for the 13%+ extra taxes I was paying in California.

Some people might argue that it's not meant to be about what you personally get back. Social contract and all that...

I get your other points but this part was phrased in an unfortunate way.

Related work-in-progress if you like polyhedra and tiling transformations: https://ixxyxr.github.io/polyhydra-web/

It has the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra and allows you to apply a superset of Conway Operators to them. No true stellation currently (stellation isn't an edge-replacement operator so can't be mimicked by Conway-esque operations)

When I first learned about computer science at the age of 11 or so (and in 1982 or so) the first page of the text book put digital and analogue computers on what seemed to be an equal footing. And then proceeded to ignore the latter for the rest of the book. Apart from a few notable exceptions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine ) I've often wondered about analogue computing.

The Peter Thiel connection is especially toxic for a lot of people outside the US. Whether it's substantive or just optics doesn't make a huge difference.

I have no idea what point you're making here.