I am surprised that it survives twitter's image compression. I'm not familiar with JPEG format, but I'm familiar with PNG. I guess it's using some zlib-compressed EXIF-like metadata field, seeing as ZIP also uses DEFLATE/zlib/whatever?
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It is now cheaper to produce lots of flowery, meaningless text that is full of definitions. I suspect that the future of literature is more concise and externally-meaningful writing.
Amazon is a terrible marketplace insofar as the rating system isn't sybil proof. this crap slips through the cracks.
What you're describing is just a single implication of net neutrality involving self-bias of ISPs.
>The net is not politically neutral; it arcs toward progress
Humble the assumptions you make on the direction of progress
The internet is built on peering relationships at the end of the day. Alice doesn't get to see Bob's website unless the intermediaries agree. In this case, the intermediaries are being made to disagree with Alice and Bob.
Okay, but those LN transactions clearly depend on the security of their multisig channels without subsidizing the miners through the fee market.
That is my point- that equilibrium point will eventually be low enough that 51% attacks, selfish mining attacks, etc. become feasible and highly desirable to execute.
>It's low reward, extremely high cost
It is currently low reward/high cost. But it will eventually not be.
>and 'easily' undone if the market so agrees.
False. Bitcoin has not made a hard fork in how many years? Can you make a hard fork faster than the attacker can "cash out" to crypto-crypto exchanges? Highly doubtful.
>Whoever mines the block will get no coins, but will get all revenue from the fees attached to whichever transactions are processed.
... which is dependent only on the fee market, and currently amounts to a small fraction of total block reward.
of course it has. I am not talking about the proportion of block profit, I am asking how you expect the total block profit to stay the same from just fees. The network will have to survive when the proportion will eventually be 100%
I don't know much about AI/SL but I think the logical outcome is that using a transformer to generate source code is going to result in an over-trained system that produces sections of code verbatim because of the relative size of the space of all valid programs vs the space of all possible programs. It's not like art where you get soft failure if a single pixel or word is wrong: the inclusion, exclusion, or replacement of a single instruction or symbol is enough to introduce fatal bugs into a computer program. If the system doesn't have the capacity to understand programs generally (which it probably won't if it's just a transformer), then you're going to end up with a system that spits out samples from training data that do work.
So let's say I obtain an illegal copy of microsoft windows' source code. Under this precedent, what stops me from just (overfitting) training a neural network to produce the source code verbatim, sans any license notice?
But it doesn't end there. What stops me from making a neural network that exactly reproduces the bytes of Illegally_Ripped_Disney_Movie.mp4 that I obtain from the pirate bay? Copyright need not apply.
At what point can the neural network I've described (which is intentionally designed to violate copyright) distinguishable from a neural network like Copilot and others which violate copyright extrinsically?
If everyone in the world tried to use bitcoin as a replacement for bank transfers, etc. then the fees would be astronomical
The problem is a well-understood but innate limitation to all sender-obfuscating cryptocurrencies.
You might think it's unreasonable to build such a house-burning robot, but you have to realize that I actually designed it as a lawn-mowing robot. The robot will simply not value your life or property because its utility function is descended from my own, so may burn your house down in the regular course of its duties (if it decides to use a powerful laser to trim the grass to the exact nanometer). Sorry neighbor.
What do you expect me to do? NOT build this robot? How dare you stand in the way of progress!
the problem isn't even that this technology will eventually replace programmers: the problem is that it produces parts of the training set VERBATIM, sans copyright.
No, I am pretty optimistic that we will quickly come to a solution when we start using this to void all microsoft/github copyright.
does it?
A VPS service like AWS goes out of their way to specify that it is a "virtual server". the product they provide is analagous to real server hardware and largely interchangable with other server hosts.