doctorpangloss

Bribes.

Better than the nincompoops my landlord sends out to "fix" stuff. Better than trying to get someone to fix anything at all in San Francisco.

The truth is I would rather choose from 100 varied vendors - if prefab were permitted in San Francisco, you would be able to buy it from anyone - than to be forced to endure the shitty alternative of simply unpermitted work, or the kind of work that my lunatic licensed electrician neighbor does, which has burned down just as many walls as in your total hypothetical that has never happened.

Indeed, university educations go with you everywhere, they're one of the few stores of big wealth that cannot be seized at a border. Whereas, okay, the whole reason we are paying electricians so much is because unions in California and New York, where real estate is the largest and second largest economic sector, prevent you from doing almost exactly that: transferring a prefabricated piece of a building from China across a border with all the work built into it, same as everything else.

You can split hairs on my metaphor here but don't miss the point. There's no scarcity of labor to correctly install safe wires, whether it is in datacenters or homes or electronics, nor scarcity of innovations in logistics or whatever to transfer that labor from places where it is cheap to places that need to build. It's all guild feuds.

The moral of the story is, if you want to make a mass surveillance tool that tracks your every movement and collects all of your most sensitive communications, make sure it has a great camera, a bright large screen and day long battery life.

How much should German authors be paid, $3,000 per book, like Anthropic paid?

Why expose yourself to this liability?

"AI dOeSn'T hAvE tAsTe, ur j0b iS sAfE"

Meanwhile, making products for the tasteless: $$$

Their policy is immature. Clicking little upvote and downvote buttons is immature. Better to just lie and duplicate the issue.

the problem is the dsv4 checkpoint so quantized isn't very good

there basically isn't any authentic use for image generation, i would hardly say the negativity is unfounded

people put a 24h mass surveillance device into their pockets, put it next to them while they sleep, and put all their most personal correspondence online anyway.

how would you know? it's not a free country, there's no free press. they perform poorly on stuff you cannot fake, like birth rate.

well, it turns out deng was wrong...

Makes little sense.

China is a cultural and diaspora behemoth. Completely apples to oranges comparison.

What about countries similar to Singapore's size and wealth? An interesting thing to look at: how many US electeds are Singapore, Israel, Hong Kong or Taiwan 1st-generation heritage or born? I like this number because you cannot fake it (unlike so many things, like statistics reported by countries that are not free), you cannot buy an election or run a PR campaign to pretend you had a successful election, and it measures a real notion of power (something the CCP aspires to have): Singapore 0, China 9, Taiwan 11, Hong Kong 4, Israel 7.

Anyway I don't really buy into this line of thinking but it is interesting to me to look at a place that isn't really free, like Singapore, and figure out how it affects me.

it's hard to rein in cheating with LLMs in the classroom. this guy is trying at great cost to his personal life - i mean, if not in academia, where else are mean people supposed to achieve great things?

imo watermarking will do little to reduce this awkward, personal, adversarial thing. as always, technology cannot 100% solve, or even 50% solve, a political problem.

> the decision that was reached was to reverse the retroactive use of the tool on earlier homework submissions... Students that had dropped the course would be permitted to re-enroll.

it's too bad the professor completely capitulated. like people have so much angst against H1Bs, so much excitement about unionizing, agitation about layoffs or whatever... look, 40% of your classmates are cheating. 40% of your colleagues are cheats. the call is coming from inside the house!

Yes, but I can have civilization at home.

There's no logic to any of it, Sony can run LLMs too!

the accredited investor standard is, a checkbox

its purpose is simple. if you lose the money of sufficiently powerful people, as a middleman, the standard exposes you one more kind of legal jeopardy.

they kind of already do the thing they say. on Windows, the NVIDIA driver reports pretty detailed telemetry on CUDA workloads, including shapes and SOME hashes of the tensors from weights of models, especially diffusion models. honestly i'm surprised there isn't more of an uproar about it.

What if I told you the guys in charge of OpenAI thought that the RIAA and MPAA should have sued individual, "profitless personal use" people?

You are looking for some simple explanation and the simpler one is, "greed." It's right there in the personal diary...

on the other hand, having been enacted almost nowhere, what is there to discuss besides theoreticals and edge cases?

Can you share a link to one?

I don't know how you would be able to tell, you've never won an election, how would you know what is important for being elected? It's not something a chatbot knows about either.

Have you seen one of their quizzes?

I don't know if they were making an ad targeting solution. An ad targeting and voter targeting solution are different things.

All I am saying is I'd reserve your professional judgement until you've actually seen what they were doing.

if you are interested in the topics of this article i encourage you to read https://www.potreroview.net/starr-king-one-campus-two-school... about a Mandarin immersion program in San Francisco. the issues are very complex.

Quizzes had like an 85% engagement rate on Facebook, they were legendarily effective paid eyeballs content. Adtech firm System1 aka OpenMail even merged with an adtech firm that owned a quiz content company, it made like $1m/2wks at small scale. I don't really know what Cambridge Analytica concretely did (to this day I have not seen a single screenshot of any of their creatives or a single concrete report of theirs) but I do know quizzes were really effective. For whatever purposes.

Is bug reporting in the future, or past? Is Git the future, or past?

On the contrary I care a lot. For example the NIH budget should probably be like 10x what it is, and I think we have way too many laws about what people are allowed to build as homes.

But imo the real levers are all rates of these things. Like what is the rate of innovations compared to the rate of regulations - assuming they are even stifling for the most part, which they are not.

Clearly the rate of autos expectations is too low, and obviously copyright law, despite being really clear, hasn't stopped every AI lab from mass piracy - a ask for forgiveness sort of situation, and also, I don't think one idiosyncratic judge in California is the authoritative judgment on fair use. To me the most important levers for freedom and progress are probably the interest rate and the years of exclusivity pharmaceutical patents get.

Yes. Because then we'd have breathalyzer interlocks, speed governors, etc. auto makers were also held liable for other safety issues. It would seem that the RATE of such requirements has to be limited in some way, but not that they not exist at all.

Aren't there unlimited mechanisms like this? Isn't this why Doudna isn't a billionaire (you can patent something, but it's easy to create another one and patent it separately)?

Nobody has a solution for hiring.

We have AGI before we have general purpose hiring.

haha stripe's example prompt is "Create an event"