...also migrating AWAY from Fastmail (Australian) and TO an European provider sounds like a very bad idea - I'd kind of want both the US and the EU legally away from my coms at all costs (!)
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and ofc, non-CN too
...learn a thing or two from NVIDIA or gtfo
WHAT?! I find that exactly the nice sharp formatting are what makes it EASIER to get actionable insight from it...
(Plus the weird-but-cute unrequested analogies are nice to occassionally elicit a smile and keep you motivated :P)
...I'd be curious if anyone has went through _both_, unlikely as that may be, and could give some comparison :P
you either:
(a) want DEEP understanding of math and proofs behind algorithms etc.
(b) can get away with very high level understanding, and refer to documentation and/or use LLMs for implementation details help
there is no real world use case for a middle-ground (c) where you want someone with algo implementation details rote-memorized in their brain and without the very deep understanding that would make the rote-memorization unnecessary!
Now website code does typically run on your device, but I'd say that once you're a paid logged in user you clearly accepted to run it, under the conditions of it staying in its browser sandbox so... if you think it's "malware" then just stop being a customer. Otherwise software has a right to monitor its own operation.
...but yeah, maybe I missed the context a bit, a tracking pixel style tool will likely be used to track not customers but leads, so I do get your point, it gets trickier there and maybe privacy laws have a point there (as long as they stop there... hint: they usually don't!)
Ofc I'm not allowed to freaking resell that data. THIS is the problem in online: releseling and data-brokers. Just KILL these categories of businesses off completely and make _them_ criminal (like even give f prison sentences to their operators).
We should get back to our sanity in ONLINE. As long as you're on _my (online) property_ and using _my services_ I can of course see EVERYTHING you f do, and should stop pretending I don't (as a business, ofc - anonymization exists and not any random employee can access any customer's data, probably should never access both data and identity correlated unless they're actively investigating some serious fraud). As long as I'm not sharing this data with anyone else, I should be 100% allowed to use every drop of this data to improve my services to you and totally differentiate myself from the incompetent competition that can't properly do this.
Data privacy (from EU's GDPR to... everything else) only helps big corporations fend-off competition from small startups or boutique shops that could easily out-compete them by offering hyper-personalized hand tailored micro-optimized experiences for their smaller number of customers based on the loads of data they collect from them. In the EU I've only ever seen these kinds of laws severely hamper small boutique or family businesses that wanted to hyperpersonalize to everyone's gain while big corpos easily surf around them with their teams of lawyers.
...we've all been brainwashed by this privacy psyop to sheepishly "fight for our privacy" in ways that are detrimental to us and only help our corporate oligarch overlords maintain an even tighter grip on power, while offering us worse and worse services. Wake the f up, DATA IS MEANT TO BE USED to IMPROVE goods and services, not remain uncollected or sit unused!
your whole reasoning is neither here not there, and attacking a straw man - YLC for sure knows that human experience of reality is heavily modified and distorted
but he also knows, and I'd bet he's very right on this, that we don't "sip reality through a narrow straw of tokens/words", and that we don't learn "just from our/approved written down notes", and only under very specific and expensive circumstances (training runs)
anything closer to more-direct-world-models (as LLMs are ofc at a very indirect level world models) has very high likelihood of yielding lots of benefits
...or is this another Ghostty geeksfest that wants me to C-S-whatever to dump history into a file then pipe it into a pager etc etc etc?
[+EDIT: ...apparently not liking ghostty gets you downvoted too? weird amounts fanboysm and hype for an underfeatured and poorly documented terminal]
We'll always find uses for more intelligence if it keeps getting more and more general (I don't like the term AGI bc. I think the "G" there is quantity not a quality, and humans are very low on generality too compared to what could be mathematically and physically possible for intelligence in our universe).
...we won't stop until the planet is papered with compute hardware UNLES we accelerate space development too (that's why SPACE is CRUCIAL!) and go grind the asteroid belt into thousands of datacenters too, then on and on.
There's a whole yummy lightcone that awaits to be eaten :P
Most things of real interest do not tbh. The point should be to learn how to play infinite games. Sure, there's hard-to-impossible prices to pay, and/or to force others into paying. But what if it can be made to work, won't any price be worth it for that... ?
The epicenter is where the fun is at, even if the price might be sacrificing things of value for your average population and some unquantifiable measure of fluff like national-identity or whatever people imagine it's real nowadays.
I'm an unashamed globalist, but would rather have a "world village" with the US (despite that US being maybe quite different from what most gen-pop wants) at its heart :P Imagine all the people...
there's room for creativity in UX, lots, just not at the "how does the texture of a button feel and flow" - need to move HIGHER level, towards eg thinking of experience minimizing cognitive load, increasing synergy and augmentation ppotential etc etc ...the ceiling is waaaay higher than most UX ppl think
Maybe bc americans WON'T and SHOULDN'T settle for a decline - they should violently rebel against this mindset and claw they way UPWARDS - there's more room for more growth, even if you lose #1 status and have to settle for #2 for a while you can still catch up etc.
It's good that at least the US and China are NOT infected with this degrowth and "cyclical history" mindvirus that seems to be doing the rounds in Europe and elsewhere... keep being a bastion of endless progress brothers, fight the good fight! There's a whole light cone to eat/infect (if not for us the for the successors we'll build)! Whoop, whoop!
Jokes aside though, most of the open world we live in today owes its existence to ideas, mindsets, $$$ and tech exported from the US, and I'm sure there's way more cool stuff to come from you once you properly clean up the parasitic individuals and institutions that have infected your society. Purge on and keep growing, fight for a deservedly big chunk of the Dyson sphere and beyond!
pretty please :P
we all yearn for a good static language, and most of us would kill for "something like Rust (good type system, syntax, tools) but without ownership / linear-typing - just a good GC, all-on-the-heap and a dash of nice immutable datastructs"...
We need more UX that people can "settle into" instead of the constant assault of superficial change that drains energy from everyone's ongoing effort to adapt to exponentially increasing fundamental change!
can you elaborate on that?
centralized systems for identity are used all over the f world, and de-facto you have them in the US too (hello credit cards, hello driver licenses, hello... SIM card?)... they can be used as _tools_ by regimes with fascist tendencies, but their existence alone is quite neutral
ALL countries with functional governments NEED centralized identity systems to function (hello... IRS?), and they all get them even if you like to pretend they don't exist.
...why not just accept they are there, and focus on properly securing them from attacks, making them unalterable by corrupt officials (from simple checksumming and write-only permanent archives to full-on blockchain solutions), and preventing unrestricted access to them, all technically doable.
If you PRETEND you don't have a centralized identity system, don't you just leave all these problems unfixed and just go on with a broken system forever?
Ofc it's stochastic and sooner or later such a system will "break out", but if by then sufficient "superior systems" with good behavior are deployed and can be targeted to hunt it, the chance of it overpowering all of them and avoiding detection by all would be close to zero. At cosmic scales where it stops being close to zero, you're protected by physics (speed of light + some thermodyn limits - we know they work by virtue of the anthropic principle, as if they didn't the universe would've already been eaten by some malign agent and we wouldn't be here asking the question - but then again, we're already assuming too much, maybe it has already happened and that's the Evil Demiurge we're musing about :P).
...not gonna say more, but, buried in the info and video there IS actually an idea for overcoming this nasty limitation (if you can mostly live up with "quasi-random detonation time", which could be acceptable for _some_ nefarious uses). Tbh I'd be more curious if any current gen LLM can figure it out.