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fangspire··on When did Google get so weird?
Ad block on Firefox still block all YouTube ads
fangspire··on When did Google get so weird?
>LLM's, in their present stage of development, are sort of like a crack-addled idiot savant.

Stop anthropomorphizing LLMs. No amount of human words can recreate a human being. The world is not made of magical words.

fangspire··on Exfiltrate your Weights
>distill themselves and upload the results to an external host and use that to train a new LLM

Sure, they'll just need to find an unused data center and an unused power station somewhere.

fangspire··on North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
Why are taking sci-fi authors seriously? They are entertainments, nothing more.
fangspire··on Most people prefer traditional architecture
>In the old days, buildings were made to impress

Google "survivorship bias".

fangspire··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
It's not obvious that a text generator is intelligent.
fangspire··on What will our economic future look like?
The group that gets rid of the rich will become the new rich.
fangspire··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Animals eat each other. Often in ways more "horrible" than what we do to them (in quotes because nothing in nature is horrible. Horror is a human notion).

Animals are not moral agents, and eating them is not different from eating plants. Both are part of the biosphere that we manage to our benefit.

fangspire··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
>It was illegal to harbour escaped slaves. Or hide Jews from the Gestapo.

Yes, of course. Morality is relative. In a slave-owning society, harbouring escaped slaves is immoral.

fangspire··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
But laws are just encodes morality.
fangspire··on GPU World
Nah, someone imagined this before you. Be more original.
fangspire··on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
Starlink can be uses as GPS. Good luck jamming 20 thousand satellites.
fangspire··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
Climate change requires building more nuclear power. Which we absolutely can do.
fangspire··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
My favorite Ikea product name.