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kerkour is basically a spam blog.

McMaster-Carr not meeting your needs?

Sounds like you don’t know how to farm romantically.

>How can I protect myself in such a situation?

Choose a different career, like maybe public-opinion influencer.

Are you saying you don’t give equity, or are you saying that you don’t expect the equity you give to be valuable?

You can tape your mouth shut when you sleep, and after a few days/weeks of this, you don’t need the tape anymore.

Weird, literally the majority of people who eat or live under roofs don’t have jobs.

Is this intended to be an anecdote about life in Oslo, or are you suggesting that you expect the world outside of Scandinavia will somehow become more like Scandinavia over time?

But not any commercial use, only that which is covered by the license.

Whereas the copyright holder has broader rights.

So a licensed user is not “equally entitled”.

>Going to a restaurant twice a week with your partner, when you're 40+ and no kids, will get very repetitive and boring.

That is a very strange perspective.

For a HN twist on Minesweeper, Bombe is a must-try.

MIGALOO luxury submarine? Those Chinese Amazon brands are really stepping up their game.

“In the end, LLMs may be little more than the word processor of tomorrow”

I think this is the single most shocking thing I have ever read. How on Earth can someone with Schneier’s background not see where this is going?

No. A license to copyrighted code does not confer the same privileges as holding copyright to that code.

Public domain is closer to “equally entitled”.

https://www.muckrock.com/ seems to have a lot of good information on this too, and fun-to-look-through archives of requests and responses.

HN just hates reddit.

Yes, people tend to regard things that they don’t personally understand as magic.

I understand my own intelligence, and newsflash: AGI is already here.

Opinionated? More like firebrand.

TLDR: Person who has never used a database before benchmarks completely unoptimized SQLite vs completely unoptimized PostgreSQL and writes a content marketing post for Twilio.

Two years ago.

You mean a left-to-right top strap.

People were very skeptical about the lack of a keyboard on iPhone, and it was missing a few basic features like copy/paste, but it was incomprehensibly small in person and other phones couldn’t touch the capabilities.

Legal systems are code execution for people who can’t code. Use accordingly.

Heh. Well played, even if you put words in my mouth. (A surprisingly effective LLM technique, btw)

We’ll see if the west has the will to deny GPUs to the entire rest of the world.

I will say that Yudkowsky’s clusters aren’t relevant anymore. You can do this in your basement.

Man, shit is moving fast.

Edit: wait, that cat is out of the bag too, RTW already has GPUs. The techniques matter way more than absolute cutting-edge silicon. Much to the chagrin of the hardware engineers and anyone who wants to gate on hardware capability.

I think it would help the discussion to understand what the world is like outside of the US and Europe (and… Japan?). There are no rules out here. There is no law. It is a fucking free-for-all. Might makes right. Do there exist GPUs? Shit will get trained.

> Can we agree that people should not be able to unilaterally take existential risks with the future of humanity without the consent of humanity

This has nothing to do with should. There are at the very least a handful of people who can, today, unilaterally take risks with the future of humanity without the consent of humanity. I do not see any reason to think that will change in the near future. If these people can build something that they believe is the equivalent of nuclear weapons, you better believe they will.

As they say, the cat is already out of the bag.

> nobody should be developing AGI without incredibly robustly proven alignment, open or closed, any more than people should be developing nuclear weapons in their garage.

I have an alternate proposal: We assume that someone, somewhere will develop AGI without any sort of “alignment”, plan our lives accordingly, and help other humans plan their lives accordingly.

Do you have a case study?

My prior is that GitHub is pretty competent in understanding malicious PRs to open source repos, and wouldn’t penalize the repo owner without other evidence of wrongdoing.

Pwn me.

Nobody really cares.

I’m not usually the type to complain about input lag; most modern apps on a recent machine are snappy enough for me.

But I’ve been messing around with egui lately, and it just feels… fast. It’s weird.

But nobody really cares.

PSA: GeForce Now Ultimate is a great way to check this out. You get a 4080 equivalent that can stream 4K 120Hz. If you have good Internet in the continental US or most of Europe, it’s surprisingly lag-free.