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Gud

4,320 karma · joined November 17, 2013

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Gud··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Except on a much grander scale…
Gud··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
Switzerland rotates their President every year.
Gud··on Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest
Opportunity cost. Instead of cheap energy for the local Norwegians, it is being used by the global capitalist elite.

We see this pretty much everywhere now, where resources are extracted and given to the wealthy.

Gud··on Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone
The current USA leadership is hostile to the rest of the world and we need to know what the fuck they are going to do next.

Sort of how the police should keep tabs on violent criminals.

There is no "dehumanising".

Gud··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
How do we know these price cuts weren’t simply due to manufacturing of electric cars getting cheaper as the manufacturing process improves?
Gud··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
Ukraine is not Iran.
Gud··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
I love all those things, started coding as a 10 year old(30 years ago).

The stuff I’m building is things I could only dream of before. With LLMs, I can build things in a year that would have taken me a lifetime before.

Gud··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
10/10
Gud··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
That was always a dumb argument.

If the pole is willing to work for a third of the price the local(I'm assuming Englishman), of course it is detrimental to UK labour.

Pretty good for the capital owning class, though.

Gud··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
No, but someone who has trained their whole life to run fast, surely will be able to coach someone else to run faster than someone who has been on the couch watching television?

I use LLMs to great advantage, solving problems in my domain. I no longer make for loops.

Gud··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
But isn't part of the problem that you simply don't have access to the hardware larger organisations do? OpenAI certainly run into the same constraints. but if they have access to terabytes of memory, while when you use the same model it's closer to 32GB, that will surely affect how the model behaves?

So the pain points you and I frequently run into, simply don't exist for a well connected individual(Sam Altman).

Gud··on Are we sleepwalking into World War III?
If Putin uses nukes, everyone will stop trade with them. Russia would be shunned. It would be suicide.
Gud··on Microsoft Teams is a red flag
That's not at all a fact.
Gud··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
Denmark is dependent on hydro power and nuclear power from its neighbours.

Without it, the Danish people would experience regular black outs.

Gud··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
In these threads there are always people explaining how expensive nuclear power is.

Please remind me how my native country Sweden could build so many reactors for cheap in the 70s? Because to me it is evident that political decisions have killed European(and American) nuclear industry, thus creating this catch 22 where making new nuclear power is expensive because how expensive it is...

Nuclear power has been an outstanding success for Sweden, despite the irrational pushback. It could have been an even greater success...

Gud··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
No, they are arguing that's incredibly misleading to say "Denmark phased out coal and replaced it with wind".
Gud··on Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine
No it doesn't have "full democracy". Only Switzerland has a full democracy, in the world.

Most of (western) Europe has a bleak copy, representative democracy, where we get the representatives who are the best at advancing within a political organisation. Essentially, the worst type of yes man you can imagine.

Gud··on Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank
Frankly, current Israel was not really built on top of empty land either.
Gud··on Why are we even doing all this?
Dubai is not really in the "middle of the desert". Dubai is a coastal city.
Gud··on Why are we even doing all this?
I don't think the aqueducts were beyond the understanding of those who came after the romans. But the romans were extremely organised and could cooperate.
Gud··on Why are we even doing all this?
And how many people can be like that guy? Our jobs are part of an industrial process(literally). We get money performing a business function within a larger organisation.

I'm a pretty clever guy, a high achiever, yet at my very best, at my absolute peak efficiency I probably can do the job of 5-50 mediocre people.

And there are millions of people smarter, better and faster than me. And most of them have more money.

Gud··on Why are we even doing all this?
Why not? They are doing many things right, and unlike in many parts of the west, their leadership are investing heavily in their own citizenry and nation, and have a long term vision.
Gud··on Why are we even doing all this?
And that would absolutely be a tiny minority doing this.
Gud··on Tesla Roadster
What a downgrade from the renders we've seen so far.
Gud··on Tesla Roadster
Looks good? The previous version looked incredible. This looks like the Delorean and the Cybertruck had an unwanted child.
Gud··on I know why the mathematicians weep
Or are revered teachers that you'll never forget.
Gud··on Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
Very few licenses allow you to copy code verbatim without acknowledgement.
Gud··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
No they aren’t.
Gud··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
There are people making billions.
Gud··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
I never used it as my main browser
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