ImprobableTruth

I can't tell if this comment is a fetish thing, pro-India nationalism (railing against perceived 'degeneracy') or anti-Indian racism (saying that Indian men are inferior).

Is the argument that poverty causes crime 'dark'?

>I miss my commute, 30 minutes each way on a train — it was my reading time. Now I don’t read, work or something else fills the slot.

This argument is absolutely insane to me. You weren't paid for your commuting time before - if work now fills that slot it's because you're choosing to work earlier/more.

In what way would this even remotely set a precedent for APIs?

Where "work a little bit" of course means thousands of hours among several years.

>also have to wonder what the implications would have been if NovelAI ended up launching what is now the leaked model as a paid service

huh? It was launched as a paid (subscription only) service before even getting leaked.

Yeah, this would be a game changer to me.

>I miss being able to spread the properties of one type into another, rather than having to inherit from an interface)

What would that achieve that intersection types don't already?

My hot take is that we're merely catching up on until recently unutilized hardware improvements. There's nothing 'self-improving', it's largely "just" scaled up methods or new, clever applications of scaled up methods.

The pace at which methods scale up is currently a lot faster than hardware improvements, so unless these scaled up methods become incredibly lucrative (not impossible), I think it's quite likely we'll soon-ish (a couple years from now) see a slowdown.

Yeah, I think this unfortunately heralds the end for the international internet. If you're not a core US ally, being heavily dependent on US services is now a risk, so I imagine we'll see a wave of states moving to develop their own like China did.

... no? In fact I think learning assembly before C makes a lot more sense than the other way around.

People generally consider context for their choice of words. Alongside 100% they were also given options such as 99.9999999%, it's clear that 100% in this case is not just used as "very likely".

Saying certain prices are obscene is just an ill-defined price ceiling i.e. a form of price control.

I'm not even sure what that is really supposed to mean. If 100% precludes the potential of an event with infinitesimal likelihood (mass delusion, possession by ghosts, etc.), then as I said nobody ever gets convicted.

Otherwise, any "concept of certainty" that uses "100%" to refer to something that might not occur, is either gravely misusing mathematical notation or self-contradictory.

If you look at it in a bayesian way this is not an issue. "I can't put a number to it" would definitely be a legitimate answer, but "100%" is just wrong.

20% said they would require 100% certainty, which is equivalent to stating that not even the most obviously guilty person in existence deserves to be convicted. I'd posit that this is more so evidence that the general population's knowledge of probability is abysmal.

The most obvious option to me seems to be price controls, which historically have been a very blunt instrument and as far as I know, most economists recommend against them.

>If regulators instead went after service pricing abuse

How would this work in a manner that isn't vastly more invasive than right to repair bills? I can't think of anything similar.

I'm pretty sure it's just 'calculator notation' and not a leak from the computer representation, but rather done because of the limited space available (at least on older calculators).

KiB = Kibibyte, not Kibibit

I really wish Zig had closures and interfaces/traits. You can emulate them in hackish ways, but UX is awful and as there isn't a uniform way, there's next to no compatibility with regards to libraries. As is I'd rather just use a heavily restricted version of C++.

What I don't understand is why this is done by private corporations instead of the government. Stalking is a crime, harassment is a crime, SWAT-ing is a crime.

I don't want to live in a society where law enforcement is left to big tech vigilantism. There's a reason that governments are granted a monopoly on violence, they have democratic legitimacy and accountability that other entities do not.

Yeah, if I find out that a company attempts to deceive me with this kind of thing, I'd completely stop buying from them.

If failure means you pay out to something you like (retirement, charity), then you're incentivized to fail.

>the major strides they’re making at removing racial/gender biases

They're literally just appending a race/gender string at the end [1]. In what world is that not just hot air?

[1] https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1549523790060605440

>Hybrid models will always struggle and 1/3/1

What does 1/3/1 refer to?

I'm absolutely sympathetic to the copyright concerns (the idea that some future of copilot will use my GPL licensed code to at the very least devalue my work is very irritating!), but not only would this likely require changes to the way copyright works much more quickly than the law typically operates, I'm not even sure how enforceable it really is.

You might be able to force OpenAI to hand over a part of dall-e's revenue, but how would that work with an open source model like stable diffusion that runs on consumer hardware? There's really no way to control how much/in what way its used. Even if you make it illegal to use James Gurney's work to train model without his explicit permission, people could just finetune it in private with essentially no way to determine whether they used works they didn't have permission for.

The closest thing to the cassette recorder solution would be to put a tax on every computing sold, but that seems unlikely to me to be palatable to the general public.

We definitely have very interesting times ahead of us.

>while the GitHub page states you can't even build it

It states that it's not very buildable i.e. that the build process is very fragile. Building it with nix definitely works, I just tried it.

The vast majority of commercial illustrations is just beautiful/cool looking characters or landscapes, focusing purely on looking pretty rather than some deep meaning behind it.

I think it's totally understandable if you don't care about this kind of art and it losing value, but what you're really saying then is "The art apocalypse will happen and that's good". I share this opinion, but I can also definitely see why working artists don't like it!

>The demand for PhDs in industry is huge across many fields

... is it really? CS is as far as I know one of the fields with the highest demand and even there the jobs that actually need a phd are pretty rare. As far as I can tell it's possibly only ML where there's a good amount of jobs that essentially require a phd.