TigeriusKirk

I'm following the Twitter story with close interest, but even I don't think we need a submission for each micro-event individually.

My friends at Big Tech assure me that Twitter slimming down and revving up won't change the way their companies do business, but I'm not at all sure about that. If Twitter is successful (a big if) then the pressure to follow will be tremendous, especially at public companies.

Particularly since Sacks is in Musk's close adviser circle for Twitter, and is even mentioned as a potential CEO.

>Nobody follows a Twitter link to see what Joe Blow posted about anything.

They do, though. The premise is simply wrong here.

> Twitter needs the blue checks because they are, to a large degree, the reason non-blue-checks visit and engage with Twitter.

That may have been true at one time, but I'm not so sure it is any more.

It's an incredibly useful frame if the question is "Should Meta admit the metaverse is a mistake?"

The MSDN library CDs were indispensable for Windows developers in the 90s. Amazing resource all at your fingertips! What a time we were living in!

If this story is true (don't take any stories about Twitter at face value without named, verifiable sources), then it's likely it's about more than just verification. It'll be Twitter Prime or some such, and it will come with a host of benefits.

Actually, given what we've seen with Tesla, it will come with a host of promised benefits, which will be delivered over a randomish period of time, but which you will pay for as if they existed all along.

Really the only way I've been able to make sense of it is if he brought people in to produce an audit of changes made in the last couple months. IE he knows he doesn't know how to get that information, but he knows he has people at Tesla who do.

They wouldn't have to understand any of it, just be able to identify where and when changes occurred, for later review for any last minute shenanigans.

I'm not personally convinced this whole incident even happened, but if it did, this is what I think would make sense.

It wasn't clear to me if the exam questions were the source or just where the author stopped tracking.

At the moment, my default position on all stories out of Twitter is that they didn't happen unless confirmed officially by Twitter. And the more nonsensical the story, the firmer that belief is for me.

I agree. We know they were meeting to discuss a lower price throughout the process, but no agreement was reached. Not surprising if Twitter felt they were very likely to win, why accept less? But they did discuss it.

It's more accurate to say Musk didn't want to buy Twitter for $44 billion. His timing on his bid really sucked. He might have saved half or more if he'd waited a few months.

Yes, they were losing money on them. They recently raised the prices, it's not clear if they're still losing money or not though.

I love TVR Exploring's mine videos. He doesn't do the youtube oversensationalize thing, and he hits all kinds of mines in the Sierra region. He's also bringing an old mine back online, and his series about that is a lot of nerdy fun for physical engineering types. https://www.youtube.com/c/TVRExploring

Hasn't Meta always said their VR project will take the better part of a decade to reach the mass market goal? Maybe I misunderstood them.

Who knows, maybe that's the long term plan.

In the medium term, Twitter might be the best place to train models on the zeitgeist of the moment. For whatever reason you'd want to do that.

My personal fanfic for neuralink is that it's the reason the Tesla bot has human like hands.

I've listened to it and I have the opposite opinion. Lex is the one interviewer in this episode who has treated Kanye like a human being and not like a click generator.

Sounds similar to the "heaven banning" concept. That was fictional as far as we know, but it's obviously technologically possible. https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561

It feels like we're going to "safety" ourselves into an even more extreme oligarchy and congratulate ourselves for being so wise to do so.

Most of Los Angeles is a weird sort of "urban lite" environment. All the problems you describe are much worse in the areas Waymo is already operating in in San Francisco.

From what I've seen on the art side of things, the more a certain work has been copied in the real world (and thus in the training set multiple times), the more likely it is you're able to get a very close copy out of the model with the right prompts.

For example, I'm pretty sure this is why some models turn up a near exact version of The Girl With The Pearl Earring.

It's "the algorithm" has reduced your exposure in the timeline.

I'd wait and see what happens with the new ownership.

My personal ideal outcome is that there's no opting out of having your intellectual output included in the training, but the resulting model is as a result available freely to the public.

In my utopia, the end results are models containing the sum total of human output, available to everyone.

What I think is unconscionable is training the models on public works and then retaining them exclusively for private use.

I don't know if I think it's likely he can make a success out of Parler. That's a very tall order. But I definitely think he's got a better shot at it than whoever has run it to date.

I usually don't comment at all on HN crypto threads, it's never been a productive use of time. I slipped on this one, totally on me.

Sure, for the fun of it. Same as any other gambling.

Her work showed up recently in the background of Facebook's weird metaverse launch ad.

https://youtu.be/G2W9YVkkn9U?t=10

It's not worth going point by point when there's so many fundamental misconceptions. Best to reject the entire comment.

What HN needs is less engagement with useless, time consuming misinformation, and more outright rejection of it.

The real screaming would come if either side prohibits Chinese nationals from attending (and paying for) US grad schools.

Well, this paper will be a rallying point for every RTO manager out there.

And Meta will end up using as a tool to promote metaverse interactions.