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I understand that. What is missing is the purpose of running such an organisation. OpenAI has achieved a lot, but is it going to the direction and towards the purpose it was founded on? I do not see how one can argue that. For a non-profit, creating value is a means to a goal, not a goal in itself (as opposed to a for-profit org). People thinking that the problem of this move is that it destroys value for openAI showcase the real issue perfectly.

You do not fire a CEO because you hold some personal grudges towards them. You fire them because they do something wrong. And I do not see any evidence or indication of smearing Altman, unless they lie about (ie I do not see any indication of them lying about it).

Some would say it is the opposite way around. Mission of openAI was not supposed to be maximising profit/value. Especially if it can be argued that this exactly goes against its original purpose.

This is toatlly irrelevant to the board's initial decision though.

It is hard to negotiate when the investors and for-profit part basically has much more power. They tried to bring them in front of a fait accompli situation, as this was their only chance, but they seem to have failed. I do not think they had a better move in the current situation right now, sadly.

If anything, with sonoma it seems that performance has overall increased, so I really doubt it.

I think the comment meant that the problem is the political system, not the politicians' personalities, or education, or ignorance per se. Imo, when you build a system that is more prone to pressure and influence by lobbying corporations than from the majority of people, or by those who have expertise and the best societal interests in mind, this is where you get.

> "If you just have an iPhone you too can make such a video"

I do not think that most people before thought that if they got a professional camera they could just start shooting professional movies.

I have worked in plenty i5-i7 windows/linux laptops before and a macbook m1 air with 16gb of ram is miles better in everything. Nothing like them.

And even if you do not care about battery, you still care about throttling.

Yes, but the number of cores in similar cpus do provide a good comparison. For example, with base M2pro at 6 p cores and base M3pro at 5 p cores, one would want ~20% faster cores to compensate for the lack of one core in parallel processing scenarios where things scale well. I don't think M3 brings that. I am waiting to see tests to understand what the new M3s are better for (prob battery life).

I has to be a divisor of the frame rate, not necessarily equal. Eg with 30fs in a 60fps screen you will do fine. But with a high refresh rate screen and gsync/freesync on top of that, most probably it does not matter at all because the refresh rate of the screen should adjust.

I did notice that my MBA M1 running Baldur's Gate 3 heats up much less under Sonoma, which moreover makes the performance more consistent (it would heat up and throttle however the resolution/settings, which meant it was better to run in low power mode actually). I had no idea it was because of the OS update.

Well, it shows a different philosophy that will eventually get spilled in the rest the service.

Microsoft produces the most popular desktop OS, and ensures their browser (and search engine within) is the default there. They integrate it with their OS through Cortana. Still they lose the desktop market. The argument about google keeping them small through deals makes no sense. In the desktop market they have had a massive advantage since times immemorial. If bing was so good they would at least dominate the desktop market pretty easily, even if they lose in the mobile one.

1. I do not think Galileo is either a characteristic example of a physicist or mathematician, or a particularly good example at all [1].

2. While I would say that most would trivially agree that mathematics is a form of language [2], it is less common to argue that mathematics is _just that_. And, crucially, it is not supported by neuroscience [3]. It seems that there are distinct brain areas involved specifically in mathematical thinking outside of those that are language-specific, which would mean that mathematical thinking is more than language [3].

[1] For a criticism regarding galileo's mediocrity and historically unfounded idealisation https://intellectualmathematics.com/blog/the-case-against-ga...

[2] Actually, a collection of languages, as different parts of mathematics form different languages or dialects that are not easy to communicate in between even if they refer to similar objects, eg category theory vs set theory, analysis vs probability theory.

[3] https://anthonybonato.com/2017/09/19/this-is-your-brain-on-m...

It is also still quite dominant in neuroscientific fields, as there is a lot of software and code there from the past, but it is changing little by little.

I use the eight dollar extension [1]. Basically it replaces the blue verified tick with a dollar sign for paid accounts. I started using it when there was a still a mix of old verified and new paid accounts, both of which were given the same verified sign by twitter, but I kept it even after because it feels more truthful to reality, as it just informs that one has paid to twitter. I think this should be the default.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/eightdollars/

People are different, so it is hard to make some advice that works for everybody. That being said, I totally agree with your conclusion. You do not have to lie still in order to go to sleep, or any other reason. In some sense, if you are in such a situation (being tired, needing to wake up early etc), lying still in the bed is already better than any alternative you can do, eg staying in front of a screen. Sometimes you may sleep. Sometimes you may not sleep. Ime, under this intention, it becomes easier and easier to sleep. Just do not put sleep in your mind as a goal, accept that you may not sleep or you may sleep (even better cultivate being indifferent towards either outcome) and lie still. Personally I have learnt that lying still is more important than eventually sleeping or not. It can even be enjoyable in itself.

Disclaimer: I have only had insomnia episodes that have lasted up to a month or so, so more chronic episodes can be different.

Only that this is already being done for "nefarious" (read advertising) purposes. You do not need any "good excuse" to do just that, just money. And, essentially, being in the commons or not is consequential in how it is to be used. There are a million of topics and cases one is warranted to be suspicious and argumentative against, than when talking about dealing with medical conditions.

What do you think are some challenges that an eyetracker in this specific context has to face? What is your friend mostly struggling with the current solutions? Are there tracking specific challenges related to ALS? Is it mostly a UI/"better prediction" interface issue?

With my group we are developing an eyetracker for studying developmental and clinical populations, which typically present challenges to conventional eyetrackers. It is a spin off from our academic work with infants, and we already have a study almost done that uses it. We are still into the very beginning phase in terms of where this may lead us, but we are interested in looking into contexts where eyetracking for different reasons may be more challenging.