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I realized a few weeks ago that broadcast TV had at least one useful advantage over streaming - you don't have the option to pause it, and that makes it much easier to maintain attention.

I absolutely hate AI illustrations on the top of blog posts. I'd rather see nothing.

Thanks for the response.

The significant asset isn't equity, it's control. 51% is much more valuable than 49% when the owned organization is supposedly working towards technology that will completely change how the world works.

The non-profit would have to approve the scheme, and a rational non-profit would not, because it gives up any ability the non-profit has to fulfill its charter.

I read at the time that there was massive coordinated pressure on the rank and file from the upper levels of the company. When you combine that with OpenAI clawing back vested equity even from people who voluntarily leave, the 95% support means nothing at all.

It's way simpler than that, people don't burn bridges unless it's for a good reason.

I do think that whoever Bob is, they probably really are a good manager. EDIT: I guess that's Bob McGrew, head of research, who is now also leaving.

I cannot actually believe that of anyone working at OpenAI, unless the company internal culture has gotten so unpleasant that people want to quit. Which is a very different kind of change, but I can't see them going from Bell Labs to IBM in less than ten years.

That's not correct, they also have tax advantages and a requirement to fulfill their charter.

Every single one of those is flooded with bots and spam.

Amazon was founded in 1994.

I've come to similar/related conclusions, but I don't understand how you could recognize all of this and still be pro-AI.

> Four in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect.

I had the same interpretation of the headline as you. But, based on the quote, I think the change is that their parents stopped driving them to school.

Essentially all of Facebook is useless except for Messenger. If you can get people to message you on something else you could delete your whole account.

Address/MemorySanitizer are also meant for this kind of problem. https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/MemorySanitizer

Also valgrind, but I'm more familiar with the first two.

"With just one guided treatment session, we saw positive effects that persisted after five weeks and even six months after treatment."

I'm entertained by the Java/German comparison since they both like to make very long compound words.

Disregarding the finances, 150 people spent eight years of their life on this. I don't think they were all just phoning it in and paying the bills. It probably stings more than a little bit.

Vilifying things doesn't accomplish anything because the negative opinion becomes a cultural split. People don't care about the hatred of their out-group and lots of people will seek it out to burnish their status with the in-group.

404?

I'm generally in favor of nuclear, but the symbolism of reopening Three Mile Island for AI power is strikingly anti-human.

OT but the "best" part of it is that the text-continuation foundations inherently encourage this exact behavior. People don't write "I don't know" very often, much less "wait a minute, I think I dreamed that, but it's too bad that doesn't exist".

I've heard that they do metrics on the ads to pick particular pseudo-games to implement.

But they don't make money on clicks, they make it on whales, so they are also going to get rid of pseudo-games that can't get whales to spend more microtransaction money.

He's an influencer, his job is to make things sound dramatic for clicks.

I think that's a big part of it. I'm writing servers and systems in C++ and Kotlin. C++ is a very dense language, virtually every token is semantic with little redundancy except the archaic header declaration system, so there are not all that many shortcuts that still preserve my intended meaning. Kotlin feels like a response to Java being so low-density, and is much higher density, although not as much as C++.

Every time I play with web or GUI development I get the impression that the languages and systems are misaligned with the way people express their intentions in the space. It makes me want to develop a language (or family of languages) directly for expressing GUI concepts, but I don't understand the space well enough to do a good job.

OpenAI is not reading voraciously, it is not a human being. It makes copies of the data for training.

If there were an actual AI system which was trained by continuously processing direct fetches from the Web, without storing them but directly using it when for internal state transitions, then that might make the reading analogy work. But then AI engineers couldn't do all the analysis and annotation steps that are vital to the training process.

I think at an early point, about when Facebook was in the "open to all university students" phase, there wasn't even a private option.

There's little that any individual can realistically do about smartphone spying. There are situations where it's borderline unworkable to not have a smartphone. The importance of the phone increased greatly over the same period during which companies increased tracking or at least acknowledged that they were doing it.

Leaving that aside, people probably react that way because the corporation just wants to gather advertising data from everyone, impersonally, while the photographer is taking a direct and specific interest.

The GP is almost certainly describing a robot that can move dirty stuff into the machines, run them, and put away the clean stuff afterwards.

Companies always want to commodify their complements, right? I wonder if there's a framing where the employees are one of the complements.