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...and in warhammer 40k, the warp enables faster-than-light travel; one can only read that as optimistic sci-fi by ignoring the subtext - scratch that - ignoring the text.

Anthropic carried out a multitude of "copyright attacks" on open source repositories, and the broader internet.

> then language alone wouldn't be enough to encode and embody reasoning capabilities

I disagree, language is the product of, not the mechanism for thought. People who lose their faculty of speech (or haven't gained them) have complete thoughts and executive function.

CoT is a hack to use language (i.e. autoregression) to simulate reasoning, and it's very effective at it. Human minds can acquire, hold and use axioms as building blocks for actual reasoning, LLMs use statistical likelihood.

> if we transcribe your brain into a simulation and give it a tickrate, you will be just autocomplete too.

The underlying mechanisms for producing language are very different, in the same way birds and airplanes have different mechanisms for flying.

> AI is now capable of constructions so complex that no human or human team can unpack

Can you give an example of this?

> I'm not sure if you've tried to use Wordpress for a simple site. I did recently and it was a horrendous experience.

As someone who made a number of bespoke backends, WordPress wins on turnkey host-support, ease of content-authorship, familiarity (when handing over or taking over a backend), and breadth and depth of plugins. A lot of people would be well-served by static-site generators, and those were on the rise for a bit. WordPress stays winning because of the user-friendliness of its publishing workflows (vs SSGs), and self-reinforcing ecosystem.

TBF, I hadn't heard of the guy before this thread either, but I don't hang out in the unexpected-scaling-demand-with-no-infra-team circles, which appears to he the target market.

> OP never took jets 101. Neither have I. So what?

So you,me and OP will likely miss a lot of nuance when discussing jets - after all, reality has a lot of detail. Stating the existence of blindspots is not condescension, having blindspots does not make one inferior.

> Your bet is wrong sadly

E-ink devices place no demand on fine-motor skills the way turning a page does. I'll stand by by bet.

I'm not defensive about the fact that the experience of reading vs listening are different - I challenge the (often implicit) insinuation that one is inherently superior to the other in all circumstances. I do both and know the trade-offs for each. My comment was inspired by the old, but very similar "real books vs kindles" debate.

> How can you comment as if you are knowledgeable enough about aviation to speak on this with authority, but you aren't aware that ...

This is par for the course for HN; smart people applying first-principle thinking on unfamiliar domains for about a minute, which confirms the biases of other outsiders who vote the plausible, but not-quite-right comments to the top.

Oh no, how am I ever going to avoid giving my custom to someone who has allegedly cornered the market on - checks notes - a db proxy? Give me a break.

I can think of at least 4 other ways of scaling horizontally without switching DB engines. I'd have to be mightily constrained to have this particular product as the only option.

lol are you an amazon wannabe?

> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.

Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.

> Forgejo disallows LLM contributions

You're misreading the rule.

>> 5. Using general AI for review is forbidden.

The second sentence makes it even clearer, as it would have been unnecessary under a blanket ban scenario

>> ... If the change contains changes to the UX it has to be approved by a human reviewer.

> If manufacturing ever became Google's Achilles heel, they can take a majority stake in something like VinFast and manufacture a Google car.

They won't even have to (partially) buy any manufacturer - they can utilize contract manufacturers like Magna Steyr (which made the Jaguar I-Pace) or Foxconn, or lean on/expand partnerships like the one they have with Toyota.

I can't wait for OpenAI to do this to companies firing people to free up AI budgets

This comic from 14 years ago remains evergreen https://hijinksensue.com/comic/surface-tension/

> That sucks for search quality.

I was shocked to see Google's AI panel show my niece Bluey fan-fiction[1] as authoritative fact, sourced from an wiki (may have been a fandom wiki, IIRC).

Independent wikis have variable quality, pagerank isn't enough to gate the quality.

1. The infobox showed Mackenzie's full name as "Mackenzie Heeler", based on fanfic about grown-up Mackenzie marrying Bluey and taking up her last name. It also included names of their made-up kids.

> reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently

This doesn't matter. What matters to me is I experienced the stories conveyed by the words.

I bet reading a hardback lights up different parts of the brain compared to e-book readers, but that difference does not to me matter either.

I "read" 6 audiobooks on my phone last month. Listening to audiobooks counts as reading, text-snobs be damned.

> Nothing we do today will be even remotely important in 1,000 years

The irony of quoting the work of a poet who died over 200 years ago is thick.

The US free speech advocates had plenty to day about Julian Assange, an Australian stuck in the Ecuadorean embassy all the way across the Atlantic.

i.e. if some crazy, cartoon villain scientist were to create the perfect tool to enable fishing for crimes, the Flock cameras and drones would be the first.

> Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law

Corporate lawlessness has no good outcomes for humans.

Its not just about saving $0.05. There are many legitimate reasons to not want the AI to do the thinking (aka architecting or planning) for you. In those cases where one-shotting is undesirable or unnecessary, closed frontier AIaaS has no advantages over open weights.

I'm just glad the dweebs who were parroting "OMG, Distillation attacks!!1!" have been empirically proven wrong, and discussion around open-weight models are more rational now.

> licencing the models for local use

Who's going to be the new Bill Gates, with a vision for "a GPU cluster in every home?"

Its almost as if NYT has had a hawkish agenda for the past few ...generations.

I don't think most motorists would care if OpenAI's gas stations just released 106-Octane "Intersteller" gas, unless their cars specifically require it.