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“ AI research regularly encounters difficulties and impasses that derive from internal tensions in the underlying philosophical systems.”

Philip Arge strikes again

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/shr.html

For anyone in this situation - first upgrade your subscription to a different tier, wait a day for the account to reflect you are on a new test, then you cancel with the 7 day right to cancel. That way you avoid early cancellation fees

The Ancillary Justice series. Which I think is the best sci-fi I’ve encountered in years and can’t believe it sat on my radar for so long before I jumped in.

Focusing on sharing more on my blog https://so.long.thanks.fish after having a flood of HN views last month on a post

Recently made a stargazing app on Apple Watch, vanity address miner, playing with gameboy roms, and have been making and testing a social photo game that I’ll hopefully make public next month as a PWA

This relates to what the first poster said though, at these quantities “just give it away” is incredibly expensive. Trucks, workers, cleaning, fuel, etc.

Just give it away still requires someone to pay for it

Wow fascinating I’d have thought they were a lot older.

Maybe they can work out some ZKproofs of ID thing and it becomes more palatable. I know there’s people in the crypto world trying to solve problems like that. At the moment kyc results in private data later being stolen or sold - and buying stolen ids to register is too easy. But maybe oneday we can prove who we are (or prove unique human) without needing to trust the authority of the site owner at the same time

mixed feelings on this. One one hand very cool that people with money are willing to fund new ideas in art (supposedly, let’s see what happens). But on the other hand a lot of people, with interesting ideas, will be put off by how this is presented (which sounds a bit like nothing good had happened in art since Bauhaus?). It feels a little like Paul Grahams book on hackers and painters -well meaning but disconnected from many conversations on art (maybe due to the whole Silicon Valley startup life being pretty devoid of knowledge of art).

Like do they want to discuss aesthetics- or do they watch something punchy to put their name behind as being the “new thing” like the YBAs. They talk about influencing design and culture at large. It sounds like they want Kanye West? (But more polite maybe).

IMO if you want someone who’s pretty clear spoken on their values and influential and supportive of younger artists and bridging professional world with diy scene, then someone like Ryan Gander is a good choice to talk to about that. Maybe artangle, eflux etc. They’re well established but still down to earth in my experience.

An open call like this is gonna attract a lot of applications and a weird crossover of people in tech who think they know art because they took an art class in their compsci major and will write applications on how AI and robotics is the new big movement and it’ll be inconsequential.

Though I’m being very cynical I do wish them best and would be very happy to see this as a first step to healthy funding of a very strangulated art scene (outside of the art market nonsense)

This isn’t just X, it’s Y.

Perhaps it’s an issue is that text often has directionality.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17505

I once paid $1000 for some sneakers. I’m still regularly wearing them 7 years later. I’ve bought $50/$100 and they never last that long. It was an insane purchase at the time, done in a moment of jet lagged madness when my shoes fell apart in an airport. But over time it’s turned out to be a great investment. Smart, comfortable, well made.

if they can ban something then everyone else gets worried of being banned and everyone plays it safe.

this looks great, gonna look into writing something to use with fastapi

i’ve seen that with deepseek

those thinking this is a criminal who shouldn’t be released i recommend reading this thread https://x.com/tayvano_/status/1641931312385888256

i’m using ponyai everyday here it’s great (China)

source? or did you mean $1000/month?

for people interested you should check out holly+:

https://youtu.be/5cbCYwgQkTE?feature=shared&t=334

its sad he took the site down, it looks like a neat project. it seems to be fair use, so it really is just an issue of consent and keeping people happy. the issue is some people will always be fearful/miserable. should the rest of us be held back in exploring culture because they refuse to play?

anyway i'm sure there will be ten other similar sites by the end of the week...

A stunning end. those last minutes everyone had assumed it was a draw and Ding had the courage to keep pushing.

Feels very much like we are entering the Happy Vertical People Transporters era.

How long till the air con goes on strike for miserable working conditions?

"Brain the size of a planet and they ask me write a lesson plan in the style of a pirate" - chatgpt5, probably...

theres lots of online services too if you dont have the hardware - e.g. https://www.astria.ai/

if only they would read Baldwins work, but being an angry and lost online today seems to breed a hatred of someone who cared to talk about the lives of black gay men.

fun thread: https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1641927617216655360?s=20

(corruption part starts at https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1641927647440830465?s=20)

I recently got into CNC machining, so tried searching twitter to find some accounts to follow. boy was i surprised by that #cnc hashtag.

Similar vibes:

"The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. Heretofore, most interaction between men and computers has been slowed down by the need to reduce all communication to written statements that can be typed" - Sutherland

as an fyi its hallucinated libraries for me when writing python code, importing things that dont exist.

Working at a chinese university. Everyone (students and teachers) using chatgpt, officially openai don't let you access from china. but everyone has vpns, even the university internet is all behind a hong kong vpn (as google etc is useful).

It does all feel like weird theatre that just makes anything american slightly annoying to use. So theres local startups and researchers working on replicating these things and making them easier to access.

If the usa dont want to make products available to the whole world out some combination of fear and patriotism, then china will instead.