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The maximum of 32 GB RAM has to be a joke. My Linux laptop has more RAM, more SSD, more CPU at the same price, and it can run games on top of that. Hard pass, even if I were to tolerate the OS.

The “security bug discovery” was pure terror and never intended to be directly montized. It was intended to prompt regulation and now it’s encouragement to buy the defense. Modern protection racket.

Except that our dear oligarchs would never concede the possibility that they could make mistakes.

Nature mints new fools every single day and they all know better than to be informed by past mistakes or — god forbid — anyone using their brains.

Obsolete citizens don’t need healthcare, housing or infrastructure. They will just die of hunger and exposure and then the rich and powerful can frolic unencumbered in paradise.

The font on that website is unreadable, but the photos are OK.

This should be good training. Because the kids will encounter many, many more LLMs that are wrong on purpose, for the sake of propaganda and fraud. Teaching them early on that they can’t trust the machines is a net positive.

> And that can undermine the trust in the system.

That's not a bug, it’s a feature. Trust in the system would be severely misplaced.

They need to multiply by 100 to move that fine out of “cost of doing business” range.

> I still cannot believe a company like Microsoft can fall so low.

They have always been so low. I cannot believe a software company can be so hilariously bad at their core business and yet rise so high.

> Instead they're trying to monopolize biology.

That’s the recurring theme with these companies. They are not there to serve anybody else but only themselves. They let you use their infrastructure so they can collect all the knowledge and data, and then they take it from you to reap all the benefits and profits.

This seems to be in the same spirit as Justine Tunney's SectorLISP. Very cool.

https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/

> If Project Zenith is a "distraction-free Windows experience," does that imply that everyone else is using nerfed experiences with needless distractions?

Yes.

And the irony is that we don’t even need APIs for social networks to drown in botspam.

OK, that makes sense.

> branding suicide.

Or not. I mean, if you had no voice and nothing to say before, you can amplify that signal 10x now. Basically, you’re boosting your brand as a tasteless brainless schlub.

> Shortcut

Shotcut.

Why, does Nvidia care what models run on their hardware? Are GPUs getting cheaper if they run open-weight models?

Cool. I never thought I’d see the day.

It's the lethal trifecta on steroids, sold to you as a feature.

Together with your point about convenience, it's the lethal quadfecta, as we can take the prevalence of convenience as a given.

The LLM providers will be delighted. Everyone and their grandmother donating their means of production to them so they can sell it back at a price must be a wet dream come true.

Thank you for helping me keep my sanity.

> Our system is predicated on an assumption of innocence.

In theory. In practice, this is a hopelessly outdated supposition.

> None of those words what you think they mean.

And that alone is already a pretty scandalous problem. If the law is not stated in a way that ordinary people can understand, how the hell are they supposed to obey it? Those who cannot afford the highly paid law explainers are basically locked out of society.

I looked at the Latin. It would be nicer if they used the authors’ real names in the table of contents instead of the mangled and garbled leftovers. And spelling Iulius with a “J”, how dare they! But the actual texts themselves seem to be given flawlessly. No artificial distinctions between “u” and “v” for instance. Much appreciated.

All language fascinates me, whether that be natural or formal.

OK, I want it, but for Linux.

I’m syncing on that but my time slice is closing for this clock cycle.

Wouldn’t that potentially violate the Prime Directive? You could accidentally create AGI by exceeding the critical mass of slop.

> though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware (space junk) is disposed of.

My thoughts exactly.