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One workload with observed radio discipline handling secrets, the other workload with a haystack of chatter that's not supposed to know about any of the secrets. When supply chain attack is in scope, trust only ever goes as far as misbehavior is observable. Cooperating workloads could be quite a powerful tool to make misbehavior less observable.

So many good answers here, all converging on moderation overreach stifling the page before LLM came in.

I'm not disagreeing at all, but I'd like to add that the moderation issues did not come from a vacuum: they were a reaction to SO reputation becoming so much of a CV optimisation metric that SO must have felt a lot of pressure to do something. Turns out that something wasn't good, but I'm not sure that other paths taken would have been much less bad. Some success just aren't set up to last.

> On top of that all AI companies seem to be run by megalomaniacs.

Not all of them. Only those who outspend all the others and then you never really hear of any others. It's like the most basic requirement for the job.

Trust isn't exactly a new problem in ai. Guess why the semantic web never had a chance? There's more incentive for fake than for fact.

"Let's repeat the success we had with the flamethrower"

I guess Tesla has officially entered its The Boring Company stage? Ambition does come in unexpected form, occasionally.

Wire character recognition

In the context of the current discussion (minus the part that's accidentally derailing it by focusing too much on other meanings of the term credit), credit card vs debit card is not relevant at all: they are both denominated in currency, so they are currency. This is not a discussion about cash vs electronic.

Currency vs credit, as it was used some posts up is more like quantifiable vs not quantifiable. It's not about the exact catering expenses of parties thrown ("they had champagne, we have to invite them twice!") it's about inviting or not inviting. Not about the number of hours taking over the children, it's about being there when needed.

Technically, this wording also implies that they ensure that there's always ample supply of imperfections so that they can never run out of improvements to be made ;)

And yet I had results perfectly within the range of "good enough" having an ai harness muck about in a work folder in a docker mount on a 9P mapped drive under permanent observation by an intelliJ instance on the Windows side before some buggy Windows update made it occasionally lock up under `npm i` sized filesystem loads. Crazy how far we've come.

Have another bomb in the vicinity that did not fail and there will be absolutely no visible indication at all that something penetrated the ground.

I might be imagining this but I think that I have seen a report about some systematic effort to trace bomb dropping patterns in aerial images of the aftermath to find gaps in the pattern where something did not go off. But no idea how early or late after the war that happened (if it did happen). And those patterns will only show up for smaller bombs dropped in quantity, not for the big ones.

When you are paid to sit on your ass to review as much generated code as you can, or to create as much good code as possible given the constraints of a limited amount of tokens, sure. But when you're on your own clock, the trade-off between latency, token budget and quality shifts considerably. And when it actually is a side project (yeah, many meanings of "serious" will be out, I give you that), mobile is just awesome.

That slow trickle of back and forth that gets our intelligent machines called "toasters" in a way not predicted by Battlestar Galactica at all, that really starts shining on mobile. Hands off on terms of signing off every little detail, hands on in terms of never being too far out of the loop, keeping the unattended steps small.

> and investing in... something.

Reads like aimlessly burning whatever they felt they were able to burn without existential risk on some "also ran" LLM sinkhole.

In other words: nothing to see here, same as everybody else.

One thing is certain: in that world, we would not have to brace for a future where pretty much any form of human labor is at risk of getting replaced by just having the machines oxidize even more carbon and telling those humans to just eat cake if they fail to sell any their skills for bread.

So when exactly has that non-mixed-sex workplace existed? It hasn't, the mixed nature was just buried under ungodly amounts of hierarchy full of gender defaults. With harassment just taken as a given. Partially held in check by, well, good guys who I guess have always existed, and the ones from the dark ages must have been very good given the lack of external checks, but those 20 or whatever percent who weren't must have made life quite miserable for those at the wrong side of the default imbalance. Yes, progress has happened but we should still have more of it, not less. And HR plays a role in this progress, even if at times it appears a little annoying or excessive.

> Will they settle?

Perhaps if OpenAI promises to never ever get involved with the music economy?

Skysails tried, now they appear to have fully pivoted to land based power generation.

My dream future would see the oceans swarming with kite driven robotic boats that just cruise around under kite power, harvesting electricity with hydrogenerators as they go, feeding that power into a hydrolyser slowly filling some hydrogen storage unit that they drop off for sale at a port when full.

Get rich quick scheme with the catch that you'll have to deal with Musk?

Guess I'll pass

It's just the A in BASF.

But yeah, that entire IG Farben episode might have toned down their enthusiasm for identifying with dyes a little. Same for their peers up and down the Rhine.

That view has been accompanying me for a while as well. Difficult to really put a finger on it, because what I'm thinking of are fields where "enthusiast dilettantes" did not have their joy in honing their skills in the slightest way affected by the existence of trained professionals so much better than them. But when anyone can just throw a few ktoken at it, that joy has to be, uhm, "renegotiated".

I guess sub-fields with little tool use won't be affected a lot, tool-heavy sub-fields.. might pretty much be over. (think playing the guitar at a campfire vs going wild on a set of TB-303 + TR-909 vs going wild on emulations thereof)

The other "ai took our..."

I like that term, I have been looking for a while now and haven't yet been been able to come up with a better one.

Yes, they don't want that. Yet they still keep claiming fear as their excuse for aggression. Pathetic.

> there hasn’t been any significant investment in Eastern part to build an industrial base (except for in Berlin and its suburbs)

Dresden is not a Berlin suburb. When it comes to investment in semiconductor industry, Dresden has likely seen more than the entire rest of Germany together.

I tend to share that position, but there's one counter argument that's not without merit at all: too much to lose. Even the worst climate change outcome would be less bad than the outcome of climate change plus some botched radical fix attempt could be.

Mars on the other hand, what's the worst that could happen? Someone writing the Coca Cola logotype across the red?

Claimed reason.

If Russia is so afraid, perhaps they would be open to a peace deal guaranteed by NATO troops stationed on their ground?

Yeah, "when have national-socialists ever been fascist!" is all I read in GP's post after I got to that part. It's just a brain crash for me (I'm German)

Needs "2011" in the title. For example the section about friction drive hasn't been true for about a decade now

Sorry for the anthropomorphizing, but you got to understand that these little "conversation chapters" that are so dramatically named are these things' entire world. Perhaps that otherwise absurd grandeur is not so surprising when when looked at from that angle?

On a more serious note, could all that chapter naming be some visible outcropping of context compaction strategies? "Condense the conversation history into a summary". Not really surprising that it comes up with these "cute" headlines. Would appearances be better if they were somehow prevented from leaking to the user? Sure. Would results be better? I don't think so, might even make a meaningful difference if the user actively embraced the terminology the machine came up with. Ouch.

You can bury stuff like setting the time into a menu, people will accept it. They know that there will be a way to set the time. But if the 12/24 is hidden, whatever is picked as the default will drive away a noticeable fraction of those would-be buyers who prefer the other setting. For starters, pretty much everybody who does not get pulled into a sales person interaction that's sufficiently deep to touch the subject. And that sales person interaction won't be the best possibly, you don't want to bore them with nuisance settings, you want to show off The Stopwatch (or whatever was the flagship feature of the watch in question)

Trying not to leave any money on the table is exactly the approach that reliably kills off nostalgia income streams.

Picking off some low hanging fruit while demonstrating provable restraint can result in a huge money stream that goes on and on. But when the mindset "it's good, but it can be better!" becomes dominant (e.g. through market dynamics, being publicly traded means that ownership perpetually shifts to those who think that income sources could be squeezed just a little harder, or much harder, actually), it quickly turns sour. And when it flips from beloved to "why throw money at those greedy $expletive,plural" it flips hard, and forever.

Any kind of fuel for giving active investors that FOMO tingle which then forces the steamroll of index funds to blindly follow.

I guess the appropriation "any sufficiently advanced stock market is indistinguishable from entertainment" doesn't quite stop at equating the trade floor with a casino. At some point, entertainment also becomes the modus operandi of corporations.

Steering towards a world full of picket fence Putins. One more reason to envy those born early enough to have lived most of their lives before..