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Guess the moral of the story is hierarchy will always exist - it can either be visible or invisible. People who want power will seek it. Inevitably people will end up following/obeying them for one reason or another … and we have a person in power.

> C++ doesn’t get this treatment when it comes to template metaprogramming

Quite sure a lot of people hate C++'s template programming.

> They’re simple enough that they can be explained in a short article, so that causes people to write lots of articles about them.

Or ... there are a lot of articles because people keep finding new ones to read because they still don't get it after reading the previous 100 articles.

Won't they just do whatever is most profitable? If continuing to pay even if you aren't using the estate is more profitable that's what they will do - they can still let employees work from home; would save on the air conditioning and lighting bill.

I don’t think it will affect people’s ability to write good programs - in fact it probably helps.

That said, if a feature is really hard to figure out and it’s a constant pain point for newcomers … maybe it isn’t worth it …

No other language seem to bother with monads to the extent Haskell does.

Will it though? I don’t visit CNET and I still won’t. Google isn’t going to rank any of their articles higher.

Freedom of speech as a concept is relatively simple, Wikipedia has pretty good definition,

“Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.”

> The definition is a gigantic pile of judicial precedents, which lawyers spend years learning.

The thing is, no country has 100% unfettered freedom of speech.

Judicial precedents are all about what is and isn’t an exception to freedom of speech under US law - i.e. what they debate about is “freedom of speech”, they are debating about whether X falls under the exceptions that the country has chosen.

> That should not be assumed to mean you are free from the consequences of your speech.

Define for me then what does it mean to not have freedom of speech.

Because "having freedom of speech" and "not having freedom of speech" is beginning to look a lot like the same thing using your definition.

> You can actually yell "Fire!!!" in a crowded theater. And you will have a serious legal problem to contend with.

You use one of the few exceptions to freedom of speech to make your case?

If there are negative consequences to speaking your mind then by definition you aren't really free to do so anymore.

> Plenty of humans glitch out on random words (and concepts) we just can't get right.

We don't lose our marbles the way GPT does when it encounters those words. It's like it read the Necronomicon or something and gone mad.

Have you heard of "glitch tokens"? To my knowledge, all these are hand patched. There are probably more lurking somewhere in its data.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054241 has quite a few examples of GPT-4 being broken.

> What counts as "human level"?

IMHO if it can do every single human job at a level of competency that's consider acceptable if a human did it, I would consider that "human level" - frankly, it's implied that when people say "human level", they mean the average human.

Seriously though, arguing over semantics is just a waste of time. It's what it can do and the consequences of what it can that really matter.

> That implies AGI must be an expert in every subject, surpassing the average human.

Doesn't have to be the same AI "instance". We can have multiple copies of the AI with different specializations. That would still count - I mean it's how we humans do it.

IMHO LLMs are so popular because they sound very confident. That’s great marketing in itself. Unfortunately it’s only marketing.

I think we have a bit of miscommunication here. You see these “benchmarks” as necessary and sufficient for “real intelligence” when people are just saying they are necessary but not sufficient.

It’s like asking for a drink (legal age 21) and getting rebuked with a “you aren’t even old enough to drive” (legal age 16). That doesn’t mean you can drink when you are 16!

Edit: If you want a hard necessary and sufficient condition for “real intelligence”, mine is “when it can do all of our jobs, i.e. wholesale replace every human”.

> “Sold by QRYGGS, fulfilled by Amazon.”

Do you think we can side step the issue by only buying stuff that’s “sold by” Amazon or one of its global subsidiaries?

> 2 million Chinese who died during the Cultural Revolution

Heavens know how many died during the Great Leap Forward. Estimates are between 30 million to 55 million.

Intel’s foundry side struck a deal with ARM recently. So they are involved with them.

Unions are often monopolies too - monopolies on labour. Monopolies often lead to inefficiency in the market and an inefficient market is bad for everyone.

Not quite “just another corporation”, they are often monopolies on labour.

Frankly, power imbalances in either direction isn’t good - because we all know it will be abused.

Inaccurate predictions go “both ways” and applies to both countries.

Sometimes a decision has to be made though - e.g. is a particular person a murderer.

In most countries, the burden of proof is on the accuser and the accused doesn’t need to proven his or her innocence and is treated as innocent until proven otherwise.

Maybe you should let the governments of countries in the CPTPP decide that.

They can decline the whole agreement. Thus the agreement has to be a win for them too else there is no reason to sign.

> How would you deny the SC status?

Maybe we should adopt the stance that it’s not a SC by default and have the people asserting that it is prove that it’s a SC.

I am. It’s worse than Chrome in a way frankly in that JPEGXL is only supported in the Nightlies behind a flag.

However Mozilla has not completely dropped the feature like Google.

What’s outrageous is Google’s BS reasoning for dropping the format.

They claim lack of interest when they (and Firefox) have been hiding JPEGXL support behind flags (and nightlies in the case of FireFox) yet WebP and AVIF is fully supported despite their similarly niche status.

Chrome’s support for JPEGXL was also already more or less complete when they decided to drop it.

Ironically though it has brought a lot of publicity to JPEGXL as “the format Google is trying to kill” in a Streisand effect sort of way. But with Chrome’s dominance that’s not enough to give it a fighting chance until Apple quietly announced support for it.

Oh please, Google’s parent company is worth 1.64 trillion USD. They can afford a few programmers to maintain a codec.

Lack of popularity hasn’t stop them from supporting webp and AVIF.

Well, I have no problems not buying this game. For one, I simply do not have the 150GB of SSD space it requires. LOL

> I try not to regret it as wasted time

I wish games had more transferable skills … most games unfortunately are at best a very ineffective use of time.

You miss his point. NT was thought to have “won” and their position seem unassailable but the unexpected happened and their reign in the server world was short lived.

Al it takes is a different better AI model that doesn’t require the type of computing capabilities Nvidia offers or for the LLM hype to die.

Nvidia made their fortune riding 2 consecutive hype waves - crypto and LLMs.

Monopoly are fine if they are natural monopolies - e.g. utilities; which need to be regulated. Otherwise monopolies are suboptimal as prices won’t come down due to lack of competition.

Other non-Canadian news sources are still available right?

People will just waste time on those.

Frankly, if Canadians are reading news about Canada mostly from foreign news sources, this might weaken the Canadian government’s control on political narrative - since they can’t pressure foreign news sources like Reuters, CNN, or Fox News, much if at all.