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The problem is that if there is no cost to a dispute then people will just keep doing again and again.

What's to stop Russia launching another invasion after 2-3 years if they settle it all online?

Yeah maybe in North India.

South India it's pretty impossible, since it went through the self respect movements and basically got rid of surnames. Most south indians have surnames based on their fathers names.

But it is definitely common to use surnames as proxies in North Indian communities (unfortunately)

I just watched videos today of an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Karbakh that is happening today. Although from the mouths of a lot of western governments this is not an ethnic cleansing but a lot of Armenians spontaneously deciding to leave after a military invasion.

Yeah right now the Azeri government hasn't really done anything yet. Azeris and Armenians absolutely hate each other and Armenians there are rightly fearful of their lives but you really can't intervene on something that hasn't happened yet especially since Azerbaijan agreed to w/e US and EU asked with regards to minority protections etc (though the history of Azerbajian's government makes this questionable).

The Ukraine was fighting to regain its territory prior to Russia's intervention, and Russia was effectively accusing the Ukraine of performing an ethnic cleansing of Luhansk/Dotensk. Whether accurate or not, this was their justification for intervention too.

Yep, and the US barely did anything there. The US provided weak support to Ukraine there but the general attitude was "Russia looking after Russian speaker interests" - the Obama admin in 2014/2015 (and either did Bush / Obama do anything in Georgia / South Ossetia) didn't do much to stop it or help ukraine. Germany / France / Europe were still trading with Russia etc. It's only when Putin decided to invade Ukraine proper did the West react because there really isn't a good justification for invading Kiev

What I'm saying is it seems depending on a country's interests, what is an ethnic cleansing and what is not seems in eye of the beholder.

Generally agree but Serbia refused to compromise on anything (eg they banned the Albanian language in schools). NATO only decided to intervene when the Račak massacre happened and I don't think there is any documented proof of that happening in Ukraine / Karabah right now.

Basically until proper massacres are documented, intervention rarely happens.

that's really cool, your definition of a great entrepreneur is a bit outside the common parlance but yeah I'd definitely agree that your father in law is a successful entrepreneur

Sustainable profitable businesses that make a healthy profit and give back to their communities are the lifeblood of economies

are you confusing inventors and entrepreneurs? Cause no way you'd consider Tesla a great entrepreneur, he died penniless and JCR Licklider same thing - great inventor and innovator yeah. Great Entrepreneur no.

Of the 3 you listed only Jobs qualifies.

Also this is just lol

The great entrepreneurs of our world are hardly motivated by money

Yeah come on like Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, Hoffman etc aren't motivated by money lol.

For a forum created by an accelerator, it is weirdly anti-success.

I think this is broadly accurate for consumer apps.

However, a B2B app ,which is where most product demo tutorials are used, isn't like this. Good product tutorials are great for salespeople to walk the customer through the app and sell properly to prospective clients.

When the contract sizes are in the 10,000s or 100,000s and the product is pretty complex then this is a good solution vs having your sales and support staff having to firefight issues.

Big 5 is accurate but hard to explain. MBTI is fairly easy to explain and honestly it's not like astrology where it is random, an INTP does act very differently than an ENFJ

You're looking at it from Musk taking over twitter, which I agree with, chasing away users is easy.

The conversation was about X being built from the ground up and attracting new users which is much harder.

BlueSky only started gaining traction after Musk started pissing people off, doubt prag would have done the same.

I'm curious about the composition of your tech bubble - is it programmers / technical folk mostly? cause yeah lots have moved.

The non-technical tech sphere hasn't really moved though, but maybe my circles are quite different to yours.

It still has a boatload of users and is still the cultural town square of the tech world. To build X from scratch you'd have to convince people like Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, a bunch of other VCs etc to move.

Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard.

Based on my understanding after skimming through the paper (and assistance with Claude), the AI did not directly generate any full video content for a South Park episode. It seems like this was how the AI was used:

- Custom diffusion models were trained on South Park character and background image datasets. These models could then generate new South Park-style characters and backgrounds.

- GPT-4 was used to generate dialogue for scenes, based on prompts about the overall episode premise and plot points.

- An "AI camera system" was mentioned for scene setup, but details were not provided on how much of the camera work it handled. Voice cloning was used to generate audio clips of the dialogue.

Note: this is just a skim of the paper, entirely possible I and Claude may have have missed something.

Llama 2 3 years ago

ok now I am confused, as Meta themselves say Palm-2 is better than Llama 2?

Llama 2 70B results are on par or better than PaLM (540B) (Chowdhery et al., 2022) on almost all benchmarks. There is still a large gap in performance between Llama 2 70B and GPT-4 and PaLM-2-L.

https://scontent.fsyd7-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/10000000...

If Google's publically available model is better Llama 2 already then why is it so inconceivable that they'd have private models that are better than their public ones which are better than LLama already.

Palm-2 isn't better than GPT-4 but the convo was about better than Llama models no?

Llama 2 3 years ago

Bard release, it would have made more sense for them to have a more limited release of a better model for PR reasons than what actually happened.

Yes I would agree with you if Google wasn't set on to full on panic mode by their investors about releasing something vs Open AI due to Chat GPT's buzz.

Bard was just a "hey we can do this too" thing, it was released half assed, had next to no marketing or hype.

Vertex AI is their real proper offering, and I want to see how PaLM 2 does in comparison.

Llama 2 3 years ago

Google's model is not as capable as llama-derived models, so I think they would actually benefit from this.

Google's publically available model isn't as capable. But they certainly have models that are far better already in house.