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Salvatore Sanfilippo (a.k.a. Antirez) exhibit B

Honest question, is it possible that since might be using the latest/best model to analyze and improve the existing ones, the moat will expand exponentially, making the models better and more efficient at each iteration until there is no point in competing?

I also was having a similar thought, and think you wrote the answer I could not put my finger on. Compilers are deterministic, AI is a stochastic process, it doesn't always converge exactly to the same answer. Here's the main difference

I think you could also receive this direct broadcast: https://user.eumetsat.int/data/satellites/metop-sg/metop-sg-...

But the killing a ton of people is very long term /(dark) s

Me too, I printed it and underlined it, I will try to memorize some of the concepts and the exposition, because this is a cristallization of what I vaguely feel about the abuse of LLM I am currently witnessing

That is very true, although I also have the opposite example: some math books at Uni (e.g. the recommended one for calculus) were so dense with information that I could not make head and tails

I often had to buy a second book where the content was... well digestible

That's a question that I always also asked myself, from my layman understanding space time expanded quicker than gravitational collapse

Well... hold your horses, when you make solar panel self replicating and self-healing nano-machines that span all over the planet you would have beaten nature.

So far we have beaten nature on the aspect of sheer efficiency

Always better than the nichilists

That's wrong, the fact that is inert doesn't mean it's useless

If you remove all nitrogen from atmosphere, there WILL be consequences

It's not really clear to me what's your position. In the sense you state that you find it appalling, but what? The fact that there is a problem with such generative AI, the discussion that might follow, or its consequences.

Obviously the powers that be will try to use this at their advantage, trying to tighten a bit control over population, such as rendering AI models illegal, except a selected blessed few (read megacorp. ones)

IMO the general response shouldn't be just trying to defend the freedom position for freedom sake, but to find viable alternative solutions that don't mine the freedom of the population.

For example... we could try to use AI to detect if the images are AI generated or not :) And police should have the means to use AI, maybe given for free by the megacorp that benefit the most from AI

That is a study I'd sponsor :D

Joking apart (for I am joking, I'd never sponsor something that forces people to do things they don't want) My only point is that whenever I read something like this... well it stinks, because it goes against what I perceive as common sense.

Someone took my first comment too seriously, my point being that after so many studies read, weighted, measured and found wanting... I don't want to waste my time reading something that doesn't pass the smell test.

Who did they interview? People who have cargo bikes Do they like them? Yes they bought them and either liked them to begin with, or are rationalizing, then there is a minority who's objective.

Ask people with Mercedes what's the car brand they like the most.

For example: I drive an Alfa Romeo and once I was stopped by a guy (in Germany) that asked me if I wanted to join a Italian Car Club... and he was the proud driver of a FIAT Tipo, not a car I'd buy for it's beauty or one I'd show in a car club, yet he liked it, and we are discussing a study that hinges on what people like?

EDIT: just to say... I agree with you, there's a bit of selection bias at work here

That's bollocks, it's more that the vast majority of people who buys a cargo bike is a bike enthusiast to start with.

Case in point I am not, I was convinced to buy a cargo bike, and I still like my car very much, particularly when it's rainy and/or cold

Still like the bike in warm summer days, but in winter... only car

I think that one way to "easily" understand the syntax of git is to remember that when you perform a command you "always" modify the current branch

for example: git merge my-branch will merge my-branch into the current one

while git rebase my-branch will rebase current one on top of my-branch

Metal gear solid, any of the series

What's the name of the continent where "America" is? :D

From a European perspective, American means from the continent America, and not specifically from the US. To me a Brazilian is as much American as a US citizen.

I totally agree. This is very on point

I love when a discussion about a software product derails about the war in Ukraine...

Yeah, right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I think that FSF in a very romantic sense, is fighting a lost battle. The vast majority of people don't care much about their freedom and easily trade it away for convenience, that's just that.

It depends on the topology of the clients network, if they are both behind a specific kind of firewall (don't remember the details) no connection can be established from outside

When connection is possible, is my understanding that croc connects directly

The application has a default parameter that points to a relay server, when you want to share something, you tell to the server "hey I want to connect" and the server gives you back a passphrase, now the receiver connects to the same server and has to use the same passphrase to get the files you are sharing

Then the server tries to make your and the receiver clients connect directly to each other, if this doesn't work (mostly because of firewalls) it also Relais the parts of the file, which by the way are encrypted so that only your receiver client can decrypt

That's my understanding of how it works

Plants will grow more easily... due to increased temperature and CO2, just like in a greenhouse

This in the long run will reverse the climate change, so after we go extinct, the remaining species will thrive :)

Instead of "So what do you do" you can always ask "So what do you like doing" ... that might give the person the chance to still talk about work if he/she/they/it/es want to :)

Yes, same here, once I knew it was a fake I started looking and the head looks glued on... without the tip, I might have unconsciously notice something was off, but would not be able to put my finger on it.

It's anyhow a moral argument, just based on different values. For example can you imagine to have sex with someone? Do you need their consent? How is it so much different to produce a deepfake for your own consumption only?

I personally agree that consent matters, but I see many ways to contrast that argument

MLM and crypto scams do work... for some people, it's just a tiny minority and normally the vast majority pays for them

Please, read again what i said, and my other comments you inferred wrong conclusions about my position

Nope, I volunteer for nothing, and maybe I didn't state it clearly enough: I think that arming Ukraine is the right thing to do.

What I cannot stand is that from given premises, one goes to the completely opposite implication. I was just pointing that out.

Let me state it again, I am in favor of trying to support Ukraine in current conflict in any possible way (I hope I said it clearly enough now)