markhahn

uh-huh. and what source code do you think coding models are trained on?

smells of AI-pilled management viewpoint. the kind who think that AI has already changed the whole software landscape.

I'm curious what you mean by "violence" here.

it wouldn't be a triangle if it meant embracing one of the poles.

first, eliminate record-keepers.

we call that a shelf.

the Executive is required to obtain consent of Congress to appoint principal officers; why not just require consent to fire them?

There are lots of executive actions which require consent of congress. I think that would work fine here. Obviously, the point is for congress to have a means of overriding a corrupt pardon (not that such a thing would ever happen!)

how about make it round-robin, so all 10k of them get a fair slice of traffic? ;)

though shalt not wear garments of mixed pallettes

If you can't hack it, you don't own it.

has anyone found a paper with details?

also, I was expecting to see cfets mentioned.

it would be interesting to know apple's true/inside attitude towards people putting linux on their hardware. they don't seem very interested in helping, but donno whether they actively sabotage either.

residents of the universe who recognize the US as a supply-chain risk.

no, actually, from the docs it sounds mainly motivated by the country's unique linguistic requirements.

why do you say the Swiss have no gpus?

these days, even completely mainstream distros (Fedora here) include ollama, which leverages a wide range of hardware and range of models. (it's generally useful to install a more recent ollama, though.) there are free coding harnesses too.

I'm curious how you test; could you explain? Do you have a set of factoids that should be subject to copyright, but are somehow literally (whole work) generated by the model in question?

I guess you mean assuming your data is stored somewhere in the clear (and whole).

I'm surprised there isn't a lot more attention to encrypted, distributed, erasure-encoded stores.

any US tech? not even for specific purposes? yeah, if there was some kind of forcefield around the US, most of the world would have tech troubles at one level or another. but so would the US.

and really, the topic here is reducing a transgressive President from infringing tech activities elsewhere (used to be mainly about surveillance, but then trump happened).

what's the problem with everyone knowing how a rep votes? their voting should be a matter of record, not any form of leverage. the dumpsterfire of campaign finance is completely orthogonal (and also both important and simple to solve).

consciousness is a behavior. experience is remembering that you had a behavior.

this fallacy is called "appeal to authority".

huh? the linked document shows that bullet item as deleted.

how about this: there has been a fairly short-lived, one-time event that boosted NV's revenue and allowed them extraordinary margins. nothing like that is goosing Goog or AAPL.

yes, I'm claiming that the NV-AI hype bubble will pop (which almost everyone expects to one degree or other).

flash is a consumable, yes.

but flash endurance isn't a strong argument here. you probably have O(TB) of flash, and aren't going to produce PB of swap writes any time soon. if you do a lot of swapping to a small flash device, it'll happen sooner.

I'm typing from a quite old 4GB laptop, which swaps heavily to a 250G SATA ssd. sure, it's not great, but it also costs zero. currently 9GB of swap is used, and it's not really noticeable. if I open 20 more tabs, it can introduce pauses.

google says this drive was released in 2014, and SMART says POH is about 10 years.

SMART also says wear leveling count is 665 and total written is 165327189538 LBAs (78834 GiB, or 338 drive-writes). I'm not expecting it to die soon, though using a 4G laptop is a bit of a stunt these days...

the point is that a system that has sustained heavy swapping for years has not generates so many writes to worry much. a modern system with 10x speed and 10x capacity (and probably less RAM deficit) would have even less effect. even for QDR with it's few-hundred cycle endurance spec...

Is he ignorant, or trying to mislead?

AI is not a plagiarism engine. It can be used that way, but is not inherently so. It is not necessary that a trained LLM be able to faithfully reproduce every document in its training set. The entire structure of an LLM is not storage, but at least in principle, generalization: extraction of a somewhat abstracted "structure" of semantically similar "concepts".

But we also need to talk about authors' "rights". It's well-established that reproducing a work is infringement. There is a lot of caselaw about how much may be reproduced without infringement. But the idea that an author should be consulted before ANY automated use of their published (public) text? No, just no.

simple question: why not the opposite?

that is, reality exists and consciousness is "painted" on top of that?

IMO, anti-materialists are merely uncomfortable with the degree to which they understand neuroscience and related topics (including, btw, capabilities and limits of LLMs). Chalmers, for instance, basically insists that the Hard Problem is Hard simply because he finds it hard.

we need to distinguish accounts that are merely self-consistent, and those that are more useful.

the reality-is-illusion meme is self-consistent (panpsychism, simulationism, dream-of-god-ism, whatever). merely being self-consistent isn't good enough.

the alternative (and there is only one) is physicalism and its epistemology, science. the main appeal of this is parsimony, often referred to as Occam's Razor.

I'm mystified why you think there is anything to accept about consciousness. Or are you purely talking about it being a "thing"? Yes, that's relevant to how Rovelli is treating dualism (as a made-up, unevidenced claim).

I'm always mystified why consciousness is so often claimed to be undefinable.

then either your drives are overprovisioned or read-mostly.

it's not that hard to hit 300 cycles on flash.