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Can we trust open weight models?

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How much electricity does AI consume?

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Anthropic vs. U.S. Department of War, etc. [pdf]

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Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

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Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)

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CAPTCHAs Are Dead

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yes! just don't forget to `RUN echo '{"hasCompletedOnboarding": true}' > /home/user/.claude.json` otherwise your claude will ask how to authenticate on startup, ignoring the OAUTH token

IMO it's because there's both benefit and waste/corruption in these kinds of social benefit structures. some people choose to only see one or the other:

"these benefit everyone including those who don't use them directly! how could you be against it?"

"this money that I'm having to pay is either overpaid to corrupt vendors, or just straight wasted, why would we ever want to increase how much we're paying into this system?"

in reality you can't have one without the other. it's up to each person to decide whether they can take the bad with the good

They had this during spring training and it was fantastic. The challenge limit meant it was used rarely, but when it was used it added a fun dramatic element. Players getting to stick it to umpires when they got it wrong, and umpires getting to smirk at players when they got it right.

And at the end of it all, some missed calls get to be corrected.

out of money, final payroll, no alternative but to go into zombie mode, yet for the last few months the co-founder has been working on his next product which will launch in 2025.

maybe everything that could have been tried was tried but this comes off like some of the effort spent working on the next company could have been spent keeping this one alive

without understanding the language, you still understand that it's a book, it has symbols which represent language, and those symbols can be replicated.

we don't understand what consciousness is or how it is achieved, so discussing how to recreate it isn't really a conversation we can have - we can only discuss how to create a simulacrum.

consider that this is sending a negative signal to the VC that other VCs have already passed, rather than that it hurts their feelings

these days it looks like ChatGPT generates and runs code behind the scenes for math questions (it used to be pretty bad at these kinds of math questions. you can click the little "view analysis" button to see the code it's running.

when I ask about this question it generates and runs Python behind the scenes, thus the incorrect answer.

it does seem like any of Google's support options for paid services have the primary goal of reducing support load on Google, not to solve problems for paying customers

QoS is a control set and changed in the code launching a process, and can only be altered by the user if the app exposes a control, a feature which remains exceptionally uncommon. Neither is there any easy way for a user to know the QoS of any given process unless the app reveals that.

That... sucks

Or, both are deterrents but one or both can be weaker than the other depending on the perceived risk by the person committing the crime. Having multiple deterrents should be a greater deterrent as a whole across the average of potential criminals.