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it did enable a lot of good work to happen.

How do we know that when we don't have a copy of the world without this regime? How much more and greater works could have been produced without such a repressive system?

A really successful work becomes part of the culture, and remixing, derivatives and other modes of integrating cultural artifacts are prohibited. Why should we allow corporations to own our culture?

Since the hack, officials restored their website and posted a message announcing they are rebuilding the agency's entire network from scratch. Even if the hacker claims they deleted backups, the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the coming months in Romania.

So it seems not all has been lost. I was worried about the societal implications of being unable to prove land ownership but it seems that may be avoided.

For human beings, profit motive is driven by material wants and needs. What would drive the profit motive for an AI agent? Whatever the human sets as the target? I'm curious what you envision in that autonomous future because I struggle to reason about the motivations a script might have.

Rather than a single, serialized scheduler, we run a fleet of scheduling servers which handle sandbox creation requests concurrently. To handle a creation request, a scheduling server runs a fast scheduling algorithm against in-memory cached data. The result is that scheduling scales horizontally, and looks more like load balancing than traditional container scheduling.

What does this mean? You bucket requests on some attribute and use that to route the request (or create an ordered list of routes to try)?

What you really mean is that there is very low value to the company in appeasing this minor vocal audience. What you forget is that you are posting on a message board to an overlapping audience.

This is exactly the point I saw in a recent x post, that building anti-bot detection was incredibly difficult because some people exhibit bot like behavior.

Blizzard employee once told me anti-botting in WoW was extremely challenging due to the number of real people that acted identically to bots.

Every assumption was invalidated: - unbelievable # of consecutive hours played - consistently repetitive patterns of movement and clicks - farming patterns that aren’t considered fun (“why would anyone do that”) - solo, no external engagement - goes on for months

The problem with botting is many humans ARE bots

https://x.com/IceSolst/status/2076372992959959493

That makes sense but I'm still not so sure—we have things like software architecture patterns that can be discussed at a high level without knowing the intricacies. Like you can be aware of load balancing and even use it but be unaware of how load balancing might work algorithmically.

Let's consider even the original example. > You cannot remove facts like 'paris is capital of france' from llm and have it just retain 'high level thoughts' like 'countries have capitals that you can look up'

Wouldn't the knowledge that countries have capitals precede the knowledge that Paris is the capital of France?

This says nothing about the accuracy of our own models based on these abstractions that lack the lower-level understanding.

For sure. You cannot have "only higher level thoughts" without doing lower level work

What do you mean? I think people routinely think about things at a very high level with almost no understanding of the lower levels. How many people use a computer each day and reason about them at a very high level while knowing nothing of capacitors, logic gates, or programming languages?

How does your solution differ from OPs?

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To me it looks like yours has the following negative qualities:

- closed source

- requires signup for some service

- says code doesnt leave my machine but this connects to your servers

- requires Goose AI as a dependency