tadfisher

In case you are paywalled, the complaint is that the OpenAI PBC is controlled by the OpenAI 501(c)(3), thus will be subject to constraints its competitors do not face, and investors aren't sufficiently aware of the risk. Thus the non-profit control and the public-benefit mission is at odds with generating shareholder value, threatening to take down the economy if it fails.

Regardless of how you feel about their product, it seems like a silly argument when the risk is that there isn't actually a market for trillions of dollars of AI spend.

The LLMs themselves are not doing the developing or learning.

Then everyone is open source if you have $20 to spend on tokens, I guess.

If weights are the source for models then ELF binaries are the source for software.

Third-party doctrine.

This is pretty funny. You almost had me until the Perl part. Not going to get baited this time!

Problem with that is that gathering evidence invariably leads to tracking down the recipient of the provider's service.

Who is stopping you? Is it an employment concern?

I do like that you mention diminishing returns, because we are hitting them in building out all the external requirements for competing at the frontier. Even if model performance scales linearly with energy input, the top labs are now competing with other uses for that energy.

How far are we willing to go as a nation (and as a species) to prove out the scaling laws? Are we willing to sacrifice our industrial base? Would we rather train models or smelt aluminum?

Yes, this ships in basically every smartwatch since the Snapdragon Wear 3100 launched in 2018.

Basically every "made in USA" consumer product has a DOD contract. The DOD is mandated by law to purchase from US companies, so there is a huge sector of small-to-medium businesses which only exist because there is a guaranteed order coming every quarter for uniforms or boots or other equipment that would likely be 1/3 the price if they were contract-manufactured in China or Vietnam.

Not saying this is uniformly bad, because without the law the number of businesses with the ability to manufacture this stuff would trend toward zero, but it is a form of subsidy.

Sure there are, and we worked this out decades ago with telecommunications. We ought to:

- Require a judicial warrant before recording anything. Recording with a camera network is now considered a 4th amendment search, and scope must be minimized to prevent harm to the public.

- Police must articulate a probable cause for a search, and can only record locations for specified vehicle or individual traits during a specified time window as approved in the warrant.

- No BS with recording everyone and searching the existing database of every public movement whenever you want; this is a "dragnet" and is unconstitutional or highly contested in other contexts (e.g. geolocation).

Are there different jewelry sizing standards, perhaps?

Because they view "unsafe" as an escape hatch instead of a feature. It's a way to encapsulate dangerous behavior, tightly, with clear postcondiitions. Sometimes it's the only way to do things like interact with inherently unsafe FFI code, or hardware.

There are multiple billions of people alive, right now, who have none of those things.

Perhaps. On the other hand, the limiting factor for automation was never human labor, it was energy input. We went all-in on oil extraction and transformed it into energy and plastics and crops, to push the human population to 10x its size. Ironically, doing so multiplied the absolute number of people living in abject poverty.

Maybe the loom smashers should have won. I'm not sure we ended up on the better timeline.

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Fairly sure the user whitelist is equivalent to "Unrestricted background usage", which should be visible for user-installed apps like Briar. I have a couple of apps that need this setting enabled, and there isn't an API or manifest flag to toggle it.

Why Nix is great; you can run the IDE from within a Nix-managed dev environment and not have to teach the IDE about it. You can point a .desktop shortcut at it too.

Requires a different way of working with projects though, so understandable if that's not your thing.

What used to take 3 months is taking 9 or more.

Why would you no longer feel welcome?

More precisely: pinpointing you at a given place and time does not need a warrant. Collecting many such pinpoints, allowing authorities to reconstruct your exact movements at some point in the future (without needing to flag you or issue a BOLO or whatever), does.

Doesn't have to be true. My state has public camera feeds for various highway stretches. Too low-detail to identify vehicles but easily enough to detect congestion.

If I want a philosophy degree then it's my God-given right to pay $240,000 plus interest for it. Maybe it shouldn't be subsidized, though.

Can we stop ourselves from irreversible harm to the planet, though? Not necessarily turning back, but imposing reasonable constraints to growth?

I have less faith every day that this is possible. We are already going to clear 2 degrees C.

It should be under the EPA's authority. This has the potential to disrupt animal behavior within the illuminated area if it truly is as bright as a full moon.

Cameron himself doesn't like film grain, and he did indeed sign off on the excessive denoising.

Europeans give so much power to EU and usually favor regulations by the government

This antecedent is far too broad; what regulations, benefiting whom? It's pretty obvious in this case that the majority of their representatives do not favor at least this type of regulation. In other cases, the majority of representatives favor regulation which prevents private corporations from selling their PII to the highest bidder. So you're going to have to reckon with the nuance of the real world if you don't want to make obviously leading statements like this.

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