GPUs and RAM are global commodities, like oil. China might bring prices down a bit in the short term by adding supply, but ultimately all will be bought up by the highest bidders, who currently seem to have insatiable demand, unlimited funding, and are hell-bent on wrecking the consumer market.

I tend to take a credo quia absurdum approach to a lot of these arguments. If there are omniscient/omnipotent beings they would have to be, by definition, beyond our ability to understand. So it’s ridiculous to think that despite that some group of people would figure out exactly the right rules by which these things would want us to behave.

Be a good person. Help others. Pay it forward. And regardless of whether there are gods or not, you will have done your small part to make the world a bit better.

Can I get a punnett square for this?

What if you have a huge window, or a door that happened to be open right as the street view car drove past? When Google is taking millions of measurements a year they are going to see a lot of unusual events.

It’s like a precursor to the3d printer movement (by a few decades)

I love the livery in that photo, but it doesn’t seem terribly practical :)

This was a great article, thanks for sharing!

This is how you accidentally start a Gen-X commune.

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Is there an Anna’s Archive for LLMs yet?

Why did we ever forsake such amazing tech?

• difficult to seek and skip (basically you have to guess)
• no notion of individual tracks
• media wear means you degrade its quality a bit with each play
• audio quality was kinda crap to begin with (there were so many anti-hiss technologies that didn’t really work well)
• fairly low fidelity unless using the best quality tape (and even then)
• the tape itself is finicky and easy to damage
• each cassette was fairly expensive to manufacture (esp relative to stamping CDs)

There’s a reason CDs so thoroughly took over once the price of the players came down

If he has self awareness then it’s hypocrisy. If he doesn’t and is just a moron then it’s irony.

I’d argue the opposite: because AI was certainly trained on massive amounts of copyleft code, all AI- generated code should be copyleft only, and under the most strict terms, just to be safe.

This is one of those rare times where I need to decide whether I’m going to downvote just because I disagree.

I’ve had the same tiny strip of electrical tape covering the camera on my MacBook for 3 or 4 years now.

I can think of no higher honor than enabling a rule-of-three that would please 90% of the world.

Another fucking slap on the wrist. “The payment will be distributed in annual instalments over a 10-year period.” It’s literally a rounding error for them. I assume this is the same lawsuit as the teen addiction one, where the states had asked for $1.4T in damages - in which case this would amount to literally 1% of the request and add insult to injury.

But also more anxiety, shorter attention spans, and brain rot.

(According to my own anecdotal evidence)

Hahaha. It took me a minute to make sense of that :) I would definitely have bought the PastaCube though.

That would explain why everything’s getting so janky. Just waiting for the 3-finger salute now.