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  • Damn did you just use the term “RetCon” for…basic literary analysis about a book written in the late 1970’s/early 80’s on a literal typewriter? By the man who literally coined the term “The Web” in the way we now use it for the internet, in what many consider to be the first Cyberpunk novel?

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    By the by, I’m an SWE who’s run a ML homelab for 10 years at this point

    …

    It’'s relevant expertise to the technical argument being made, sorry that I guess you want to stick to an anti-intellectual standard where expertise isn’t valued or something












  • Stuff like this highlights that the "info"dump was an act of contempt toward professional mathematics. If OAI actually gave a damn about people, they could have coordinated with actual researchers in the relevant fields to clean up the documents while putting a human face on them. Put everything behind NDAs, fund some grants and fellowships, and if it leaks? So what, it would have been actual good press and built hype. Plus, it would have weeded out the the obvious garbage and they’d have brought a lot of young researchers inside the tent.

    But nooooooo, they chose violence, because they are assholes. They’ll never forgive the academics for doing the work and actually being good at math and physics.

    I know I’m preaching to the choir, but damn I’m stirred up.