This is known. There are many jerks in the world.

But at the end of a the day, a jerk with good principles is better than the nicest person with none.

It’s so weird to see a company with such strong and straightforward brand chasing trends in such a sloppy manner.

The thing that would get old is managing all that damn grass. That and presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.

Never personally had issues with living near or even with friends. Only ever had issues with was a rando roommate I had because a friend had to move for work.

Although a lot of the tooling for manufacturing is made In Germany and the Netherlands. Particularly the lithography machines. A lot of important of the chemicals come from Japan. Japan also has a history of manufacturing chips, although they haven’t been on the leading edge node for a while.

Often time people say “oh a lot of Mamdani’s policies will fail because Hochul will block them”

But this is the thing, Hochul isn’t popular, and if she blocks popular proposals, it won’t be a case of people being mad at Mamdani for failing to deliver. It will be people mad at her for blocking them.

Hochul needs NYC to vote for her to win the governor reelection, let alone the dem primary. Her pissing off a popular mobilized voting block in NYC is an awful strategy, and probably would loose her the governorship.

Because there are no rich connected socialite interest groups that frequent same country clubs as the payment processor C suites who care about nazi’s, in fact, the same people pushing fash politics at sub stack probably go to the same country club.

Perhaps it’s a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Like the front page and subscription page are fundamentally separated, and the algorithm sees this video doing well, but the subscription page has it shadow banned, but that shadow ban doesn’t transfer over.

A lot of artists will practice anatomy by drawing people nude, largely because it’s hard to get a good understanding of anatomy by only drawing people with clothes on.

If you wanted to put some examples of bare human anatomy in odd positions to expand the range that the model is capable of, well there aren’t many larger corpuses of that than porn.

Also, even if they don’t want it to make explicit content, they probably want it to make “suggestive” or “appealing” content. And they just assume they can guide rail it away from making actual explicit content. Although that’s probably pretty short sighted given how weak guardrails really are.

It’s insane to me that people are actually trying get these LLMs to do things. Let alone outside of an experimental setting. Like, it’s a non starter at a fundamental conceptual level.

It reminds me of an experiment where they had a few try and run simulated vending machines.

It was pretty clear from the results that none of the LLMs were capable of consistently performing basic tasks, with them routinely introducing irrelevant or incorrect information that would derail things. Such as ordering nonexistent products, assuming capabilities that it was never given, and generally just failing to properly recall information or keep values it was given consistent. Some of the failures were quite spectacular, ranging from insisting it had gone bankrupt and was trying to sell the vending machine, to threatening to nuke suppliers and trying to contact the FBI.

Exactly, They’re just probabilistic models. LLMs are just outputting something that statistically could be what comes next. But that statistical process does not capture any real meaning or conceptualization, just vague associations of when words are likely to show up, and what order they’re likely to show up in.

What people call hallucinations are just the system functional capability diverging from their expectation of what it is doing. Expecting it to think and understand, when all it is doing is outputting a statistically likely continuation.

”we’ve built a machine to minimize the amount of time people need to spend touching grass.”

“Oh no, someone’s gone insane from not touching grass”

I can’t imagine how much it sucks for him to be dealing with this, but also, he’s been a major backer of the technology and pushing for it to be used in places it really shouldn’t be. Sort of ironic.

I actually kind of believe them on this. Like, the last team they’d want to cut back on if they were gung hoe on AI would be web services. Like, most “AI” companies aren’t hosting their own services, they’re relying on a third party to do that.

Admittedly AWS isn’t really built around providing what those companies need, being focused more on hosting websites (you know, a proven business model that actually makes profit) and less on massive racks of Nvidia GPUs to run probabilistic models.

But still, that’s a fairly small cut relatively speaking compared to Microsoft and other’s recent announcements. So I’m tempted to believe that theses are actually just fairly normal cuts, as supposed to what Microsoft is doing; cutting to the bone to free up more cash to buy a few more Nvidia GPUs.

I’m going to bee very nice to you.

Free speech is the right to say what you believe without facing legal consequences from the government, not the right to publish what ever other people say uncritically, especially when what they’re publishing is directly inciting real harm to the public.

Their current moderation stance is akin to allowing people to shout “fire!” In a crowded public space.

If you want a serious answer ask a serious question. Not an absurd and ghoulish hypothetical.

We don’t need to. We just need to stop letting business interests direct economic priority.

Ok, well, guess it won’t be voluntary for much longer.

Or the autoplay function, or YouTube shorts shelf, or so many other new “features” they’d really like us to turn on.

on IOS I’ve found the mobile web page to be legitimately better than the app, I can do Picture in Picture and listen to it in the background, things the app won’t let you do without paying. For a while it also let me get rid of the shorts shelf, which the app just had no option for, they got rid of that a few months back, but I’ve found that if I mark “not interested” on any shorts it puts up it hides it again for a while.

Also if the ads are getting a bit much I can open it in fire fox focus and I’ve found it block ads completely, I’ve heard from others that Firefox focus doesn’t block YouTube ads for them, but, I’ve never seen a YouTube ad while using it.

Honestly, in general, if something has a web page, I won’t use an app at this point. I’ve had so many experiences with dedicated apps just being worse experiences.

A marginal improvement for a limited use case, and often by having it generate a critical response to the output internally and use that to weed out particularly glaring errors, which, increases the amount of compute used significantly.

Not a revolutionary jump forward in capability. not a trillion dollar industry that justifies this level of investment or obsession.