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Using the word “Nazi” to disapprove of someone you don’t agree with is extreme, and it is indecent. Look at the footage that your military took when they liberated Dachau. That was the work of Nazis. That is the meaning of that word. Nazis were mass murderers with no regard for human life. Babies were thrown into the flames alive. Families dragged into the forest and mowed down - the elderly last, so they’d have to watch their kids and grandkids be murdered before they would die themselves. So take one moment and reflect. Is there anything happening today that you could reasonably call by the same name?
The oddest thing about this, to me at least, is that they pick that as their showcase. Did they themselves not notice? Or did they think their potential customers wouldn’t? Not sure really which of the two is worse.
Should be: 2006.
(Not the headline. The announcement. Haha)
Do look up CG Jung and the concept of the shadow and its projection.
There are many people who believe the opposite, btw. Earth has a disease. And the disease is called man. The world would be better off without humans, etc. Say that in a pub - you’ll get nods. But say you want humanity to populate the universe, and people will think there’s something wrong with you. Says less about the speaker and more about those who listens, if you ask me…
I always wonder: How is it that wanting to deport billionaires to cleanse society of their power is “left”, wanting to deport jews to cleanse society of theirs is “right”, and that those are to be considered not the same (say, scapegoating), but opposites?
In the sense of increasing consumer choice. Like railroads - not everyone was able to afford it, much was destroyed because of it, and a small elite got rich enough from it for generations. But still it increased consumer choice, both directly (you can go somewhere by train) and indirectly (you can buy beef in NYC).
There are multiple levels:
1. Pretraining
2. Instruction / chat tuning
3. RLHF
The sentence did not exist in 1 (nobody on Reddit said this, and it was also never encountered in any libgen books). It was introduced in 2 and reinforced in 3. If you stick to the base models, you’re not gonna see it (first generation only, of course).
Did you just admit to being a bot? :)
Because copyright is a tradeoff. Society wants information to be free. But authors won’t publish if anyone can republish their work for free. Hence the distinction: The ideas you write are not protected - only your expression is.
In a sense, AI changes nothing. Society profits from having AI just as it profits from having people learning from others. In both cases, those who stand on the shoulders of others still make money for themselves. But the economy as a file is richer, too, because people can choose to buy something better now that wasn’t available before.
Sounds like an argument for aristocracy.
https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/impact-story/rapid-proto...> In another prototype—again, heavy on the use of what he called "materials that move at the speed of thought," such as coat hangers, tape, fishing line, projectors, chopsticks, and a presentation clicker—they learned that the Minority Report style of interfacing with a computer by swiping with your hands at images was actually a poor idea. While people loved trying out the prototype, even the strongest found that their arms and shoulders soon began to hurt.
Sounds like an interesting way to benchmark models. Put two instances of a model in a loop with itself. Run for n cycles. Then look at the output.
And by the way, I would really love to somewhere find a log file of your personal life and see how often you have promised something, and it didn’t turn out quite to be as perfect as you thought, or took longer than you thought. Or were you perhaps thought that you had achieved a goal when somebody from the outside might disagree. Difference between you and someone in the spotlight is that for them such a log exists; for you it doesn’t.
You are removing agency from everyone who is not visible, even though they might buy trash and make it profitable for thousands of sellers on Amazon to lie, and to fraudsters to lie, etc.. Pointing fingers at those who are the most visible and happened to be richer than you is something that people have always done as it is so convenient. It becomes even more convenient if those people have money, so you can turn the punishment into robbery. Doing good and distributing wealth at the same time. How convenient! Greetings from Germany.
> You can make more of these electrical slow waves through an auditory stimulus, if it comes at just the right time.
I wonder: 50ms of pink noise at the right time to make your sleep more restorative. Why or how should such a “backdoor” have evolved? Sleeping by a crackling fire? Pure coincidence, like a bug in the system that never made enough of a difference to come under selection pressure?
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. (Nietzsche)
This is the best explanation. They’ve been doing the same in Google News. Each entry comes not with a URL to the source, but with a hash. To resolve it, you must send requests to Google’s servers. Anyone who wants to create a list of URLs of sources automatically can therefore be blocked by Google now on two levels rather than one - the search for a list of results, and identifying the source URL for each result.
In effect, they’re removing attribution from the content they quote from other people’s websites. It would be interesting to see if courts object to that. It is one thing to crawl other people’s websites and display snippets of their work as your search results when each result is properly and transparently attributed. But if the text is quoted and the source is not there alongside it in plaintext, replaced only by a vague promise that, if you ask, we may or may not tell you where this piece of content is from, that is a very different deal.
The pain being made is: If you use a search engine as your eyes to see what exists “on the internet”, then, absolutely, whatever Google hides from its results or fails to index is “erased” from “your” experience of the internet.
Giving something a sinister name doesn’t change what it is.
Didnt Altman say a few years ago that the next frontier for training would be synthetic data? It’s what everyone turned to (Tiny Stories, etc.). Using existing LLMs to generate more training data for new ones is the obvious step.
LLMs are offered as document generators. This is what people do. They use them to generate documents. And then they train on those documents. The labs do it themselves. They didn’t ask when they trained on the internet. And now the Chinese - and researchers, and hobbyist, and businesses - dont ask when they train on LLM outputs. Especially when they paid for them.
What they call “distillation” is the very knowledge flywheel that we want in society. You buy a book, you may learn from it, and you may write a better one. The author got paid when yiu bought it. Society gets paid when the ideas spread and lead to the creation of more books, products and services, all of which increase the choices that everyone has.
Do your homework. This has been debunked. Also, it was about emeralds.
Or about what the word “is” means. If you’re Bill Clinton. :-D
I tried running Kokoro on my iPhone XS (several years old), and it was slower than real-time. So, i wouldn’t expect it to be usable on a Kindle. But if you find a solution, please let me know.
How can that be legal? You’re assuming anyone famous enough to have a Wikipedia page is granting you a license to republish their content? I think the only thing between your project and a cease and desist is lack of popularity. If proxifying gets you into hot water, downloading will be worse.
I’d like a book search engine that allows me to search for books covering a certain place and/or time. Like: “Is there a WW2 memoir of someone who passed the place where my grandpa was POW?”
Calling another person a monster because you disagree with them (or what you heard about them from third parties) is not the pinnacle of civility. Just think about what you’re saying here. Monster: “Malformed animal or human, creature afflicted with a birth defect”. You don’t mean this literally, do you? You may want to spend a moment to think about what kind of company you’re putting yourself in with such wording and such thinking.
What’s next? Butter healthier than margerine? ;)
All this talk of animal rights, and then this! /s
I bought a cheap laptop to make a single purpose device for my mother in law. Basically a scan terminal. Connected to an old ScanSnap. Drives the scanner, handles cloud backup. Custom TUI.
Also, the XTEINK. Made it a single purpose flashcard learning device.
Lots of new devices thanks to good ol’ Santa Claude!
Dumb question:
Why not just put an instruction into your favorite harness’ system prompt: “If I give you pseudo code, spell out my intent, and then write and test it in real code.”