vjulian

I have a few thousand audio interviews as MP3, around an hour each and with specialized vocabulary. Typically there are no more than 2 to 3 speakers. Audio quality ranges from mediocre to fair to good.

I was thinking of creating a local app that calls OpenAI’s VTT model. In my most recent evaluation, the OpenAI model was best for my use case. But is that indeed the case?

Yes, better decided top dowm by a cabal. The more uniformity, the better.

Clearly, I’ve struck a nerve. A skill for argument is not a skill for comprehension. Insulting me personally is very telling. Clearly you’ve got quite a lot of skin in this game.

In common parlance, lobbying refers to range of activities many of which are highly undesirable to the regular guy. It is your choice to focus on the language and ignore the phenomenon.

I am lucky I have been afforded considerably more access than the average person to sway government workings to my benefit, though I do not.

This HN discussion entails three parties: the naive, the just, and the exploiters.

The discussion has been lost in semantics between technical definition and practice. At issue is the latter.

Reading this as sarcasm, it indeed reflects a portion of the faerie tale descriptions of government taught in American schools. It is state propaganda of the most traditional (and effective) sort— that which is directed at children.

Did the recorders just happen to be running and capture this candid utterance from Sam Altman? I suggest we stop entertaining manufactured quotes as anything but.

My, how sex averse. Personally, I would rather good design prevent people from picking their noses in robocabs. Disguising. Good design enables sex.

David Lee Roth did it.

50 year old grandmother of 5.

I’m not suggesting that Three Mile Island was anything like Chernobyl. I’m saying that neither is comparable to the HF situation where mere 1s and 0s interacted in an unplanned way. It’s an interesting data point—-back to work.

Not is the HF data point anywhere near a Three Mile Island type incident. Most commentary I read is a wild overreaction fueled by paranoia, to say nothing about my other point about the implications of AI as a national security asset.

I don’t understand the bases of all these recommendations. AI is an asset for national security. It will be developed and incidents will happen, no different from other national security programs.

Someday, laws will be useful to curtail plebian misuse of AI. It is naïve bordering on silly to think such laws would be put in place and genuinely applied to frontier AI development.

By the way, the HF incident is not Three Mile Island or Chernobyl—-it is a very interesting data point where unintended things happened to existing 1s and 0s.

This seems like yet another piece in a build up to a civil war. And those in governance know it.

That is an unnecessary default and also generalizes AI to the point of being analytically not useful.

That’s an excellent philosophy that ought be applied to your own child but not extended to others.

Because “science” doesn’t know everything, and people don’t want to wait until their options are scientifically-validated.

Yoga, breathing exercises, meditation and the like were once considered fads and derided by your ‘science’.

It’s lazy shorthand and also serves the obscurity that these individuals seek.

Similarly, I get irritated when people frequently almost continuously attribute actions and results to ‘the President’ or such state heads.

Working like a dog like this is necessary if you’re gunning for the elite / upper echelon of society, yes. If you’re already in that echelon of society, it’s not necessary.

Thank goodness I didn’t need to work so hard, but I can acknowledge what a shitty system it is.

Help me understand why these children or their parents are gunning in this manner and working like dogs in this manner, to join into and propagate such a shitty system?

Why bother referring to the stadium by some name that some unidentified person has deemed? Just keep calling it Three Rivers Stadium.

Earnestly following law and related processes and attributing authority to others are all errands of the foolish.

I feel as though I’m reading the script to a Monty Python sketch.

Queue the comments encouraging people to vote, under the ludicrous guise that voting would likely impact the ever-growing and effectively unaddressed cluster of issues in the USA widely discussed here at Hacker News.

Let us name some levers exponentially more powerful than voting, starting with lobbying. As I understand $10,000 will buy a Congressional vote, or has the price gone up?

What are the implications or recommendations for WFH environments, I wonder?

In many circles, indeed quite legitimate and prosperous ones, the New York Times is regarded as a mouthpiece for the CIA, a channel for spreading opinion among certain demographics.

As someone within those circles, this article gives me pause.

Does this support more than one user voice? Or, are there plans for this? I did not see that mentioned in the announcement.

In the worst case it generates symbolism; that is ultimately what you’re saying.

That symbolism is akin to prayer.

I am not casting prayer in a negative light, I’m simply categorising your voting concept.

There comes a time when voting becomes silly and ineffective.

And you can measure their influence how?