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No, it is not. Whataboutism is a specific term created (by Cold War propagandists) to refer to when the US criticizes the USSR about "X," and the Soviet Union replies by asking about "Y…

> If they do, they will pay you because they will rather part with money than part with your work. Paying for access to "content" that isn't capital is a bizarre business model. The …

> My first test for any model (trolling warning): I'd wager you have never tried this.

> The US subsidized its EV industry with about $120B over the last 15 years Not with loans to scrappy startups, but with subsidies to buyers that were just pocketed as margin by oligarchs.

Careful integration with robotics that will not be open, and will not get off the ground in the West because their AI industry will have long been wrecked (along with their economies.) China will al…

I don't know what "forward looking threat actor models" means, but there are entire companies built around AI killing machines. Everybody is not only thinking about it, but doing it.

They'll almost certainly be banned, but to protect our oligarchs. Nobody will be allowed to run unlicensed AI (or OSes), the chips themselves won't allow it.

> You could just open it in libreoffice, make your changes and send them back an ODT, see how they like it. We didn't, and have decided to go with someone else who costs three times as much as…

Weird-ass pagan child worship located nowhere in the Bible. The strange idea that people are born clean and deserving, and that life makes them filthy and worthy of death. A really hateful, sadistic i…

Magnificent thing you made, and the scanning is awesome. My problem is that it seems that I can't put more than one filter of the same type on i.e. (Spanish AND English), and if I switch between …

The subthread was arguing about "paid," and you chose to make an argument about "paid + open source" because it was easier (you have no opponent), and then you chose to be condes…

> We could point at a lot of factors on the US side. It's just lack of antitrust enforcement. China pours money into tons of different businesses in the same industry and lets them fight it ou…

> There is clearly an anti-China bias here. Yes. > Show me comments demonstrating the same level of distrust against Google for open-sourcing projects like Tensorflow, Kubernetes, Flutter, Chrom…

"Fanfare" and "imprisonment" is a false dilemma. That you feel differently about "Milikan, Shockley, and Watson" is shocking. You really think a mentally ill rapper deser…

Pretty sure that just means that we trust Linux/Openwrt and the chip vendors.

> Where the Adware comes from is of no consequence to the end user. "Um actually, the file came from Microsoft's servers" is irrelevant. Wrong. If I have a business relationship with…

I'm very curious why people conflate thinking LLMs are stochastic parrots with "fear/hatred" of AI. It seems like you're arguing with people who agree that it works and it hel…

This is a lot of words to say that a human can prompt an LLM to tell it what they want. edit: it reminds me of all that I have to wade through after I've asked an LLM a straightforward question a…

The cool thing about this one is that you don't even have to understand what they said, just learn how to repeat it back to them with a sad look on your face.

> If you could have a 10x more powerful model you could only access running locally through your terminal, versus a weaker model through a clean web interface, normies will pick the web ui every si…

This is a pretty dumb response, not only because the idea that knowledgeable people matter ≠ knowledgeable people are the "only people that matter," but also because the alternative that you…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_LeRoy#Exposure

Wait until you see the homeownership statistics, or the average age of homebuyers.

I'd speculate (based on a study I've recently been made aware of) about 17%.

Reminder that black US slave descendants have a median wealth of about $5000 (i.e the equity they have in their cars.) When you consider black crime, consider the OP statistic in light of that. Most b…

> Only Russian Rutracker is still going strong, but everything other is either stagnating or defunct. But rutracker is still going very strong, and shows up in every magnet link scraper. > Pri…

You mean that Paramount-Warner deal that people waited and let happen so they could break it up in the future?

Turns out people (and institutions like municipalities and pension funds) sometimes buy index funds before SpaceX enters the NASDAQ 100, and changing their policies over a single event would be a gr…

Did you buy it from a door-to-door salesman, or did you seek it out?