Pet_Ant

Sorry for the dumb question, but is there any useful non-trivial LLM that is open-source where you could bit reproducibly train it from sources?

> I loved it when I iterated on my question so much that I accidentally solved it before I got to posting

The “answer my own question” feature was meant for exactly that. Had quite a few like that, and sometimes I still got better answers than I found

> And we know why. It's because of their hostile attitude towards their users.

That’s why it succeeded. It was not a forum, it was something new. Contribute a new question that was well stated and broadly applicable and get a response. You had to earn your answers.

It wasn’t flawless, but it was good and so good it fed all the AI agents with good materials.

It wasn’t a “help me!!!111!” site, it was an exchange.

I put lots of effort into narrowing my questions, eliminating obvious answers by demonstrating the work I put in, and editted all my questions like an email to my boss. I was almost always rewarded with good answers.

> Factorio pretty much founded the factory video game genre.

I’m pretty sure Zachtronics predates Factorio. SpaceChem 2011, Factorio 2020. I like Factorio more… but SpaceChem is the more demanding puzzle and the better game.

Worse, it was just almost all horses. There are a few in Central Park pulling tourists and that’s enough for the Pollyanna’s to point to and go “See! We’ll be fine!”

Did you play Supreme Commander? Really made use of the 3D for scaling in a out

This is true and I don’t know why it’s downvoted. IBM was notoriously obsessed with lock-in, they just bungled it with the IBM PC because they needed to move fast because they didn’t want it to slip away from them. So, they used off the shelf components that anyone else could buy.

The lenient contract with Microsoft and the unexpected to them ruling on reverse engineering the BIOS sealed their fate.

But no company wants to compete in a commodity, they all want to be monopolies. All the Unix vendors tried to be common enough to be a selling point but idiosyncratic enough to lock in their clients.

Apple isn’t nefarious… they are the default.

Now, if we want to support their ambitions with our wallets is another question

I see the same thing in Russia. It seems like there is no such thing as a civilian target because getting your opponents citizens to uprise and while yours to support you is the key strategy now.

It’s Vietnam Hearts and Minds all over again.

Not if you’re in a different domain, then it cannot be claimed to confuse customers.

So if it’s a network router or a woodworking router, then you’re good.

I can sells of red socks, and white socks, without getting sued by Chicago or Boston.

If it’s in the same space… you might want to contact a lawyer. I believe Firefox had conflicts with earlier names like Phoenix and FireBird and they weren’t even browsers.

I worry what that says about our lives as a whole. The government will make our lives the lowest common denominator that we are willing to endure.

I hope they make a wired one. Ideally with a detachable USB-C for when the cat eventually chews on it.

What he needs to do is start sketching the rest so that it can be finished after his death in his vision.