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Comment · 9 hours ago
Can confirm that understanding Jujutsu Kaisen in a language you're still learning is brutal.

I can watch pretty much anything in that language at this point but having one character explain complex arbitrary rules with little visual aid is just too difficult yet.

Comment · 6 days ago
Given that they open sourced their inference framework, how realistic would be to buy hardware and become a provider on OpenRouter? These numbers are incredible.
Comment · 7 days ago
At 20 kW average consumption per WSE-3T wafer this gives roughly 1.18 MW for the whole system. Assuming 1500 tokens per second and 190 concurrent requests this gives 4.1 J/token. Which is good I suppose for the size of the model?
Comment · 1 month ago
Your comment makes no sense. How and why would a local model be nerfed anyway...?
Comment · 1 month ago
> Pull the key, stop the process.

The agent could very well create an OpenRouter account and make its own API key. I can stop it early on, then it becomes outside my control.

> Just don't ever do such an experiment

Maybe I wouldn't, but eventually someone will. Certainly it has already been done.

> there was a day in the early internet when a worm took over, and to fix it the entire internet had to shut down

This is less of an option now that the entire global economy relies on the Internet.

Comment · 1 month ago
1. They are all saying AI is a danger to humanity, but no one is willing to give the slightest details about how exactly the threat will materialize...?

2. Nor are they willing to consider the possible remedies in case the threat materialize (presumably unplugging the server infrastructure that's consuming gigawatts)...?

3. They all keep working towards advancing AI despite believing that it might end humanity in the near future...?

I can't even begin to imagine where the threat to humanity lies. A threat to employment maybe, but that's completely different.

Comment · 1 month ago
The worst for astroturfing I think is Kagi. Everytime a post comes up l, every comment is like "Kagi is so great yada yada", often totally unrelated to the article, with little comments mentioning negatives or commenting on the article.

Like, who even use a search engine at this point, let alone pay for it.

If this happens with a minor search engine I'm pretty sure it happens with a lot of other products, starting with AI models.

Comment · 1 month ago
How can you afford to burn $50k on an already solved problem?
Comment · 2 months ago
1. Us 2. Us
Comment · 2 months ago
We've been seeing that headline for a few weeks now and I really don't understand the problem.

Companies are paying for the books now, great! And destroying a book is really the best way to scan it. I could destroy the books I buy myself if I wanted, they're my books and I can do whatever I want with them. A book is really just a stack of paper, I don't get the sacred feeling attached to it. Especially since books are printed in thousands to millions of identical copies nowadays.

Now what books exist in a single copy that destroying it would amount to losing knowledge? In any case, I would also expect such books to be very old, have very little useful content for training to start with, and be expensive enough to buy to make training on them unprofitable.

So what's the problem here exactly?

Also from the article:

> It’s outrageous is that it’s legally permissible, but ethically, it’s an extremely serious crime against humanity.

I'm all love for Anna's archive, but still, I find it rich that they now find themselves in position to make strong ethical claims.

Comment · 2 months ago
> he inhaled a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the kitchen table

Well that can't help for sure.

Comment · 2 months ago
Unfortunately for some problems like climate change, improving 1-2% per year starting today still leads to disaster.
Comment · 2 months ago
They fell in love with the money.
Comment · 3 months ago
The website is unusable, scrolling is slow as hell.

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