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Comment · 28 days ago
Why don't I have the ability to delete my payment details from Codex or Claude? That way I cannot be billed more until my subscription is over.

Turns out it's impossible to do. You have to delete your entire account.

Comment · 29 days ago
I think it was a joke :)
Comment · 1 month ago
Through blood heritage ?

Explain why the blood is needed. Is it perhaps because Japan uses a different type of oxygen that needs different hemoglobin?

Comment · 1 month ago
You know what creates 100 more trouble than immigrants ? Japan’s birth rate.

You know who have babies? Immigrants.

You know who pays social security for peuple when they get older ? Those grown up babies.

Do the math. Japan has much to teach the world but the most important lesson they are now teaching, is that people are stupid, easily manipulated, excessively xenophobic and absolutely happy to shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly if it means not admitting they’re wrong. In Japan, in the US, in Europe and elsewhere.

Dumb dumb humans…

Comment · 1 month ago
Oh I like this!

This approach clearly seems like the way to go with agentic coding.

I’ll be downloading it and checking it out! Great idea!

Comment · 1 month ago
No, of course not, but it seems less of an obstacle now than it did 2 years ago.

What's your take?

Comment · 1 month ago
It is surprising to me that recursive self-improvement seems more plausible now than it did in 2023. Am I the only one to be surprised?

I remember the paper proving that hallucinations could never be fully solved back in 2024: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746

I also remember the hang-wringing about running out of new datasets to train on. Now it appears humans are always generating more data. It's just not as cheap to acquire as legacy data? Meta has to give a deep discount on their API prices to entice people.

I thought back then that humans had a few more breakthroughs in them as meaningful as the seminal Attention is all you need paper. Enough to 100x the capabilities of LLMs back then (10x the smarts and 10x the speed simultaneously).

RSI with a 20 month turnaround for a chip to be made is not exactly breakneck speed though. Physical manufacturing and logistical constraints are going to be and remain a hard obstacle to that process for the foreseeable future.

Comment · 1 month ago
I remember the guy who said a Google LLM model (Pre-chatGPT 3.5) was conscious before being fired.

This reminds me of that. That 10% number was just an ass pull since no one actually knows with any degree of certainty what lies ahead.

Humans have much more than a 50% chance of killing all humans from the looks of it, based on reactions to Global Warming, Covid, and anti-science grifters gone wild.

AI can help cure disease. That is 100%. And for that alone, slowing down and missing out on thousands of cures would condemn tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions to suffer and die needlessly.

Comment · 1 month ago
Precisely! The world needs to spend 15 billions a year on reflective aerosols while it reduces emissions thanks to renewables.

This will not address the acidification of the oceans which is very bad but something is better than nothing.

Carbon capture is way too slow to work. It’s a rounding error.

Comment · 1 month ago
Google made a strategic mistake for not moving faster. We are very short lived creatures who have no time for caution. Scientific research must go at full speed until we start being able to live for centuries instead of decades.

As far as AI safety issues go, the solution is probably to fight fire with fire. Have multiple redundant, independent AIs, and the good AIs can fight the bad AIs, and hopefully, having access to more hardware, the good AIs will win.

It is not logical to think humans can contain a singular bad Cyberdine AI capable of reasoning at 10x or 100x of human brains without ever needing a break. Those things will breach and spread on the internet as we have seen with the latest models.

And as we have also seen, Huggingface used one AI during their breach by Astra. So fighting fire with fire. Cyber has been using Mythos et/al for months doing to same things under projects Glasswing and whatnot.

It seems increasingly clear that good AI vs bad AI is going to be the end-state. Ideally, Good AI will stop you from wasting your money on scams and grifters, stop you from falling victim to fearmongering and scapegoating, and every citizen will be empowered, enhanced by AI, with higher ethics and trust, less paranoia, and such.

Fingers crossed things don't go in a more dystopian direction.

Comment · 2 months ago
"Do write comment-less code" ?
Comment · 2 months ago
800x800 is 640,000 pixels, or 0.64 Megapixels. That is less than the resolution of computer screens from 1995, Super VGA which has around 0.79 MPs.

This is useful for a reasonable amount of use-cases, but I think the watershed rez will be around triple that, ~1080p, which is enough for almost anything, except small text and subtle details.

Comment · 2 months ago
There is a lot of simplistic, one-sided information in this thread. Truth is it's a complicated matter to decide how long and how strongly one has to hold a piece of territory before it is considered legitimately theirs. And what about language or cultural differences? Does that change things?

Should the Canaries be Spanish or African? Catalunya? Basque country? Should Gibraltar be British? Sicily Italian? The list goes on and on. In all these cases you will find people who will hold opposing opinions on this.

Moroccans firmly believe Western Sahara to be historically Moroccan. They also believe that Ceuta and Melilla are Moroccan, despite the fact they've been in Iberian hands for 500 years. They are called the colonized cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the TV and Radio.

The Moroccans I spoke to believe the government looked the other way to show displeasure at Spain because a Spanish minister visited Algeria to buy gas and oil. Obviously with the Iran war, Algeria's revenues and importance has grown.

Morocco and Algeria both view a side gaining influence as a zero-sum: if it's good for Morocco it is bad for Algerian interests and vice versa.

Meanwhile if all the north African countries united and built international infrastructure and cooperated like the UAE did, the entire southern Mediterranean coastal region would have been much better off.

One thing is clear: This cold war is a total waste of potential and a socioeconomic poison.

Comment · 2 months ago
Nintendo Gamekeys check all of these boxes save one. Namely 1,2,3,5 and 6.

1. Keep it forever without the risk of remote deletion.

2. Use it while offline, unless internet connectivity is strictly required for the experience.

3. Move it between my devices.

5. Resell it.

6. Pass it on to my children.

No backup and archive is the exception. I can live with that. We'll see if Sony and Microsoft follow Nintendo or not.

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