infamouscow

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Some people are evil, e.g., Hitler. All the moral grandstanding in the world isn't going to help if you're invaded and they slaughter you and everyone with your morality out of existence.

I'm not being condescending or rude or otherwise out of line here saying your position is genuinely stupid.

The answer is you can't. They did not reason themselves into their position, and you can't reason them out of it. It's irrational to have rational discussion with the irrational.

This is why derision is a valid philosophical debate strategy if a person refuses to engage in rational discussion. To label GP as an R-word is a social signal and warning to others not to behave similarly. Derision also promotes healthy skepticism of new arguments you hear, lest risk falling into the same trap and have oneself become a laughingstock.

This was true before AI too.

In practice, lawyers generally don't ever disbarred except if they lie to clients or steal from them.

Many organizations just want to diffuse responsibility away from themselves and will gladly sign a contract to do so. Paying a vendor is infinitely more affordable than the risk of trying to bring a vendors' core competency in-house.

I think the SaaS-pocalypse is going to surface more from new AI-first SaaS companies entering the market and undercutting incumbents in a way that's difficult to compete with.

The role of science is to advance human knowledge and understand what's true. The role of engineering is to bridge the current world to something new discovered by science. Until recently, the new things were the domain of scientists, so many of them understandably feel like their existence is threatened by AI.

Another aspect I haven't seen anyone talk about is how big tech poached a generation of millennials from grad schools ~15 years ago. I think a lot of those people feel like this is a comeuppance for unnecessary or bad faith gate keeping in academia.

You should change the title.

Most people will read this headline and assume Cloudflare is intentionally trying to squash open-weight models. Given how superfluous the model is to the content, it's easy to believe that narrative.

If that wasn't your intent, you really ought to change the title ASAP. Time is ticking before tech journalists and social media decide to run with that narrative and make your public relations department sad.

FDE allows execs to covertly circumvent their internal bureaucracy to ship faster. It will be interesting to see what execs make of that data.

The data you put into a SAT solver has substantial effect on it's performance in practice. Real world inputs tend to be much nicer than pathological ones, so I don't think there's much practical application, but I also haven't read the paper yet.

I'm also not going to cheer on database projects that can't be 100% transparent and honest.

Who the hell is going to trust their data to a people can't even be honest on benchmarks. What do you think will happen if (or when) there's a data corruption bug. What evidence do you have to think these same people will behave any better?

They failed themselves, we're just watching it happen.

If pgrust were backed by a company that advertised these benchmark results, you would have enough to claim fraud in a civil lawsuit. Literally snaking oneself out of accountability after being caught is dishonorable. Children do this, not adults. Seeing adults act in this manner is pathetic.

This is an accurate description of one's bad behavior.

If you believe these word choices are inaccurate, we can discuss, but mischaracterizing the reply as "aggressive" is just bad faith (and against the rules).

The thing with models is they're trained on the entire corpus of humanity (more or less). So while you'll get different answers from people, the models can look at all existing answers in their corpus and evaluate each answer based on all other evidence in the corpus.

In principle, a scientist could do this too, but models can do it without the manual labor.

You're presumed innocent unless proven guilty.