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job security!

it'll still be a net loss. how many customers sign up to icloud+ because of these ads -vs- how much do these ads tarnish the brand apple has spent so much money building?

if it could wver be quantified, i bet it's a net $ loss. and apples esteemed image is ostensibly very important to them. why the hell do apple execs think different?

> Well you'd probably pay a lot to advertise to that market.

and yet you have to restrain yourself from ever capitalizing on that, because not advertising to that market is what got you that market in the first place

might as well halt all ML development then. this is the first sign of hardship, i think it'd be a massive blow to mankind's foot for us to stop. it'd be akin to shutting down all nuclear plants and stopping all research because of chernobyl

do you feel you're free of bias and predisposition in saying this

Can't the aliases be renamed?

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Just checked, they can. Phew. If the forwarding alias was detectable/always used the same schema, that'd also make them borderline useless, just like the `privaterelay` subdomain

it's not, that's my point

java the language is amazing

the problem with it is entirely cultural. why is `IStatusChangeEntityCreationManagerFactory` everywhere?

and why are the frameworks so huge and all encompassing? i think batteries included rails-style frameworks are great, but when i wrote Java, it didn't feel like rails at all

none of these are language problems

models are hungry for a more information-dense language

for now all they've got is english, so they'll just bend that into shape. it'll do.

i think its a combination of these:

- OAIs models are much more token efficient. in some cases their new mythos-level model uses 1/4th of the tokens that mythos does.

- they reportedly have recently found another way to decrease compute needed "by half" in a breakthrough

- early on, they ensured they have much more compute ready, whereas Anthropic had to disable new users signing up because they ran out of compute

- OAI has fewer users (5mln codex users vs, what, 10mln claude code users?)

But those hacks and exploits have always existed. Just had to have the right people to find them / be sufficiently motivated.

The same models that can find these exploits can also help fix them, thus everyone will be better off.

Relying on the fact that nobody has found a security issue with a piece of software yet is not a great way to ensure safety

ah i see your point - my bad

right? the horrors!!

seems like the politicians are finally realizing what we've all been up to

this is basically trying to enforce security-by-obscurity, which is a terrible idea all around. it's just a model. the security issues still exist and are exploitable.

and after staking the economy on AI, you can't really put a cap on intelligence. if models are not allowed to be better than Opus 4.8, then the whole investment structure is about to unravel.

why invest billions and billions into AI if returns are artificially capped?

If you asked the same selection of people about Saudi Aramco or SK Hynix none of them would know what those are either though, right?

I do think 60B for Cursor is way overvalued. Just not sure how to quantify