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Comment · 5 months ago
How would the rise of dash usage in LLMs have arised if a significant portion of non-LLM writers weren't inclined to take them up and make them more common? The only explanation I see is that they are common in training materials we don't as commonly consume as website visitors.
Comment · 5 months ago
If the world won't stand up even to a diminishing US then it definitely will need to learn Chinese to speak to its next master.
Comment · 5 months ago
An isolated USA benefits 211 nations.
Comment · 5 months ago
Deepseek is open in the sense that you can run V3 or V4 it is not open in the sense that you have all the tools a Chinese company has to make the V5 that will be needed to keep up with the US.
Comment · 5 months ago
Again I'm a bit baffled as to what the unstated thought process is. Ibogain and Saliva divinorum share a short term dysphoric experience from kappa opioid receptor interference that might be an effective way to eliminate Trauma from earlier memories. Why use the more dangerous of the two and why avoid the experience if the experience is the intervention?
Comment · 5 months ago
Sure sounds like rhetorical questions or attacking the messenger. Someone can think the bounty industry is going to reward them for actually being exceptional and not look soon enough for other options then pivot to a stance that should give them some quick job offers. If I thought I found an intentional back door I would not engage with an embargo system from the same vendor but I am also not them.
Comment · 5 months ago
Maybe I have a liberal view of ballpark sizes but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine

"The action of ibogaine at the κ-opioid receptor may indeed contribute significantly to the psychoactive effects attributed to ibogaine ingestion; Salvia divinorum, another plant recognized for its strong hallucinogenic properties contains the chemical salvinorin A, which is a highly selective κ-opioid agonist"

Comment · 5 months ago
It seems strange to me to choose ibogaine when Salvia divinorum seems like it has a similar psychological experience without the physical heart risk.
Comment · 5 months ago
What was notable about Malta is not the topic of the article and particularly irrelevant now that corruption in Malta that helps Russia would not be notable.
Comment · 5 months ago
Bizarre PoV from my perspective. The failure of modern computing is Apple UI drivel and Ubuntu is particularly bad since it has that silly settings UI. May LLMs free us of Jobs and the need to know where to click and how to describe our computing experience like a mall we are lost in.
Comment · 5 months ago
That sounds reasonable for some states but 5 states have no sales tax and many states have exclusions to sales tax. Many of those are also likely to have rural areas where small businesses like to use even amounts.
Comment · 5 months ago
Personally I find it a little condescending to imply the highly educated shouldn't be more politically violent than average. Studying the history of political violence is probably not going to lead to a simple heightening of the 8th grade view that Gandhi somehow eliminated earlier methods because he proved the British Empire of a hundred years ago was especially susceptible to shame.
Comment · 5 months ago
In the past I think people were equally wrong when assuming their real life was accurately similar to average for the entire society they lived in and not a regional and perhaps class based bubble. I think there was a short period when amateur media was correcting more misconception than adding to it.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've seen a small company do a SOC2 where the "CEO" seems to be the only actual employee..

Its a lot of paperwork but it is supposed to scale for company size so you could dismiss with a lot of the separation if the CEO accepts risks and perhaps relies on a fair amount of external systems that are already certified and has some contractors for specific tasks etc.

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