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Maybe we should all try listening to doctors instead?


shareholder pressure pushes them to over-prescribe. there were recent high-profile lawsuits regarding this. erodes trust in the profession.


My doctor has a shareholder?


They gave a lot of meh advice over the years...


Trash command first appeared in macOS 14.0, which was 2023.


Originally, iOS Safari handled WASM but only with JIT disabled.

However the EU decreed that it must allow for fair competition, leading to it claiming that it will enable JIT for authorized developers: https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...

But I'm not sure that they have done so...

Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/platform-tilt/issues/3

Chrome: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/42203058


I'm not sure what people are considering instructions but it talks about the topics that I tell it to talk about, and when parsing prose it will take specific instruction as to word choice, or tone.

This is true across Gemini, ChatGPT, and Qwen.


People who don't live in countries with mandatory conscription for all don't really understand: everyone is connected to the military but it means nothing.

Judging an Israeli citizen on their IDF ties is like judging a US citizen on the fact that they went to public school.


> everyone is connected to the military but it means nothing.

No, people who live in tiny countries with mandatory conscription don't really understand that it means that their entire country is militarized. It's not surprising that fish can't see water.

> is like judging a US citizen on the fact that they went to public school.

It's exactly like that. If public school in the US trained people to kill and spy, it would be entirely safe to assume that the US was full of killer spies. For example, if you know that US public school taught a view of world history that was distorted in particular ways, and had very little emphasis in foreign languages, it would be safe to assume that Americans have a distorted view of the world, and largely don't speak foreign languages.

I don't know, this seems basic to me.


According to google, 87% of Americans go to a state-funded school, so yes judging an American based on the fact that they could afford to be in the top 13% and go to a public school instead is legitimate. This doesn't seem to match what you're trying to say.


You’re using the British definition of “public school” here, which is a “private school” in the US. US public schools are equivalent to UK state schools, in that both are run by the state.


It doesn't matter if it's accurate or not, such judgements are made by most people every day. Someone who was professionally formed somewhere has a higher probability of ties to them later on. Being intelligence services this might be even more true.

In today's political climate where people around the world see Israel judging (and sentencing, and carrying out the punishment) every Palestinian as terrorists, I think this wide brush of judging Israelis on their ties with the IDF is probably widely accepted as "only fair". When it comes to Unit 8200 the implications are even stronger.

But I don't get the US public school system reference. You have to start with a baseline and if you see a private Ivy League school on someone's CV and a random public school on someone else's I'm sure you'll probably make the obvious assumption about which one is better, even if sometimes the obvious is wrong.


Mine is like a $1200 for two people, but I out mass my spouse by almost 2x. I could definitely see us cutting $500 from our grocery budget if I could become 45 cm shorter, and lose half my mass.


Adding an example to this.

People knew that you would die if you were kept from breathing, but they didn't really know why that was, nor did they know the exact action by which breathing even occurred postulating that it air entered the body through the skin, or perhaps air somehow was necessary to cool the heart which at the time was theorized to be where all thought occurred.

Study as follows: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25532022/


You don't have to do things "at scale". Github could require a substantial financial transaction to cover all the costs associated with ID verification and account re-instatement, as well as keep backups before that point so if it's proven after the fact that it was fraud, they could restore to the original state.

Like my data center (not US based) has a process where if you lose all of the documentation proving that a server is yours, you can go on site physically with ID, and the police and/or national identity service will verify on the spot that your finger prints match what is on file for the ID. It costs something like $300 and you risk being arrested if you're a criminal.


That’s true, but OpenAI and its proponents say each model is individually profitable so if R&D ever stops then the company as a whole will be profitable.


The problem with this argument is that if R&D ever stops, OpenAI will not be differentiated (because everyone else will be able to catch up), so their pricing power will disappear, and they won't be able to charge much more than the inference costs.


The linked software only seems to type the 'correct' preknown letter anytime you press any key on your keyboard.

So the actual 'demo' part is actually live. The only thing that's fake is the typing, which could be replaced honestly with copy & paste without changing anything except how exciting it is to see the speaker pretend to type at 100wpm.


So it's lip syncing. That's not live. People aren't that fond of lip syncing. At least when they find out that it's happening. They get upset because they've been deceived


I’d say it’s more like reading off a teleprompter. You didn’t come up with the speech on the fly, and you didn’t memorize it, but you are filmed as if both things might be true.


I disagree.

With a teleprompter (or queue cards or notes) you are still speaking the words.

But with this system you are not. So it is more like a slideshow where your voice is pre-recorded per slide and you are pretending to speak.

I would still call a teleprompter a live setting. I wouldn't be surprised if Zuck had one. People can still stumble and maneuver and adapt in real time. Just like in a play. Rehearsal does not make the act not live. But if we want to get more fine grained there is a difference between a live demo and an on-the-spot demonstration. Think of it this way, people don't knock politicians for using teleprompters because they are lip syncing the words. They knock them for being overly rehearsed and not off the cusp. The complaint is actually beyond the teleprompter, the teleprompter is just a visual indication of this. But then imagine how people would respond if a politician went up on stage and pretend to actually speak but the words coming out were pre-recorded.

Or maybe we can meet more in the middle with something like autotune? I still don't think it is there because you'll still need to say the right words for autotune to work but even still people generally don't like that and feel like it is deceptive. So I might be being strict here, but we need to at least recognize that all these concerns arise from some form of deception. Where the expectation of what's happening doesn't meet reality.

No one will be upset if they never find out, but the real question is how they respond when they do. Does the person you're demoing to feel cheated, even a little, if you used a tool like this? I'd wager they would because they thought you were doing all the actions there in front of them.


After reading your perspective, I'm now inclined to agree. Not much more to say, but I didn't want you to think the words were wasted.


I actually really appreciate that. Thanks. And I do value your perspective. I know I'm passionate here but you did make me think about the issue differently and pushback is always good.


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