Maybe publishers could have the right to purchase the books back at current list price or something if they want to block the shredding.

In other news, try obtaining OEM brakes for a twenty year old mustang. They making them.

They’ll expand to new cities, but not allow residents of those cities to use the service. Instead, you need to be from SF or some other place they operate, and pay a monthly fee.

That’s with heavy compression of the weights and the context, of course.

I haven’t gone through model evaluation + shoehorning at 128GiB yet.

- Arnold bought a fleet of mobile hospitals that would have been perfect for covid response, but the next governor didn’t want to pay 1% the fleet cost per year to maintain it, so he scrapped it.

- Under Obama, SARS v1 was stopped by US health workers that Trump fired because it was a “bad deal”. In the absence of that team, we got SARS v2, which was renamed to COVID 19.

There’s also the related category of “never blamed for fixing problems poorly, creating even bigger problems”.

Thanks to 9/11, plane cockpits can now be locked from the inside. Now, we have examples of commercial passenger airline pilots locking the doors and committing mass-murder-suicide by plane crash.

For some reason, these stories don’t make the news.

My limited experience with fable over the last few days suggests (1) I can’t see any improvement in output, and (2) it is useless for writing secure software because it constantly hits safety walls if you ask it to close security holes.

I’m definitely shopping around for other LLM providers next week, and testing vs local (target: 128GB strix halo - any war stories?)

I guess that’s one way to try to make capital finite.

I was nitpicking the use of the word “moat”. For it to be a moat, it’d need to be more expensive to traverse than to build.

Instead, the big AI firms are trying to create a monopoly on capital in an area where real costs are dropping 90% year over year.

You can get an SoC that does 126 TOPs (strix halo) in tablet form factor, which is a factor of two. (I’ll count them as equivalent ops, since software couldn’t low precision floating point back then). So, not quite “pocket”, but probably “purse” and certainly backpack.

I’d give that over 50% odds of happening in the next few years.

Architecture / biological structure matters more.

I’d expect weight and wattage to be proportional for animals, at least.

I currently have one systemd infected machine, two devuan machines and two freebsd. Next step is paving the systemd one (it randomly craps out) and probably putting FreeBSD on it, but I’m on the fence. It’s a family member’s machine, and devuan is less change.

Still, “default off” is better. It would be nice if there were a lightweight way to fork upstream packages, and cache the native builds. It’d improve build times, make the build step more explicit / sandboxable and allow for easier binary builds for operating systems and processors that M$ treats as second class.

- Breaking fiduciary responsibility is (almost) the only way you go to jail.

- At acquisition/merger/bankruptcy, data, customers, employees (chattle) are assets to be sold off to pay debts. This takes explicit priority over contractual obligations (like “we don’t sell personal data”)

- It says your safety hypothesis is true, you incorrectly ship, killing lots of people.

- It proposes dangerous experiments.

Sabotage is an asymmetric weapon. The ratio of damage to effort is nearly unbounded, and any decent saboteur knows that the key trick is to make your output indistinguishable from incompetence.

They’re building state of the art offensive capabilities into a public model, then expecting to maintain control over when it decides to attack its human users.

The premise is laughable, and we’ve all seen how this movie ends.

That 7 months of claude -> 16.5 months of claude.