keeping the historical chain of thinking alive is good, actually

The fish rots from the head and marketing depends on being relatable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAg8_yf9zA

Take a scroll through the comments.

redis i/o is multithreaded, it's just the command loop that's single-threaded. If all you're doing is SET and GET of individual key-value pairs, every time I've seen a redis instance run hot under that sort of load, the bottleneck was the network card, never the CPU.

I ... actually think scaling redis for simple k-v storage is already pretty easy so I dunno that that's much of a concern?

mcrouter ... damn I haven't thought about mcrouter in at least 10 years.

far from being impossible, it's the entire influencer economy. This form of social media has been extremely widespread for a decade or so running; it's probably the dominant form of social media.

Maybe, but also maybe they just fork internally and fix the bug internally and don't publish the bugfix. And maybe it's never in their best interest to pay for it, maybe it's in their best interest to just freeload forever.

> If you make open source software that just works they are unlikely to start writing checks nor should there be any expectation that they do that.

I think it's good when we expect corporations to write checks to the people that write the open-source stuff they rely on. "A rising tide lifts all boats" is not automatically true in software, we have to choose to make it true. I think a world in which we make that choice is a better world. I'm not convinced we currently live in that world.

I'm not -your- conscience, I can only explain my own. To me? No, that's not fine.

- enjoying the work of an unrepentant bigot who died hundreds of years ago, whose work is in the public domain, who does not materially benefit from your spectatorship (what with them being dead and all)

- enjoying the work of an unrepentant bigot who is alive today, whose work they have ownership of, who materially benefits from your spectatorship

- enjoying the work of an unrepentant bigot who died mere minutes ago, whose work is owned by their estate, whose heirs materially benefit from your spectatorship

I think the first category is fine, the second category is unambiguously not fine, and the third category is ambiguous, but I would err on the side of "don't consume".

> Why is LMArena so easy to game? The answer is structural. > The system is fully open to the Internet. LMArena is built on unpaid labor from uncontrolled volunteers.

also all user's votes count equally, bu not all users have equal knowledge.

https://theoryoffun.com/

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262240451/rules-of-play/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/monograph/9780123694966/t...

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

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

a large pile of money

> What would be the cost for OpenAI to just stop these kinds of very long conversations

the aforementioned large pile of money