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- Comment on Cyan (Myst, Riven) to lay off 12 people, "roughly half the team" 4 weeks ago:
This headline has the structure of the famous Simpsons joke.
Cyan (Myst, Riven)
Homer: that’s good.
to lay off
Homer: that’s bad.
12 people
Homer: that’s good.
“roughly half of team”
Homer: ??
Narrator: that’s bad.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 weeks ago:
It’s possible to run the big Deepseek model locally for around $15k, not $100k. People have done it with 2x M4 Ultras, or the equivalent.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 weeks ago:
So long as there are big players releasing open weights models, which is true for the foreseeable future, I don’t think this is a big problem. Once those weights are released, they’re free forever, and anyone can fine-tune based on them, or use them to bootstrap new models by distillation or synthetic RL data generation.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 5 weeks ago:
“But… the future refused to change” – game over screen, Chrono Trigger
- Comment on Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI 1 month ago:
They released the major components of their training and interference infrastructure code a couple weeks ago.
- Comment on Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI 1 month ago:
Deepseek actually released a bunch of their infrastructure code, including the infamous tricks for making training and interference more efficient, a couple of weeks ago.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 month ago:
Google search results are so terrible that at this point it’s a mercy.
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- Comment on Trump is 'unlikely' to support TSMC running Intel's fabs — US gov't downplays chances of TSMC takeover 2 months ago:
Aside from national pride or security, one issue is that there’s a Taiwan law requiring TSMC to keep latest gen fabs in Taiwan. So if TSMC takes over Intel fabs, Intel’s US operations will never be able to reach latest gen (not that Intel is currently in good shape to achieve this, of course).9
- Comment on Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea 2 months ago:
Slightly off topic, but the writing on this article is horrible. Optimizing for Google engagement, it seems. Ironically, an AI would probably have produced something vastly more readable.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 2 months ago:
Aww come on. There’s plenty to be mad at Zuckerberg about, but releasing Llama under a semi-permissive license was a massive gift to the world. It gave independent researchers access to a working LLM for the first time. Deepseek started out messing around with Llama derivatives back in the day (though, to be clear, their MIT-licensed V3 and R1 models are not Llama derivatives).
As for open training data, its a good ideal but I don’t think it’s a realistic possibility for any organization that wants to build a workable LLM. These things use trillions of documents in training, and no matter how hard you try to clean the data, there’s definitely going to be something lawyers can find to sue you over. No organization is going to open themselves up to the liability. And if you gimp your data set, you get a dumb AI that nobody wants to use.
- Comment on DeepSeek’s rise shows why China’s top AI talent is skipping Silicon Valley. 2 months ago:
It’s definitely a trend. More and more top Chinese students are also opting to stay in China for university, rather than going to the US or Europe to study. It’s in part due to a good thing, i.e. the improving quality of China’s universities and top companies. But I think it’s a troubling development for China overall. One of China’s strengths over the past few decades has been their people’s eagerness to engage with the outside world, and turning inward will not be beneficial for them in the long run.
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 2 months ago:
Looks like Alex Kurtzman has done it again!
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 months ago:
LLMs aren’t capable of maintaining an even remotely convincing simulacrum of human connection,
Eh, maybe, maybe not. 99% of the human-written stuff in IM chats, or posted to social media, is superficial fluff that a fine-tuned LLM should have no problem imitating. It’s still relatively easy to recognize AI models outputs in their default settings, because of their characteristic earnest/helpful tone and writing style, but that’s quite easily adjustable.
One example worth considering: people are already using fine tuned LLMs to copilot tabletop RPGs, with decent success. In that setting, you don’t need fine literature, just a “good enough” quality of prose. And that is already far exceeding the average quality that you see in social media.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 3 months ago:
Hot take: if they can get it to work, good! I welcome AI users who are smarter, better informed, and have better taste than the rest of us mouth breathing meatbags.
- Comment on Chinese companies are reportedly reluctant to adopt homegrown chips — domestic solutions are technologically too far behind 4 months ago:
See, this was always the problem with Chinese efforts to indigenize their semiconductor industry. Each individual Chinese firm had no incentive to use Chinese suppliers, rather than their more established competitors. Well, guess what, the US Government has solved that coordination problem for them. Just about every Chinese company, up and down the supply chain, now has an excellent reason to buy Chinese. Sure, they’ll take years to work out the kinks, and there will be lots of chances to point and laugh in the meantime. But in the long run, the Sullivan-Blinken strategy of squeezing the Chinese chip industry might end up being one of the most counterproductive geostrategic ideas of all time.
- Comment on Southeast Asian nations amend semiconductor strategies 5 months ago:
South Korea’s conservative ruling party, the People Power Party (PPP), is pushing for legislation that would give the semiconductor industry subsidies and an exemption from a national cap on working hours.
Yes, that’s what South Korea needs… longer working hours…