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Less reasoning than a dimension of brute force unfamiliar to human brains.

Trying to diminish this as brute force (something by the way that is categorically not 'unfamiliar to human brains' - as anyone who has every worked on complex slippery problems will tell you) is foolish, when the models hypothesize along the way to their solutions. That's reasoning.

The dimension of brute force unfamiliar to human brains is "well-read with zero judgement", where connections can be made even if they're not thought through.

Grinding through completions isn't reasoning.


Familiar but isn't effective enough for surviving.

> Security is less or no concern

[waits for chickens to come home to roost]


> [waits for chickens to come home to roost]

"We are writing down X billions over 4 years, and have cancel several ambitious programs related to our AI experiments. We were following standard practice in the industry, so [shareholders] can't blame us for these chickens coming to roost. If everyone is guilty, is anyone really guilty?"


Doesn't take long until someone has the bright idea to pipe customer tickets directly into the poorly written internal tool

If security was the prime concern, there would be no chickens and no coop and no farm - people would still be living in caves. After all, outside is dangerous, and Grug Chief said, smart ass grugs with their smart ass ideas like fire or agriculture just invite complexity and create security vulnerabilities.

After all (Grug Chief reminds us), the only truly secure computing system is an inert rock.


You're hearing "don't invent fire" but what's being said is "for fuck's sake, stop lighting fires in the cave".

No problems at all except, unauthorized access to a model they were claiming was a weapon and couldn't be released to the public and having their cli code leaked in the last two weeks. Everything's just fine

When attackers can move laterally through everything because every internal tool leaks credentials and data there will be issues.

Internal tool Doesn’t have credential. Checkmate ;)

Anthropic seems to be doing fine :)

> It feels personal at this point.

Yeah, it seems hard to believe that anyone would take Alex Jones' behaviour so personally. He only suggested that the murder of 20 young children and 6 adults in a school shooting was faked for political reasons.

(Are you serious?!)


That's not how trademarks work.

The Tolkien state (and related orgs) have registered "Palantir" under many (generally publishing/merchandising) domains, but Palantir Technologies has registered it under IC 009: computer software for collection, editing, analysis, viewing, [etc.] and a few others.


Calling it "Harmony" is a historical death knell. :-D

What makes you believe that most things have been digitised in the first place?


Young singers brought up listening to autotuned vocals can unknowingly learn and emulate the sonic signature of the tuning algorithm (and the telltale lilt when it's used as an effect, but the subtle tuning case is more surprising).

If you read too much sloppy LLM prose, it's going to influence how you write and structure your own.


The USA didn't New Deal hard enough to keep up with the rest of the "Western" world's more humane form of capitalism, which you can see in how consistently the USA lags behind other countries in measures of actual human progress and comfort.

While most "Western" countries suffered through similar technocratic, neoliberal turns in the 80s, they were built on a stronger social democratic base than the USA.

And don't get fooled by "horseshoe theory" ignorance: Fascist states were/are authoritarian by definition. Communist states were/are authoritarian by culture.


The USA oligarchs were watching Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler and New Dealed just hard enough to blow some steam off and keep things mostly as they were.

If you believe Smedley Butler, at least some of those USA oligarchs were big Mussolini fans.


Before OLED (and similar), most displays were lit with LEDs (behind or around the screen, through a diffuser, then through liquid crystals) which was indeed the dominant power draw... like 90% or so!

But the article is about an OLED display, so the pixels themselves are emitting light.


> But the article is about an OLED display

The article is about an LCD display, actually.


I just wish "we" wouldn't have discarded the option to use pure black for dark modes in favor of a seemingly ever-brightening blue-grey...


Even at the best of times, the United States does not have a strong culture of observing or learning from other nations.


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