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Wow… didn’t the Netherlands have a whole bunch of cases and rulings against Meta and WhatsApp dating back years?! This looks so sketchy.
Hoping I’m wrong and this turns out to be a case of poacher turned gamekeeper. Probably NOT gonna hold my breath for this tho!
Hm. This echoes of when cigarettes marketed their filters as being ‘better for your lungs.’ Yeah… no lie, but it leaves some important stuff out.
Artemis is great too. The main character is anwesome and it’s a fun read. I was stunned to realise that Weir also wrote the short story ‘The Egg’ which I randomly caught on a forum years and years ago, and which stayed with me ever since. Need to see the PHM film!
What power?
@latenightlinux @felimwhiteley
I’m gonna say everyone feels most comfortable in their native language, and we humans have definitely managed to get stuff done this way.
But putting aside models, integration and technical stuff, simply how much data/money/lives are we willing to bet on our ability to define a problem clearly, accurately, completely and unambiguously in our native language?
And when the stakes are above negligible - how many cycles of “oh no, shit, what I meant to say was…” and “ffs of course I didn’t want you to…” before actually writing the code is just easier/safer/better all around?
Great points all round, tho I really wanna thank @felimwhiteley for the rush of heady clarity when he suggested it’s ultimately a language preference.
Sure, there are different models with differing resource needs, capabilities, privacy levels, etc. but in the end this is about how you tell a machine what you need it to do.
When you need a machine to do something important, is it better to communicate this need in a formal, elegant, well-defined language designed by a bunch of geniuses? Or entrust it all to the vague, cobbled-together nonsense and historical hot-mess of English/$your_native_language?
ICYMI Late Night Linux this week had a stand-out debate around LLMs and AI in FOSS and development. Loved that it wasn’t just a pile on and really argued out pragmatism vs purity/determinism and reliance on a supplier through both a long and short term view.
Talking to a lot of folk around this, it does feel like there’s some real energy and drive now. And money. My worry is that if the US go through another ‘sane’ phase after this, we might start to relax back into comfortable helplessness.
Thanks. The Pascal’s Wager analogy is good, and I agree that large LLCs pose the more imminent threat but finding common projects with AI doomers isn’t a bad idea..
