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> makes a thermos great at keeping your drink hot

Thermos has 2 parts responsible for thermal isolation: vacuum and some coating that reflects heat radiation

Also in earth conditions, most of thermal radiation goes to surrounding air, heating it. This is not the case with vacuum, so thermal radiation will be even more efficient


I think it's much simpler: smart mass surveillance. With LLMs you can finally read and analyze all messages people send to each other

> And there seems to be no realistic path to profitability

Ads, obviously


AGI = Ads Generate Income


What a coincidence: "protect the children" narrative got amplified right about when implementing profiling became needed for openai profits. Pure magic


I get why you're questioning motives, I'm sure it's convenient for them at this time.

But age verification is all over the place. Entire countries (see Australia) have either passed laws, or have laws moving through legislative bodies.

Many platforms have voluntarily complied. I expect by 2030, there won't be a place on Earth where not just age verification, but identity is required to access online platforms. If it wasn't for all the massive attempts to subvert our democracies by state actors, and even political movements within democratic societies, it wouldn't be so pushed.

But with AI generated videos, chats, audio, images, I don't think anyone will be able to post anything on major platforms without their ID being verified. Not a chat, not an upload, nothing.

I think consumption will be age vetted, not ID vetted.

But any form of publishing, linked to ID. Posting on X. Anything.

I've fought for freedom on the Internet, grew up when IRC was a thing, knew more freedom on the net than most using it today. But when 95% of what is posted on the net, is placed there with the aim to harm? Harm our societies, our peoples?

Well, something's got to give.

Then conjoin that with the great mental harm that smart phones and social media do to youth, and.. well, anonymity on the net is over. Like I said at the start, likely by 2030.

(Note: having your ID known doesn't mean it's public. You can be registered, with ID, on X, on youtube, so the platform knows who you are. You can still be MrDude as an alias...)


95% of what is posted on the Internet is placed with intent to harm?

What?


If you consider Advertisement and News (with understanding that it is rarely unbiased) harmful, the 95% is not that far off the truth.


And you think their internet was to harm?

I'd argue the overwhelming majority was agnostic at best to harm being a factor.


Mandatory adblock for children is something I could support.


> Mandatory adblock for children is something I could support.

And adults.


If you ban grok, people will generate using unlocked open chinese models

Also, this always existed in one form or another. Draw, photoshop, imagine, discuss imaginary intercourse with popular person online or irl

It's not worthy of intervention because it will happen anyway and it doesn't fundamentally change much


Nukes make a lot of difference though, wouldn't be so sure about russia


Minified json would use even less tokens


Yeah, but I tried switching to minified JSON on a semantic labelling task and saw a ~5% accuracy drop.

I suspect this happened because most of the pre-training corpus was pretty-printed JSON, and the LLM was forced to derail from likely path and also lost all "visual cues" of nesting depth.

This might happen here too, but maybe to a lesser extent. Anyways, I'll stop building castles in the air now and try it sometime.


if you really care about structured output switch to XML. much better results, which is why all AI providers tend to use pseudo-xml in their system prompts and tool definitions


Example from this article looks more like "unspecified" behavior rather than "undefined". Title made me expect nasal demons, now I'm a bit disappointed


At least now it should be pretty easy for any tech person to patch apk removing this check


Probably not, because whatever Google is calling its remote attestation scheme this week (SafetyNet? Play Integrity?) has a way to check where the app was sourced and whether it has been altered.

Google is an asshole for making this. When Microsoft first proposed a scheme like that for PCs under the name Palladium, everyone knew it was a corporate power grab. Somehow, it got normalized.


I'd rather complain why somebody decides for me where what websites I'm allowed to open


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