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26fingies commented on Greg Brockman quits OpenAI twitter.com/gdb/status/17... · Posted by u/nickrubin

Is it?

Seriously, I’m asking. Like… if you were an engineer that worked on UNIX System V at AT&T/Bell Labs and contributed code to the BSDs from memory alone, would you really be liable?

26fingies · 2 years ago

Probably depends on what the code is and how material it is to AT&T’s business and what agreements are in place. IANAL. Youre not gonna get sued for routine stuff.

26fingies commented on Greg Brockman quits OpenAI twitter.com/gdb/status/17... · Posted by u/nickrubin

Geee · 2 years ago

I think I see it now. Speculation following:

They achieved AGI internally, but didn't want OpenAI to have it. All the important people will move to another company, following Sam, and OpenAI is left with nothing more than a rotting GPT.

They planned all this from the start, which is why Sam didn't care about equity or long-term finances. They spent all the money in this one-shot gamble to achieve AGI, which can be reimplemented at another company. Legally it's not IP theft, because it's just code which can be memorized and rewritten.

Sam got himself fired intentionally, which gives him and his followers a plausible cover story for moving to another company and continuing the work there. I'm expecting that all researchers from OpenAI will follow Sam.

26fingies · 2 years ago

No I don’t think that’s what happened at all. Also memorizing code and rewriting it is very much IP theft.

26fingies commented on The 'Georgists' Are Out and they want to tax your land nytimes.com/2023/11/12/bu... · Posted by u/resalisbury

26fingies · 2 years ago

Why does this author insist on calling all of these people who think LVT is a good idea Georgists? It’s kind of an annoying angle for the article.

26fingies commented on Git rebase, what can go wrong jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/06/r... · Posted by u/kens

diek · 2 years ago

> destroying Commit information just to keep the graph tidy is a bad idea in my opinion

The commit information I see when telling teams to squash their branches on merge is not valuable.

* "fixing whitespace" * "incorporate review comments" * "fix broken test" * "fix other broken test"

(note, the broken tests were broken by the changes in the PR)

As soon as that PR is merged those commits are worthless. And there are branches with dozens of those "fixing X" commits that would otherwise pollute the commit graph.

26fingies · 2 years ago

You can usually see that in whatever tool youre using anyway. Blame -> find the PR -> see commit history.

26fingies commented on U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jlpcsl

tick_tock_tick · 2 years ago

I kinda want us to end the embargo just so the failures of the state of Cuba stopped being blamed on the USA.

26fingies · 2 years ago

So your hypothesis is that a country under decades of embargo would somehow do worse or at least no better after that embargo is lifted?

26fingies commented on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/htrp

26fingies · 2 years ago

You know what would be fun? If we could see where all of our ancestors were from…

- Police arrest my cousin for getting a paper cut during a home robbery

- Hackers sell my DNA on the internet

- Drugmakers make new and exciting opiates that are especially addictive for me alone

26fingies commented on Laid-off masses have a message for Zuckerberg, Benioff: We'll never come back fortune.com/2023/10/21/me... · Posted by u/rustoo

progne · 2 years ago

  sheep: we love our freedom, we'll never come baaack
  farmer: no problem, i'll just be over here by the food if you change your mind

26fingies · 2 years ago

Pretty damning view of the shape of society if we think this is accurate.

26fingies commented on The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop nngroup.com/articles/cont... · Posted by u/skadamat

26fingies · 2 years ago

given how terrible the mobile web is i refuse to believe anyone is actually doing mobile-first web design

26fingies commented on Embeddings: What they are and why they matter simonwillison.net/2023/Oc... · Posted by u/simonw

26fingies · 2 years ago

Admittedly i more or less skimmed and plan on going back over this tomorrow, but I dont see how these vectors are actually created. I get that I could use your llm tool or whatever, but that seems unsatisfactory. How is the sausage made? (or if thats explained can someone point me at the right place to look?)

26fingies commented on Nokia to cut up to 14,000 jobs as US demand shrinks, growth uncertain reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/ksec

26fingies · 2 years ago

You know you can respond without being a jerk right?

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