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polytely commented on Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team annas-archive.org/blog/an... · Posted by u/jerheinze

bawolff · 5 days ago

A lot of these are (relatively large) pdfs, right?

I wonder how much space it is as highly compressed, deduplicated, plain text files.

Does the sum of human scientific knowledge fit on a large hard drive?

polytely · 4 days ago

there is post of Anna's archive blog about exactly that, we basically have to hold on until (open source) OCR solutions are good enough and then it suddenly starts to become feasible to have all the world's published knowledge on your computer

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polytely commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein

AIPedant · 11 days ago

I think I found the problem!

  The rationalist community was drawn together by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequences, a set of essays about how to think more rationally

I actually don't mind Yudkowski as an individual - I think he is almost always wrong and undeservedly arrogant, but mostly sincere. Yet treating him as an AI researcher and serious philosopher (as opposed to a sci-fi essayist and self-help writer) is the kind of slippery foundation that less scrupulous people can build cults from. (See also Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and related trends - often it is just a bit of spiritual goofiness as with David Lynch, sometimes you get a Charles Manson.)

polytely · 11 days ago

Don't forget the biggest scifi guy turned cult leader of all L. Ron Hubbard

polytely commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

jacquesm · 16 days ago

Governments react at a glacial pace to new technological developments. They wouldn't so much as 'let it happen' as that it had happened and they simply never noticed it until it was too late. If you are betting on the government having your back in this then I think you may end up disappointed.

polytely · 16 days ago

this is generally true in a regulation sense, but not in emergency. The executive can either covertly or overtly take control of a company if AGI seems to powerful to be in private hands.

polytely commented on Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths quantamagazine.org/new-me... · Posted by u/baruchel

polytely · 17 days ago

> But curiously, none of the pieces use fancy mathematics.

> “This thing might as well have been discovered 50 years ago, but it wasn’t,” Thorup said. “That makes it that much more impressive.”

this is so cool to me, it feel like a solution you could* have stumbled upon while doing game development or something

*probably wouldn't but still

polytely commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes

polytely · 19 days ago

I wonder if Valve could (threaten to) become their own payment processor if this becomes too big of a threat. They are one of the few companies on earth with enough money to attempt it.

If I remember correctly a big part of Valves heavy investment into linux was Microsoft wanting to lock windows down more, and now in 2025 gaming on linux is a viable alternative to windows.

polytely commented on Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation perl.com/article/proxmox-... · Posted by u/oalders

lordofgibbons · a month ago

Are people still using Perl for new software?

I remember at a former company, we had a major migration away from Perl 12 years ago. The Perl code base was considered extremely ancient even back then.

polytely · a month ago

I've actually started using raku for hobby projects recently (my day job is C#) and it is actually really fun to write.

polytely commented on YouTube No Translation addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/thefox

polytely · a month ago

I just hope that one of the morons running youtube eventually sees these threads and fixes this.

polytely commented on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/Topfi

tootyskooty · a month ago

Honestly might be more indicative of how far behind vision is than anything.

Despite the fact that CV was the first real deep learning breakthrough VLMs have been really disappointing. I'm guessing it's in part due to basic interleaved web text+image next token prediction being a weak signal to develop good image reasoning.

polytely · a month ago

Is there anyone trying to solve OCR, I often think of that annas-archive blog about how we basically just have to keep shadow libraries alive long enough until the conversion from pdf to plaintext is solved.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

I hope one of these days one of these incredibly rich LLM companies accidentally solves this or something, would be infinitely more beneficial to mankind than the awful LLM products they are trying to make

polytely commented on Kira Vale, $500 and 600 prompts, AI generated short movie [video] youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rM... · Posted by u/jacquesm

techpineapple · a month ago

I’m curious if there’s a limit in how good AI can get at movie making. I think it will take revolutionary new algorithms/tech.

This video is a great example. Looks great, sounds great, but also looks like a really good amateur found a bunch of clips on a stock video site and edited them together, probably because stock video is a really plentiful source of learning data. The interviews look the best, but again, lots of interviews in the training data.

When you combine the skill it takes to generate good prompts, with the lack of sufficient training data, I’ll just say I don’t think Christopher Nolan has anything to worry about just yet. Maybe Wes Anderson does though.

polytely · a month ago

I don't think Wes Anderson has anything to worry about either, it isn't only panning shots in pastel colors.

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