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shrimpx commented on OpenAI and Elon Musk openai.com/blog/openai-el... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

> they don't refute that they did betray it

They do. They say:

> Elon understood the mission did not imply open-sourcing AGI. As Ilya told Elon: “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science...”

Whether you agree with this is a different matter but they do state that they did not betray their mission in their eyes.

shrimpx · 2 years ago

“The Open in openAI means that [insert generic mission statement that applies to every business on the planet].”

shrimpx commented on YC: Requests for Startups ycombinator.com/rfs... · Posted by u/sarimkx

shrimpx · 2 years ago

To those who think this list will help them get into YC, or lament "why didn't I get into YC when my idea was squarely on this list":

The YC application is a sales pitch, and you're not selling your idea, you're primarily selling your charisma and capacity to spin vision and sell. Second, you're selling your chemistry with your cofounders and stability of your relationship. Third, you're selling your capacity to build, at least some usable prototype, but this a low bar.

At no point are you actually selling the concrete idea, unless you're doing something extremely specific that seems valuable and you're one of the few who can build it. For the rest, the idea is a rhetorical vehicle to sell the other things.

shrimpx commented on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal fcc.gov/document/fcc-make... · Posted by u/ortusdux

larrik · 2 years ago

> The FCC announced the unanimous adoption of a Declaratory Ruling that recognizes calls made with AI-generated voices are "artificial" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).

So illegal in the sense that artificial robocalls are already illegal, then.

shrimpx · 2 years ago

"FCC announces that artificial voices are indeed artificial."

shrimpx commented on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s cnbc.com/2024/01/06/boein... · Posted by u/ephesee

Zigurd · 2 years ago

How even does a "plug" door blow out like that? That's a seemingly very robust design where cabin pressure holds the door in place passively, in addition to the latches holding it in place.

shrimpx · 2 years ago

How does the cabin pressure hold it in place passively? Isn't the pressure on the inside higher than the pressure on the outside?

shrimpx commented on Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs github.com/jart/emacs-cop... · Posted by u/yla92

safety1st · 2 years ago

I'm an emacs believer (the idea of a programmer's text editor really just being a lisp environment makes a ton of sense), but I'm a very part-time user. There are just so many idiosyncracies that make it hard to get into. No one seems to drink their own kool-aid more fervently than the emacs community, it just feels like "this would make it easier for new users" is never allowed to be a design rationale for anything.

For me things started to get easier once I discovered cua-mode and xclip-mode. I have read some arguments about why these aren't the default, I think those arguments are sensible if you have a PhD in emacs, but for the other 99.99% of humanity they are just big signs that say "go away." It's very silly to me that the defaults haven't evolved and become more usable - the definition of being a power user is that you can and do override lots of defaults anyway, so the defaults should be designed to support new users, not the veterans.

shrimpx · 2 years ago

`xclip-mode` looks like it should definitely be included by default. `cua-mode` is tougher because it messes with the default keybindings, making you type C-x twice (or Shift-C-x) for the large number of keybindings that start with C-x. That might be better for newcomers though, and bring more people to Emacs. Personally I would disable `cua-mode` if it were default.

shrimpx commented on Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs github.com/jart/emacs-cop... · Posted by u/yla92

amelius · 2 years ago

How well does Copilot work for refactoring?

Say I have a large Python function and I want to move a part of it to a new function. Can Copilot do that, and make sure that all the referenced local variables from the outer function are passed as parameters, and all the changed variables are passed back through e.g. return values?

shrimpx · 2 years ago

Probably not. It looks like an autocomplete engine. But technically you can do that with an LLM, with a more complex interface. You could select a region and then input a prompt "rewrite this code in xyz way". And a yet more complex system to split the GPT output across files, etc.