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Comment Re: Reinstate Brendan Eich NOW!!! (Score 1) 119

Religious orders are fine to mock.

And there's the rub, most of the homophobes and transphobes and most of the other phobes in the USA think they're Christians but don't want to love anyone. They got told that homosexuality was wrong by people who want them to make good Christian Soldiers. But the same goes for the other Abrahamic brainwashing victims, and there's no real difference between them.

Comment Re:Reinstate Brendan Eich NOW!!! (Score 1) 119

that suggests to me that the problem wasn't really his opinions but him becoming the ceo. unlike a cto, a ceo can actually manage a corporation and change direction in fundamental ways

The only reason anyone even noticed was he became CEO and therefore was subjected to more scrutiny. This is warranted for exactly the reason you describe. It didn't matter as much when he was only CTO, because he didn't have that level of control.

Comment Re: Only makes training them safer and cheaper (Score 1) 14

I'm highly skeptical of large neural networks but think optimized neural networks can provide superior results to our own programming efforts which can be equally unpredictable due to edge cases.

I think neural nets have a place in industrial control, but it's only for sub-processes which are also guarded by watchdogs which prevent really OOB behavior.

Comment Re: Real life different than ivory tower (Score 1) 129

The USSR was just another oligarchy. They had privileged people at the top and everyone else was below them. That's not communism. You might argue that communism is impossible, but the obvious retort is that capitalism is unsustainable and leads to plutocracy, which is just a specific kind of oligarchy.

Therefore what we can really conclude is not that communism or even capitalism is itself the problem, it's tolerating inequality.

Comment Re: Sleezy stuff, but not price fixing (Score 1) 129

People don't go to Wendy's though. I mean I do, and some people do, but it's consistently not busy. Which is weird because IMO it is better than Mickey Deez, and it's certainly cheaper, or at least has cheaper options. People want what they are used to, and they are less used to Wendy's.

Comment Re: Nobody understands how AIs work :o (Score 1) 52

I agree on it being hard to understand the inner workings of LLMs but I'm not speaking to that part here, only about improving their function in some way which might be as consequential as transformers, which did not require that level of understanding. OTOH any such development will probably require more training and more processing time to run the result, so there are multiple constraints.

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