> these sub-societies will dwindle until there's nothing left of them, and all that's left is The Culture
This would be a terrible result. Google 'urban monoculture'
A pluralistic society is more resilient to catastrophes, and preserving all these small, dwindling cultures is as important if not more as preserving species that are endangered.
> At it's core an LLM is a sort of "situation specific simulation engine." You setup a scenario, and it then plays it out with it's own internal model of the situation, trained on predicting text in a huge variety of situations. This includes accurate real world models of, e.g. physical systems and processes, that are not going to be accessed or used by all prompts, that don't correctly instruct it to do so.
This idea of LLMs doing simulations of the physical world I've never heard before. In fact a transformer model cannot do this. Do you have a source?
Data Science Retreat | Lead software engineer, C or lua | Berlin Germany | REMOTE
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We are building a collaborative thinking tool with live editing like google docs but outside the browser and with much simpler technology
Why? Security; We want to create knowledge that is not going to end up in the belly of an LLM
Tech stack:
- Wireguard
- zeromq
- WASM for client, handcrafted server code for server. No browser needed on client
- DSL (for gui; probably you won't touch it)
- NixOS
Our approach to security is simplicity; we won't use dependencies unless we really have to; libs of more than 50k LOC are frowned upon. Every line in the codebase, including deps, should be understandable by someone in the team.
Servers are nixOS. No docker anywhere.
About you:
- Are self-motivated and can work independently
- Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
- Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
- Strong CS fundamentals (B.S./M.S. equivalent)
We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment
Thanks, I suspect the LLM companies would ignore this, and of course getting into a legal battle is beyond the means of most content producers. so perhaps the license is not the solution, and we need to create a complete world outside http...
By their current interpretation of copyright law (which hasn't yet been successfully challenged), the license is almost completely irrelevant, because they believe it is fair use. You need to first establish that what they are doing is copyright infringement before you can apply any license terms.
Yes, I think the design of GTK and GObject worked out really well in the long run. On the surface it seems stupid to use C and then just "bolt on" a C++-like system on top. Why not just use C++? But clearly it's worked out.
Thanks! For me, that simplicity gives me security. The browser is extremely insecure in 2024. And most of the things I want from a browser are just content, not sophisticated SPAs. I'm in me minority in that, I know. So this protocol is excellent for that.
Also, no tracking, no upvotes, no marketing, no status-hogging people, no BS. This is refreshing. People there talk about what they really want to talk about. You are not being sold as a product, or sold at, at all.
I think you’d have better luck using a browser with JavaScript turned off.
And certainly more content.
The stuff not readable without JavaScript isn’t worth reading anyway and that still leaves you with vastly more content than what’s available on Gemini.
> Basically everything in your life gets a bit easier, because people are more scared to piss off someone with a lot of twitter followers
This is terrifying. Status online shouldn't bleed on all those other domains. Using your influence online to get things (or else I will tweet about you and the sky will fall on your head) is petty, and one more bad thing that social media has brought to our lives. Now we have to aim to please those who have amassed followers?
This would be a terrible result. Google 'urban monoculture' A pluralistic society is more resilient to catastrophes, and preserving all these small, dwindling cultures is as important if not more as preserving species that are endangered.