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glad to see this posted here on my day off! the universe seems to have a way of reminding of certain things and pointing me in the right direction!


hell yeah, glad to see it, keep at it! this is the type of thing that i always figured software people would naturally tend to support, because it's just systems thinking. what better thing to do than to heal the ecosystems on which we depend?



  for x in 1611.02731 1511.06391 1811.06965 1512.03385 1511.07122 1704.01212 1409.2329 1512.02595 1706.01427 1410.5401 1806.01822 1706.03762 1409.0473 1506.03134 2001.08361 1405.6903 1603.05027 math/0406077; do curl -fL https://arxiv.org/pdf/$x -o ${x##*/}.pdf; done
  for u in https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/colt93.pdf https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2012/file/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Paper.pdf https://www.vetta.org/documents/Machine_Super_Intelligence.pdf https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng-scan.pdf https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762 https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/ https://cs231n.github.io/; do curl -fLO "$u"; done


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why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?


Maybe you place a value on your time higher than $1.99 divided by the time it would take you to create it. Maybe you don't care to learn how to create an addon.


lol wtf


> “Our opportunity now is to take those 900 million users and turn them into high-compute users,” Simo said, according to a partial transcript of the meeting reviewed by CNBC. “We’ll do that by transforming ChatGPT into a productivity tool.”

Moloch strikes again!

(for those who don't yet get the reference https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)

but seriously, we (or they) need to define what "productivity" actually is these days and in these contexts. is it to generate revenue for a company? is it to become a self-sufficient human? is it to educate the younger generations about what's true? is it to do science? is it to increase the efficiency of whatever task you're already doing (note that increasing efficiency would result in using less compute for the same operation lol)? if we keep moving forward without sitting down and reorienting ourselves about a shared vision, given all the new things we now know since establishing our frameworks of social/economic organization, i fear that there will be a very bad outcome.


Well if chatgpt observes some kid writing decent code/analysing info well/asking useful questions/uncovering issues/showing interest even when there is no reward at hand and some one like that is needed at the bank, telco, power plant, hospital, govt dept etc use your imagination of how the story can go.


can you tell us about this "ansible filesystem swiss army knife"?


I'd be happy to! I find in my playbooks that it is fairly cumbersome to set up files and related because of the module distinction between copying files, rendering templates, directories... There's a lot of boilerplate that has to be repeated.

For 3-4 years I've been toying with this in various forms. The idea is a "fsbuilder" module that make a task that logically groups filesystem setup (as opposed to grouping by operation as the ansible.builtin modules do).

You set up in the main part of the task the defaults (mode, owner/group, etc), then in your "loop" you list the fs components and any necessary overrides for the defaults. The simplest could for example be:

    - name: Set up app config
      linsomniac.fsbuilder.fsbuilder:
        dest: /etc/myapp.conf
Which defaults to a template with the source of "myapp.conf.j2". But you can also do more complex things like:

    - name: Deploy myapp - comprehensive example with loop
      linsomniac.fsbuilder.fsbuilder:
        owner: root
        group: myapp
        mode: a=rX,u+w
      loop:
        - dest: /etc/myapp/conf.d
          state: directory
        - dest: /etc/myapp/config.ini
          validate: "myapp --check-config %s"
          backup: true
          notify: Restart myapp
        - dest: /etc/myapp/version.txt
          content: "version={{ app_version }}"
        - dest: "/etc/myapp/passwd"
          group: secrets
I am using this extensively in our infrastructure and run ~20 runs a day, so it's fairly well tested.

More information at: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/linsomniac/fsbu...


wait why not robots.txt?


Good question, at least OAI-SearchBot is hitting robots.txt.

I assume the real issue is that what overloads the servers like security bots, SEO crawlers, and data companies — are the ones that don't respect robots.txt in full, but they wouldn't respect LLMs.txt either.


it's malware in the mind. it was happening before deep fakes was possible. news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells. now we have tools that pretty much just accelerate and automate that process. it's interesting. it would be helpful to figure out how to prevent people (especially upcoming generations) from getting swept away by all this.


I think fatigue will set in and the next generation will 'tock' back from this 'tick.' Getting outraged by things is already feeling antiquated to me, and I'm in my 30's.


There's a massive industry built around this on YT, exemplified by the OP's post about his parents. To a first-order approximation, every story with a theme of "X does sexist/racist/ageist/abusive thing to Y and then gets their comeuppance" on YouTube is AI-generated clickbait. The majority of the "X does nice thing for Y and gets a reward or surprise" dating from the last year or two are also AI-generated clickbait, but far more of the former. Outrage gets a lot more clicks than compassion.


> news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells.

As someone who’s read a newspaper daily for 30+ years, that is definitely not true. The news has always tried to capture your attention but doing so using anger and outrage, and using those exclusively, is a newer development. Newspapers and broadcast news used to use humor, suspense, and other things to provoke curiosity. When the news went online, it became focused on provoking anger and outrage. Even print edition headlines tend to be tamer than what’s in the online edition.


not to mention the high resource-usage of a local LLM that most PCs wouldn't be able to handle, or would just drain a laptop's battery.


All for searching something trivial, where for 99% of cases the already indexed wikipedia summary is good enough and way faster


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