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  • It’s true of a lot of things. If you compare it to woodworking or auto repair, you don’t learn much by just doing random cuts or undoing and reattaching a part. Having a purpose helps the understanding and retention of that knowledge. And the opposite is true too - a skill or knowledge can fade if not used regularly. I hate going into old code, or for that matter working on part of a car I haven’t messed with for a while. I have to relearn and remember what I knew before. Sometimes it comes back fast, sometimes I have to retravel the road of looking it up.



  • It’s also relative to your experience. The better days of the 50s and 60s before the mentioned decline wasn’t all that create for all groups in the US. And I say that as a descendant of the group that is pictured as experiencing this optimal period of time (white, middle class, suburbia). Underneath this wholesome prosperity was still class struggles, racism, and injustice.

    But… we were doing better than before, and that’s something. It could have continued to spread to others. The 70s were definitely a turning point where we took the worse path and left many potentials behind.






  • I’m going to take this from a different angle. These companies have over the years scraped everything they could get their hands on to build their models, and given the volume, most of that is unlikely to have been vetted well, if at all. So they’ve been poisoning the LLMs themselves in the rush to get the best thing out there before others do, and that’s why we get the shit we get in the middle of some amazing achievements. The very fact that they’ve been growing these models not with cultivation principles but with guardrails says everything about the core source’s tainted condition.








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    17 days ago

    “A picture of” is implied in the title.

    The actual selfie was a live feed to Putin where Zelenskyy was shouting, “I don’t see no damn soldiers here, bro!”, followed by “If you want it, come and claim it!”. Then he unsheathed a big sword.

    Still doesn’t top the video years ago of him doing a similar thing after Russian claims of hits, with Zelenskyy revealing he was sitting at the desk in the same location.