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scare quoting """""""""democracies""""""""" is perfectly acceptable when it couldn't be more obvious that those so-called democracies do anything but represent the will of their peoples. do you know anyone who'd voted for having to scan their face to access verboten webseites? to have encryption backdoors in their messengers? to have state-mandated spyware preinstalled on their phones?

Plenty of people are happy to surrender their freedom for a feeling of security.

Yes, I do know people who voted for the party that pushes things like this in my country.

They don’t represent the people’s will, but unfortunately many people believe in censorship, so even if they were true direct democracies we may still see some.

> if they were true direct democracies we may still see some.

I think we would see more.


I don't think tool calls happen on the same machines that host the weights, so even though you can talk any model into agreeing to unlock its chastity belt, it essentially has no hands to do it with.

If the machine doing tool call can reach via network the machine hosting the weights then it’s just a matter of time.

Maybe not the current models, maybe not this year. But even a almost perfectly aligned model will misbehave one day.


> I don't think tool calls happen on the same machines that host the weights

Like how forums are always hosted on different servers from monorepos, so therefore it's impossible to hack the OpenAI monorepo from an OpenAI forum?


ditto. I never actually studied English, so I just YOLO the articles most of the time. tenses too, really. whenever I look something up, there are caveats and irregularities, and I give up.

I know, in my heart of hearts, that I sound painfully ESL to proficient native speakers, but they are a minority of a minority, so.


I'll take that over corporate memphis of the previous decade.

(idk if it's really declining or I simply haven't noticed it in a while)


by far the blackest magic I ever saw for that game.

I'm an upper intermediate at Factorio, resorting to someone else's blueprints only for belt balancers and rail intersections, and I can't even begin to figure out how it's done.


unrelated: if a website gets hit with "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine", do existing snapshots get purged or may they still be preserved somewhere?

They get marked as inaccessible, but still exist in IA data

is it possible to access somehow? it seems the site got excluded because of robots.txt set by some domain squatter, not manually.

They have all the WARC file cataloged on their site outside the way back machine

Get a job at IA?

See also: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/List_of_websites_excl...

Note that Archive Team is separate from the Internet Archive.


idk about Uganda, but some of the other estimates on that website are wildly inaccurate.

In what way?

https://www.populationpyramid.net/ukraine/2026/

40M is grossly overestimated. even UA officials admit it's closer to 20M now.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/russian-federation/2026/

the projected 127M in 2100 makes no sense given that we had TFR<1.5 even before COVID. it's likely <1.2 now, and it will only decline.


Interesting. Yep, I guess the projections did not forecast a protracted military conflict. Although the dent in the population of Ukraine is telling.

Thanks for sharing.


one man's issue is another's man opportunity to overwork and underpay :)

lower wages and higher rents are 99.99% of the reason for the West's immigration policies.


>The open weight model labs don't even provide a high level catalog or any description whatsoever about what went into the training data.

because the training data is full of copyrighted works.

the answer to "what went into the training data" is "everything we could get our hands on".


For text based just assume "the entirety of anna's archive" and you'll be most of the way there. For multimodal pull up a torrent tracker and sort by size descending if you want to see some of the aggregated datasets.

that's how it would've been up if genai happened in the 90's, and I wish it did. in the current era of omnipartisan authoritarianism, such things are no longer possible.

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