Right? "Go find outsized success, but I'm going to put a non negotiable cap on the size. You can pick a bad direction for good reasons, but only you will be responsible if there are no good directions."
To be more clear: Failure can happen due to both internal and external forces. This advice enshrines internal power structures and ensures their systemic faults are permanent. It's not a seat at the table if you don't have a say.
I've been running Affinity Photo on Fedora for a while by running this installation script[1]. Works flawlessly and they recently upgraded the script to install Affinity 3.0. I haven't encountered/solved your second use-case, but I'm /sure/ someone has.
You’re getting awfully close to being rude. There’s no reason to try to go around imposing your perspective when it’s just you venting about feeling stuck. We all feel stuck from time to time, the solution is generally to wait it out until something that genuinely excites you comes along and you ask to hop on that opportunity. That’s possible in all work cultures, including egalitarian flat organizations.
Hey, I know what the article wanted to say, see the last two-ish sentences of my previous response. My point, is that the article might be mis-interpreting what the causes and solutions for the problems it sees. Relying on the brain as an example of how to improve might be a mistaken premise, because maybe the brain isn't doing what the article thinks it's doing. So we're in agreement there, that the brain and LLMs are incomparable, but maybe the parts where they're comparable are more informative on the nature of hallucinations than the author may think.
Yes, I agree. I'm not against the idea that the brain can "store" things. Just whether our concept of how a "memory" "feels" is useful to us further understanding the brain's function.
I mean an LLM (bad example, but good enough for what I'm trying to convey) doesn't need any sort of "memory" to be able to reconstruct something that looks like intelligence. It stores weights, and can re-assemble "facts" from those weights, independent of the meaning or significance of those facts. It's possible the brain is similar, on a much more refined scale. My brain certainly doesn't store 35,000 instances of my mum's image to help me identify her, just an averaged image to help me know when I'm looking at my mum.
The brain definitely stores things, and retrieval and processing are key to the behaviour that comes out the other end, but whether it's "memory" like what this article tries to define, I'm not sure. The article makes it a point to talk about instances where /lack/ of a memory is a sign of the brain doing something different from an LLM, but the brain is pretty happy to "make up" a "memory", from all of my reading and understanding.
I'm not convinced the brain stores memories, or that memory storage is required for human intelligence. And we "hallucinate" all the time. See: eye witness testimony being wrong regularly, "paranormal" experiences etc.
It's a statement that /feels/ true, because we can all look "inside" our heads and "see" memories and facts. But we may as well be re-constructing facts on the fly, just as re-construct reality itself to sense it.
I think the play was something along the lines of being "the new iOS". Lots of new apps (see: LLMs) are browser-first, forgoing building platform-targeting apps entirely. When they couldn't see any app devs lining up to build Arc-specific extensions, apps, or such, they pivoted. Dia was more of an LLM-host browser, with the play being they're hoping for OpenAI or Perplexity or one of the big foundation-players to "pay" to be the "exclusive" AI provider, like old-Google pays to be the default on Safari. But ... both plays didn't find any audience or customer, rightly so, as they didn't try to "fix" anything anyone actually considered a problem, just tried to build a niche their own. :(
To be more clear: Failure can happen due to both internal and external forces. This advice enshrines internal power structures and ensures their systemic faults are permanent. It's not a seat at the table if you don't have a say.