leifross · HackerTrans

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GPT3 released four years ago, in terms of iterations beyond that, we are at ~v5, and progress has only been incremental relative to that milestone. The transformer models can only be scaled so far before not even VC money can sustain training. I believe we will get there eventually, but transformer based LLMs have been hitting a roof for a long time, and we need to think differently.

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Replacing managers is a walk in the park compared to replacing programmers. The focus is on programming because that is the benchmark, if we can outsource that to AI, then we can replace everyone.

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Last time I checked, Apples holdings are all based in Ireland. So from a legal standpoint, it's a Irish company, held accountable by EU law. It can't "simply leave".

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On the contrary, this tantrum by no means works to lessen the growing idea that control of the platform should be put into the hands of a independent third party.

While not European in origin, the platform holds and manages tremendous value for us, to the extent where small changes can cause mayor economic disruption, and Apple has not been managing it fairly.

And for a state actor, which exists to serve the common good, it is not acceptable that a single company holds and abuses this kind of power.

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Norway as an independent actor is too small to carry any weight in this matter. Our best bet is to hedge our interest as an extended member of the European Union, and even there we have a limited say.

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I feel you, I am the sole developer of https://ember.ly

Certainly feels great to have your livelyhood kicked to the curb by some rich american megacorporation throwing a tantrum.

The worst part is that probably 40 percent of the development time has been trying to wrangle my way around weird rendering quirks in safari, never again. My next site will have a banner suggesting safari users open the site in firefox..

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