https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2035003184192630985
" ... why open-source your model if companies with better distribution can strip attribution, call it proprietary, and raise at 12x your valuation? ..."
So it’s not only #openstreetmap developers who ignore the attribution requirement (and much, much more along with that) at their own peril.
Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X
Cursor is raising at a $50 billion valuation on the claim that its “in-house models generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world.” Less than 24 hours after launching Composer 2, a developer found the model ID in the API response: kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast.
That’s
Is a corporation a slave? Many philosophers think so
Corporations are ‘legal persons’ under the law. But their ability to be ‘owned’ by shareholders embeds a system of exploitation at the heart of capitalism.
Scapegoating the Algorithm—Asterisk
America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media.
ChatGPT answers: Hallucinations might be a necessary byproduct of intelligence and prediction, and biological sleep evolved to compartmentalize them safely. LLMs, lacking this compartmentalization, “hallucinate” at all times — not because they don’t sleep, but because they lack the mechanisms sleep provides.
Could it be that LLMs hallucinate because they do not sleep? Animals also hallucinate - we call that dreams - and maybe evolution selected for sleep, because it increases fitness by shuffling hallucinations to specific times of the day.
#ai #llmhttps://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/04/the-west-is-bored-to-death
Superficial analysis, romantic remedy suggestions.
Instead the author should have looked into the psychological forces of our motivation (our basic psychological needs). That would be a step toward coming up with a more substantial diagnosis of our society troubles.
A correct analysis could lead to a more realistic plan to change the status quo.
#rawls #selfdeterminationtheory
The West is bored to death
Suppose Schopenhauer is right that life boils down to a flight from either boredom or pain. Insofar as the vast material abundance of wealthy, industrialised society has had an analgesic effect (there
https://tdengine.com/developers-stop-donating-your-work/
This is just one example of how the propensity of fully autonomous people to give products of their work away for free, goes against not only their own, but the best interests of all of us in the long run.
My own take on the same theme: also https://neofund.sk/the_siren_call_of_free_sharing
#foss #openstreetmap #wikipedia
Developers: Stop Donating Your Work to Cloud Service Providers! | TDengine
In the war for software freedom, the greatest enemy is no longer proprietary software but cloud service providers.
I agree with Sapolski we have no free will, but I also think we are not determined in a classical sense. Physicists know that deterministic systems can evolve into chaotic ones, where future is impossible to predict from initial conditions.
However, I do not see how chaos can lead to free will either, so the chaos argument would not work against the free-will-is-illusion advocates.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-10-17/stanford-scientist-robert-sapolskys-decades-of-study-led-him-to-conclude-we-dont-have-free-will-determined-book#freewill
U.S. scientist Robert Sapolsky says humans have no free will
You may think you chose to read this, but Stanford scientist Robert Sapolsky would disagree. He says virtually all human behavior is beyond our conscious control.
... I copy the calculated coordinates , plot them on a map and find the location is incorrect. I respond with where I would expect the point to be located, hoping to get a fixed function. Instead I got the result below - no new function, just a new location, apparently pulled out of thin air.
