• 0 Posts
  • 19 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 14th, 2023

help-circle
  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldFuck Tankies
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    3 days ago

    There are two issues with human rights.

    One is selective enforcement. There are a long list of countries with abysmal human rights records, but it’s too strategically convenient or economically essential to look the other way. Whrn was the last time they made a fuss about Jamal Khashoggi? Human rights only gets invoked when sabre-rattling is useful, not as a solid and consistent moral framework.

    The other is that it’s a “luxury product”. Can every country support a modern human-rights model, or does it require a certain level of economic and political stability? It’s hard to maintain rule of law amid active insurgency, or if you can’t even deploy the bureaucratic state. Once you’ve gotten past that threshold, will both leaders and the broader population be eager to switch from the system that got them where they are? You’ve got to convince people that being able to write an anti-government op-ed is more important than security, or the price of eggs. This is a long term soft sell: berating countries for not measuring up to Western standards isn’t going to get them to make that choice any faster.



  • But what data would it be?

    Part of the “gobble all the data” perspective is that you need a broad corpus to be meaningfully useful. Not many people are going to give a $892 billion market cap when your model is a genius about a handful of narrow subjects that you could get deep volunteer support on.

    OTOH maybe there’s probably a sane business in narrow siloed (cheap and efficient and more bounded expectations) AI products: the reinvention of the “expert system” with clear guardrails, the image generator that only does seaside background landscapes but can’t generate a cat to save its life, the LLM that’s a prettified version of a knowledgebase search and NOTHING MORE




  • The Atari XL seriea computers cut a nice space between retro and futuristic.

    They’re much sleeker looking than their 400/800 predecessors, as well as the Apple II and the breadbin VIC 20/64/C16. Only the 64C and Plus/4 really look similarly minaturized and not-in-need-of-a-big-wristrest-for-comfortable-typing.

    The use of metal and smoked plastic trim gives it a premium appearance. The 1200XL even hides the cartridge slot on the side to avoid anyone nistaking it for a mere console…











  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldMaybe someday
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    A forced sale guarantees ByteDance gets a fire sale price. If there’s any way forward that allows them to sell not-under-duress, there’s a chance for far more upside.

    That works even for pure economics game theory, aside from wanting to continue in what they built on principle/commitment/interest in the project.

    Would Zuck give up Facebook for the right price? Would he give it up for a highly discounted price of a rush sale?