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I didn't realize. People are going to save a ton of money when they realize they can switch their ChatGPT subscriptions out for a pack of tamagotchis.

You just need to get a breeding pair and you can raise as many as you need.

If we already were at the point that AI could self-direct effectively, then the world would already be very different (eg AI-driven technological progress and unemployment) in a way that we might have wished we prepared for more.

> we might have wished we prepared for more

Do you mean policy-wise (like Dario is talking about), or more broadly?

I wonder about broad preparedness, but unfortunately there's not a lot that we "normal" people can do to prepare. Hoard savings and food? Learn physical trades?


They believe they're going to eventually develop AI that's capable of recursive self improvement into world-redefining super-intelligence. I wouldn't expect someone in that position to risk giving away their lead. I expect we're going to see more of the top labs selectively holding back their best stuff.

I accept your point, in the sense that I wouldn't suggest that they have any obligation to share their own research.

What seems to be different here, is that they are saying they won't let you use their tool to do your own research.

It is a subtle but important difference. They aren't saying "we have secret sauce we won't share", they seem to be saying "we will prevent the tool you are paying for from independently creating a competing idea".


This isn't that surprising after it was reported on that he had notes about claiming to "come out as a Republican and against the woke agenda" as a PR plan to defend himself. (https://gizmodo.com/sbf-floated-coming-out-republican-tucker...) I wonder if Trump is selling pardons and whether SBF still has the means for it. It's depressing that the US's state of affairs is such that this might be a workable strategy for him.

We could rename "cooldown" to "pre-release period".

Gmail stopped using email contents for ad targeting in 2017.

GPT-4 was announced in March 2023 and wasn't made available to all developers until July 2023.

Even for English speakers, the subtitle experience with pirated movies is often lacking. Movies with non-English-speaking characters are often meant to have subtitles for their dialog and not for English speakers by default, but many pirated versions don't do this. I recently saw discussions online of a lot of people saying they went an embarrassingly long time without knowing there were supposed to be subtitles for the aliens in District 9 or the mute hand-signing girl in The Boys.

Lots of systems like Jellyfin/Emby/Plex etc will pull subtitles from a online repo. And yeah, exactly what you say will happen a lot of the time, and it's near imposable to work out which ones are correct.

I watched an English language TV show, that had a load of German in it. And I got subs for all the English, nothing from the German, then I switched to another source, then it had the inverse, which was great. But what if I wanted subs for the whole thing?

I think one even had the German words, in German....


> I think one even had the German words, in German....

Which is great if you are learning the language but not yet proficient enough to understand fast speech.


That's considered a feature in the community. Burning subs on the video trace is considered bad, but most video player will not automatically show any subtitle track.

Are there standards for a video to declare a default subtitle track to use?

Oh looks like there is. mkv does and looks like mpv and vlc will respect that flag. For other formats I'm not so sure

It's worth pointing out that the article explicitly calls out your first mixed technique:

> Finally, one should never mix the encode and decode steps of the two quantizers. That’s just broken code. It’s an easy mistake to make, though.


OpenImageIO uses the standard division by 255 technique: https://openimageio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/imageoutput.htm...

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