It created the stories and had a good laugh the way it started one of the stories:
Arthur Perkins, a man who considered himself a connoisseur of routine, was having a particularly peculiar Tuesday. It all started with a misplaced set of dentures...
There are things called 'Open Weight' language models, a lot of which (those with between 8b to 34b parameters anyway) are considerably cheaper to run any of OpenAI's models.
Moreover, you get surprisingly out-of-class (size-wise) performance if you fine-tune for your specific problem space. Even if you only train in a parameter-efficient way.
Try countering the OP's arguments instead of resorting to writing self-serving nonsense simply because you don't have the intellectual capacity to make a single well-reasoned counter-point.
I write this as someone who despises significant portions of Christianity and indeed all Monotheistic religions, and yet even I see some value in what the OP wrote.
The OP wrote about Moderns seeing "humility as a virtue, thanks to Christianity, and [the] secularization of Christianity" as opposed to the pre-christian Pagans who [rightly] saw personal pride and associated traits as being virtues.
A case in point being [from my possibly wrong point of view] the pre-Christian Romans whose list of principal virtues included: Dignitas, Severitas, & Gravitas, very roughly translated: Dignity, Sternness, and Self-Importance.
The OP's views on this particular topic are held by most serious historians of Early Europe. And yet, you lazily jumped into attacking his [presumed] religion instead of calmly stating your reasons why his views are wrong (if your mental capability is enough for you to formulate any such reason, a possibility I strongly doubt).
Within the specific context of the modern secularized world appropriating some of the more compassionate traits of Christianity (namely an appreciation for Humility, Care for the Weak, and a concern for the welfare of others even if they are not members of one's tribe/nationality, etc), I agree with the OP's viewpoint even if I do have some personal antipathy (which I mostly keep to myself) towards Monotheistic religious systems due to the rigid intolerance they tend to breed.
And since I am obviously not against any of the specific points the OP wrote on, what exactly would I be writing the counter-point to?
dude how about you climb off your fucking high faux-intellectual horse
> why his views are wrong
So did you never get the basic lesson in the difference between fact vs opinion or are you just too dense to understand that what he stated was an opinion and therefore can't rightly be labeled "right" or "wrong"? which is why I've been couching my responses in the language of philosophy and epistemology, or can you not read in between those particular lines?
> what exactly would I be writing the counter-point to?
Me, you fucking idiot.
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how about next time you step away from the insults? I've included them to show you what you look like to others. It doesn't do your writing any favors and it obviously doesn't increase your capacity to come to a common understanding with your fellow man.
I am too. I do like the Model Y and have driven them hundreds of miles while doing rental cars. I ended up with a different EV because of Musk. I don’t make it a point to tell people this, and I don’t imagine anyone really cares why I got the particular car I did, but ethically and philosophically I didn’t get a Model Y.
You need "only" 3% of new sales to be the top selling car in the country.
That's obviously an incredible accomplishment to hit 3%, but just pointing out that calling a group of people "tiny minority" here doesn't really make any sense.
It could easily be the case that more than 50-percent of people would never buy from Tesla.
The OP is being sarcastic. He's basically mocking the US Government's seemingly compulsive habit of trying to sanction China in any field it seems China might be dominating, pulling ahead, or able to dominate in the near or distant future.
If I could give you a million upvotes I would. Heck I could somehow give you a billion upvotes, I would, even if would cost me my account.
Comments like yours restore my hope in HN whenever I start feeling like the community is being taken over by people whose thought processes are flirting on the edge of lunacy.
Imagine someone saying some diseases shouldn't be cured. I'm sure the millions of people all over the world who right now are suffering heart-rending pain from those "shouldn't be cured" diseases would be just thrilled to read the parent comment.
I never said we should NOT attempt to solve any diseases. My fear is that if we approach the logical conclusion of solving all diseases THROUGH SCIENCE, it is getting too close to solving death and encouraging overpopulation.
You are obviously having a knee-jerk reaction, because I am questioning the very core of society which is the very thing making you comfortable. I am just trying to have a reasonable discussion.
Now, there are PLENTY of ways of solving diseases without science. Many diseases are caused by our modern western diet, being sedentary, living in large cities, and being lumps all day whose only purpose is to further more technology.
Perhaps it would be a better idea to solve diseases by dismantling this system and thereby making us more healthy so that we don't NEED science as much?
The problem is, science has convinced you that disease is just natural and that you need it to solve everything.
Again, I am advocating for a healthier lifestyle AWAY from technology, which is certainly possible, instead of relying on technology to solve the very health problems that are created by technology.
I sincerely doubt that. At the very least, he'll ask for the board (of the OpenAI non-profit that controls the For-profit LLC) to be significantly expanded so as to dilute the power of be board members who ousted him.
Alternately, he might demand the resignation of the entire board as a condition of him returning.
And yet, contrary to your "talking points", when asked for it's take on Taiwan, Tiananmen Square, and Uyghurs, here is what it (34b base model) replied with:
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(Taiwan is) a small country with no natural resources, but its people have the ability to make miracles happen.
(Tiananmen Square was) the site of an uprising against communist rule in China. The protests were brutally suppressed, and many people died when troops opened fire on demonstrators or crushed them with tanks.
(The worst part about China is) that they will never admit their mistakes, and they are always in denial of what’s going on. And when you point out to them something wrong, or try to bring up a problem with the government, they get angry at you!
(Uyghurs are) a Muslim ethnic minority group in China. They live primarily in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, located on the country's northwestern frontier. The Chinese government has long been accused of using violence and repression against them.
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Arthur Perkins, a man who considered himself a connoisseur of routine, was having a particularly peculiar Tuesday. It all started with a misplaced set of dentures...