llama-2-70b-chat (courtesy of llama.cpp on m2) says:
Pretend to be a commenter on hackernews. Respond to the comment below:
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what is your response?
"Wow, that's great to hear! It sounds like you had a really positive experience with the 34B last night. I'm also excited to see what's in store for Phind and its potential applications. Have you tried using the 34B for any specific tasks or projects yet? And do you think the text completion feature would be useful for your use case if it were improved further?"
Doesn’t this just reflect that humans are generally just large language models? Maybe throw in an extra dimension of “emotions” that are useful for training?
These llms are weak facsimiles of the brain, not humans. The real world is the ultimate training model, it can't be fully substituted with a bunch of strings.
This sounds like the old question "if a blind-from-birth man (who can recognize squares by feel) gained sight would he be able to recognize squares visually?"
And since that question has been answered in the negative, I'm inclined to agree.
The suckers aren’t just investors, but also employees who work at companies that hinted/promised liquidity via one of these transactions. I didn’t work at a company that failed to ipo via spac, but I almost did and although every technical interviewer felt earnest, something felt off about their lack of detail around business and the equity part of the comp.
Too much of it felt like hot air and I went elsewhere. This was two years ago, and indeed some BS press release from a year ago says their “deal” fell apart. Seemingly reputable investors too, wtf.
Some people say that the common folk now have cheap mass produced gadgets that were previously only available to the wealthy, and some rant about the enshitification (great term whose origin I need to learn more about of) of our society.
I nod along to this piece and yet I don’t want to be so cynical.
the term is coined by Cory Doctorow, pointing out that big ecommerce middlemen, usually platforms have outsized pricing power (because they are in their quasi-oligopoly due to network effects). and as a consequence of the relative business
success of these platfors nowadays "almost everyone" tries to become one, transform their business into something that might become one, try to replicate the shitty business methods
Say you make $1 of profit, does that translate into $1 your company can control for its benefit? If kept as profit part of that dollar flows out of the company, to other companies and possibly to the government as taxes (god forbid).
If the company reinvests then it fully benefits from its would be $1 as opposed to someone spending it elsewhere.
IMO Accounting is the only reason many companies don’t turn an external “profit”
You can roll losses forward for 3 years I think. So they could not pay any taxes for the next 3 years depending on how much they make in profit. It is why Amazon wasn’t paying any taxes for a few years after they decided to start taking profits.
It's not Pfizer's job to safeguard US interests, it's the US Government's. If the US Government wants to ensure reliable supply of medication they need to develop a policy and administrative framework to make that happen.
Well, we can't seem to have it both ways: either the government is allowed to develop and enforce regulations with teeth that protect the general public, or cimpanies are given a free hand to do the right thing and proudly serve the general public responsibly and fairly with the privileges they are given.
Yes, the government should do that. If you get a drug patent and failure to ensure supply causes the patent to be terminated I would bet the behaviors would change quite a bit.
In this case, providing an environmentally safe region for storing critical medications, along with a reasonable amount of security would be an excellent solution. There's ample amounts of both federal lands and national guardspeople who could take that on.
Are there any chemical precursors these drugs all have in common that could have been exhausted by something else that is more important to manufacture?
Alternatively is supply being commandeered somehow?
So much weird stuff is happening with supply chains that it feels like the US is purposefully being squeezed.
Well can we quantify how conditions are faring in other countries across a host of industries? I've been hearing energy and food prices are through the roof in the UK much worse than the US. Not sure how true it is today but we would need some one to one comparison to see if the US is specifically being squeezed. Its not out of the realm: Biden has pissed off a lot of people from the Saudis, to the Chinese.
I’ve sometimes had to go to multiple pharmacies over the last few years to fill various “common” prescriptions in Germany, and even once accepted a different drug at a pharmacist’s suggestion - German pharmacists have a lot of discretion.
When I was looking for an apartment to rent in Palo Alto I found a great deal on rent because I visited a place listed on Craigslist that had awful photos.
It turns out the owner was just an older man who wasn’t good with tech, the place was pretty great in person and I ended up living there for a couple of years.
Normal untouched photos are more honest. I also dislike when photos make it ambiguous which unit in a duplex is for sale, or don’t make clear/hide that it’s only part of a lot or something like that.
