It's a good thing in many cases but not if you're going to be running applications distributed as binaries. Maybe if we go the Gentoo route of everybody always recompiling everything for their own system?
RVA23 is, finally, the belated admission that maybe we shouldn't have everything as optional extras. Hopefully it'll take off, I can't imagine what sort of a headache it is for maintainers of repos who have to track a dozen different variants of binaries depending on which flavour of RISC-V the apt-get is coming from.
"Making everything optional" is for the embedded space.
As for general purpose processors, RISC-V has always had the idea of profiles (mandatory set of extensions). Just look at the G extension, which mandated floating point, multiply/division, atomics, ... things that you expect to see on user-facing general-purpose processors.
> the belated admission that maybe we shouldn't have everything as optional extras
That's why I disagree with the above claim.
(1) The optionality is a feature of RISC-V and it allows RISC-V to shine on different ecosystems. The desktop isn't everything.
(2) RISC-V has always addressed the fear of fragmentation on the desktop by using profiles.
RVA23 (and RVA20 before it) aren't an admission that Risc-V got it wrong. It's a necessary step to make Risc-V competetive in the desktop space as opposed to micro-controllers where the flexibility is hugely valuable.
It's hard to imagine a student putting together a RVA23 core in a single semester. And you don't really want that in the embedded roles RISC-V has found a lot of success in either.
I think you have a different understanding of what exactly a brand is than do most people. Every profession has the right to develop its own jargon that subtly redefines common words in its own way so I'm not going to say that you're wrong about what "brand" means in any absolute way, just that you're wrong to say that pg is wrong.
Fair enough - although I'd add in my defense that my take wasn't "Paul Graham is wrong", in fact I really liked the essay and agreed with a lot of it. It was more that I think there's a lot more going on with brands than the essay makes out (although you might disagree with this take too)
Is this the first time internal communications like this have leaked from Anthropic? It'll be unfortunate if Anthropic can't have honest conversations internally going forward for fear of leaks.
That means they're not conscious in the Global Workspace[1] sense but I think it would be going too far to say that that means they're not intelligent.
That might be true for the desktop, but RISC-V is wonderful from a pedagogical and research standpoint for academic uses and in the embedded world its license and "only pay for what you need" is also quite nice.
How confident are we, with OpenAI's recent very large contribution to Trump's PAC, that OpenAI wasn't working to get Anthropic designated a supply chain risk behind the scenes? I don't want to be too paranoid here but given Sam's reputation and cui bono I don't think we can really rule this out either.
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