No matter how you sync, a Keepass file is a file. I can't be logged out. It will still be on my phone if my house burns down. Every device it's synced to is an additional backup copy.
The Bitwarden client will sometimes log you out if something happens on the server side, which has the potential to make worst case recovery from annoying to impossible. The circular dependency of having my cloud backup password in the vault made me nervous.
Yes, you can back your vault up, but it's a manual step and likely to be forgotten.
> I assume we agree that working less produces less
That’s a pretty big assumption. From what perspective, since the “working less” is only the perspective of the worker?
Production is not a zero-sum game that assumes companies make zero effort to invest in more manpower rather than profits.
Profit rates, however, are a significant part of the problem as each US company in the chain attempts to maximize profits they obtain from the next and avoid any competition (often using the legal system for protection). That doesn’t occur in the areas you mention because competition is the name of the game in those countries, which is why they have maximized production and flexibility.
Yeah, I too am unsure why anyone would think comparing a 30 year old fridge in the worst condition for testing is somehow a useful comparison in any meaningful way.
Is it really normal to want an off the line 2025 Tesla and a 1985 Lincoln Towncar with 376k miles on its second motor with a missing cat that was stolen last month for a quarter mile comparison?
Considering the US has far fewer people far more spread out, with two major sets of mountain ranges just in the continental US probably not. It might be possible to have high speed rail on either coast with a single rail line following along a route near I-10 east=west. Even then it's a lot of nature to overcome.
IMO, it’s just a small scale example of “training to the tests” because “count the ‘r’s in strawberry” became such a popular test that would make the news when a powerful model couldn’t answer such a simple question correctly while being advertised as the smartest model ever.
Assigning this as an indicator for improvement of intelligence seems like a mistake (or wishful).
If done at scale, they are kinda crowd sourcing the test set from the entire internet, personal and business world. It will be harder and harder at least to pinpoint weaknesses, at least for the general public. It probably has little to do with intelligence (at least fluid intelligence as defined by Chollet et al) - but I guess it is sound tactic if the strategy is "fake it till you make it". And we might be surprised as to how far along that can go...
Sure, if you want to ignore the half of the equation of tribalism that you’re exhibiting. Labeling things as NOT one side is ALSO tribalism… like repeatedly trying to point out someone is a “leftist” because they share some ideologies with the left. You are just as much the problem you are attempting to point the finger with.
Not at all. The context of the thread was the twitter page where tons of people/bots were inaccurately labeling the guy as MAGA. Correcting that is not tribalism because it is truthful. That you see it as tribalism is projection.
I have no idea. I wasn’t involved in their decision process. But it seems easy for some people to forget that the Nobel is awarded by a completely private foundation whose sole purpose is to pursue one man’s vision for a better world. Pretty sure neither of our opinions matter on this, but certainly not your disagreement with their execution of their own responsibilities.
Of course my opinions matter, because I hold it. I don’t particularly care about your
view on your opinion mattering, maybe you can have a heart to heart with someone about that.
The Nobel committee is supposed to follow certain guidelines that were set up by Alfred Nobel, and ideally their decisions should make sense because it’s a prestigious prize. The committee consists of regular people who absolutely can be criticized for their stupid decisions, whether their stupid decisions match Nobel’s vision, how their stupid decisions affect the wider world because of the prestige of the prize, or whatever else I or anyone else feel like.
I disagree with the characterization as “absurd” to equate AI to an instrument. As you just said, it is a powerful tool. I would equate basic Suno prompting to a beginner on an instrument, as instruments are tools like anything else. Just because you get music out, it doesn’t mean it is actually “good” any more than if I smash random keys on a piano.
Controlling that flow of generation, re-prompting, adjusting, splicing, etc. to create a unique song that expresses your intention is significantly more work and requires significantly more creativity. The more you understand this “instrument”, the more accurate and efficient you become.
What you’re comparatively suggesting is that if a producer were to grab samples off Splice, slice them and dice them to rearrange them and make a unique song, that they didn’t “actually” make music. That seems like it would be a more absurd position than suggesting AI could be viewed as an instrument.
Tools like Suno make people feel like “their own music” is good and they have accomplished something because they elevate the floor of being bad at a tool (like all technological improvements do). They feel like they have been able to express their creativity and are proud, like a kid showing off a doodle. They share it with their friends, who will listen to it exactly one time in most cases and likely tell them it is “really good” and they “really like it” before never listening again.
That type of AI use is akin to a coloring book, but certainly doesn’t make for “good” music. When a kid shows off their badly colored efforts proudly, should we yell at them they aren’t doing “real art”, that their effort was meaningless, and that they should stop acting proud of such crap until they go to art school and do it “properly”?
I can fire up a Java program in a separate process. But it is slow and passing data backwards and forwards is clunky. Much better to be able to do it all in one process.
