Should you update your older posts?
Thinking about how to navigate retroactive edits when I’m not running a news site, but a corpus of philosophy.
France pointless protests – an ask for a comfier prison
French protests run on real energy and real demands this time, but there is no government left that answers them – so the prisoners only rattle the bars for better conditions, and every benefit won pays for the next crackdown.
Windfall tax: doing that wrong way
A windfall tax aimed straight at the treasury punishes nobody and fixes nothing, because the failure was in the market – the money would do more sent back into the market, or just stored in a fund.
Margins tell everything
Margins are the clearest confession of what a company wants, and Nvidia could cut them and still profit – so nothing but the choice itself stops the market from flooding with builders.
Kashpirovsky and gullible Europeans
Millions tuned in to charge their water bottles and get healed through the TV, and that same reflex – trust the state, then trust whoever replaces it – now sits in a European living room.
Open labs need a contributor endpoint
Meta now sells a “contributor” endpoint – roughly 5% of the normal API price in exchange for storing, sharing, and training on your prompts. That’s the great move, and every open-weight lab should copy it: a honest direct endpoint specifically to get datasets in exchange for discount.
Stop downloading the same model twice. Do this instead
Every small model tweak ships as another full copy of the weights, so you store and download terabytes twice for a few changed vectors. Ship the original plus the change instead – binary diff today, LoRA file tomorrow, per-request patch in the dream.
Luddite mathematicians
Mathematicians act like luddites because their vanity and pride got hurt, while many ignore the real problem – that science gets privatized – and they refuse to change and accept the new era.
Musk can save the world
Musk can provide entire world with free uncensored internet now or in future, if there would be willingness to make the world a better place. Tech potentially already ready, question is on ideals.
For whom the bell tolls: the copycrab music industry
Shows how record labels killed and absorbed the first generation of music-generation services, then argues for models that never train on copyrighted works – reference albums supplied at inference time, open training data, and judge models built from slop and human ratings instead.