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Hi,

so i am not entirely sure what you mean with "trying to be an intellectual", to me it sounds like a personal attack tbh and a quite cynic one.

I wanted to preventively write about all the concepts i have looked at because i wanted to prevent that people get hung up on the form and stop discussing about the content the the core message of my post.

As i wrote i don't see that "150 years of Peirce" have produced a model that is similar to what i am trying to say here.

You apparently take a offence in whatever you are offended and i want to give you a chance to speak with me directly about whatever you seem to think i have missed under the precondition that you try to actually engage with my text and don't hand wave it in a cynical fashion like you did until now.

I have looked, as i wrote, at Peirce and although he describes theories that are similar to the end effects of the DDS with AI-skew, it still is something completely different.

Besides that i am saddened that you seem to put form over content and that you did not really engage with the blog post itself.


As others have intimated: the post's theorizing seems pretentious and distracts from a maybe unoriginal message.

It's a problem of form and substance. The words feel like academic cosplay, dressing up loose thinking to inflate weak insights.


Thank you very much for this comment! I was not aware of that.

Just watched the end scenes and this more like an execution in a heroic light.

I have not seen something like this in this significants, vibe and presumed statement in western media. There are a many examples of uncelebrated murderes of “the bad guy” which the hero does not want or does “against their will” but I have seen no western examples of this kind of celebration of killing the bad guy.


I think that >in the future< this will be a non problem as there is reality itself that is a much better validator for behavior then human text.

We already see this with synthetic training data that basically uses logic in form of math and code as constraint.


Will AI test recipes and try to find the cafe with the nicest vibe? Will it do original research about things that have never been written down yet?

I've heard this argument before, but you don't need to think too hard to see the limitations of a machine with no senses.


I love my sauerkraut! Self made is also so so much better then industrial sauerkraut


One album is the price of an entire month of streaming.


But that album then costs you $0 per month, forever.


But I listen to a hundred albums a year and I'm only going to live another ~400 months.


The road to death with any OSS project is scope creep.

I appreciate your comment though! Thanks :)


I will update it later down the line as YT changes its layout and for bug fixes... but i think this was not what your question.

I don't think that something super bad can happen with these uBlock filter, they will sanitize the filter heavily.

Maybe a potential attack vector for these lists in general is to hide the body of a few sites but this is more annoying then dangerous AFAIK.


Mhhh although this is a bit OT it is also very interesting:

Germany has unions and works council. It is required by law that companies allow works council to exist and if they exist they get certain rights.

> In Germany, they serve two functions. The first is called co-determination, through which works councils elect members of the board of directors of German companies. The second is called participation, and means that works councils must be consulted about specific issues and have the right to make proposals to management. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council#Germany )

Also Germany has good amounts of regulations for certain issues (sometimes too much regulation but oh well).

And Germany has many options to participate in local and regional politics that prevent the worst offenders.

But in the end a company is still a company that is forced to act in a way that maximizes it's profits. I think from my perspective we do not have such wild predator companies like you see them in the US but there are certainly a few very dubious things going on.

Except maybe the gGmbH and Vereine (clubs) which are companies and semi company structures that must act for the common good and without profit interest.

And one funny thing is that in Germany stock companies are required to act to the "best interests of the company" and not the "best interests of the stock holder" - in German law the company includes the worker, the future of the company and social aspects.


I think it is because of the Chinese new year. The Chinese labs like to publish their models arround the Chinese new year, and the US labs do not want to let a DeepSeek R1 (20 January 2025) impact event happen again, so i guess they publish models that are more capable then what they imagine Chinese labs are yet capable of producing.


Singularity or just Chinese New Year?


The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, during Chinese New Year


I guess. Deepseek v3 was released on boxing day a month prior

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1226


And made almost zero impact, it was just a bigger version of Deepseek V2 and when mostly unnoticed because its performances weren't particularly notable especially for its size.

It was R1 with its RL-training that made the news and crashed the srock market.


Aren't we saying "lunar new year" now?


I don't think so; there are different lunar calendars.


In fact, many Asian countries use lunisolar calendars, which basically follow the moon for the months but add an extra month every few years so the seasons don't drift.

As these calendars also rely on time zones for date calculation, there are rare occasions where the New Year start date differs by an entire month between 2 countries.


If that's a sole problem, it should be called "Chinese-Japanese-Korean-whateverelse new year" instead. Maybe "East Asian new year" for short. (Not that there are absolutely no discrepancies within them, but they are so similar enough that new year's day almost always coincide.)


It's not Japanese either.

This non-problem sounds like it's on the same scale as "The British Isles", a term which is mildly annoying to Irish people but in common use everywhere else.


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For another example, Singapore, one of the "many Asian countries" you mentioned, list "Chinese New Year" as the official name on government websites. [0] Also note that both California and New York is not located in Asia.

And don't get me started with "Lunar New Year? What Lunar New Year? Islamic Lunar New Year? Jewish Lunar New Year? CHINESE Lunar New Year?".

[0] https://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/public-holidays


“Lunar New Year” is vague when referring to the holiday as observed by Chinese labs in China. Chinese people don’t call it Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year anyways. They call it Spring Festival (春节).

As it turns out, people in China don’t name their holidays based off of what the laws of New York or California say.


Please don't because "Lunar New Year" is ambiguous. Many other Asian cultures also have traditional lunar calendars but a different new years day. It's a bit presumptuous to claim that this is the sole "Lunar New Year" celebration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_New_Year%27s_days#Calen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_New_Year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz


I didn't expect language policing has reached such level. This is specifically related to China and DeepSeek who celebrates Chinese new year. Do you demand all Chinese to say happy luner new year to each other?


"Happy Holidays" comes to the diaspora


Happy Lunar Holidays to you!


"Lunar New Year" is perhaps over-general, since there are non-Asian lunar calendars, such as the Hebrew and Islamic calendars.

That said, "Lunar New Year" is probably as good a compromise as any, since we have other names for the Hebrew and Islamic New Years.


There's more than one Asian lunar calendar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996396.

The Islamic calendar originated in Arabia. Calling it an Asian lunar calendar wouldn't be inaccurate.


This all seems like a plot to get everyone worshipping the Roman goddess Luna.


But they're Chinese companies specifically, in this case


Where do all of those Asian countries have that tradition from?

Have you ever had a Polish Sausage? Did it make you Polish?


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