Comment by bayindirh
1 month ago
In short: "We don't propose a ban to open-weight models. we want to stop these models being developed altogether. If there are no models, there'll be nothing to ban".
Oh also: "They ste^H^H^H distill what we have sto^H^H^H used fairly from the world. This is unfair".
Lastly: "What if they use their models in their military and local police services like we do? Communism!"
As always: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_AiI9_XIAA67_t.jpg?name=orig
A bit of good old “it’s really good idea, I love it, great effort … BUT”
Mixed with “if kids can’t get semi dangerous drugs from the back of my van then they will be forced to buy from even shadier, more dangerous dark web van”
A bit off-topic: I occasionally see that triple ^H on HN posts: what does that actually indicate?
A caret with a character subtracts 0x40 from its hex value allowing you to insert non-printable characters. Uppercase H is 0x48. That gives us hex 0x08 which is a backspace.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USASCII_code_chart.s...
Ctrl-H is the rubout/backspace command on old terminals. So if I say it's nuts^H^H^H^Hunwise to ignore UNIX history, I've erased the first word and replaced it with the second.
In the old hardware terminals, and current terminal emulators, ^H (or CTRL+h) is "Backspace signal". It has the effect of pressing backspace.
So, ^H^H^H means "delete three characters, excluding '^H's". Like the person typing the comment changes their mind and deletes the characters (or the word) before writing else.
It's an stylized way of euphemism. i.e.: Actually I want to say this, but I substitute it for that.
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