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Do you not use restrict in your normal everyday C code that you write? I use it in my normal C code.

I used to use it, but very rarely, since it's instant UB if you get it wrong. In tiny codebases which you can hold in your head it's probably practical to sprinkle it everywhere, but in anything bigger it's quite risky.

Nevertheless, I don't write normal everyday C code anymore since Rust has pretty much made it completely obsolete for the type of software I write.


restrict works by making some situations undefined behavior that would otherwise be defined without it. It is probably unwise to use casually or habitually.


> in the end we want what is called “computer use” from AI

Who is "we" here? I do not want that at all.


I think what parent-poster means is humans dream of something at least like, say, ship's computer from Star Trek, which accepts some degree of fuzzy input for known categories of tasks and asks clarifying questions when needed.

Albeit with fewer features involving auto-destruct sequences... Or rogue holodeck characters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fO_pPB8-S4&t=4m42s


Some of those things are not like the others. TrustZone is not a dedicated core. It is a mode of the CPU, akin to x86's SMM

Latest Safari on latest unmodified macOS on an M4 laptop -- same

"compressed size" does not seem to include the size of the model and the code to run it. According to the rules of Large Text Compression Benchmark, total size of those must be counted, otherwise a 0-byte "compressed" file with a decompressor containing the plaintext would win.

Technically correct, but a better benchmark would be a known compressor with an unknown set of inputs (that come from a real-world population, e.g. coherent English text).

Yes, definitely. Alas, it's just harder to run these kinds of challenges completely fairly and self-administered, than the ones where you have a fixed texts as the challenge and add the binary size of the decompressor.

Yeah, but the xz algorithm is also not counted in the bytes... Here the "program" is the LLM, much like your brain remembers things by coding them compressed and then reconstructs them. It is a different type of compression: compression by "understanding", which requires the whole corpus of possible inputs in some representation. The comparison is not fair to classical algorithms yet that's how you can compress a lot more (given a particular language): by having a model of it.

“Compressors are ranked by the compressed size of enwik9 (10^9 bytes) plus the size of a zip archive containing the decompresser.” [0]

[0] https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html


True for competitions, but if your compression algorithm is general purpose then this matters less (within reason - no one wants to lug around a 1TB compression program).

Same reason that apple did not ban Facebook despite repeated workarounds of user privacy measures. Too-big-to-fail.

Likely so.

But then again, Apple banned Verizon’s app (Tumblr) in 2018 when CSAM was discovered on the platform and not removed fast enough.


Tumblr was never as big as FB or Twitter are

The difference is less pronounced than you think.

In 2018 Tumblr had more users (over 60M monthly) than Grok today (30M monthly). And Verizon, the owner, is/was larger than Grok’s owner: xAI.


Ohhhhh ok if you're big you can do whatever and morals don't apply. I get it now!

Unironically, this is exactly the state of the world in 2026

"If you've enough users that banning you would affect our bottom like negatively..."

i am doing MIPS first (for V-tech Helio), but i will eventually

Awesome. I was looking at SASD for my Palm VII just yesterday. :)

> not to mention we're seeing silicon from intel and amd that can compete with the M series on mobile devices.

[[citation needed]], benchmarks please, incl battery life, not promises. "We are seeing" implies reality


I will defend absolute freedom of all speech by Musk and against Musk. By Adobe and against Adobe. My Microsoft and against Microsoft. By you and against you. By me and against me. Unlike many who merely theorize about this from their armchairs, I've lived in a place without free speech and I know what that leads to, how fast, and how hard it is to get out of that hole. There is no such thing as "let's just have a little less freedom of speech". It either exists or very quickly it does not.

You should be explicit here;

Should it be legal to (1) create and (2) distribute an AI generated sexual image of a (1) 18 year old, (2) 12 year old? (In both cases without their consent.)

What about a real photograph?


Sexual abuse (of adults and of children) is abhorrent, illegal, and should remain so. A number cannot be illegal.

> A number cannot be illegal.

Why equivocate? Go ahead and own it, tell us what you think about AI-generated CSAM using plain language.

gp had helpfully numbered questions that you could have said yes/no to.


Unbelievable. Caping pedophelia on main - no throw-away. Is this were society is now?

Unbelievable. People pretending not to understand something stated very clearly just to insult someone they don’t even know. Is this where society is now?

>>> If it were Adobe's or Microsoft's products generating CSAM, you wouldn't hear a peep out of them

>> I will defend absolute freedom of all speech by Musk [...] By Adobe [...] [B]y Microsoft

Your support of the "absolute freedom" of "all speech" is very clear. If you somehow didn't mean the words you chose, then the lack of clarity is on you, and needs no pretense on my part.


About as unbelievable as electing one president.

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