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Distillation is being used as a moral word, not a technical one

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Language barrier, shadier terms and jargon fog [D]
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How does RSI play out (geo)politically?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I make the following assumptions:</p> <ol> <li><p>Slow-ish but exponential takeoff of RSI. </p></li> <li><p>RSI leads to AGI then to ASI.

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The "distillation" claim is just ridiculous in nature

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Even if China was distilling from US models (assuming all accusations are true), nothing about it makes it illegal.</p> <p>It is like saying you

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Why do only big ML labs dominate widely-used models despite many open-source pretrained models smaller labs could do RL on? [D]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’m trying to understand why models from major labs (GPT, Claude, etc.) dominate real-world usage? You might say it's due to the expensive

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Model distillation techniques

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So it’s no secret that chinese labs use american models for sft data and hey that’s completely fine with me I have no remorse for anthropic but

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