Den_VR

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by Den_VR 11mo ago
If the applied science catches on, then children in 2525 will look back and ask why we refused to cure ourselves of so much suffering. The winner is King and the loser is the bandit, or as we say in the west: history is written by the victo
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by Den_VR 11mo ago
It matters quite a lot, it’s the biblical difference between killing and murder.
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by Den_VR 11mo ago
> But gambling is not high risk strategy to become rich. It is basically certainity to loose money strategy. But these commercials and ads filled with gold, pictures of cash, crowns, and explosions beg to differ! And think how sweet it w
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by Den_VR 11mo ago
Does it disproportionately impact men because: - men are still expected to be financial “winners” in relationships - men adopt high risk strategies to accomplish such status - sports are essential to identity and social activity in 2025
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by Den_VR 11mo ago
I don’t know this is new. May as well say sports have ruined a generation of men, for at least three generations. But my comment was admittedly more so addressed at the gender issue.
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by Den_VR 11mo ago
A generation of men?
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by Den_VR 11mo ago
I presume you’ve done therapy. You may remember the large difference in quality between individual therapists, multi-month long waiting lists, a tendency for the best professionals to not even accept insurance, and one or two along the way
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by Den_VR 1y ago
The old term for it was to become a “gentleman farmer.” There’s a history to it - George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were the same for a part of their lives.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Alignment Researcher: Thermite is the safest way to be sure.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
You think so? Owner financed car loans and repossessions are incredibly profitable, typically the value of the car 3-4 times over. Or so I’ve been told by someone in that business.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Part of the problem is the “physics” of prompting changes with the models. At the prompt level, is it Even Possible to engineer when the laws of the universe aren’t even stable. Engineering of the model architecture, sure. You can mathemati
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by Den_VR 1y ago
If we wanted defined behavior we’d build systems with Karnaugh maps all the way down.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
There’s always been something disturbing about public internet advertisements of military equipment. I suppose it’s dual use, but it seems like baiting a malicious actor to play with it in detail.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
But it would not have been $25k, it would have been 1-2 million for an “enterprise grade” storage solution from Dell or a competitor. Which isn’t much compared with your granite mountain proposal, nor with the wages of 750,000 civil servant
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by Den_VR 1y ago
On the Microsoft side CVE-2025–55241 is still pretty recent. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282497
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by Den_VR 1y ago
… so mathematically how do you get from [1,1,1,1] to [613, 12, 7, 40]?
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Microsoft lacks the credibility and track record for this to be anything but talk. Hardware doesn’t simply go from zero to gigawatts of infrastructure on talk. Even Apple is better positioned for such a thing.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
CVE-2025–55241, Azure EntraID had a problem that could have allowed attackers to impersonate any user, including Global Administrators, across any tenant. Its fixed now.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Maybe we should get upset about people using cameras to take pictures of art on the same principles. And what about that Andy Warhol guy, what a pretender! … so I hope you can see why I don’t actually agree with your comment about who’s all
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Intellectual property theft? If gp’s referring to the Books3 shadow library not having been legally bought, it’s not realistically more than 197k books worth less than $10MM. And let’s not forget Intellectual property rights only exist “ To
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by Den_VR 1y ago
I’ll admit to missing PlayStation Home. In some ways it was ahead of it’s time. And looking at what’s available now, I’d argue it seems it still is.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
> For OpenAI to actually receive its $100 billion in funding from NVIDIA will require them to spend roughly $325 billion — consisting of $125 billion in data center infrastructure costs and $200 billion in GPUs. Sounds about right to me.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Don’t forget that the real utility of these H1B is for citizens of countries that exceed their EB quotas, which are primarily India and China just on the basis of their demographics. Without more serious reform of the immigration system I s
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Mentioning that might have just been Guardrails…
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by Den_VR 1y ago
There’s about $7.3 Trillion dollars sitting in money market funds right now. How’s that work?
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by Den_VR 1y ago
You’re absolutely right! It only depends how disingenuous industry is when they say they need the smartest people. For the smartest people, a mere $100,000 is barely signing bonus territory. Meanwhile, despite O-visas being uncapped there’s
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by Den_VR 1y ago
16.4 billion google searches per day vs 2.6 billion consumer chatgpt prompts and another 2.6 billion claude prompts. Maybe it’s apples and oranges but google has been a verb for nearly twenty years (oxford added it as a verb for web search
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by Den_VR 1y ago
If the free market is any indication, because it’s more effective than what passes for a search engine these days.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Perhaps asking the machine to do your job for you isn’t as effective asking the machine to help you think like a senior and find the information you need to do the job yourself.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Account managers and sales engineers are the ones I’ve seen laid off. They seem to have kept the licensing specialists they need on calls because nobody understands the convoluted mess they’ve created. So, losing the people we were working

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