HDThoreaun

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by HDThoreaun 2mo ago
It makes strategic sense for Meta to want ai in general to be open. Their own product strategy focuses on utilizing the ai to make their customers consume more ads, not selling the raw intelligence. When you look at it from that frame it’s
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by HDThoreaun 2mo ago
Sausages are typically pork in the us. Hot dogs are often beef though
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
> If it is 15 minutes to drive to work and 25 minutes by bus that is good enough. I really think this is completely wrong. You will convince approximately 0 people in Dallas to use a bus if this is what you are offering them.
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
I really think the issue here is just that you are blinded by your own preferences. Buses will never be faster than cars in Dallas. Literally impossible. So if they’re not faster, and they’re not more convenient, what are the upsides? Well
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Because 99% of Americans use cars. There’s no point spending money on something that only 15% of the population will even consider using, you’ll still have to spend just as much on roads.
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
People who live on Dallas clearly do not want this. Telling them their lifestyle is wrong and if they just open their eyes they will see the folly of their ways accomplishes nothing. If you work with their actual preferences instead of fois
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
No there really is not. The problem is that static routes in low density areas do not work. The reason the transit system has a policy about poor areas is because they know people with cars will never take the bus unless the government make
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
You also need to remember that a huge portion of the 1.65 trillion isn’t actually debt, but leases the hyperscalers have committed too. This is important because there’s no interest to be paid on leases. A ton of the money is multi billion
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
OpenAI needs mass consumer buy in because a large part of their strategy is ad supported consumer use. Bad pr pushes those users away. A lot of people have teenage Reddit user mindset
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Training text is filled with people taking drastic measures right after text similar in tone to the prompt. It doesnt need to be human to come to the conclusion that drastic measures are necessary, it just needs to learn that the tone of th
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
API will never be cheaper than subs because theres a ton of value created for companies by locking people into subscriptions that tend to be sticky.
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
For what its worth the frontier lab models can surely be a lot faster if they wanted them to be but theyre supply constrained so theyre doing stuff like multi tenancy. Since you cant self host them no one outside the labs really knows speed
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
if only farolito was good
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Half of the people in the world use facebook/ig every month and revealed preferences show they have no interest in banning ads
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Well theyre locking in the price now. They go to developers and offer to sign exclusive leases on a datacenter they designed that isnt built yet. This strategy offloads risk to the developer because theyre the ones who need to ensure the dc
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Theyre gonna pay for it over the course of a decade. Meta revenue is still increasing 10% every year, a $50 billion lease payment on datacenters that are only worth $10 billion is annoying but they can handle it. Also this isnt actually deb
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
The structures theyre using reduce risk. The 2 big moves here are 1. agreeing to lease a datacenter from developer instead of building it yourself and 2. using subsidiaries to finance and own the datacenters. Both these moves exist so that
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Whether the datacenters will end up profitable is a different question than whether they are a real risk for the business. This whole thing could be a massive mistake and all the big tech companies will come out the other end just fine. I t
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Meta makes $60 billion profit a year and is still crazy bloated. $420 billion in debt legitimately is not an issue for them. The only companies with actual problems are oracle and spacex
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Because this isnt actaully debt. Almost all of it is agreements to pay for completed datacenters from developers. Its just a way to offload operational risk when constructing datacenters. If the construction somehow fails theyre not stuck w
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
This "debt" is almost solely rental style deals with datacenter constructors. If you make 200k and have a 400k mortgage youre doing just fine.
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Why does that matter?
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
> So, continuing to profit--forever--from someone's else work, at scale, without their prior consent, is fair use? Yes, that is the entire history of humanity. People steal the last generations works and build something from it to m
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Associates are billing over $1000/hr and can bill 12 hours a day easily enough. If you have 5 associates billing an average of 50 hours a week then in a month thats a million dollar bill just for the junior lawyers.
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
US was prosperous post war because the industrial capacity of the rest of the world was destroyed. Comparing that time period to any other doesnt make sense. We can only employ natives if we want, we just have to accept that prices of thing
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Immigration is keeping wages down for jobs natives dont want. I dont see the issue. > Wouldn't business owners pay more for labor if there wasn't a stead supply of under the table illegal immigrants doing it for less? Maybe, or
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Ok? If you want natives to take these jobs construction prices will go up. So we need immigrants to affordably build things. If all construction workers are native going forward the vast majority of people will never be able to afford a hom
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
Im in favor of benevolent dictatorship. The big problem is ensuring the benevolence
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
95% of rationalists always thought roko's basilisk was a joke
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by HDThoreaun 3mo ago
We need immigration because there’s a construction worker shortage. No immigrants = even more expensive to build new homes

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