InkCanon

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by InkCanon 2y ago
It's completely speculative for us, but I'd point out only the US has incentive to do that, not Taiwan. The only reason Taiwan would do it is if they adopted a scorched earth policy like Saddam and the burning Kuwaiti oil fields.
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by InkCanon 2y ago
I am reasonably familiar with it, you're missing mentioning why the US defended Taiwan initially. The US stopped any formal defense of Taiwan in 1980, not to the 1990s. During the period it did have a defense treaty it was within the c
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by InkCanon 2y ago
Christ how divorced are these CEOs from reality? People do not want AI generated slop on their feeds.
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by InkCanon 2y ago
The "exhausted low hanging fruit" model IMO has been wrong since the industrial revolution. The fundamental problem is it's based on the heuristic of fixed demand + technology saturating the demand. It's really the oppos
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The present value of your org is your old products, all futures gains are from new products. The tech industry is littered with tombstones of companies that sat coasted on the success of an older product. Conversely there's a fascina
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Maybe I'm a bit too sympathetic to colleges, but it is extraordinarily expensive to hire professors and do research.
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A college is radically different. I have gripes about their designs as institutions but they are, in the end, non profit institutions.
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by InkCanon 2y ago
Definitely miss the old forums, direct messaging groups, IRCs and so on. But I'm really glad with Mastodon. It definitely captures a lot of that community feel.
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Would also like to know this.
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The remaining 60% is trivial and has been left as an exercise to the reader.
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One of the reasons I think LLMs should not be in most parts of education. There is a huge body of research about the importance of deliberate practice. High quality learning needs effort. A lot of these tools perform the ostensible ritual o
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by InkCanon 2y ago
The root of prestige is the Latin word praestigium, which means an illusion or delusion. One of the most poetic pieces of etymology in todays society.
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by InkCanon 2y ago
Are we entering a new Gordon Gecko era? Greed is good!
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You hit the nail on the head. Companies are scrambling for an edge. Not a real edge, an edge to convince investors to keep giving them money. Perplexity is going all in on convincing VCs it can create a "data flywheel".
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by InkCanon 2y ago
I would just switch to Claude of Mistral like I already do. I really feel little difference between them
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They run on the rate of change of chip production. To make up for the loss of China chip production in the US/Europe would have to increase the rate of change ie grow exponentially. Going forward how bad of a move this is for one of Eu
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by InkCanon 2y ago
Musk is the king of misleading claims.
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The grim reality is that many Australians cannot afford a third dimension. When I visited a friend in Australia, he was living in a Flathome™, stacked alongside an infinite number of such homes in between two fence posts. It was extremely a
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by InkCanon 2y ago
I have the same views as you (although admittedly the Kissinger comparison didn't convey that, because we all know how that turned out). It's at best quite premature. At worst, should never have been given in hindsight. Will proba
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by InkCanon 2y ago
Yes, but the good has to be extraordinary. If there's logic to it, in these cases they are predicting the good will come much later. Which is an incredibly difficult prediction to make.
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I think looking back five years from now, this will be viewed as another Kissinger/Obama but wrt STEM. Given far too prematurely under pressure to keep up with the Joneses/chase the hype.
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by InkCanon 2y ago
Next up: The Nobel peace prize is awarded to ChatGPT, because virtually all communiques and peace treaties will be generated by lazy lawyers.
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by InkCanon 2y ago
I'd also blame it on Mitchell Baker. She was a lawyer whose main contribution to Mozilla was writing it's license. After she was laid off from Netscape, she kept falling upwards in Mozilla until she was CEO. And even flush with du
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by InkCanon 2y ago
By certain angles it is even less important than spiritual, community and philosophical purpose. It's not something that you can measure directly but by many possible proxies (Amish levels of depression, the Roseto effect, various stud
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Depends on what you mean by good. In Maslow's pyramid, the lowest levels are being optimised for while the highest are suffering greatly. By what are approximate proxies for high level metrics like self fulfilment and satisfaction, thi
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The main hack these commodification entities makes seems to be to disrupt the traditional flow of information and valuation, then create a new marketplace it controls. For books, I imagine many centuries ago the literary class wrote and rea
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by InkCanon 2y ago
IMO the least known, yet most powerful, driver to understand the world in the next century. The commodification of everything - including deeply personal and abstract things like attention and love - have been commoditised. Not in the abstr
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The US is funding alternatives (Intel and Samsung).
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Would it not make the situation worse? The risk/reward of an intervention massively changes when Taiwan is no longer the only source of chips.
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I wonder how Taiwan feels about this. From their perspective jobs are getting offshored from their country because of massive subsidies, and the strategic shield of having most critical semiconductors coming from them is getting getting thi

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