SilverBirch

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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Firstly, the 97Bn was for the non-profit, not for the company. The company is being valued in funding rounds closer to 300Bn. I think it may be true that OpenAI has no moat, but if it has no moat then all of these AI companies are overvalue
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I think a useful way of thinking about this might be looking back to self driving cars. In the mid-2010s we had a boom in investment in self-driving cars. It happened basically because the technology had mostly got there, people could see
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Have you ever wanted an AI slop plugin for your CRM? This seems really strange because it's obviously a good feature, if leads come in you definitely do want to be able to automatically get information on that prospect. Perhaps a call
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Of course its controversial either way. Let's assume for our purposes that DEI is purely about being race, sex, gender, sexuality, age blind (which we can absolutely argue about separately). It would absolutely be controversial because
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
The truth is it comes down to the exact details of the policy whether it's legal. There's tonnes of things you can do to increase diversity in legal ways. For example, Google recruits at college campuses, they must have selectio
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I think OpenAI is in a really weak position here. There are essentially two positions you can be in: You can be the agile new startup that can break the rules and move fast. That's what OpenAI used to be. Or you can be the big incumben
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I’m not mad about the change because of whose politics it amplifies. Mark Zuckerberg will do absolutely whatever it takes to line his pockets. He doesn’t a moral bone in his body. I just find it funny that he’s even attempting to pretend th
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I imagine they'll be shutting down their advertising systems too, since those are so complex as well.
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I'm not sure some of this is a good idea. It reads a bit like "These LLMs are great! We can get rid of those pesky engineers!". It reminds me of the xkcd[1] about how some problems are trivial and some are almost impossible a
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I think a lot of the analysis of Intel is just looking at a totally broken timeframe. Intel started having problems in early 2010s. It has been sliding since then. To fix it you need to clean house, get aligned on a good chain of management
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I'm not sure how much of an experiment it is. A bloomberg terminal is ~$25k a seat. There are plenty of specialist software tools in the $10kpa region. So going in at $2.5k doesn't seem like a big push.
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
That's what I'm saying, if you wanted to preserve it, preserve it where it is. If you're preserving it by moving it to east london... you're not really preserving it. There are plenty of distribution centres in east lond
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Honestly, come around to our neck of the woods and explain to a generation of 20 year olds who grew up in semi-detatched houses that they'll never buy a house in their lifetime because we chose not to build anything because we'd r
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
This isn't the type of market you pop down to and buy your weekly shop, this is wholesale. It's largely where restaurants will go to to buy their meat for the day/week. Smithfields opens at midnight and closes at 7am. You c
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I walk past/through Smithfields regularly. It's... nice? Ok it's not nice, it' uniquely London but it's just a pretty run down area in the middle of much nicer areas. But the plan was never to keep it, the plan was
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Or, as is the case in most cities around the world busses, trains and cycle routes are faster modes of transport because they have dedicated routes that aren't subject to congestion in the same way roads are. Walking 5 minutes to the b
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Whilst this is objectively true - this result is basically within the margin of error of most polls. I highly doubt this argument is going to be accepted by most people. It'll be exactly like Nate Silver screaming into the void for the
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
That won't be the user experience. There is a limited amount of space on the road and functionally unlimited demand. Demand will level off at a point where either "Immediately a car arrives" turns to "After a barely tole
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I’d still like a decent first fpga. Guys? I’m still here guys! Please make me some FPGAs!
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
This is a weird one. Does the $5m theoretical pay cut (a $30m real terms pay bump actually) reflect his personal commitment to security? Or does it reflect his massive massive personal wealth that means he can shrug off a $5m dent in his co
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
This may be a dumb question: What is a battery module? Is it a single cell of which hundreds get combined for a single car battery, or is it a group of cells of which less than a dozen get put together for a car battery? Or is it 1 module p
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
There's points of principle and points of practicality. First - all men are created equal. Fundamentally, our political system should be designed around equality of all - otherwise why would the people who are less equal feel the need
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I think you're being a bit naive. The test was designed to disenfranchise people, it was literally designed by people who didn't want black people to vote. You can't say "Well I guess it could've been less ambiguous
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
The problem is the incentive structure. We know the drugs work, we know they have serious medical side effects. So the only question you'll be answering is "Which of these athletes is willing to trade off the most dire long term h
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I did engineering at a university, one of the courses that was mandatory was technical communication. The prof understood that the type of person that went into engineering was not necessarily going to appreciate the subtleties of great lit
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Turns out we spent way too long thinking about how machines could beat the Turing test, and not long enough thinking about how we could built better Turing tests.
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
We had this at my company (finance) during covid they had a generous Uber eats offer for food after work hours. Some employees (particularly new grads) realised they could pick the food up as they left or collect the food at the door as the
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
Does it make sense? Is there any other area where the simple amount of energy used indicates a problem's solution? How long before my Kettle is self-driving, that's got 3kW it should be winning the Formula 1 by now.
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
This is such a weird thing to be upset about. Musk announced this hardware was ready for full self driving in 2016. So anyone who bought this now has an 8 year old car that still doesn't self-drive. The author is all upset that this 8
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by SilverBirch 2y ago
I think that ship has sailed when the "smart" phone category was created.

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