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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Maybe they should consider voting.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The most fascinating thing about this is how oil futures markets were able to capture this while the media was endlessly blasting stories about oil shortages. Anyone paying attention to oil prices since the start of the war has been confuse
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Can you explain how the people do? What you said sounds nice, but is it actually the case? Because as far as I can tell, we're all out here being willfully delegated work by corporations rather than taking the risk of doing it ourselve
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Corporations are the ones who make money for the government. The people elect the leaders, and the corporations bankroll the operations. Every time a new hot startup comes about, the government anticipates an army of highly paid (read: top
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
AI writes code like that, but people get pretty upset hearing it. The program that I use to manage my small business, basically a GUI wrapper on an sql DB is a total delight to use, because everything happens instantly . Even opening it is
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Just the absolute laziest implementation
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
This[1][2] Ed Zitron, or another one? Because I don't know how you can be so totally and completely wrong for so many years, and still have people lend you credibility. But I definitely do understand how you can rage farm subscription
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
People will pay out of their pockets if an AI can free up a few of their hybrid hours a month. And already it looks like the vast majority of white collar AI spend is from individuals, not companies. I mean, why would you show your hand by
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Not hosting in China will be a moat. Tech (software) never really experienced it, but the rest of Western industry all have stories of getting burned by China and their policy of ignoring IP rights.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
They need it to be roughly as popular as first world cell phone usage for a 5-7yr ROI.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I don't know a single white collar worker who isn't using AI for their job. Not like forced, but like "Oh damn, this bot thing can do a lot of tedious leg work for me". To think that people won't pay $60-$80/mo
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
They lawyers do all the leg work (and keep most of the money), but from the defendant POV it all looks the same.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Rumor is that part of the disruption at GDM these past few months also involved people not wanting to be bound to strictly LLM research.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Sure, because the state didn't have a stake. Trying suing when it's in the states interest, like it is to build AI datasets on western data. For reference, no case in China has ever been ruled against the government. They don&#x
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
China has laws that serve the state, not the individual. They are there for the party to use to prosecute. So you could file, but considering the state is the one responsible for holding the data, and the one that controls the courts, it&#x
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Well, yes, because the courts and the AI labs are totally separate entities. If they are doing it to you, they are probably doing it to others, which makes an easy class action
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
If it's hosted in China, they can tell you whatever you want to hear and do whatever they want to do. What are you going to do? Take a CCP company in front of a CCP judge?
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
No, I didn't make the argument they were obscure, in fact they all are from a set of common illnesses that....also contains thousands of illnesses. Again, this is the kind of stuff you see with "activist research". Why would
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
But this is precisely how you get these large wealth gaps in society. Not like the 1% vs the bottom 50%, but the bottom 50% vs the top 30%. That "high efficiency" is actually "less humans in the loop". Compare something
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Sure, but it's only six (6) specific illnesses. There are tens of thousands of illnesses. I'm almost 100% confident you could cherry pick any six illenses to get any outcome you want. Edit: Seems the lead author is also a vocal su
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
To be fair, the structure of that study is pretty bizarre. Why only look at 6 specific illnesses rather than something like life expectancy?
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
There will never be a better healthcare because the true cost of fixing a body more often than not far exceeds the value that body produces. People run to dismiss this with "well we need a different system then", but the problem i
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Just a hypothetical... Building new infra will extend beyond trumps term, so it's possible they do "planning" for 2 years, new admin comes in, and they abandon the plan and go back to putting the money in wind.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
They're also making massive investments in coal. China is concerned with not having to import energy. They don't care much about climate change.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
I don't think you are aware, probably because no one wants to hear it, how unbelievably greedy the people you sell stuff to are. If you think corporations are ultimate incarnation of pure greed, and consumers are clear minded rational
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
I'm not sure if you are kidding or not, it would be a funny sarcastic remark in the right circles, but if serious, this exact line of thinking is exactly why things like indie-go-go and kick starter are just absolute meat grinders of s
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
- Launch amazing brand with tight/negative margins to drive heavy consumer adoption - Sell brand to megacorp/PE for hundreds of millions or billions. - Brand gets "optimized for cost" so buyer gets an ROI. - By the time
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
And where does that income tax/payroll tax money come from?
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
The actual question is if you could move to another country with a very different system of "manners" (read: culture) and throw out your learned behavior and adopt theirs. My experience living in an incredibly multi-cultural immig
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Every year the IQ needed to destroy the world drops by 1 point.

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