WarmWash

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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Their capex is primarily in building DCs (and what goes into them), which they fully intend to monetize in order to capture that $500B backlog. In that context, the amount of new capacity that will be given to Deepmind could be surprisingly
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
In an interview, Zuck said that the cost of not having super intelligent AI is far more than the cost of trying to develop it.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
It's vision capabilities are still top notch, and it seems pretty natural that most everyday human users are going to want strong vision over strong language/coding.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Corporations are the money engines of the government. I don't know of any other way the government makes money other than riding on the back of corporations. So yes, from the governments POV, using eminent domain to make corporations r
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Once you get audience captured on a single topic like that, you are damned to being the biggest champion of it forever. Happened to lots of influencers during the whole vax debacle of COVID. Mostly sane people who didn't catch a big br
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Anything can be done so rushed and shitty that it has negative consequences.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
A state and a municipality are different things.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Probably the top 1% AI. I don't see any future reality where an ASI respects money piles.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Google's capex is to capture the compute purchases from the other labs. The amount they are spending on Gemini is probably shockingly low...and hence researchers leaving for better watered pastures.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Now get the other 99.99% of the (tech illiterate) population to do it...
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
He is probably itching to get to Anthropic. After all he is one of the early investors too.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Google's weakness (well one of) is its total lack of cohesion. If the Google Books team could, they would sell access to that data in a heartbeat to boost their metrics.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
No. But people want what AI does for them. It's a tragedy of the commons situation.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
The breadcrumbs going back a year or so point to Deepmind wanting to be research heavy, but Google being more interested in hedging AI bets by selling compute. If you ever worked hard on something that you have a lot of conviction about, on
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
OAI was the first to throw safety to the wind. Everyone else was scared to unleashed it on the general public because it was too powerful with too many unknowns (in ~2022, hindsight is different) Altman didn't give a fuck, first mover
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
This is against a $500B+ backlog of demand, which is mostly from OAI and Anthropic.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Awfully ironic that Google makes more money (probably an order or magnitude or so) from it's direct competitors than it does from a it's own product.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
If you search "Deepmind departures" you'll see a string of high profile ones. This is also coupled with the numerous 3.5 pro delays (and strongly suspected underperformance when released). Something was definitely going down
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
They did this in my state, and now that other state has been legal for over a year and a half, but the cameras are all still there
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Then people should stop using AI...
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Physics has bounds of concern, where as mathematics would encompass all physics, as well as all possible alternative physics, in all possible forms. Maybe not unbounded, but close to it.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Absolute earthquake at Deepmind the last few months...
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Mathematics is an unusually dense (if not the most dense...by a few large steps) field. So lots of areas of mathematics are extremely deep and narrow without any real shortcuts, even for seasoned mathematicians.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
From the few cases I have looked at, tax revenues for the towns is in the $30-40M/yr range. I cannot fathom what kind of road improvements a datacenter would need that wouldn't be easily offset. Or what demolition costs for a squa
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Thanks for saying this, it's so eye opening as you get older to see that just about everyone in these societal groups is actually just in it for themselves, and moral purity is a function of self service rather than an established base
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
The question isn't whether that's true, the question is the magnitude of the effect. By all accounts, it's completely blown out of proportion. If people genuinely, actually care about energy costs, they can vocally support wh
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Usually the states give the incentives, the local towns usually get their tax revenue doubled or tripled, hence why these boards sprint to approval
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Anyone reading between the lines understands datacenter deployment has little to do with datacenters and a lot to do with kneecapping AI development. If datacenters in space become a thing, you'll hear your neighbor talking about how r
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
I'll take the L, it was a poor example. Generally when workplaces unionize, jobs are clearly delineated, and everyone in that role has a defined pay.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Unions primarily benefit the weakest workers, and in places like SV, usually the top workers already are getting fat plates and others are pushing hard to get there. Think of it like a football club holding a vote to flatten player pay. The

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