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by __loam 3y ago
Yeah I'm not trying to say it was all peachy or wax poetic about the Soviet Union. It was clearly a deeply flawed country with myriad economic issues. I'm just saying that even if some of the housing was shit, everyone was housed
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by __loam 3y ago
"Homelessness jumped substantially" is not "Housing became cheaper and affordable". It was all state owned lol, what does affordability even mean in that context? I'm just saying they built more housing than they ne
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by __loam 3y ago
Yeah man you'll note I explicitly mentioned how things went to shit after the collapse.
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by __loam 3y ago
Obviously not but we shouldn't slow down development over some boring looking buildings.
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by __loam 3y ago
People give Brutalism a lot of shit but I think the buildings have a certain utilitarian charm. I have heard that concrete can be very unsustainable and counterintuitivly actually hard to maintain though, so I suppose it's a good thing
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by __loam 3y ago
One of the only things the Soviets did right was building a shit load of dense, boring housing at huge scales. They eliminated homelessness, which jumped substantially when they became the Russian federation and privitized everything.
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by __loam 3y ago
And we're also facing a severe housing shortage.
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by __loam 3y ago
Gaudí was incredibly ahead of his time with the design of the cathedral. Even as a non-believer I highly recommend that people visit this building at least once in their lifetime. It's unbelievable in person and I actually got vertigo
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by __loam 3y ago
I agree that CNET sucks, but it's very emblematic of the affiliate marketing bullshit that has infested the internet for a while now.
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by __loam 3y ago
Almost like we shouldn't be generalizing an entire professional sector with statements like "I hate journalists", huh? The blame for the decline in journalism lies squarely at the feet of the architects of the ad based intern
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by __loam 3y ago
I'm kind of disgusted by the contempt people in tech have for journalists, when the tech people are the ones who authored the current media ecosystem.
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by __loam 3y ago
How long ago was the Bitter Lesson written?
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by __loam 3y ago
GPT-4 cost like $100m so I don't think this is surprising?
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by __loam 3y ago
I'd bet money there's thousands of b2b deals that look exactly like this.
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by __loam 3y ago
Many here know I personally despise AI, but to take off my tech critic hat for a moment, if subscription models don't work out, we still ultimately do have a bunch of pretty powerful base models to build on. If you can push inference t
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by __loam 3y ago
Most of us just don't see the point of following an industry that is predominantly fraud.
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by __loam 3y ago
VCs learning nothing or cynically continuing to try and cash in on this scam isn't exactly an airtight argument, even if my original statement was wrong. FTX also raised a ton of money.
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by __loam 3y ago
It's still a scam even if bitcoin is currently benefiting from the creation of institutional ETFs. FTX was one of the largest financial frauds in history and the founder was disgraced and convicted. There's clearly a large amount
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by __loam 3y ago
I think this points to bigger issues with the AI field generally with respect to adoption and development. The output of these systems is fundamentally unverifiable. Building a system to verify these answers would be orders of magnitude mor
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by __loam 3y ago
Surely the same strategy will work during economic contraction and a period of high interest rates and borrowing costs.
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by __loam 3y ago
I would expect most of the big tech firms have the capital to build a gpu cluster like that.
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by __loam 3y ago
It will be interesting to see when OpenAI gets as open about their costs as their revenue.
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by __loam 3y ago
Wait you're telling me you can't make the next trillion dollar industry by incinerating capital while making no money?
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by __loam 3y ago
Boom is specifically working on efficient and affordable supersonic flight. This isn't the 1980s.
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by __loam 3y ago
To be clear, telling AI companies to fuck off is way cooler than the anti-climate accelerationism.
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by __loam 3y ago
Is the internet not built on public key encryption between two parties?
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by __loam 3y ago
You're right on both counts. Things are a bit fraught in this thread so I apologize for misunderstanding you.
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by __loam 3y ago
Looks like I struck a nerve if you're googling me to insult me now.
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by __loam 3y ago
Are you talking about training a human or training an artist? Downloading copyrighted data at huge scales to use in your commercial software product is pretty substantially different than an art student studying a reference.
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by __loam 3y ago
Yeah one thing that's often missed in these discussions is that the AI companies still need the artists! When you overexploit the commons, there will be consequences. We'll see if the synthetic data is good enough or not for futur

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