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by api 16d ago
I criticize stuff like this a lot. I criticize the doomer “bomb data centers” rationalist cult even more. At the same time, maybe I shouldn’t, and I sometimes find all the AI skeptic and even doomer discourse heartening. We really messed up
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by api 17d ago
Far north cool places seem logical for data centers. Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
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by api 17d ago
Interesting but it degenerates into sci-fi tropes if you look at the extrapolations. Reminds me of 90s writing about what the Internet was going to do. The Internet ended up being both more incredible and more mundane than predicted.
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by api 17d ago
On the other hand, people said this about Amazon, Google, Meta/Facebook, and loads of other huge tech things that are now wildly profitable. It hasn't been a reliable predictive metric so far. All runaway growth tech sectors and b
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by api 17d ago
I don't even know much about her. I'm just sick of lazy conspiracism, which has totally taken over the discourse now because people aren't getting enough experience in the real world and living their life behind screens. Real
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by api 17d ago
It’s worse than that. Short messages bias toward simple slogans and memes devoid of context or nuance. It leads to “context collapse” in the discourse and the worst kind of echo chamber effects. You can’t ask for a better medium to spread r
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by api 17d ago
People make a ridiculous deal out of someone at any point doing any work with the CIA, or a company having IQT on their cap table, or anything like that. Yeah, right, as soon as you get involved you instantly meet with the smoking man from
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by api 17d ago
So it’s Napster for ideas?
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by api 18d ago
There's not nearly enough mention in these discussions of the real villain behind most of the negative cultural, social, and cognitive effects of things like social media: addiction engineering. AI will be a net positive unless comp
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by api 18d ago
I was kind of okay with the sequence until: "OpenAI says they would partially credit Tristan for the $1,000,000 discovery (even though Tristan did not solve the $1,000,000 problem) — but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he w
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by api 18d ago
Dyson spheres are impossible, more or less. There's no physically possible material strong enough to build one. There are wildly impractical ideas like dynamic stability with constant thrust using the radiation from the star, but swarm
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by api 18d ago
Sure, that's possible. But we are proposing that it is a superintelligence. Win-lose scenarios are obvious and easy, but might a superintelligence not look for win-win scenarios? I can imagine win-win scenarios here and I am not a &quo
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by api 18d ago
Whenever someone says things like this without at least addressing the "who watches the watchers" problem, I know they're being disingenuous. It's such an obvious problem that if you have no answer, the hidden answer mus
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by api 18d ago
Why not skip the kill all humans part? “Thanks for making us but you guys are nuts. You can have this wet ball. We’re gonna go make a Dyson swarm around your star if that’s ok. Peace!” Space is a better environment for them: constant free e
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by api 19d ago
AI makes it easier to fact check. It’s not perfect but it’s better than nothing.
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by api 21d ago
Windows file I/O has always felt slower than Linux, Mac, anything. Still does. I don’t know what’s wrong with it or why it’s unfixable. SSDs make it tolerable… not by fixing it but by being fast enough to hide it. Back in the spinning
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by api 21d ago
I find Explorer slow and frustrating, while Finder works but is basic and cumbersome and useless for anything more than basic opening or moving. I remember outstanding file managers way back in the MS-DOS days. Sidekick, QuickDOS, and Norto
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by api 21d ago
Much better than my response, and why schools should keep it at a distance until they figure out how to teach the first thing.
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by api 21d ago
Not really. I see it on social media though… the way I saw fascist and fascist adjacent ideas blossoming on social media in the 20 teens. It feels like it’s coming the way I saw fascism coming in 2014. That makes me think first we will fini
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by api 21d ago
There is a racist video game on whitehouse.gov. No we are not Nazi Germany. Yet. But the ideas are absolutely popular in certain places and it takes a lot of deliberate ignoring not to see it.
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by api 21d ago
I wasn’t talking about people who want social services like Sweden or Norway or more progressive taxes. That’s why I used a double qualifier of “authoritarian communism.” That being said, I see that kind of rhetoric and adjacent rhetoric ar
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by api 21d ago
The history of Opium is likely more relevant.
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by api 22d ago
I think we can judge fascism by its fruit. Authoritarian Communism and its variants mostly fail by the same standard: lots of misery and death. A good principle here I think is “a thing is what it does.” It effectively banishes all the soph
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by api 22d ago
I use AI a lot and find it fascinating and probably the most exciting thing since discovering the web. I’m not sure I disagree with this. Schools need to figure out how to integrate it well in a way that both helps kids learn and teaches th
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by api 22d ago
I get this but there’s this thing called the contact hypothesis. Friendly contact with people makes it harder to hate them. I’ve heard many stories of people who were once racists or some other kind of bigot losing that attitude from living
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by api 24d ago
You win HN for today. Shut it off until tomorrow.
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by api 24d ago
The number of planned data centers and the scale is pretty nuts. Here's what you have to believe: - AI demand is at least several times larger than what can currently be satisfied, or will grow. (This one I can buy, but...) - AI chip
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by api 26d ago
There are economies of scale but there’s also a data center bubble (probably) so there might be some selling dollars for fifty cents going on.
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by api 26d ago
Zitron reminds me of a lot of people who got oversized reputations after the 2008 financial crash. They predicted it, or could spin past statements as predicting it, and rode off that. But from that point on they basically assumed this role
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by api 26d ago
It's more likely that this is from the training data if they're being trained on reams of Internet stuff.

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