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by api 10mo ago
People misread my comment as creationism. The point I was making was that the complexity curve has to meet the floor at some point, and thinking about how this happens and what that looks like is interesting. I was familiar with RNA world b
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by api 10mo ago
This is why a lot of modern leftists are anti-tech. Tech destroys jobs. If we are going to maintain the fiction that full employment is necessary for a modern civilization, everyone has to have a job, and for that to be true we have to rest
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by api 10mo ago
I wonder if AI also reveals unnecessary parts of the workforce by demonstrating that what they do is actually pretty trivial. There are a ton of basically BS office jobs that could probably be replaced by AI, or in some cases just revealed
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by api 10mo ago
Now it’s “everyone get into the trades!” I’d recommend talking to people in the trades first. Not saying it can’t be a good move, but it is definitely hard and has its own huge downsides like poor working environments, long hours, and years
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by api 10mo ago
It’s mostly ZIRP hangover. The over hiring in those years was ludicrous. AI is having some effect at the margins but it’s mostly an excuse. Companies always prefer to avoid saying they are just laying people off. It can be a negative market
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by api 10mo ago
Can't find 4.5, but 3.5 Sonnet is apparently about 175 billion parameters. At 8-bit quantization that would fit on a box with 192 gigs of unified RAM. The most RAM you can currently get in a MacBook is 128 gigs, I think, and that'
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by api 10mo ago
Attention maximization algorithms and dark patterns took over between then and now. It’s not the same place.
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by api 10mo ago
If humans were much more rational this would work better. The human brain is loaded with exploits, and capitalism being an excellent optimizer quickly finds and uses these exploits. Because they work, and more importantly they are way way
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by api 10mo ago
I do legit wonder about K abuse in this whole crowd. Anyone hear any excerpts from Thiel’s Antichrist lectures? I’ve never been on the same page as him politically but this wasn’t “wow I really disagree” material. This was “are you… okay, m
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by api 10mo ago
I’ve come to see this as a general rule: trash maximizes engagement. By trash I basically mean either porn or gambling. By porn I don’t just mean the sexual kind but also political rage porn, etc. By gambling I mean anything that exploits t
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by api 10mo ago
I'm not sure that's all it was, but him not being invited was definitely a travesty and clearly a result of in-crowd lobbying from established car makers with links to Washington.
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by api 11mo ago
Good point, and they're worth name checking too, but the company didn't go anywhere big until Musk took over. Musk clearly has (or at least had) a great skill when it comes to scaling companies doing hard things. If he had one und
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by api 11mo ago
The EV1 was way, way ahead of its time, and was more or less outright killed for various reasons including car makers having deep sunk cost in ICE engine tech. The battery tech back then was vastly inferior to today but it was still good en
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by api 11mo ago
Good point. The same thing happens to heads of state. Putin thought he could take Ukraine in a few weeks because he is surrounded by yes men.
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by api 11mo ago
The issue is that our machines run 1970s OSes with a very basic security model, and are themselves so complex that they’re likely loaded with local privilege escalation attack vectors. Doing dev in a VM can help, but isn’t totally foolproof
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by api 11mo ago
I’d be willing to believe Musk was actually surprised. Like a lot of people into heavy political ideology he seems to vastly overestimate the number of people who think the same way about things. He seems to inhabit a serious echo chamber.
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by api 11mo ago
They’re also what everyone uses to build software for the iOS ecosystem.
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by api 11mo ago
A big concern I have for the industry is what happens as people who truly understand how this stuff works age out. Unfortunately we seem to have stopped replacing them. Part of the issue is that computers today require no deep knowledge to
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by api 11mo ago
I’m in my 40s and have never believed retirement would be a thing for me unless I make a whole lot of money. Retirement for all was an artifact of rapidly growing populations and shorter life spans. Back 50-100 years ago you had each young
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by api 11mo ago
Marxism is back in vogue again. I guess people have tried reviving Naziism/fascism so now they’ve got to try reviving the other failed early 20th century totalistic political ideology. I get that the status quo has huge issues, but can
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by api 11mo ago
I’m just going to throw this out there. What if reducing birth rates at this point in time is rational? On the employment side, we have rapidly advancing automation and AI that are dramatically reducing the work force required to maintain s
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by api 11mo ago
African birth rates are falling faster than projected.
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by api 11mo ago
I think there’s a difference between something just being a bit addicting and scientifically optimizing something to be addicting. Differences in magnitude do matter because there are thresholds in almost everything where a thing becomes ha
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by api 11mo ago
If that’s the case it makes aviation like 6-7%, still low. Coal fired electricity generation is king when it comes to climate change, followed by oil fueled land transport and natural gas. Deforestation is higher too. Aviation is part of th
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by api 11mo ago
The harm is from designing them to be addictive. Anything intentionally designed to be addictive is harmful. You’re basically hacking people’s brains by exploiting failure modes of the dopamine system.
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by api 11mo ago
We have basically limitless carbon free energy with the tech we have now: solar, wind, batteries, fission breeders, large power grids that can move power around cheaply, etc. Put all those together and we have incredible energy abundance. W
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by api 11mo ago
Conspiracists and media brainwashed people will react this way no matter what. Doesn’t matter whether it’s secretive or not. It’s not about you or the subject matter but their need to feel important or in possession of some truth THEY don’t
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by api 11mo ago
The problem is they’re in an uncanny valley. They’re too expensive for low income customers and their food is too shitty to compete with other things you can get for the same price. Starbucks will give you food that’s similarly priced and m
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by api 11mo ago
Always assumed I would, but I thought it was that the youngsters would be running circles around me (in this domain) the way I ran circles around the olds when I was a kid. What happened is that as an Xennial (young genX / old millenni
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by api 11mo ago
I have 2gbps at home and open ports and IPv6. It’s a dynamic IP but it changes maybe once a year. I could host a site here, sure. It’s infinitely better than it was 20 years ago. OSes are more secure. Isolation is better. Languages are bett

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