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by atleastoptimal 23d ago
>HN disbelief syndrome: Any evidence of scary AI capabilities are made up for PR What justification do you have that this is made up?
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by atleastoptimal 25d ago
What predictions would you say he is not wrong, but just early about? If his issue is that he is accurate on something shady going on with the finances of AI companies but the effects are mitigated due to government intervention, he should
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by atleastoptimal 29d ago
Most tech starts civilian, the military ones are rare exceptions. As for your specific examples >Robots/Drones Autonomous robots aren't good enough yet for military, those which are used are teleoperated and thus not in the rea
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
Someone who only knows finance trying to apply that logic to the singularity. There is no comparison. AI does not obey money, money obeys AI, or rather, the operating force of commodified intelligence will not just evaporate when inconvenie
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
You really think that legitimate concern about AI is equivalent to mass hysteria? Do you think AI will just stop getting better?
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
The endgame is that everything will be gated by costly signals. What will remain costly as LLM's automate white-collar work?
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
It seems the trend for AI math is: >Proofs which fewer and fewer people are able to understand >Those who do understand, the rate at which models make discoveries exceed the amount of time those humans have in a day >As a result, w
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
Like 90% of consumer AI use is stuff like "please write a summary of this PDF for me", or "Find a cheaper version of this product online", eventually the returns on model intelligence taper off for these kinds of tasks.
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
I adjusted the numbers to net. > The privilege to work in the Bay Area? In the bay area you have mild climate all year, high quality public transport, culture, food. I do agree that rents are too high given a lack of development, but for
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
If you're a young person making a certain amount of money I'm certain you can plan to save up money over time. Especially if you're a dual-income couple, you could save money before you plan to buy a house or have a kid. A 2
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
It's not accurate. I don't know where people get these numbers from, perhaps they just vibe based on headlines without looking at the actual data. Studios all within 1 hour of SF by BART cost at most 2,500 but usually around 2000,
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
>You need a 200k salary to live without roommates within 2 hours of downtown SF That's a bit of an exaggeration. You could rent a 1/2br in SF proper with that salary. You could easily live within 40 minutes of SF in East Bay&#x
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
Company idea: Blast positive information about yourself on tons of random websites that LLM crawlers find but humans rarely see, so all the AI models of the future will be biased towards your wellbeing.
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
Distribution is a big moat and value-add.
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
Good work environment >> Remote work >>>> bad work environment. However most companies who insist on full RTO are often the latter but claim they are the former.
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
Is the end result of this is that anything that is useful to AI going to be permanently more expensive, as the value a human hobbyist can get out of a certain amount of RAM will always be far less than the value a frontier AI model can get
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
The most likely outcome of AI + data buildup is a system of perfect price discrimination. Models will know exactly the absolutely maximum you'd be willing to pay for a service, and price everything offered to you at one cent less. All
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
Protocol named Finger
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
The whole data center heat/water thing is like not even in the top 100 risks/issues related to AI, but it's all people seem to care about. Why is that?
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
AI would oversee the creation of those physical things, in the same way humans + machines do now
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
The problem is that in most domains we reward effort sometimes even more than results, especially in fields where results are hard to verify. A wall of text is the classic way to signal effort and delay feedback, a signal which was costly p
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
They are only destroying the books because they are required to by copyright law. They obviously wouldn't do so if they were allowed to merely copy the book and preserve the original.
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
The fact that essential commodity providers aren't the emperors of the universe does not imply the same thing could not be true about AI. Electricity needs transformation to be useful. AI is the transformation layer, a sufficiently adv
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
An unintelligible but correct proof is better than no proof. These first AI proofs may be overly complex and un-elegant, but they are the worst that frontier math proofs will ever be. AI math in 2030 will be leaps and bounds ahead of humans
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
If humans have nothing to contribute then shared understanding is a pointless endeavor. It makes sense now in the "centaur" period where human + AI > AI alone, but when AI mathematicians are both more rigorous and more elegant,
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by atleastoptimal 1mo ago
I don't mean currently, I mean in the future when an AI system exceeds all human abilities in that domain. > If you automated all of those things, there would be so much room for disruption that the AI wouldn't be able to maint
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Ask HN: Will AI lead to complete human irrelevance?
2 points by atleastoptimal 1mo ago|7 comments
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
> I'm guessing the people who successfully block construction will be happy the data centers are built elsewhere. Depends on their goals. Do they want to slow down AI altogether, or just hate the concept of the building itself?
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
The main issue with wanting to block data centers in any specific location, is the hyperscalers will just move to building them wherever politics are most favorable. If protesters in your blue state block construction, they'll just bui
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
Basically any "brand name" product which isn't either family owned or privately run by an extremely idealistic founder/CEO ends up getting predictably worse over time. Once some private equity fund buys you out and deter

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