bigbadfeline

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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Just because America's scale is bigger today doesn't mean they'll stay #1. There many #1's, in many different areas, cramming truck-loads of capital into two corps while starving everything else, and doing for meage
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> It's not a flashy issue It's a very serious issue, very well known to the people with the connections and power to affect it. > [ it wouldn't ] make a ton of people vote for you to get re-elected The tons of people ar
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
Due to sanctions, tariffs and capacity crunch. RAM prices are artificially held high.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> What you propose is similar to proposing that we'll solve climate change by moving back to horse-and-buggy. And strawmen, don't forget the strawmen... can you stop doing that for a second? You're just underlying your lac
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> I think you're vastly under-estimating the extent to which power grids, water systems, and global supply chains and manufacturing rely heavily on datacenters. These things were with us and worked better before datacenters even exi
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> The childish behavior is disagreeing with how datacenters are being deployed and reducing that to "more is bad" Why is that childish? Bubble data-center economics is bad, we have the history to prove it, this isn't the f
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
D.A. >> Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine At the same time, the best Anthro models refuse to answer biology questions, keeping the public in the dark not only about new AI-assisted results but al
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
That's not how web sites work, most everybody is still paying for content hosting, it's much simpler, with or without AI. > Instead of paying ...WordPress. WordPress has been free to download and install long before AI, indie d
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
Great comment. Those who try to excuse book burning cannot be doing it in good faith, this is the acid test. If AMZN, et al. were burning books in good faith, they would be open about it, point to the party responsible for it, and provide
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Its good to separate usecases and market fit from what the tools unlock. Good for what? It doesn't affect the economic equation in any way. > You can't use AI to front-run the discovery and research processes, > Their n
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> but wouldn't a general anti-science movement make the country less competitive It's not "a general anti-science movement", it's about tight control, everything else is unimportant. > directly hurt industries
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Look at housing, we've been waiting 20 years for "production capacity to catch up". A large portion of the US construction capacity is now engaged in building data centers, priorities you know. Who knows what else will b
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> It's not something that's in the US's hands now. Why not? Have anyone tried to negotiate with the Chinese about that, without tariffs, sanctions and other threats? > Much of the bleeding edge research around mirror li
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> this place is like a memory of the forum we used to love, and the memory is fading. Well, this place (wherever you are) is like a memory of the world we used to love, and the memory is fading... Definitely true too. You can't ex
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> This mentality is exactly how we got here. That's why it continues to be peddled.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
Speculation about "who's done it" is seriously counterproductive - bio-events are awfully easy to engineer for misdirection. The most concerning part of this story isn't that there's nothing to prevent any of these
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
The processors running the Linux kernel outnumber those running Windows 4:1.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> There's no shortage of extremely valuable problems to solve. And there's no shortage of cheap models that are perfectly capable of solving them.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Your reply makes no sense. To the original point, if they had user-oriented policies, they'd have ad-blocking baked in by now. It's not black and white, and your inability to see the larger context is disturbing. You could, b
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> It’s not hard to get LLM’s to inform on each other. They don’t really do loyalty. Eh, no. How would you know they haven't learned loyalty - it's all out there in their training data. Same as deception, several models have pra
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> What's bad is the demographic shift and the bomb that goes off when there aren't enough young people working and producing to support the old people who need care and pensions. HN is full of promises of AI bonanza to come abo
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> not if you want consumption > if there is 100 million less people there is 100 million less people to sell an iPhone too You are contradicting yourself, what you call "consumption" isn't - it's profits going to a
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> It's really convenient to blame the politicians instead of the people that vote for them. One of the major roles of elected officials is to take responsibility for what's happening, that's the major point of representati
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
IT Unemployment Rate Jumps to 6.7% https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273522
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
It's actually quite good for a publication that rarely publishes good content. I'd rate it near the top of everything I've ever seen in The Economist. Near the end of the article, there's this blurb: To understand the d
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
This
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> That can all be true, but this is still posturing and they haven't yet broken any laws. Posturing is to say that "they haven't yet broken any laws". Transferring equipment to a place for which the company had no per
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Win as the dominant for of LLM interaction. Maybe, the same way Facebook "won" for social interaction, but for most of us here they're irrelevant. I expect the same to happen to LLMs too, for similar reasons.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
Keep looking forward, there's a way out even if it's not immediately visible.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout Nvidia is pulling who? Well, they can pull Wall Street as much as an ant can pull a 900 pound gorilla, whatever pulling there is, the ant ain't doing any of it. Who wrote that abj

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