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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
> trustworthy search makes a huge difference That's the rub. Today on the internet, no one can validate that there exists any "trustworthy search". If we don't control the servers and validate the software on it, the
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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
Just Devil’s Advocate, but couldn’t you ask these models about controversial topics in US or Chinese history. Like, what happened at Tiananmen? Or what happened during the Tulsa riots?
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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
In the U.S. this seems highly unlikely Aren't these the same guys who won't even let us have Chinese cars? I'm not as confident as you that they will keep allowing us access to technology as strategic as AI models out of Ch
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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
People move towards places with growing economic opportunities. I hope people aren't expecting data centers to provide "growing economic opportunities". That's not really what data centers are about. Data centers are i
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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
Even then, it still sounds stupid.
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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
We have a home in Houston. Over by the big gates down Sunset. I have no particular objection to building datacenters there. All that said, I think you're being real hand-wave-y here. The climate in Houston is materially different tha
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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
This. The Jedi Hand Wave-y nature of the way people talk about AI these days is going to make reigning in the AI superpowers nearly impossible. Because there are people out here who believe models of this quality are easily replicated or re
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by bilbo0s 3mo ago
In fairness, I mean, if the people collecting the data sell it on the open market, then you can't realistically expect it to be private. The only solution in that case is to make it illegal to sell the data. And that's never gonna
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
> As ever, if you want to know where much of the expertise has gone, look to China (and South Korea) Good news! You don't need to worry about that anymore! I can guarantee you, as the article implies, money from big tech is being f
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
> they just use platforms like aws bedrock, there are too many restrictions on Anthropic's own platform This is actually the only way that what Anthropic is alleging would make any kind of sense. And, as a matter of fact, is exactl
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
Not sure you can “unplug” from things that affect you that you cannot control? Sooner or later you’ll have to deal with that issue. I do think you can “unplug” from things that do not affect you that you cannot control. For instance, if y
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
> also, i stepped over a homeless guy on my way into the grocery store last week. This. The evidence that it's possible is all around us. Right in our faces. That people believe that, somehow, other people will start caring when it
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
Not to be a jerk or anything, but that only matters for the guys and gals left holding the bag. I don't think that will be Musk. He'll probably pull out significant resource from all this financial engineering relatively quickly.
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
In fairness, there are a lot of Japanese people who feel they were not consulted on the scale and scope of "Japanese peoples' expectations". So many such people that they could get a Prime Minister elected. I wouldn't as
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure they didn't think this through in a comprehensive fashion. Because making it esy to find all the rich people just seems like a very bad idea given the direction things are going. When it was broad, the only thing y
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
Well, SpaceX is supposed to be more about AI than low cost orbital launches. At least that’s what their roadshow is claiming. But either way, yeah, I’m not willing to bet much money on USD4.3T unless we can get some serious financial engine
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
> A sturdy stick makes a decent enough baseball bat Right around the 80’s and 90’s the idea of zero-tolerance youth crime policies swept the US. Right around the same time the popularity of baseball began a decline in the US. It went fr
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
> Don't have kids huh... I'm a grandparent. > people like you who don't have kids and know nothing about the education system You know when I did my student teaching stint to certify? 1993. PS: You know why they say t
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
I think I should also gently suggest here that the issue could also be expectations. The idea that you put 30 random children in a class and that therefore there must be some who are "gifted", and there must be some who are &q
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
This. A math test is a math test is a math test. What's the math teacher supposed to do? I hate to be that guy, but I think it should be pointed out that asian boys don't seem to have much of a problem. If there's a gender bi
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
This is exactly what I was saying. It doesn't matter if you measure LNG in litres, gallons, or cubic inches. The market is going to pay you the precise amount for whatever you delivered measured in cubic meters. So what you measure in
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
I did some work for Halliburton in a past life. Most of the people selling LNG for instance, do not have any control over the definition of a "cubic meter". Even so, none of them cheat, because the US for example, very much does h
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
In this case though, the nerds are in charge of it. They created and own it. I mean even the lawyers are subordinate to them at this point.
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by bilbo0s 4mo ago
> nor evidence that Russia or China have solved the engineering problems related to it. Absence of evidence, especially when dealing with China, is not evidence of absence. I would rather our planners take China having that nut cracke
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Not to be that guy, but you know this is gonna hit Iowa and Iowa State in the recruiting department. Athletics was part of the way some of these schools thought they’d make up for cuts in research and declining revenue elsewhere given incre
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
This. The question is what serves their interests at the time? Whatever serves their interests at a given time, well, that’s what they believe at that time. That will have no bearing on what they believe in the future.
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Again, it's absolutely great that Apple does these things! I was just answering the question of why other corporations don't. Money. There's relatively little money in helping the visually impaired. You have to do it because
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Let's be honest, compare the amount of money a corporation can make helping visually impaired people to the amount of money they can make replacing software developers and financial analysts. Don't get me wrong, Apple using these
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Well there's absolutely the value in a lot of what those PI's teams are doing, what there is no longer is the political will to invest in those endeavors. I think longer term this will mean we start to see a kind of "rise&q
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
> It's not clear to me how that's sustainable If it makes you feel better, I'm pretty sure it isn't sustainable. (But I'm not an economist so take that with a block of salt.) I don't think anyone has the an

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