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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
I mean... the market was handed to the prime defense contractors on a silver platter for decades, and they utterly failed to deliver cost-effective or even working solutions. It's not some 4d chess play by VCs, they just finally realiz
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
So it's OK to roll out AI to nurses in the NHS and Canada? Their hospitals don't have shareholders, so that's a minimum baseline that meets all of your goals.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
> but then the added productivity is used to justify fewer on-staff nurses Lower staffing levels per unit of care performed makes medical care cheaper for patients. If the goal of a healthcare system is to make healthcare more accessibl
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
Putting "wealth inequality" in the same bucket as nuclear weapons is just slop. The OP is talking about existential threats, not things that personally annoy you.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
They do not try every viable combination on their own. That's why GoF is a bad idea. Viruses evolve in a highly locally-optimal way and simply do cannot add new functional proteins wholescale. It's too many steps, natural select
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
Design a novel virus which is far more lethal than COVID-19 (Ebola, smallpox, take your pick) and can evade existing vaccines.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
It's a bigger deal for diagnostics than for drug development.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
If you read the accusations that's like saying Ukraine and Russia are squabbling over the Donbas.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
Anthropic is thought to be cash flow positive now.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
They are obviously sandbagging the definition of "intern" for PR reasons
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
Congrats to Isar but I think you don't understand the scale difference here and the immensity of what it would take to be a neck-on-neck competitor to SpaceX. The orders of magnitude of launch efficiency are... starting to become stag
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
The Russians conscripted more German rocket scientists than the Americans got through Operation Paperclip, both programs were bootstrapped with German expertise. Americans got ~1,600, Russians more like 6,000.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
Sorry but it's obviously stupider and more irresponsible to release them to consumers without testing them in conditions matching real-world use first.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
OK, how do you expect to do full safety testing without giving them the same tools they will have in reality.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
The models are going to be released to users who have internet access, you can't even do safety evals without internet. Not saying OpenAI did a good job monitoring here, but it's not avoidable.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
The protestors are mostly retired, and are not familiar (or most often, are actively skeptical of) the job market impact. These are just the facts, let's please not disagree on things where it is so easy to verify the ground truth. In
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
There are many surveys which make it clear, this is not the reason. They are straightforwardly (right or wrong) protesting the physical installations, their water and electricity use, and other hard-to-quantify vibes like radiation and noi
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
The police and government will need to 1000x their AI adoption to successfully attribute crimes to real-world people. We BARELY caught any cybercrime before AI, it is utterly hopeless now unless they lean into the same tools.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
2.5 MW / 2 MW are tiny. I think you are confused.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
> You have drawn a girl, born in the Levant in 1042 CE. > She was born, married at 18, had 4 children, lost her mother at 28, was orphaned at 41, was widowed at 70, and died at 71 of heart failure (degenerative illness), with 3 surviv
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
How do you anticipate NVIDIA using Hugging Face to abuse monopoly power?
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
My experience is that "split" companies are often split only at the superficial financial level and the behind-the-scenes engineering systems are never actually decoupled, you just have a services agreement where the new company p
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
There are thousands of small street changes across the country each day. New subdivisions, road expansions, lane changes, new traffic lights. Of course the vast majority should be auto-updated without manual review, what would a person ad
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
Are you illiterate or just a bot? My original post said: a household with 2 kids and two adults.
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by bpodgursky 1mo ago
Dude I said in the original post a person with $22,500 BEFORE TAX ends up with $49,000 AFTER TAX AND TRANSFERS. There is no additional income tax after receiving the negative income tax! That's the final number!
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
THIS 50K IS AFTER TAX AND TRANSFERS. READ THE POST.
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
> After taxes, $50,000 will be somewhere between $39,000 and $42,000 in much of the US NO. WRONG. Read what I actually said. This was after transfers, at the OP's income range US income tax is NEGATIVE and puts you at the $49,000
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
This number is before transfers, you really cannot just look at the raw income. A family of 2 adult 2 kid making $22,500 in raw income makes more like $48,700 after refundable tax credits, SNAP, housing, etc [1]. https://www.goo
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Kurzweil made one big claim — Singularity around 2045. Everyone at the time thought it was a total joke and hundreds of years off, if even possible. Now, that is seen as a laughably long timeline. The rest is noise, I don't care wh
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by bpodgursky 2mo ago
Why are you being argumentative? "Promote" and "exclusive rights" was always about compensation for the time and effort invested. You just rephrased what the OP said while claiming to disagree.

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