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by chongli 4mo ago
What else is there? The product as delivered today doesn't come anywhere near a justification for these valuations. All of it is built on an expectation of future capabilities, and that's where the Dario-penned doom papers come in
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by chongli 4mo ago
Technically, it's the time discounted rate of future profits that determine valuations Close, it's the time-discounted expectation of future returns. This seems related to future profits but it need not be. Historically, stocks
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by chongli 4mo ago
people at Anthropic (and OpenAI, for that matter!) really, genuinely do believe The same could have been said (and has been said) about other tech company employees for all sorts of other reasons in alignment with those companies' go
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by chongli 4mo ago
Some AI is useless The question is not whether AI is useful. It is useful, full stop. The question is whether AI is useful enough to justify valuations that dwarf the GDP of all but the top 20 countries in the world . As it stands right
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by chongli 4mo ago
Why would a company warn that their technology is dangerous if it wasn't? The whole point of the article is to answer this question, and here's the answer: Because all the AI doom fear-mongering is driving sky-high valuations. T
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by chongli 4mo ago
Yes, and those dud candidates waste the company precious time and money, as well as wasting the candidate’s time. If you have to interview more than a handful of candidates to hire for a non-specialist role then something is seriously broke
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by chongli 4mo ago
The strategy of RTSes is strategy of big plans and high level abstraction That's not true in all RTSes. Take StarCraft, for example, and there are plenty of games on record that were decided not just by 1 unit, but by 1 attack from 1
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by chongli 4mo ago
If your espresso is bitter and sour, you're getting uneven extraction. One reason for this includes channeling: water encountering a tightly-packed puck and boring a hole through it or even lifting the puck so that water flows around
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by chongli 4mo ago
it stands to reason that OpenAI could turn off their R&D, marketing, hype jedi, legal departments and just sell GPT9.999 and turn a profit. That rests on 2 assumptions: 1) That inference on OpenAI's frontier models is actually co
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by chongli 4mo ago
Free time is a luxury just like anything else, but it's only valuable if you have enough of everything else. Nobody is jealous of all the free time homeless people have. They're jealous of the free time of people who don't ne
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by chongli 4mo ago
Governments are inevitable. Even when you look at so-called "lawless places" or "failed states", you'll find governments: de-facto governments run by warlords and criminals. Nature abhors a vacuum and that principle
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by chongli 4mo ago
That's still wanting more: more free time. You're not going to take a 60% paycut if it means 60% less food, 60% less shelter, etc.
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by chongli 4mo ago
We do know about North Korea. It doesn't exist in a bubble. It's a product of a particular culture and a particular series of historical events as well as regional and geopolitical relationships, most notably its relationships wit
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by chongli 4mo ago
A work of fiction which has been revealed to be semi-autobiographical.
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by chongli 4mo ago
You don’t have to go back that far. Read To Kill a Mockingbird for an example of a really nice lawyer.
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by chongli 4mo ago
Just send the call to voicemail. Doctor's offices always leave voicemails. Spammers sometimes leave voicemails, sometimes not, either way they're easy to filter out / ignore.
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by chongli 4mo ago
Longer range would help! I should also note that ships had forward- and aft-firing guns in addition to the main batteries on the gun decks firing to the sides. A smaller ship merely trying to run away could be fired upon until it got out of
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by chongli 4mo ago
Yeah so the other factor missing is gun calibre and ship hull reinforcement/design. The reason sloops didn’t dominate against ships of the line came down to these factors, as well as sheer number of guns. A sloop’s guns were generally
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by chongli 4mo ago
None of your links provides data on spurious denials. The third link does provide this statistic: "Over a six-year period between 2019 and 2025, almost half of a large set of denied health insurance claims in New York state were rever
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by chongli 4mo ago
> things like spurious denials drive up costs for them and for the providers Spurious denials? Or improperly filed claims?
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by chongli 4mo ago
Damn, I thought this was going to be a guide to getting into running for exercise. Yes, I know there are lots of those around, but if this one made the front page of HN then maybe it had something interesting about it, or it was particularl
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by chongli 4mo ago
Who is going to have the income to pay taxes to support that enormous welfare state that covers the needs of 99% of the population? The AI company owners? Why would they allow that? Presumably, if they own all the robots in the world, that
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by chongli 4mo ago
Adding "unless" to a statement makes it vacuous if the latter clause is weaker than the first clause I think that's the point. "How do I say they're lying without outright saying they're lying?" It'
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by chongli 4mo ago
You forgot about gamma correction. Before converting a value in the range of 0-255 into a voltage, PCs typically raise that value to the power of 2.2. This makes the difference between small values and large values far more apparent: 2^2.2
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by chongli 4mo ago
I don’t understand it either and I know people who are in it. Super expensive keyboards are one of the strangest hobbies I’ve heard of!
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by chongli 4mo ago
There's no acceleration here. Vintage Macs are 100% obsolete. They can't get any more obsolete than that. They can, however, become MORE relevant for hobbyists through the development of new software for them. What could be better
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by chongli 5mo ago
Is it laziness? Or is it frustration from answering the same basic beginner questions over and over again? It should be considered common courtesy that when you ask a question you have at least attempted a bit of research to find the answer
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by chongli 5mo ago
Why not get rid of most of the grass (especially on the hill) and put in a perennial garden of hardy (for your zone) shrubs and trees?
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by chongli 5mo ago
Not a great example of the way tools need to be, but point well taken. One of the few exceptions that proves the rule and widely despised!
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by chongli 5mo ago
It needs to be subservient It doesn’t. Computer interfaces had no superfluous subservient text for their entire history prior to LLMs. Some of these interfaces have been highly efficient as tools, arguably more efficient than more recent

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