citrin_ru

3 ms·

1.
by citrin_ru 7d ago
Greenland stuff doesn’t make sense even if they believe into the climate change. The US already has military bases there which are barely used. It’s just plain imperialism.
2.
by citrin_ru 9d ago
> There aren't that many places outside of MENA that produce oil in reasonable quantities AFAIK all these countries can increase production given enough investments: US Canada Guyana Venezuela (high political risk but with high oil
3.
by citrin_ru 9d ago
Oil will not stay expensive for a long time without some carbon tax. Even if Hormuz will remain closed for years production will rise elsewhere. The main reason production is not increasing significantly right now - investors are not sure t
4.
by citrin_ru 9d ago
It's so tempting (because it's valuable) to give a model access to the internet (via harness) that the only way to stop people from doing this is some enforceable legislation or stricter liability when people will not be able to a
5.
by citrin_ru 10d ago
It’s a global commodity unless there are export restrictions. Russia maintains petrol/diesel prices way below world level thanks to export ban among other things. China did impose temporary export restrictions too. I would not be surp
6.
by citrin_ru 10d ago
It does. Oil export is down after repeated attacks on ports and export infrastructure both on Black and Baltic sea and attacks on tankers in Black (and even Mediterranean) sea. Russia exports less oil than it extracts and will start shuttin
7.
by citrin_ru 15d ago
> There is nothing stopping US refineries from producing more diesel Aren't they already producing as much as they can? Which is not sufficient given that globally a significant fraction of refining capacity is offline.
8.
by citrin_ru 19d ago
Does it matter? I don't think anyone expects the current LLM generation to be profitable in the next few years. The bet I think is that OpenAI will be the first to develop ASI or at least among the leaders of the race.
9.
by citrin_ru 22d ago
I would expect that a golf course construction is relatively rare event. And there is definitely no explosion of new golf courses. Total DC power consumption growth is practically exponential for the last 5 years.
10.
by citrin_ru 28d ago
OpenAI leaked financial data (2025) suggests this - it has $5.7 billion for marketing which 44% of revenue. It’s hard to explain where these billions go other than into subsidised subscription plans and a free tier.
11.
by citrin_ru 28d ago
Just guessing - companies which not outsource development to likes of infosys will outsource to OpenAI instead.
12.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
I have an impression that most CxO are driven by FOMO. Having a fixed R&D budget (no cheap credit anymore) to get $$$ for tokens they are laying off developers.
13.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
Destroying own wells only to import gas does nothing to reduce the carbon footprint (it's actually increases it if you'll account emissions from LNG tankers). Efforts should be directed into non-carbon generation and electrificati
14.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
> When interest rates are high, companies and investors don't take out loans And yet companies borrowing for AI capex like never before - total amount of debt is staggering. And it’s not only likes of OpenAI/Anthropic, companie
15.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
> Datacenters do not need water. It is just slightly cheaper for them than cooling with electricity. As long as electricity at least partially produced using fossil fuel I would prefer data-centers to use as little electricity as possibl
16.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
I would say what we do care about is the number of people who were not able to use the system successfully through no fault of their own. Even 0.001% failure rate is too high when is affects more than a few people per year. Especially so wh
17.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
AI companies are data hungry, they likely use everything from books to the internet and chat logs.
18.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
I know it's fashionable to blame capitalism for everything which is wrong with the world but it's the people and governments who don't care about the pollution and think that's it's fine to throw garbage on the grou
19.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
They dropped a few points in pools but for Conservatives they likely will be the main competitor - among Reform UK voters there are much more former Tory voters than former Labour voters.
20.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
It's madness but I hope abolishing ULEZ will have little impact at least for London - people who already drive modern cars will not start suddenly replacing them with older more polluting ones.
21.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
Conservatives flipped on multiple of their policies after Reform's success on local election in 2025 and started to copy Reform UK. Even the Labour shifter right after 2025.
22.
by citrin_ru 1mo ago
It's an optimization problem which could be solved if impact of contrails could be estimated. Making a long detour unlikely is good choice but if a small route / altitude changes could help - why not?
23.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
> healthy food isn't as tasty Mediterranean cuisine tasty and healthy. But it’s not as cheap as ultra-processed food.
24.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
> We stopped high sulfur when we realized it was causing acid rain Coal AFAIK a bigger source of acid rains and world has not stopped using coal.
25.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
We don't see a progress towards UBI even inside individual countries and with AI we will need it on international. What people in Europe or Africa will do when all jobs there will be replaced by American or Chinese AI companies, where
26.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
Apple can give employees an iphone which will have an iCloud account in apples’s corp domain and can be used only for work. Many other companies do this.
27.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
It's not an evidence but if they do believe the end times prophesy about Imam al-Mahdi they may want to speed-up his arrival by attacking Israel. IMHO people in the west often making a mistake trying to interpret actions of deeply reli
28.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
It's a good news and a milestone to celebrate but if we count all energy and not only electricity and not only developed world then the progress is not as fast unfortunately [1]. Not a long time ago I've seen a post arguing based
29.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
> The poor don't pay any federal taxes at all so you can't give them a tax cut Even if we exclude poor there are many options how to split taxes between different income brackets, how to tax salaries vs capital gain, how to spl
30.
by citrin_ru 2mo ago
It's a difficult tradeoff. By taxing more and more it's easy to send the economy into the death spiral so to grow the revenue without killing the economy you need economic growth. Cutting taxes will not give the growth aromaticall

More ›