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by comfysocks 1y ago
>>The first thing I'd do is sell Me too. And it looks like that’s what the heirs are doing too. But for David Lynch, I can see why he might want to live amongst the people involved in financing, making, and distributing movies.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
In all fairness to Meta, “don’t be evil” was a different company. Meta is the “they trust me, [the] dumb fucks” company. So they’re being somewhat true to their words. /s
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by comfysocks 1y ago
California houses are not popular with professional “landlord” investors because the cap rates (net operating income / house value) are poor. Rents are limited to what potential renters are actually able to pay, while the prices are v
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by comfysocks 1y ago
In the two cases, the meaning of the message may be the same, but the tone of the message is different. One tone invites further engagement, the other invites disengagement.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
I agree with a lot of what you are bringing up, but I don’t think of these things as synonymous with American capitalism as a whole. I think of them more as a failure mode.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
It’s hard to compare. Almost everything at a mass market price point is made in China. From luxury iPhones to cheap commodity crap. With the exception of maybe cars, made in USA, Europe or Japan tends to be niche or specialty.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
If I think of self-taught engineers who are my peers, they look great. But that’s selection bias. If I think of every self-taught engineer that I’ve ever crossed paths with, there are some that engaged in unscientific magical thinking. Als
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by comfysocks 1y ago
If we just forget about AGI for a second, and looked at AI Wars as something in the vein of Search Wars Redux, wouldn’t that explain a lot of the strategy? Granted, history doesn’t exactly repeat itself, it rhymes…
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by comfysocks 1y ago
I’m not the poster that said it was that.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
The flip-flop on regulation sounds like: “please regulate us (in a way that builds a moat for incumbents out of fear of an imagined future doom scenario)” and “please Don’t regulate us (in a way that prevents us from stealing, and causing a
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by comfysocks 1y ago
Meta has ad revenue. I think Meta’s play is to make it difficult for pure AI competitors to make revenue through LLMs.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
I agree that all three are bad and shouldn’t be tolerated. However, Hegseth’s transgression was the worst in terms of severity by orders of magnitude. Details of an in-progress military operation and all.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
The way I imagine it, it was designed to look like a wireframe vector graphics video game tank, a la battlezone 1980. The design is based on the sci-fi “rule of cool”, the origami exoskeleton is retconned justification that turned out to b
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by comfysocks 2y ago
For comparison, even Rupert Murdoch refused to kill the WSJ expose on Theranos when asked to do so by Elizabeth Holmes. He did this, despite being a major investor. Shame on Bezos indeed.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
I wonder what deal was made with the tech billionaire set. I can’t believe they all got in line without some explicit deal presented to them.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
Model 2 might seem like the sensible move, but it is also a capitulation to the idea that Tesla is just a “car company” and has to compete on price and is destined for the inevitable race to the bottom with the likes of byd in an increasing
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by comfysocks 2y ago
I see it like this: If you are designing a jetliner filled with human passengers (and the associated liability), first principles might lead you to a culture which puts a high priority on safety. The high cost of safety by design is deemed
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by comfysocks 2y ago
Because the “obvious” part is only one layer of the question. If you hear a joke, do you interpret it literally? You would expect an AI to recognize that there are multiple layers to the joke and respond accordingly. Similarly, there are mu
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by comfysocks 2y ago
I think most people would agree on which is the lesser of two evils. No real controversy there. The “idiotic” part is when a question is posed in order to downplay the “lesser evil” through whataboutism.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
I remember back in the day when hefty penalties for torrenting music were in the news, they would erroneously describe it as penalties for “downloading” music. I suppose this was intentional in order to spook usenet users, etc.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
I like Karpathy, but I find it odd how he always backs up his former boss’s technological assertions, even the more controversial ones. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him openly disagree with Musk.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
To be fair, lobbyists will use phony science from any field to influence policy, not just the social sciences. Think of the tobacco industry.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
State government? You mean states in the bible belt, right? Because they aren’t in favor of liberal coastal state government.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
I would think that public mocking of scam victims would just encourage them to keep quiet about the crime.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
It seems to me that the human authors of the training text are the ones who have created the “world model”, and have encoded it into written language. The llm transcodes this model into word embedding vector space. I think most people can
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by comfysocks 2y ago
It seemed to me the goal of the event was to make people imagine a dazzling sci-fi future from a schoolboy’s imagination, and not notice that the demo didn’t show much proof of technical advancement in automated driving.
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by comfysocks 2y ago
Holmes, Balwani and co lied about their current technology, which is a step beyond making overly optimistic future projections. They claimed to have their own technology when they were actually using their competitor’s machines with dilu
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by comfysocks 2y ago
In my opinion, a good first step is to stop looking at socialism and capitalism in absolute terms. I think its a mistake to idealistically cling to one archetype as the best of all possible archetypes. When you go the idealistic route, you
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by comfysocks 2y ago
Narduar changed his style over the years. Today, he’s a lovable goof who’s all about gifts, research and warm fuzzies. Back in his earlier days, he’d ask intentionally annoying and provocative question as a form of performance art. That so
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by comfysocks 2y ago
I don’t think the dynamic you are talking about has much to do with Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication. Perhaps a slightly reductive view, but I see “NVC” as basically saying that when people argue, emotions can sometimes overrule logic.

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