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by derektank 3mo ago
I’m simply not seeing the certainty you’re seeing. There are lots of risks associated with power concentration, but I’m not seeing evidence of that yet. What I am seeing are open weights models, and even just competition between closed weig
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by derektank 3mo ago
>Now, would you want to live in a country with conditions so absurd that "hikikomori" and micro apartments [1] are a thing? If it meant I could cut my rental or mortgage bill in half, absolutely. People have different preferenc
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by derektank 3mo ago
It seems very unlikely to me that most people will lose either their current job in the short term, or their ability to find work at all in the medium term. It does seem like something to worry about for a small percentage of people in the
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by derektank 3mo ago
In that light, the entire market itself looks essentially artificial, given drug manufacturing couldn’t exist without government guaranteed property rights, which are themselves a kind of monopoly on use. But yes, the reason brand name drug
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by derektank 3mo ago
>We have certainity it will be used to harm most people in the short term How will it harm most people in the short term, exactly?
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by derektank 3mo ago
>open models are inherently decelerationist, ungovernable, and will slow development on the frontier Ungovernable makes intuitive sense, but I don’t understand how open weight models could be decelerationist or slow the development of th
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by derektank 3mo ago
>The scope is always narrow up front The scope of the second Iraq war was not narrow, it was regime change. At the beginning of the war the George W. Bush administration explicitly demanded that both Saddam and his sons leave Iraq within
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by derektank 3mo ago
Just today I asked Claude Fable to take an SVG map and add a circle with a 150 mile radius around a specific city, cutting off the circle at the edge of certain boundaries. It came back a minute later with more or less exactly what I wanted
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by derektank 3mo ago
Yes, “the talent” is waiting out in their trailer and needs you to talk to them
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by derektank 3mo ago
It’s a great time to be in computer hardware if nothing else.
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by derektank 3mo ago
There’s no concrete evidence that anyone besides Epstein (and by extension Maxwell, who assisted Epstein) actually abused children. Besides the testimony of Virginia Giuffre, nobody else has claimed they were sexually assaulted as minors (S
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by derektank 3mo ago
>The only reason why the US is so extremely lax on firearms is because people keep blathering on about how guns are the last line of defense against a tyrannical government No, it’s because the right to own firearms is very explicitly st
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by derektank 3mo ago
When did we start making good people? I thought we were still using the base model.
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by derektank 3mo ago
There’s some debate as to whether the Red pyramid itself is even a tomb at all, given the same Pharaoh (Sneferu) also constructed the Bent and Meidum pyramids and there’s no evidence of a sarcophagus or other burial equipment in any of them
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by derektank 3mo ago
Those Chinese companies are being funded by a substantial amount of government financing, I think at least 20% has come directly from state owned investment firms or government entities and probably more now. You obviously lose precision wh
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by derektank 3mo ago
I think trying to tease apart the private and public sector is very hard in China. Setting aside state owned enterprises, even nominally private companies that employ at least 3 CCP members are required by law to form a party committee with
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by derektank 3mo ago
Presumably the line is whether or not the publisher is getting paid for the writing. The Atlantic does do branded content from time to time, but they always explicitly label it as such. I would bet a substantial sum that this article is not
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by derektank 3mo ago
Hmmm, maybe but I wouldn’t expect a sea change myself. The reason insurance is able to get away with not covering pcsk9 inhibitors is because statins in theory provide a similar benefit for a fraction of the price, and so they can gatekeep
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by derektank 3mo ago
Not really a new kind of pharmaceutical, pcsk9 inhibitors have been on the market for a while now. What’s new is that it’s an oral medication rather than an injectable
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by derektank 3mo ago
Yeah, I would be curious to know what kind of returns they’re seeing from Isomorphic labs given AlphaFold itself is publicly available. From what I’ve read, the deals they’ve reached with the major Pharma companies could result in billions
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by derektank 3mo ago
>Nobody can tell if your opinions are “weakly held” It’s pretty easy to tell if your opinions are weakly held. Do you change them in the face of new evidence? If so, they’re weakly held. And this applies to not just the big opinions of t
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by derektank 3mo ago
>There are always some heresies — some opinions you'd be punished for expressing. But there are a lot more now than there were a few decades ago I think the trend line has reversed a bit since 2022. Whether it be simply because publ
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by derektank 3mo ago
Claude’s logo is closer to a dandelion than an aperture (though closer to a butthole than either)
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by derektank 3mo ago
No, but I do think modern medicine occasionally grants a few people more time than they would have had otherwise. New cancer therapies, evolving treatments for cystic fibrosis, etc. Very hit or miss if you’re in a group whose life expectanc
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by derektank 3mo ago
Yeah, we live finite lives. Time is the one thing the vast majority of us aren’t getting more of. Of course speed is a priority. This isn’t a “capital” thing, it’s a fundamental part of the human experience.
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by derektank 3mo ago
>it becomes like those blurred photos that make cities look like a small model Tilt-shift photography for those wondering.
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by derektank 3mo ago
It’s only possible for Dead Man valorizing politicians to be elected because much of the electorate worships the same. They all have parents too, naturally.
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by derektank 3mo ago
Any word on which entity was trying to trademark it first?
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We’ve had the ability to destroy the world since roughly 1970, maybe 1975. Nothing but biological intelligence required.
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by derektank 3mo ago
Does he even need to care about that at this point? He retains majority voting control over SpaceX so nobody can stage a hostile takeover. And he’s given his employees an opportunity to cash out if they wanted to.

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