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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Kind of shocking - a model comes out that beats mythos and offers a reasonable price and it ... gets downvoted? Probably taking hate from both sides - OpenAI / Claude fans who are undercutting its moat. Chinese open-model fans that wan
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
You're seeing the next version of this - cooked up by the smartest public policy people - fail in real time. That's what this article is about. 89% of these projects are - in fact - doing well. But that number is decreasing. The n
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Detroit was the hub of the auto industry. Outsourcing and foreign competition hollowed out the central city (which deliberately didn't have public transit) and left gigantic abandoned houses and skyscrapers throughout. There has been m
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
See Detroit mid-2010s for why massive overbuilding isn't a good strategy here.
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
A bit of a misnomer. Housing is, actually, extremely affordable across the US - just not in major cities. You can plunk $10-$20K and get land and a homestead in dozens of states. Agree with the other comment that overbuilding is a reasonabl
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Hard to say - since I used it in Beta with free credits, where the usage felt more 'Opus' than 'ChatGPT' but more efficient token wise. Switching models every time is annoying. But their paid plans I'm not sure yet
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
For those looking for the actual data. It's from 2024 - says nothing about the current situation. * ~37K affordable housing units (baseline) across ~400 projects * 89% rent collection rate (down from 90.6% in 2023) * That's 600 u
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Beta user: they piloted OpenRouter fusion before it was seen as the viable step. Everyone's understood for months now that having different models check each other is the best path forward. This gets you that in a nice neat package, wi
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
all the paid spies in the comments being like... 'f this is bad for the U.S., the U.S. is doing something terrible'
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
They've got the Capex amigo. Look at the top line spend. Just a question of whether it delivers the goods.
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Absolutely critical reading. Inside tech, AI Slop has WAY, WAY, WAY up. Slop replying to slop. Deepslop. Deepseek and GLM do slop just as well as Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 at a FRACTION of the cost. Frontier AI still cannot do basic valuable t
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
amazing cope. we literally have Face ID and passkeys everywhere. they'll get it right. there are secondary verifications. the problem is they lose out the young generation, and the cool. existential risk. big lobbying effort like this.
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
They made the opening credits from Westward. Congrats!
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
A few things to note - the financial literacy here is... sometimes lacking? 1. Revenue GROWTH is 3.5x; Expense GROWTH -> Slightly less than 3x. There's a path to profitability 2. However, the COSTS probably assume a 5 (or longer) ye
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
To clarify - CORPORATE R&D is up to $1T, while academic R&D is $115B
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
This will get downvoted to oblivion, but it's not obvious to me this shakeup is a bad thing. Some thoughts: 1. US Spending on R&D has gone up from $50B -> $1T annually, and from $3B -> $115B on purchasing power terms 2. The l
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
You don't need to guess, the bounds are common sensical. 1. Too much inequality, and the risk is bloodshed. This is most of human society. 2. Too little, and you get communism, repression, or European stagnation. 3. U.S. is in the gold
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Correct. Travis Kalanick did far worse with Uber. He illegally spied on political opponents to Uber's expansion. As far as I know he's still out there free as a bird. Private equity is a different problem, which hits closer to the
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Exactly. The rewards need to make the toil worth it. Many started social networks and search engines in the late 90s / early 2000s. Many failed. My guess is some are broke. You can't predict these systems at all!
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Perhaps - can't jump into the mind of the author. But a lot of it relies on theoretical and philosophical scenario planning (eg Marx) If that's your premise, and you suggest that an authoritarian country winning on AI recursive se
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Since you seem to be earnest here: 1. Tesla single-handedly spurred the widespread consumer adoption of electric cars. 2. He's the first person to ever get rockets to orbit and back - governments had been trying for years. Yes space
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Interesting argument, but wrong. It's not obvious that there will be a single AI and that it will by definition concentrate power. At a certain point - intelligence doesn't matter. Unless we're literally headed toward 198
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Yes, but many tried to build rockets and failed. Many if not all new, critical businesses are built with government subsidies. The question is whether those businesses ultimately help society. With SpaceX and Tesla at least - it seems clear
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Correct. There's a huge social element. No one wants to throw their buddies in jail. It looks bad on the golf course (or at Burning Man / Sun Valley if you're in tech)
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
Impressed at the commentary here, which correctly points out Paul dodges the entire issue at hand. Three things can be true: 1. Growing at a rapid rate over long periods of time is hard , doable and rewarding 2. Incentivizing the disco
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
chickens -> roost
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
this is absolute slop, terrible, and beautiful in the way that all Fable work is beautiful, terrible, and slop. goodbye.
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
This is a heartbreaking story and you can't imagine a more motivated founder. Godspeed.
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by epsteingpt 4mo ago
correct but it's really bad news for the industry capacity if your best option is unproven space datacenters.

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