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by epups 3y ago
Clearly they can't find a "random schmuck" willing to do it for less than 600k.
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by epups 3y ago
Exploitation is not about whether each party is making a lot of money, it is whether one party makes a disproportionate amount of money over the value the other party produces.
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by epups 3y ago
The "ugly numbers" boil down to Bing failing to gain market share, and ChatGPT reporting 10% fewer visitors on their site in June. Both of these numbers do not, in fact, reveal AI demand is shrinking. There are dozens of other sit
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by epups 3y ago
Hey, thanks for sharing, very interesting tips here. I haven't heard about a solution engineer before, would you say the difference between that and solution architect is that the former is also in charge of implementation?
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by epups 3y ago
> DBUs are on the order of ~100x the actual underlying compute cost Where did you get that from? Sounds like it can only be true if you only take into account electricity costs, not capital or wages.
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by epups 3y ago
My understanding is that he got capital by using his Tesla stock as collateral - having liquidated all at once would have damaged its value, which happened anyway to a lesser extent. I don't know how this debt is structured now, but I
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by epups 3y ago
He paid $44 billion on it. This is a substantial amount of his wealth, close to a fourth of it at that time. The default assumption is that he would try to extract some value from it.
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by epups 3y ago
It's possible that Google simply couldn't afford them anymore. At these unicorns they are leading, their current and projected net worth is so huge that even a company like Google might not be able to justify paying it without ser
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by epups 3y ago
It's too early to say whether they will be able to turn them into successful products themselves.
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by epups 3y ago
We should just go back to like 80% tax rate after $100M income.
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by epups 3y ago
Unfortunately, no solution that relies on this level of coordination will ever work. We cannot even get people to not block the corridor randomly when boarding or offboarding, enforcing a routine like this is not going to happen. Sorry for
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by epups 3y ago
Sorry but your entire point sounds like a no true scotsman to me. The work of developing useful software which most people get paid to do is, in fact, relatively predictable. Maybe we are all truly peasants who do inferior work that you don
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by epups 3y ago
> Building arbitrary scale SaaS data services, complex cryptographic platforms, more recently AI stuff, all are replete with unknowns. I think we can all agree that the vast majority of software work does not belong to the categories abo
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by epups 3y ago
It's easier to do that when your field is relatively obscure, and when you're wrong.
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by epups 3y ago
I think the work that needs to be done in the field of Data Science has not changed fundamentally, and simply varies from one organization to another on the specifics. As a poster above said, a Data Scientist can easily expect to spend most
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by epups 3y ago
I don't agree with the premise that a 51% compute threshold is transformative, but it's scary to consider that collusion among a small number of big tech companies (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Apple) would easily pass
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by epups 3y ago
> But any individual human should be self-consistent, which is what I would expect of a chatbot that "reasons". OK, should be. Are we, though? I can recall an American president who could not even complete two sentences without
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by epups 3y ago
> And, like it or not, we have a formal definition of reasoning and logic, and long expertise in analyzing how that works. Well then I guess all the humans in this thread would come to the exact same conclusion, because according to some
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by epups 3y ago
> Trying to conflate the issue by suggesting that "we don't know how humans reason, so how do we know AI bots don't reason" is, frankly, absurd. We can easily demonstrate that they are inconsistent and have no concept
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by epups 3y ago
How do you know for sure how human reasoning occurs, and that it does not use similar mechanisms? (edited second question to make it focused)
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by epups 3y ago
In humans, around a million axons [1]. But not every lesion severs all axons. It's very challenging to stimulate individual axons as well, especially at scale. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnan
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by epups 3y ago
I find it exhausting when articles are written about ChatGPT which can be trivially demonstrated false by simply testing their assumptions. Noam Chomsky pulled a similar one a while ago.
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by epups 3y ago
What would be an example of a work that a human being could not produce?
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by epups 3y ago
> I'm kind of surprised that in 2023, some signal replicator bridge from one side of the spinal cord to the other side isn't a lot more straightforward. The issue is that the spinal cord is a bundle of cables essentially, a lot
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by epups 3y ago
Yeah, the pandemic where rich countries had developed economies capable of producing such vaccines, which they then donated massively to poorer countries [1] or sold to other countries at reduced price. If these companies did not exist, or
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by epups 3y ago
Wow, that's hugely impressive! Where can I find more info about this? Is it all on twitter?
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by epups 3y ago
> I think digitizing someone's likeness so that you don't need to hire them again is a different thing entirely. When talking about that in the context of "societal good", replacing an entire segment of jobs that huma
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by epups 3y ago
Yes, because this is partly why everyone keeps working so hard to produce a revolutionary technology. This is also the way it works with drugs, we have just been through a pandemic and a lot of people made a ton of money over their inventio
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by epups 3y ago
Playing devil's advocate here: do you feel the same when you use a calculator instead of a human computer who could be getting paid money instead of saving you some?
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by epups 3y ago
But if this is the fear, why should we care? If John Doe, who is currently a bartender, wants to concede to Warner his appearance in perpetuity in exchange for $1000, that's his business.

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