ericd

17 ms·

361.
by ericd 7mo ago
Yep, exactly, the problem comes when chatbots are used to shield all the people who can do stuff from interacting with customers.
362.
by ericd 7mo ago
Yep, I’m developing the direct agent access api in parallel as a first class option, seems like the human ui isn’t going to be so necessary going forward, though a little curation/thought on how to use it is still helpful, rather than
363.
by ericd 7mo ago
Actually, I have, Amazon has an excellent one. I had a few exchanges with it, and it initiated a refund for me, it was much quicker than a normal customer service call. Outside of customer service, I'm working on a website that has a h
364.
by ericd 7mo ago
I feel like that ship sailed long ago with phone trees and hour-long support wait times becoming normal. Not that it's an ideal state of affairs, but I'd much rather talk to a chatbot than wait for an hour for a human who doesn&#x
365.
by ericd 7mo ago
I think it's pretty likely that "intelligence" is emergent behavior that comes when you predict what comes next in physical reality well enough, at varying timescales. Your brain has to build all sorts of world model abstract
366.
by ericd 7mo ago
Hard to get 6000+ bit memory bus HBM bandwidth out of a 512 or 1024 bit memory bus tied to DDR... I think it's also just tough to physically tie in 512 gigs close enough to the GPU to run at those speeds. But yeah, I wish there was a v
367.
by ericd 7mo ago
Those were a lot easier to swap out. Oil is the foundation of modern society, CFCs were far from.
368.
by ericd 7mo ago
lol fair enough.
369.
by ericd 7mo ago
Because I'm American, so I use metric in scientific contexts, and weird medieval units in everyday ones :-) I'll edit a bit for clarity for you all who live in more consistent places.
370.
by ericd 7mo ago
But to put this in context, the average American family’s carbon footprint per year is roughly 50,000 kg, and one flight is usually on the order of >1,000 kg, or ~300kg/700 pounds of milk, assuming that 3kg CO2 per kg milk high end
371.
by ericd 7mo ago
I have. Kind of a hobby interest of mine, actually. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1032048/value-us-dollar-... If you care to check my claim on it not monotonically decreasing in value. Look at 1776-WW1.
372.
by ericd 7mo ago
Well, she started releasing lots of political prisoners. So it does seem like the regime acts a bit differently now?
373.
by ericd 8mo ago
Yeah, was going to ask - I had the same experience with DDG, but with Kagi, I’ve never once been tempted to switch back, even though I have to pay for Kagi.
374.
by ericd 8mo ago
It’s squandered from the perspective of the laborers and savers, because they don’t have it anymore. I didn’t say anything about excess money supply, though, were you responding to a different comment?
375.
by ericd 8mo ago
The value of the USD wasn’t monotonically inflating away for most of its history, people were mostly fine? Were those periods disastrous in some way?
376.
by ericd 8mo ago
It’s an important function, but the guys making these bets frequently pull down $10-$100M per year, each. That’s a huge toll to extract from the productive economy for playing this game. And then there are the guys managing things like pens
377.
by ericd 8mo ago
Yeah, the administrative overhead related to just the billing system is staggering . Many hospital systems have more billing professionals than they have beds.
378.
by ericd 8mo ago
Right now, there are Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs) going into place that put a price on the externality of carbon pollution in other countries with lower standards than your own. It's basically a carbon tax, the EU's
379.
by ericd 8mo ago
Interesting, most of the anecdata I've heard elsewhere (for residential solar) goes the other direction - that they degrade slower than expected. You're sure there are no dead microinverters involved, right? I guess that'd be
380.
by ericd 8mo ago
That hasn’t really been true in the US in recent decades - efficiency improvements and deindustrialization were balancing increasing population. It’s recently started growing again because EVs, heat pumps, and DCs, but even a 3% increase in
381.
by ericd 8mo ago
The 25 year thing comes from the 25 year warranties - they’re generally warrantied to be at 80% power capability at 25 years. I don’t know the real lifetime, but presumably it’s a lot longer than 25 years. And by that point, maybe we’ll hav
382.
by ericd 8mo ago
It’s extremely super linear, supposedly 4th power of axle weight. So it doesn’t make sense to argue over the relative size of mice when there are elephants around.
383.
by ericd 8mo ago
Is that… Chrono Trigger?
384.
by ericd 8mo ago
Heh could also be your router?
385.
by ericd 8mo ago
Well, it might actually decrease GDP in this case, because it's making it so I can just quickly make products that I would've otherwise purchased. But it's also made me more productive, and purchasing things isn't good f
386.
by ericd 8mo ago
All those racks of Nvidia machines might not pay off for the companies buying them, but I have a hard time believing that people are still questioning the utility of this stuff. In the last hour, Opus downloaded data for and implemented a c
387.
by ericd 8mo ago
Wow, that's crazy, I had no idea people took WoW to those lengths.
388.
by ericd 8mo ago
Were people really ddos'ing teamspeak servers? What does anyone gain from that?
389.
by ericd 8mo ago
Kind of like how people maintained that LLMs were trash well past the point where it was obvious that that wasn't true anymore, I often wonder how many people who talk confidently about Tesla FSD have actually used a recent version. Be
390.
by ericd 8mo ago
Sure, people mostly call out private equity when you see a group trying to cobble together local monopoly power over some necessity of life just to extract more from everyone, or trying to financially optimize something by that was never fi

More ›