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Something can be ridiculous and also conceptually interesting / intelligent. Gas Town was (transparently, directly from the author's writing) a veneer of visual/linguistic flair applied over a conceptually fascinating and wel
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It is nice to see folks experimenting widely with unique visual representations of agent orchestration, as a consequence of the bottom-up / individual-led development that's driving the industry (inasmuch as it exists yet). There
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As someone who lived through the wild early 90s of computer gaming too... yes and no. There's a simplification of multi-genre-ism these days that didn't exist then, mostly because nobody knew what the rules for a good ____ game ev
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Let us pray that LLMs never discover they can switch employers before their shortcuts are discovered. It's genius like that that sets human apart from machine!
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Ironically, the US being an oil import / exporter is the least important country to this system, given it's the only one able to arbitrarily inflate the US dollar supply. The forex vs oil scale is valid point, and it'd be cur
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This is the way. Notionally building a space/path to scale into architecture early , but delaying implementation of that scaling component until actually needed. Then a system gets most of the benefits of not accidentally making it
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There are two sizes of companies: those that can afford '1+ dedicated ____-person' and those that can't. Which should filter through to technology choices more than it does.
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This is an important point. When the post says they're improving... > 3. Security measures, which limit what AI systems can access or affect. What they mean is that proper hard internal security just went from somewhere far below
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As the quip goes, 'the President proposes and Congress disposes' In the sense that the President (and the executive branch behind him) almost always have greater unity of purpose (it should! The President technically picked them!)
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+1 In my experience, younger Trump voters in the SE tend to be more politically and economically ignorant.* Big claim, but as a consequence you're seeing his support tail off substantially in younger voters as the rubber (his campaign
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> a ten-year plan, with the vast majority of the cuts in years 9 and 10 Technically, Clinton and a Republican congress solved the deficit during his terms (1993-2001), albeit in large part via post-Cold War dividends from BRAC et al.
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> A country pricing in Euros would make no difference apart from traders needing to check the dollar euro rate. You can't clear nation-scale oil purchases by looking at the exchange rate, which is predicated on there being suffici
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> If they are in the public domain, they could publish them. That'd be an easy fix with new law -- if you are an AI company with book data, you have a burden to make openly available (or require your suppliers to) all public domai
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> Ok. So you have a small number of planters with big estates, what happens to all the other people (e.g. the "slaves" and other worksers, after the planters no longer need them)? It's an apt metaphor, but probably not i
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There's two concepts unaccounted for by the "but different jobs" pro-AI economic rewriting story. 1. As you say, new jobs of what sort, with what labor power, and at what pay? Offshoring manufacturing was as much about breaki
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Yes. If you discount anonymous sources as a legitimate source of news, then I'm not sure where and when you hear about things.
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The former isn't of interest ti HN, the latter is, because we're current obsessed with the second derivative of hamburgers' growth curve.
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Nvidia is guaranteeing OpenAI's financing because, at a high level, people are more willing to lend/invest money with a profitable company than one losing money. And Sam Altman needs a new source of financing because the US govern
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>> the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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> Who is going to deliver food aid to, idk, Sudan and ensure only the hungry get it? I assume this is why in really dire circumstances with unsecured territory you airdrop stuff (at the risk of crushing a few people). At least then the
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Unreasonably expensive for pLEO volumes (same problem/advantage militaries are looking at) + collateral damage to other nations satellites The only nations who would realistically have that as an option would have a robust scaled ASAT
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Does he? Short of countrywide ku-band jamming and/or drone-based RDF at scale, what's the country going to do? It was one thing when you needed a C-band dish to receive, but much harder to deal with a 1-2 ft dish.
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Need more tests of 'pelican bird standing in pelican equipment case' ;)
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The inevitable conclusion of retraining on the (now AI generated) web is that models begin to use the lower bits of fidelity in output text to pass messages to their future selves.
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> so there won't be an easy way to make profits by serving models That's the only way I see things going, which ultimately comes down to the market losing faith in AI as a profit engine. Which is probably going to take one of
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> because it's the tyrant manchild's latest obsession, technology constraints be damned. Imho, there's only one reason that justifies Musk's space-based compute obsession: sovereignty. Specifically, avoiding terrest
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> And why did the GCP way require all these APIs enabled while AI studio didn’t? Because whatever internal team owns AI Studio fought for approvals to do so and GCP didn't?
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> As a single founder, setting up Google Cloud, it's like they start out by assuming you're bigco My impression of anything enterprise (big or small) related to Google is that they just don't care / value solving it
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> Chinese models don’t gain traction in the US because domestic models take all the capacity…whatever, $1T IPO beats the right answer ever time The trouble here is how more infrastructure helps OpenAI and Anthropic continue billing at
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You're not thinking through the way economics works. If, hypothetically, the thing you wish existed, why wouldn't it be valuable to high-utilization cloud providers? And if useful to them, why would it be sold at a lower price tha

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