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woosh
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Listening to YouTube on 2x makes it slightly bearable. But this was also the joke about TED Talks: everyone came away smugly confident they were part of an amazing tide of progress, ignoring any engineering or scaling challenges.
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ChatGPT also offered this: "For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting - no more - and then it motivates one towards originality and instils the desire for truth. Suppose someo
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> more capitalist than the US in many ways, particularly with regards to healthy competition. I'd argue that the US and Europe are bad benchmarks, given the entrenched quasi-monopolies the governments refuse to break up. But we&#x
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AI currently writes median-good code which is by definition better than the worst developers' code. In order to push beyond that (e.g. architecture, size, performance), the human has to bring the constraints. There's only so much
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You missed the Clouding@Home announcement?
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> yet as soon as things started slowing down the entire system collapsed with a shocking rapidity, because these things don't create social harmony, they create a dystopic nightmare that people want to overthrow. Different read: c
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> whatever color pill thats had a color representing a surrender to the AI "hive mind" Obviously the blue pill.
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It's funny the organizational rules that get written into a company's DNA. I could see a historical moment where Shopify, sans that invariant, massively fucked up inventory counts from uncompleted transactions... then had to unwin
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All of these have the feature that you can produce them more economically-efficiently at scale AND that boom-bust cycles can be catastrophic for producers. Memory absolutely fits both these criteria. As for the net public good weighing, a
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As a man who has cured (inasmuch as something like that word is valid in this context) mental health problems with the help of therapy, I'll raise my hand as an example. Personal perspective, but I'd argue there are an entire clas
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To be accurate, the elementary school was: - Built as part of an IRGCN base (that base was closed in 2013) - Within 100 yards of the perimeter of an active IRGCN base at the time of the strike - Targeted as a result of extensive
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An important one that often that gets lost in "drone strikes bad" internet debating: the cost of the alternative. If a nation is conducting drone strikes on another nation's territory, the alternative is usually conventional
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Destroying civilian infrastructure and killing civilians is the current Israeli government's goal. Military advantage is just a nice window dressing for the Geneva Conventions. Lot easier to steal land if there aren't any people
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{Black box} + {sunk financial/time cost} + {ambiguous rankings} + {marketing} = {irrational tribal loyalty} On reddit et al., people talk about LLM brands like their sports teams. I think the first-party ecosystem moats they're al
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Indeed. There's a reason the US government has historically stopped air traffic / railroad / longshore strikes: cascading effects. If memory is now upstream of so many companies, then maybe a higher regulatory involvement wou
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Transitioning to a post scarcity society requires broad, accessible dissemination of post scarcity production methods. What was the first thing we did when we digitized media and therefore made it copyable at negligible per unit cost? Spent
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If humans could politically-economically deploy superintelligence safely, then we'd already have less extreme pain/suffering. Unless there are countervailing forces, it will be deployed, capital will hoard the benefits, and everyo
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The problem at Google is their (lacking) process for Preview -> GA. Maybe it's a consequence of their rigorousness around SRE, but it doesn't seem like there's a plausible and efficient path for that to happen. Ergo, the o
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One of the most corrosive effects of being large and old (and Google is old by this point) is institutional inertia and individual internal optimization. The former caused by the latter. And the latter a problem once you begin to get execut
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140 characters was likely more efficient, in terms of forcing people to focus their thoughts. But it was unpopular, in that people don't like mental effort.
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Who would have thought that making someone with Asperger's CEO and giving them carte blanche to decide public statements was a bad idea?
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I'm struggling to imagine someone like that who also cares about the minutiae of this case. Or heck, who even knows this case exists. "OpenAI is so inept at system isolation that it accidentally hacked Huggingface" seems li
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Not to dismiss your point, but the US healthcare system has one meta problem. Complexity. There are too many parties. There are too many bespoke party-party contract. There are too many new middle-parties being created, with their own con
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Apple's always been ambivalent about big-E enterprise support. Probably a Jobs-era vibe about work-life unification.
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Or as the point was made in The Big Short movie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCb3xjh-Kk&t=127s
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Exactly. This reads like someone decided PR firms don't know what they're doing and decided to handle it themselves. But... it turns out that professional people and consulting companies who have years of experience in a subject a
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No. This is a fucking legal case. It will be decided in the courtroom, not on the internet. Posting this is insane in the sense of "What will posting this possibly improve for OpenAI?" It's not going to change the court case.
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Not in the sense that there aren't enough people to work, because there are, but because there isn't enough human labor willing to work at economically sustainable prices. There are categories of foods (e.g. many vegetables) tha
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> It's going to hurt when agriculture does not see the efficiency gains it has been receiving for the last century or so. Could go either way. Advanced robotics + AI could finally break more agriculture free from the "tied to

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