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by fooker 4mo ago
SoftBank’s investment plays have largely been comically wrong. This is a good hint that robots are really about to take off.
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by fooker 4mo ago
The Amazon video is from four years ago, and the Tesla one from 1.5 years ago. Things have been moving pretty fast in the last year when it comes to semi-bipedal robots doing the long tail of previously unreachable tasks.
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by fooker 4mo ago
> probably the vast majority Agreed, and hence I suggested an amazon warehouse tour (they offer one for their flagship robotics 'research' warehouse) to anyone, or a Tesla factory tour (might need to talk to someone, fairly man
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by fooker 4mo ago
How long ago was your robotics experience? An Amazon warehouse or Tesla factory tour would likely change your mind. I had to do both of these in the last year and not a lot of humans around…
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by fooker 4mo ago
As you wrote this, several hundred young men from Russia accepted a bet very much like this. The missing piece in your comment is the motivation for the government to run such a lottery.
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by fooker 4mo ago
Banks hold money for you, the cash would still be under your mattress if the bank did not hold it. I'm sure you have a philosophical point here, but this is exactly how the modern economy prices risk. Your understanding of the semantic
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by fooker 4mo ago
We have seen forest fires burning city blocks in west coast cities in the recent past, can't get more first world than that. If you think insurance will save you, it might not if no one is willing to insure your property (large true in
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by fooker 4mo ago
Of course, that's how risk works. Any high risk high reward strategy gets you in charge of creating the risk to chase a higher reward. The math is fairly similar between spending 10$ to buy a call option and a 1 million down payment to
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by fooker 4mo ago
The risk inherent in the ownership of land is having too much of your wealth concentrated in it, and having used leverage to purchase the land. Both are true for a large fraction of landlords in the world. A real estate bubble bursting or a
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by fooker 4mo ago
Perhaps you misunderstood what assuming risk means?
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by fooker 4mo ago
More experimentation sounds great. Most of the knowledge we have about what works and what doesn't is from decades ago.
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by fooker 4mo ago
That's an amusing misunderstanding of history. I can see why you'd feel this much animosity if you strongly believe this. Good luck changing things without understanding how they work though.
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by fooker 4mo ago
The problem is not capital here. Universities and governments have quite a bit of capital. They could do this in a larger scale. It's more about risk management. Do you want your university to be disbanded or your local government bank
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by fooker 4mo ago
I did not say anything about how you should feel. That's up to you. I'm telling you why the system works like it does now. You can, of course, choose to deliberately not understand it.
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by fooker 4mo ago
Definitely This is why strong regulation is important.
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by fooker 4mo ago
Are you perhaps too privileged to have seen situations where owning land is a liability? As we speak, close to a billion people are in the middle of ongoing wars. There are entire countries where land is worthless. Ukraine has several hundr
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by fooker 4mo ago
I'm going to assume ignorance and try to explain why landlords exist. Of course you could already understand this and have this as an ideological stance, in which case my effort is likely wasted. Landlords assume a similar role in econ
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by fooker 4mo ago
It's more about rules than hypothetical liability for Germans. It's inconceivable that someone would want to use a car outside of it's specified rules.
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by fooker 4mo ago
Paperclip maximizer
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by fooker 4mo ago
Models can't scan anything. They return instructions for you to do something, and you or a script you permit chooses to execute what the model tells you and return the result to the model.
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by fooker 4mo ago
> if you understood what they think they are building and the culture inside of anthropic you would understand why they did it. This seems like a cult with extra steps. Related: I interviewed for Anthropic a few months ago and in place o
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by fooker 4mo ago
> the quality of that model I guess the benchmarks disagree, but whenever I need to find specific information that does not easily show up with a web search, I try chatgpt, gemini and grok. Grok surfaces what I was looking for more often
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by fooker 4mo ago
Not sure what you mean by advanced transformations but I got these versions from ChatGPT without explicit instructions. if(x-1<2&&x)... if((1<<x)&6)... if(x<3&x)... if(3%x&&x<3)... if(!((x-
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by fooker 4mo ago
> They just can’t do it yet. Have you tried it or are you guessing this?
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by fooker 4mo ago
The best thing about leveraged schemes like this is that if/when it fails it takes down everyone involved.
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by fooker 4mo ago
> You assume that the EU acts in a coherent manner. When it comes to aiming for maximum extraction from big tech, yes.
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by fooker 4mo ago
What does a software breakthrough look like in your opinion? If you get yourself to define it, maybe you'll find it achievable :)
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by fooker 4mo ago
At its peak, Apple accounted for 70% of Foxconn's business and there are plenty of Apple folks directly working with them. It's an artifact of geopolitics that Apple and Foxconn and separate legal entities.
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by fooker 4mo ago
There really is none. There were, if I recall correctly, one or two generations of Dell XPS that came close but they started cheaping out on materials almost immediately after it. The old-ish ThinkPads were great if you want a rugged laptop
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by fooker 4mo ago
I love how the point being made is a tautology : AI is not conscious because it is not conscious.

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