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by gitfan86 2y ago
I have also been in the industry for 20 years, I get where he is coming from, I also "failed" interviews at GOOG and AMZN for the reason he explained, but I'm not bitter, in fact I feel guilt if anything for how easy my life
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by gitfan86 2y ago
My concern is that the market incentivizes building at the higher end. People who can "only" afford a 4m home will be helped by the home builders who will build plenty of 3m homes but the people who can only afford 400k are gettin
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by gitfan86 2y ago
I'm not saying it is impossible for other companies to build good and profitable products. Google, AMD, Tesla all have good AI systems. I'm saying NVDA uses their own chips to help build more chips, AND they are intricately involv
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by gitfan86 2y ago
No one person or one company SHOULD have huge control over humanity, I agree. But practically speaking this is a unique time in history of technology because there are quick feedback loops that cause that flywheel you mentioned to be a insu
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by gitfan86 2y ago
The goal of teaching is to help students learn. By showing the student Perplexity the student would learn the value of sources and how he can get to those sources using a "search". It is unrealistic to think that there is any valu
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Perplexity links to sources. All he has to do was show the student the same search on perplexity. I do feel sorry for professors like this that cannot adapt to technology changes at the rate they are happening
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by gitfan86 2y ago
I don't the the author is saying that founders don't deserve 400k after 7 years of hard work. He is saying that it is sketchy that this is hidden from employees.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
If you had extremely big light weight wings it would help, but the materials that can do that don't do well when heated up
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by gitfan86 2y ago
https://x.com/paulg/status/1796174494026879040
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Also strange that PG didn't know that Sam had invested in OpenAI through YC until today.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
He has done an impressive job over the past few months in interviews where he says lots of word with zero substance.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Yes, if she lost movie roles or other contracts because people assumed they could license the OpenAI voice then she could claim she was harmed. However OpenAI removed the voice and this situation is widely publicized. So it is hard to prove
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Judges don't enforce bad contracts. Imagine if a landlord sued a tenant after 1 year for a new roof of an apartment because the contract stated that "tenant will be responsible for all repairs" but the tenant pointed out that
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Yes and No. If the full text of the license is "You must contact us for written approval before doing anything with this product" then yes that can be enforced. But a document like this which basically has a bunch of words followe
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by gitfan86 2y ago
It is kind of too late at that point. Good security requires proactive measures.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Maybe because that is a VERY different problem than the one discussed here. Building a single analog chip with 1 billion neurons would cost billions of dollars in a best case scenario. A Nvidia card with 1 billion digital neurons is in the
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by gitfan86 2y ago
The Fermi Paradox implies that some percentage of advanced civilizations would desire to physically explore many star systems. This assumes that advancements in physics don't make that activity less interesting to the aliens.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Very few non profits are run by people who do not want to increase their own income and career prospects. The end result of that is the organization as a whole is primarily focused in increasing revenue. Anyone who says "should we canc
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by gitfan86 2y ago
I've been living in SF for 8 years and this is hilarious and on brand.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Ok, but how is that relevant to the Google employees motives? Are you just changing the subject?
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by gitfan86 2y ago
The consequence of their actions is that they receive high social status from people with similar politics and Google makes zero changes to their contracts with Israel. And that was obviously going to be the result of these actions. If you
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by gitfan86 2y ago
The only reason air travel is affordable to middle class people is due to the economies of scale. This is the same goal with SpaceX. To drive the price of ton to orbit down a lot. That is the only way a city on Mars happens.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
It is the pretext for becoming a central bank. First they will move payments off of government currency and onto crypto. Then they will move payments onto their own crypto. At that point they can issue credit and modify the money supply at
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by gitfan86 2y ago
That is what corporate HR and Executives want you to think. Layoffs can make it look like the company is having problems so instead of doing that they will create vague KPIs so that employees will not meet them so they can be fired.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Eliminating caffeine will be the next trendy health thing to do.
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by gitfan86 2y ago
Are you sure about that? If it starts raining or the sun goes down, the system isn't going to alert the driver to take over?
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by gitfan86 2y ago
The context of the thread is people not buying Tesla because of the CEO. My point is that the people making these decisions are quite ignorant to the behavior and opinions of products that they do buy. That inconsistent buying choice behavi
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by gitfan86 2y ago
So you do understand that traditional CEOs have PR people that filter the public from their true thoughts. Did you also know that those PR people work closely with legacy media by giving extra access in exchange for favorable articles? My p
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by gitfan86 2y ago
I can't wait until people with DUIs lose their license permanently since there is a safer alternative
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by gitfan86 2y ago
For people who have not been following FSD closely it is important to understand this is the equivalent of GPT-3. The RoboTaxi will be running the equivalent of GPT-5.

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