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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> if instead of proselytizing this was framed as a sort of luxury preference > Personally I'm fond of venison You just talked right past me. I was saying specifically—read the comment again—about factory farming and how that i
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> If the "industrial scale" is the main point, that looks like a solid argument - except why focus on animals? There's also tree plantations, mines, cities, and anything else that isn't sitting in the jungle doing cra
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I'm not so bothered about fools being parted with their money. In a perfect economy, they ought to be. > a sci-fi hazard Until it isn't. And we wouldn't know when this comes to pass, because few are motivated to care abo
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> People do the same thing with dogs and other animals -- assume an intelligence similar to their own, based on superficial behavior. Dogs are intelligent, just not the sort of intelligence that builds civilizations. > With a broad en
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The evidence can go two ways. Essentially the hypothesis that anything we observe to be conscious is actually conscious is unfalsifiable unless you make some assumptions. > We
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> living things Definition? > thinking can’t happen without a living organism Ah, it must have organs? By extension of your argument really leads to solipsism. The only real evidence we have—sorry, that I have-is that I am cons
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> ethically hazardous What's the ethical hazard here? The ethical hazard of inadvertently torturing limitless miserable slaves is a thing, but I'm not sure what the hazard is in this misleading about economic value extraction.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
What I don't hear in discussions about this, is in what manner human 'thinking' is distinguished from AI 'thinking'. A lot of people hold the prejudice that both 'thinking' and 'consciousness' a
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
There's quite a lot of fluff in the article, but here's the crux of it: > By integrating lightweight ion concentrations from rare earth elements into a specifically designed crystal matrix, they formulated a powerful memory sto
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
https://archive.md/5xhqP
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The scale of globalization post-WW2 puts it on a whole other level. The complexity of supply chains now are such that any country would grind to a halt without imports. The exception here, to some degree, is China, but so far they've
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
So the neutrino is just doing a PB 1RM?
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You might have missed the cold war in your summary. Mass nuclear anxiety really characterized that era, with a number of near misses that could have ended in global annihilation (and that’s no exaggeration). IMO, the Atoms for Peace propaga
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> You can compile several languages into WebAssembly already. Languages that can't be compiled will eventually have their own interpreters compiled to WebAssembly. A big constraint here is the memory model. Languages include a spec
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> truth We were talking information, not truth. The same kind of information that polling companies try to extract—mostly unsuccessfully—every election cycle. > If you believe opinions are information, more power to you. See above, b
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Tesla and SpaceX are extremely succesful companies, and to argue otherwise is just dumb. Definitely not what I was arguing, but I'll leave you to figure out how we got here.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You're obviously too young to have observed the dotcom bubble blow up and collapse, so I fully understand why you're drinking the kool aid. I guess we'll see how things pan out.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The argument was put for that Elon is an exceptional mind when it comes to capital allocation. My counter-argument is that to have Elon's success, you don't need such an exceptional mind, but it may seem exceptional due to the se
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> built his way > each of which make groundbreaking products and services It's like you didn't read a word I said. But to respond to your claim, which I've heard many times before – including from Paul Graham. Maybe he
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Elon's wealth is mostly in the things he has built himself. Elon's wealth is mostly in acquisitions. Even PayPal, co-founded by Peter Thiel, was an acquisition by X.com (the bank), at which point Elon was already ousted as C
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Wenfeng built a quantitative trading company upon his search to utilize AI for financial gain. He then leveraged his earnings to take a moonshot on buying a mother lode of NVidia chips – in 2021, prior to the US export bans and the release
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
They are, at minimum, information about a particular persons values and perspective. Collectively, those individual opinions are what shape elections and foment uprisings.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Perhaps it was a warning to the naive that might take the article at face value to perhaps reconsider? What is obvious to you , might not be to another. I'd say there are a sizable amount of viewers of this forum are either on the f
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Both Musk and Trump have "fuck you money". That is, enough to not care about consequences and to attract leeching sycophants. At best this leads to arrested development, at worst the lack of any need for introspection or groundi
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> "Well, it's because they're so talented and brilliant [...]" It's interesting to draw comparisons between Sam Altman and Liang Wenfeng, CEO of Deepseek, the latter of which is a domain expert, the former an exa
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Cost and price are two different things. Sam said cost, but really he meant price, because even by his own admission, ChatGPT's services are running at a loss https://twitter.com/sama/status/18761043152969688
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> "so what"? I totally understand your disenchantment, but if you feel that the mere opinions of the plebs are inconsequential^ and hence pointless, why participate in a public forum at all? ^Demonstrably not true if you look a
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> It would be like me saying, "I don't see why we should trust Saudi Aramco." It's completely fair response to say that if the CEO of Saudi Aramco performatively pens an article on how to mitigate the effects of globa
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Another way to look at this is: The first assembly language compiler was handcoded in binary to begin with, and then that compiler's machine code was translated to the more expressive language (assembly). Similar for Fortran/C&#
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I don't think anyone can truly understand what power does to the human brain in general and their brain specifically But you purport to? :) Power is such a nebulous term and can mean a lot of things. Of course, persuasive power,

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