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by imgabe 3y ago
People aren’t going to pay more so it is in fact not worth more. I know every artist thinks their unique vision is infinitely priceless but things are actually worth what people are willing to pay for them. If you can’t convince people to h
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by imgabe 3y ago
The board not saying what the hell they were on about was the source of the whole drama in the first place. If they had just said exactly what their problem was up front there wouldn't have been as much to tweet about.
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Wild speculation regarding the OpenAI fiasco(tiltingatwindmills.dev)
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by imgabe 3y ago
I think the reputation ship has sailed at this point. I wouldn’t expect them to be invited to join any more boards.
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by imgabe 3y ago
I mean, they have no equity, they didn't create it. They don't really lose anything if OpenAI disappears. Just fewer meetings they have to go to.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Hey if it’s a Weimar style apocalypse we’ll all be billionaires.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Yeah, people are smart though. Like if you’re good at getting food you find the person who’s best at violence and promise to get them plenty of food if they protect you from the other violent people. Maybe you divide up the work among the g
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by imgabe 3y ago
Violence can only get you so far. Sure, maybe the guy who knows how to get food will get you some food if you threaten to kill him. But if he refuses, and you do kill him, then what? You still don't know how to get food for yourself.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Nobody knows “humanity’s long term interest” with any certainty. Consider that fossil fuels allowed humanity to make massive technological advancements in a relatively short time. Yes, it caused climate change, but perhaps those same techno
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by imgabe 3y ago
Very true. Triangle of Sadness was a good movie kind of about this. When the shit hits the fan the guy in charge of the bunker is going to be the one who knows how to clean off the fan and get the air filtration system running again.
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by imgabe 3y ago
> Will nobody think of the poor shareholders? Do you have a 401k? Index funds? A pension? You’re probably a Microsoft shareholder too.
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by imgabe 3y ago
They already have massive influence over society with the added benefit of not having to rebuild 10,000 years of human progress so no I don’t think that makes any sense at all. That is cartoon supervillain nonsense. No real person thinks th
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by imgabe 3y ago
> Humans are really bad in assessing situations larger than their immediate family, and this is no exception. As far as we can tell humans are the only species that even has the capacity to recognize such things as “resources” and prod
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by imgabe 3y ago
So is Thiel, famously, but I don’t think that proves they want the world to be destroyed. It’s an interesting kind of problem to think about and you have to spend money on something. It’s the same kind of instinct that makes kids want to
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by imgabe 3y ago
You realize money isn’t magic, right? If the world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland billions of dollars doesn’t mean anything. You aren’t getting any wagyu beef down in your bunker.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Yeah that makes sense. Work your whole life building a company worth billions of dollars so that you can burn down the world and live in a bunker eating canned beans until the roving bands of marauders flush you out and burn you alive. I&#x
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by imgabe 3y ago
This is a tweet directly from Satya Nadella. Do you think he's publicly lying in a way that would be disastrous to the company he runs?
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by imgabe 3y ago
You might notice that Microsoft shareholders are also part of humanity and destroying humanity would be highly detrimental to Microsoft's profits, so maybe their interests are not as misaligned as you think. I am always bemused by how
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by imgabe 3y ago
Microsoft is now the for-profit arm of OpenAI.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Being successful as an artist has very little to do with making good art. It's much more about getting picked up by one of the handful of major galleries that will promote you to collectors as the new "hot" artist.
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by imgabe 3y ago
That's the point. If you don't even know what the optimum is or what you should even optimize for, why jump to the conclusion that some change is bad? If a species is extinct there is no hole. The hole it filled in the ecosystem i
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by imgabe 3y ago
What is the optimal number of species? Is there a universally optimal number or does it depend on conditions on the planet? On one extreme, if each individual organism were its own species, nothing would be able to mate and everything wou
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by imgabe 3y ago
There is still all the software to control the speed. It’s pretty astonishing that people here are naive enough to think that at any organization with the level of bureaucracy of the average car company this would cost $0. This isn’t your w
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by imgabe 3y ago
Also as TFA pointed out, simply changing the setting of the existing limiter is not what they’re proposing: > NTSB’s proposed solution: Adopting Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA), a modern and techier version of the speed governors that Cin
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by imgabe 3y ago
That’s not what they’re proposing though: > NTSB’s proposed solution: Adopting Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA), a modern and techier version of the speed governors that Cincinnati considered a century ago. Rather than preventing a vehicle
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by imgabe 3y ago
Why would it cost $0? It had to be designed, tested, manufacturing lines have to be modified to install it, it has to go through whatever approval process to make sure it complies with the law. What part of this sounds like it costs $0?
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by imgabe 3y ago
Webpages should not show autoplaying video ads and your browser shouldn’t let them.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Link aggregation sites don't work well as a reference. They're just the links that are popular that day. Aside from the wiki pages for some subreddits, they don't do a good job of storing a definitive set of links on some sub
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by imgabe 3y ago
Hi there. So nice of you to join us from 20 years ago. Linux these days runs quite well and has no driver issues. Meanwhile my Windows machine randomly hangs every 30 minutes or so while it spins the hard drive for no reason at all.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Translation: a pundit we pay to make clickbait headlines says this clickbait thing. Anyone want to wager real money on what will happen to them in six months? “Thing could possibly happen” is not news. It’s too bad we don’t have news organi

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