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Transhumanism doesn't get mentioned enough in these conversations. I'm glad this article does mention it but it doesn't really do it justice. Transhumanism is very big with Silicon Valley billionaires but it's actually p
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Some context: - In 2017, the v100 was a ~$10,000 GPU. I believe there was a PCI-e version but this is probably so cheap because SXM2 is going to be harder to use; - A 5090 has 1800GB/s of internal memory bandwidth (compared to 900GB&#x
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Let's summarize the history here: 1. The British were stealing Iranian oil (ie the Anglo-Persian Company, which is now BPl; 2. Iran democratically elected Mossadegh who said Iranian resources would be for Iranians; 3. The British freak
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Closure of the Strait of Hormuz is one of the most modeled events in military circles. There are probably thousands of military exercises on it, intelligence estimates, strategic papers and so on. Up until this war, it was unknown if Iran c
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The hallmark of anti-intellectualism is to insist something is far simpler than they've been told, dismantle it and then find out why it was the way it was. If you're an engineer, you've experienced something similar. You com
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The funny thing is that we don't need to speculate about many of the effects of this because it's already happened but nobody really paid attention to it. I am talking about the Trump 2020 OPEC deal. First, some context. OPEC&
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The core product of AI is labor displacement and wage suppression. Why? To further concentrate wealth. Who are the most expensive employees? Software engineers have to be up there. So Anthropic have been smart here by focusing on a market w
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We've been through this exact same thing with crypto and particularly NFTs. Remember those? Oh sure, a shortened URL on a blockchain is worth millions . Remember that? This quote on cognitive bias is often brought out: "It is dif
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That's easy to explain. We live in a society that will absolutely NOT do that. We will let people starve and die on the streets like it's some personal moral failure while we start minting trillionaires. Your job is food, water, s
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Even the revolution will need to update to the latest Javascript framework. So I don't see this going back to subsistence or primitive accumulation. If it does, some very bad things have happened. No, I see a likely future as what many
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The part that gets me is that changing of the rules by exchanges and financial regulators to essentially force mass purchases on a small float. That's disgusting and in a just world, those people would go to jail. The funny part of all
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Great piece. Just to pick out a few of many good points. > There is only one market that large: the global labor market. YEPPP. This has been my point. It is the only product for these AI companies: displacing labor and, by extension, su
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It's really the same in any creative industry. Employers exploit you through this combination of factors: 1. You love the area and are willing to take a cut to work in that area, particularly when the alternative is working on CRMs for
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But it’s not a bankruptcy so why are you bringing that up?
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This is just the most perfect Silicon Valley microcosm. How many startups work is they simply break the law. The gamble is that you can get big enough fast enough that you can then lobby for a change in the law before governments catch up.
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It's wild to me how willing people are to torch their company's reputation. If you've seen some of the videos and comments around this it really seems like the corporate owners, and possibly the new franchisee, are arguably,
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Name one time sanctions have worked. And relaly by worked I mean caused a regime to collapse or otherwise change. I can think of one: South Africa. And they were an ally not an enemy so they don't count. Sanctions against allies work g
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Sanctions don't work on enemies. We've had what? 4 years of sanctions on Russia now? How's that going? Iran has had over 40 years of almost uninterrupted sanctions. How was that going? North Korea? Sanctions force an enemy to
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The world already has come down on Iran's side. It's pretty much the US and Israel (and maybe the UAE) against the world. Trump has bemoaned the lack of international support. Use of bases and airpsace have been spotty. And this i
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No, Iran is acting like time is on their side. Because it is. The iceberg the rest of the world is about to hit in the coming month or two is strategic reserves of crude oil as well as refined petroleum products (eg jet fuel, gasoline, dies
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I agree but it's even worse than that . Data centers come down to performance-per-Watt. Electricity accounts for 20-30% of a data center's operating cost [1]. I don't know the exact breakdown but the GPU part of that is prob
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YEPPP... and I'm kind of shocked at how many people can't do simple math. Let's put it context. Google's annual revenue seems to be north of $400B. So if OpenAI suddenly had Google's revenue, it would still be insu
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If you want to use DDG then go for it. Let people enjoy things, I say. But let's not pretend DDG is suddenly surging, or even relevant really. It's a niche service largely for virtue-signaling by people who insist that "Googl
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I've been thinking about that comment and I don't think it makes sense. When it comes down to it, PE is really just doing two things: 1. Taking advantage of a pricing inefficiency; and/or 2. Using local monopolies, inelastic
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It's worse than that. Data centers aren't a net zero for the area, they're a net negative. They use up water, arguably pollute said water [1], they jack up the price of everybody's electricity (because everyone else ends
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The healthcare system is just rent-seeking upon rent-seeking. PBMs are another big one where the PBM gets to decide after the fact what your rebate is. No conflict of interest there when United Healthcare owns Optum, which I think is the bi
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> 1. No one forced these people to sell. Why do we need antitrust laws? Why do mergers need government approval? Or are you a libertarian who believes in unfettered capitalism? Where does it end? What if I threatened you with violence to
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This reads as apologia, blame-shifting, "I was just following orders". People have to eat. They need water. They need a roof over their head. Nobody has to buy out all the veterinarians in an area at rates they can't say no
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I don't agree with this argument. In the 1990s (and earlier) and 2000s startups were "rebels", almost countercultural (to Corporate America at least). Think about the famous 1984 Macintosh ad that evoked George Orwell. Ther
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My suspicion here is that there are deeper issues for which union-busting is a symptom and not the main issue. There's a battle to control what information gets recorded and distributed, an effort to silence anything that contradicts U

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