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by ke88y 3y ago
> If you can build a low friction app that solves a problem, people will use it. For p2b, Apply Pay lets me tap my power button twice and hold it next to the payment terminal. Hard to get lower friction than that. For p2p, the space is
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by ke88y 3y ago
Reputation isn't revenue . You could say the same thing about Brain or Waymo.
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Did the moon landing?
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by ke88y 3y ago
Functionalism, consciousness, and experiencing qualia are radically different questions. I believe it's possible in theory to simulate a human brain on silicon, and that this simulation would have something like consciousness and would
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by ke88y 3y ago
Unlike the original moonshot, which was famously first-order revenue-positive ;)
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Precisely - highly restricted demo neighborhoods. This USA is a massive country. 1. IDK why anyone would spend the money to do driverless everywhere in the USA. You can get to 30% of the population and by far the most profitable tax
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by ke88y 3y ago
In Phoenix you can as long as you live in a 200 square mile area comprising big parts of the Phoenix metro. And not just to the airport -- you can take it dinner, to the golf course, etc. SF and LA "coming soon".
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by ke88y 3y ago
I'd argue that the OG Moonshot was less of a metaphorical moonshot than most of the X projects. Self-driving is obviously WAY harder than going to the moon, and I think we were way further away from a science and tech perspective than
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by ke88y 3y ago
> outside of some very restricted demo neighborhoods Nearly 200 square miles of the greater Phoenix metro. If Waymo services your home address -- and it services a lot of residential area -- then you can probably get anywhere you'
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by ke88y 3y ago
Brain and DeepMind were separate orgs until very very recently. Google's GenAI stuff was mostly out of Brain and its RL stuff was mostly out of DeepMind.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Haven't the latest LLMs shown us that a neural net trained to "just string together readable words" lead to at least simple intelligence? LOL no. At least not for anyone outside of a few echo chambers. I have literally
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by ke88y 3y ago
>> Of course we can program AI to react emotionally to stimuli. Or, AI will be informed enough from its own learning to reach for an emotional reaction as a response if it seemed to be appropriate. >> "This isn't th
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Google launched its X/moonshot org in 2010 [1]. 14 years later, have any “landed?” Waymo, Brain, and Chronicle
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by ke88y 3y ago
> and were carried out by people who had spent a great deal of time in academia. Right. Who then promptly left academia when they needed to start doing R&D at a meaningful and consequential scale. The academic contribution to chip
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Yes -- once, like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos The Amazon.com e-commerce store, Kindle (category-defining), the Amazon fulfillment network (rivaling UPS/FedEx), and of course AWS. That's at least 4 distinct very successful comp
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by ke88y 3y ago
> xvideos It's a funny joke, but is actually one of the main reasons I stopped using Twitter. The onlyfans spam got really bad.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> but I don't understand the business loss when a bunch of IT professionals move their conversations to a private server. Why pay (as much) to advertise to an empt(ier) room?
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by ke88y 3y ago
This is why I stopped using Twitter. The quality went way down and there's porn/onlyfans spam everywhere .
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by ke88y 3y ago
Even if you think social graphs are the future of banking/payments, Twitter is still an... interesting... strategy. It's exactly the wrong social graph for that sort of thing. (I also don't think that hypothesis makes a lick
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by ke88y 3y ago
> you might want to consider your life choices and what they represent For most people who commute that far, their "choice" is not being able to afford rent anywhere closer where it's sufficiently safe and schools are su
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by ke88y 3y ago
I don't think Toyota has lost anything. I think they understand the mid-range market better than other care makers and are executing on a strategy that pushes most people's first EV purchase out into 2030, with hybrid and plugin-h
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by ke88y 3y ago
This isn't even remotely close to true. The only perspective in society from which it appears that Academia does more R&D than the private sector is academia itself. Academics in this respect have their eyes wide shut. At mot, pub
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Going to university should be viewed in the same light as a financial investment This is a good way to think about it in the USA, but IMO going to university should be viewed in the same light as going to high school or trade school
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by ke88y 3y ago
> If a person's logic and epistemology lead to him believing in astrology > I can tolerate conspiracy theories, or aliens, or whacky religions, but astrology is just so dumb. To be honest, I find your epistemological lapse ev
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by ke88y 3y ago
If I were an Atlantic staff writer i would pitch “the rise of the twitter professor”. Want a top 5 TT job? Find 10k followers. There are other paths but this is by far the easiest
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by ke88y 3y ago
Low end institutions just want enrollment. They literally do not care about transcripts. As we approach 2008+18 that will intensify. They’re getting desperate and the long dreaded End Times haven’t even arrived… (Bonus points if you can mak
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Tomato, Tomato
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by ke88y 3y ago
> True technical support can't be replaced yet, but thousands upon thousands of tier 1 human drones can be. I disagree. Those agents are useless by design . They exist to do nothing in most cases, but none-the-less need to exist
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by ke88y 3y ago
> the sole reason why... Strong disagree. 1. The USA's current stance toward Taiwan is largely a continuation of its historic stance, which had absolutely nothing to do with semiconductors. The USA currently maintains a strategic
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by ke88y 3y ago
I see. Yeah, I mean more like the type of work where -- if you go back and read the initial papers -- the motivation was primarily engineering-related is long sense deprecated. And there is no reasonable new motivation. But lines of faculty

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