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Slop generator v4990.2.1 > Design shouldn’t be locked behind complex tools or templates. Definitely lock it being a subscription tho
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But still a lot of things do, pesticides following the rain cycles is a good example. We're killing the biodiversity and ourselves with it. We already almost entirely rely on synthetically amending fields with petrol byproducts to feed
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You forgot rain. Maybe one day people will remember we're just sharing one small planet, the air, the water, the food supplies, ... all the shit you dump/burn ends up in your food or water eventually
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Maybe, maybe not, it mostly wasn't a problem for the first 300 000 years of modern human history, now it's our main issue... I think it's worth questioning your "objective" definition
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> Have you ever taken a Waymo? You see them on every street in SF now Man I can tell you 99.9999% of people in real life outside of silicon valley tech hubs do not give a single shit about these things. City dwellers are already so disco
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> It is a little frustrating how we as a society have just decided that corporations don’t need to make money Making money was already a problem, what we should strive for is creating value. You can make big bucks selling cigarettes, lea
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The fact that LLMs are somewhat useful isn't really the subject here. The problem is that to be worth what they're evaluated at they'd need to be thousands of times more useful than they are. They can be useful, and extremely
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> copyright Another thing we should flush down the drain to begin with
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The Kill Pause
(andykirkpatrick.substack.com)
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It'll happen for the top 0.1% while the plebs fight about these topics on online forums yes
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> Firstly, unmined resources are large Mining at scale is a very dirty business, we're just displacing the problem, the root cause is our unlimited quest for "more", electric or fossil it doesn't end well
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The next logical step for cars were flying cars, the next logical step for planes was space travel. Both were hyped not so long ago, people believed in both, it never happened and it isn't closer to us now than 50 years ago I'm n
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And a minority of drinker drinks the bulk of it. > 10% of drinkers consume over half of all alcohol consumed in Australia https://www.ias.org.uk/2024/01/23/10-of-drinkers-consume-ove...
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> Who gets hurt when the bubble pops? Given how investing is heavily promoted by all these neobanks I have a feeling a lot of people will get burnt. Back in the days, not even 10 years ago, you had to research and go out of your way to i
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> AI is real and really could become AGI Every single researcher not being paid $$$ by AI companies say there is 0 path between LLMs and AGI, but sure... and the next pfizer drug might make us immortal, who knows, everything is possible
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You can fly with a swiss army knife in europe, or at least nobody ever questioned me. If you buy local everywhere you fly look for opinels, for $10 you get the perfect camping/food knife
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100%, like cutting grass, all the stuff you cut and move out of your lawn is nutrients leaving your soil, do that long enough and you'll get dead soil, then you'll need to buy compost... which is made from the leaves, grass cuts a
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It boggles my mind too, I always see these workers blowing leaves for HOURS in my street, you'd be more efficient with a rake, while using 0 gas, and producing 0 noise. Even from the workers perspective, you're just sitting there
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I'm in Germany and keep seeing these, I always wonder what a 400w poorly oriented panel getting like 3 hours of sun a day is good for. If they weren't basically free thanks to tax reduction and other tricks I assume no one would g
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> Are they even trying? Nope, probably too busy faking emission results, lobbying at the EU parliament , or designing overpriced mid tier cars in the US
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> This is much easier than building a car that cam set a record on the track. Why ? You "just" need a car that can steer and brake, what's the problem with steering and braking ? Need a steering wheel, good brake pads and
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Violent crimes stats look the same pretty much everywhere in the west, there are way more variables than "surveillance on/off", probably a lot of socio economic variables if I had to guess, as it turns out most people who are
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> Guizhou is a poor part of China Look at Schenzen in the 70s... If you want your country to move forward you need infrastructure, otherwise poor parts stay poor
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"just wait for the magic solution of the now+10 years" is what Germany has been doing for 70 years while France invested in nuclear. They're paying their electricity about 2x more than France while producing almost 10x the c
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You don't have an argument either btw, we're just discussing our points of view. > Why do we assume that we know better and people with far more knowledge and insight would all be wrong? Because money and power corrupt the min
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It's probably exacerbated by the fact that everyone invest money now, I get daily ads from all my banking apps telling me to buy stocks and cryptos. People know they'll never get anywhere by working or saving, so they're more
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You forgot that part: > The artificial intelligence firm reported a net loss of US$13.5 billion during the same period If you sell gold at $10 a gram you'll also make billions in revenues.
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> All the important people at FAANG, all the people at OpenAI/Anthropic, all the investors. It's like asking big pharma if medicine should be less regulated, "all the experts agree", well yeah, their paycheck depends
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I use it professionally and I rotate 5 free accounts on all platforms, money doesn't have any values anymore, people will spend $100 a month on LLMs and another $100 on streaming services, that's like half of my household monthly
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Does it bring more value than it cost ? That's the real question. Nobody doubt it works, everybody doubt Altboy when he asks $7 trillion
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