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by lucianbr 1y ago
Where is this other $300B coming from? Is OpenAI paying AMD $400B or what? I looked at the article but it seems disjointed and hard to parse for me. And I don't see where it mentions some $400B coming to AMD one way or another. It&#x27
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by lucianbr 1y ago
What is AMD getting that's worth giving OpenAI $100B? Sure, they're giving it from other stockholders not from their pocket, but still. It's presumably a lot of value, there has to be a good reason, no? Is it that Sam promise
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by lucianbr 1y ago
There was a thread recently about sanctions, and how if you break that, executives can actually go to jail. It is obviously known how to get corporations to comply, and the mechanism is used when governments really want to. In this case and
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by lucianbr 1y ago
They are not going to ignore it. They are going to appeal it with a hundred lawyers and a truckload of documents with arguments, and somehow get it watered down. This is what it looks like from my pov anyway. I think courts are generally sw
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Ha? I read that S&P has maintained the same rating for the USA since 2011. Nothing has changed. Is this what you mean, "nothing happens" was inevitable given the tariffs? Do I misunderstand the article?
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Are there any events in the last, maybe 6 months, that seem to be still on the steep part of the sigmoid curve? I'm probably not well informed, but I can't think of any. GPT5 launch sure does not feel like a steep advance. What el
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by lucianbr 1y ago
The brightest minds (or something close) working hard to make computation slower and more difficult, so that someone can profit more.
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by lucianbr 1y ago
There's no proof that your catastrophic imaginary scenario would actually happen. Just "if you do what I don't want to it will be the end of the world". Convenient unprovable claim. Financial transactions happen all the
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by lucianbr 1y ago
I read it rather as a description of how very serious the threat of prison is, and why the risk is not worth it. Didn't seem funny to me at all, though I may well be reading it wrong. It certainly didn't seem like the commenter wa
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by lucianbr 1y ago
This was my thought too. When the government really wants corporations to toe the line, suddenly there's no problem with "piercing the corporate veil" and other such equivocations. They know what works - threaten executives w
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Sounds more like "nobody I care about is going to care about", which seems rather reasonable and eminently human. But maybe a useful increase in precision.
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by lucianbr 1y ago
https://jepsen.io/
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by lucianbr 1y ago
What are the chances suppliers will go bankrupt but the plants get sold and still produce power?
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Would you call iPhones chinese and not american? No matter, I think obviously people would consider them american, and importantly, the way they function and respect or trample consumer rights is decided by american citizens. Maybe the US d
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by lucianbr 1y ago
It does not have to be all or nothing. You can probably aim to reduce the degree of "US-made-ness" of your tech gadgets. I don't know how effective that is, but it's an option that's available.
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by lucianbr 1y ago
The author seems to think american companies are anti-consumer. That would certainly include Apple, no matter where a given product is made. Iphones are locked down due to decisions made by Apple execs and employees living and woking in the
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Maybe apply something similar to the Chesterton Fence principle: don't be dismissive of an idea unless you really understand the ins and outs of it.
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Yeah, I don't think the density numbers quoted mean anything useful.
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Is Paris 6 times smaller than Madrid and 15 times smaller than London? Seems suspicious to me. What exactly is the boundary of this "area" and how does it relate to the subway network?
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by lucianbr 1y ago
> I'd put "ability to work in a team" above "raw academic/reasoning ability" for the vast majority of engineering roles, any day. In this hypothetical, why do you do leetcode hard interviews?
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by lucianbr 1y ago
> Nobody has even close to an absolute majority in the parlement. If the parliament would elect the government, the situation would be exactly as problematic as it is now. I don't see how the fact that the president chooses the prim
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Why? What exactly makes it possible or impossible to have a coalition government, in your opinion? A naive look tells me if a majority can agree to support a government then it can work, and it not not. What "system setup" helps o
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by lucianbr 1y ago
There's no way on Earth Intel hasn't thought of this. Probably the sensors are in or near the places that get the hottest, or they are aware of the delta and have put in the proper margin, or something like that.
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Who hires / appoints the chiefs of the agencies?
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by lucianbr 1y ago
> Google has now 60 days I hope I am wrong, and would be happy if that were the case, but I find these deadlines laughable. In reality Google will delay this in courts for at least 5 years. In which time they will make some extra billion
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by lucianbr 1y ago
Who does "enforcement" in Sweden? Is the police somehow under the courts? Same for things like consumer protection agencies, environment protection and so on? Are prosecutors somehow in the same group as the judges? That may work
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by lucianbr 1y ago
It is a damn shame, and it is also a choice. If that majority chooses to work for the corporations, perhaps humanity just does not deserve better. There isn't anyone else but us humans who can fix this thing. If we choose not to, it wo
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by lucianbr 1y ago
I mean, I have multiple paper rolls in my house that are multiple meters in length. I think you have some too. Paper can be made quite long, it's obviously possible. Ever heard of scrolls? The ergonomics are the reason, not the physica
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by lucianbr 1y ago
They have quite large amounts of money. I don't think they need to be very cost-efficient. And they also have very smart people, so likely they can figure out a somewhat cost-efficient way. The stakes are high, for them.
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by lucianbr 1y ago
I think that is a good point, I also notice newspapers are not long and thin. And that is also for a reason.

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