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by nearbuy 4mo ago
Not much point in serfdom when they don't have use for human labor.
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
> I feel like you're also doing something weird—sorta strawmanning and sorta being conveniently inconsistent. You're reframing his argument as something much softer. I'm going to firmly push back on this. A reasonable, str
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
You're not really engaging with PG's argument so much as nitpicking around the edges. Are people becoming billionaires primarily by cheating and stealing, or by making something people want? That's the core argument. Were Git
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
Anthropic's plan may not have great odds, but your proposal is orders of magnitude worse. There are plenty of groups opposing AI. They don't get billions in investment. They don't have a clear way to stop OpenAI or Qwen. They
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
It means Mythos/Fable was the strongest model globally, not just the newest model from a company.
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
That's not a reason for Waymo to give rides at a major loss. Heavy users are the ones that are going to buy the unlimited package. If you do just one average trip per day (there and back), at about $20 per ride, their regular price wil
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
$100 per month is way, way too cheap for unlimited rides. That's about 10x cheaper than the amortized monthly cost for owning an average car, without the headache of doing maintenance. They'd be losing a ton of money on each subsc
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
These numbers don't mean anything without a denominator. You could burn $10 million/month of tokens if you want. We want to know how the cost per unit of useful output compares to a human. Does $6000 of usage buy you a man-month o
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
> Playing at 1080p doesn’t reduce your texture size, for the most part. You still use those 4k textures because you’re only seeing a subset of the texture projected at a close distance. That greatly reduces your GPU memory bandwidth thou
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
Empirically, these benchmarks are showing it doesn't make much difference once you reach this level of bandwidth: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/early-rtx-50...
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
All good points. Absolutely an RTX 3060 is a more normal gamer GPU than the 5090, but you're also not playing in 4k without DLSS on a 3060. Drop to the most common resolution on Steam (1080p), and turn on DLSS and you've basically
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
Until an LLM becomes better at coming up with products people want and running a company. Then we'll cut out the founders and have LLM run companies.
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
But do you think you'll reach 1.8 TB/s?
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
Very true, but I'll point out that even those 2000 full screen reads per second at 4k are only 4% of the 5090's bandwidth. Sacrificing some of that speed for a unified memory architecture seems like a good trade. Plus, DLSS can gr
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
I think much of the difficulty is just that, for example, the 1.8 TB/s of an RTX 5090 is a lot of bandwidth for a game to use. That's over 50,000 4k textures per second at 32bpp.
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
It's not just a nitpick, because this is really at the core of your position. Ignoring the terminology, you're trying to claim there is some principle that says everyone should have the default position that LLMs aren't consc
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
I don't think this shows that people who can afford housing have more kids. And it shows that even households earning over $700k/year are now below replacement (replacement fertility rate is about 2.1). In the graph, fertility rat
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by nearbuy 4mo ago
This is a bit of a side point, but you are severely misusing "null hypothesis". 1. A null hypothesis is part of a statistical test: it is the hypothesis whose consequences are used to compute a test statistic, p-value, confidence
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
You totally reversed who is making a strong assertion. Anthropic has said they don't know if LLMs could be conscious. Ted Chiang has said they are definitely are not conscious.
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
Most of the time, no group of players will run a server at that cost. So regular players still can't play. It's not unheard of though. WoW and City of Heroes had/have large, expensive fan servers. But realistically, this legi
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
The article very bluntly states multiple times that LLMs aren't conscious. Ted Chiang is definitely making that argument.
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
There is no reason to have UBI if there is zero scarcity. There is no reason to have money at all without scarcity. UBI is a system for dividing up scarce resources.
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
> Now these two people how do they make money? they pay each other so there is no extra value created thus the amount of money as value symbol remains constant. The money just circulating around is actually more or less how a normal econ
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
I'm not sure why we have had such different experiences, but I feel like people have been saying those things repeatedly.
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
Star Wars almost feels a bit like it's public domain already. They've been pretty liberal with licensing their IP so we ended up with a huge number of Star Wars books, comics, games, LEGO sets, merchandise, etc. At the limit, ther
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
I wouldn't put that in the same category as campaign donations. That money won't help the candidate get elected. The money goes to the inaugural committee to pay for the event. I'd put that in the broader category of doing so
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
> But what is low, anyway? I think we're in the same ballpark here. > Abolition of copyright will drive that monetizable share essentially to 0% I'm in favour of copyright, though I think 70 years after the death of the auth
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
I know this is tangential to your main point, but in the US, you can only give a max of $3,500 to a candidate per election cycle, for each the primaries and general election. To give more financial support, you have to do independent, uncoo
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
No one knows. You're asking about uncaught crimes with no victim who can report it. What data makes you think it's low?
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by nearbuy 5mo ago
> Can a Waymo prevent a carjacking when someone places traffic cones in front of it? Yes, actually, that's an advantage of a Waymo over a regular car. I believe they have a perfect record against carjackings despite several theft at

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