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by oblio 3mo ago
Surprise: the comment above was downvoted in the bastion of libertarianism :-) https://youtu.be/lh2__MN-FTU?si=LXIaljh__s8fD75l&t=1568 About 3 minutes of video worth watching.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Because Amazon needs to justify $175bn of yearly capex spending and $2.5tn of market cap? Amazon owns a big chunk of Anthropic and a bit of OpenAI. For Magnificent 7 the AI bubble bursting will probably wipe out 30-50% of their valuations u
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by oblio 3mo ago
Libertarianism is not a philosophy. It's selfishness taken to extremes and trying to find ways to justify it at a societal level. The only reason we're the top species is because we're ultra social and have culture, which is
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by oblio 3mo ago
Soon you will encounter LLMs on the information super highway!
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by oblio 3mo ago
> and make inference cheap enough to eventually escape the red numbers Besides training, we have no hard, externally audited numbers that say inference costs for SOTA models are truly sustainable. Do any OpenRouter providers have publicl
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by oblio 3mo ago
Reality is a fractal (Mandelbrot?) and this is where LLMs will help science. They will help us explore the fuzzy edges faster. LLMs probably won't find new "leaves", but they should be able to cover a lot of useful but "
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by oblio 3mo ago
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
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by oblio 3mo ago
I wonder if we're a 5-10 years from running this on beefy consumer hardware, or more like 20+ years.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Interesting. I wonder if this could work in the opposite direction, forcefully opening Apple hardware to other OSes. Think not just Asahi Linux, but regular Linux distros on Apple hardware.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Interesting, it reminds me a bit of the Linux in the browser thing.
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by oblio 3mo ago
I said a lot more than that and this entire discussion is in the context of high speed trains and light pollution. Again, reading comprehension, context, and I guess, typical techie obtuseness.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Did you read my previous comment in detail? People don't live in caves, they will create light pollution everywhere, anyway. Might as well put them in small and dense population centers. I hate reading comprehension these days :-)
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by oblio 3mo ago
They can only do that if AI is profitable or at break even. Otherwise they would need to finance these companies yearly.
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by oblio 3mo ago
And... the people? Where do they come from? Mars? All you're describing is population redistribution, not population creation. Urban centers have very low fertility rates, which actually reduces populations...
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by oblio 3mo ago
I assume ROM would be even more expensive than SRAM?
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by oblio 3mo ago
> declined faster after 2019 Is your study discovering the effects of... COVID-19? I guess you've just discovered your own analogy of https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by oblio 3mo ago
> the real problem is they can't rule that parents must be responsible for their children It's impossible for the average parent to police their child's smartphone. They just don't have, and never will have, the techn
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by oblio 3mo ago
> but if there aren't population centers, you'll have to have plans to create them in order to support the rail system itself. This is such a misanthropic point of view. Nobody "creates" population centers. People are
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by oblio 3mo ago
I've talked to parents of kids where they banned smartphones and the difference is palpable. And good.
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by oblio 3mo ago
This type of repetitive comment[1] is a bit like the bike lanes discussion: 1.City introduces bike lanes on street. 2. Residents complain about parking spaces going away, businesses complain about future bankruptcies due to fewer customers,
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by oblio 3mo ago
It's super hard to time the market. I would say the sanest approach is to have cash on hand, choose AI adjacent companies with solid fundamentals and buy their shares once the bubble pops. It's very hard to make money being an out
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by oblio 3mo ago
Outside of Google, has semantic search succeeded anywhere else?
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by oblio 3mo ago
> Why haven't Anthropic and OpenAI produced a regular series of case studies where Company X did Fun AI Thing and incredible success ensued? Even better, why aren't AI labs guaranteeing success if a certain formula is followed
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by oblio 3mo ago
> If one has a deep, conceptual understanding of tools, systems and protocols and if one has the ability to carefully provide careful, concise specifications Most people already don't have the ability to do this and their use of LL
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by oblio 3mo ago
1. Everything you said is more about revolutionizing IT though. IT is more easily testable than other things in real life. 2. The gap between the singularity and really strong automation is huge. It's basically that between 1 million a
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by oblio 3mo ago
> municipal governments adversely affect traffic flow by lowering speed limits because those lower speed limits generate more ticket revenue. I don't know about the US because the US is weird, but: * at 30kmph the rate of fatalities
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by oblio 3mo ago
Spoken as a German or as an American?
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by oblio 3mo ago
Tesla car sales peaked in 2023 and have declined since. They've retired the models S, X, and the CyberCab is barely selling. Tesla also peaked at about 15% of Toyota sales. Tesla profit margins are now comparable to regular car manufac
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by oblio 3mo ago
Tesla will fall once they start going more into the red when: * their products are recalled (just as for "legacy" manufacturers, because making cars is hard) * Chinese brands take over every market where they're not outright
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by oblio 3mo ago
In that case, I withdraw my complaint and say that the whole think is just window dressing.

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