palmotea

15 ms·

211.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> It's holding up the entire US stock market and therefore the entire US economy and the dollar value. You probably don't want this particular Atlas to shrug. So you're saying we want to keep this bubble going forever? If&
212.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> That's not a NAS anymore, that's a full server. I think of a NAS as "low-power computer with lots of storage attached", so not being able to upgrade the RAM on one isn't all that surprising. Home NAS machines h
213.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> That means that they were already getting destroyed somewhat and not being recoverable, even without AIs. If there is just one or very few copies of a book or it ends in a particular buyer, or in warehouse prone to fires, not surviving
214.
by palmotea 3mo ago
It may not even legal liability, just blame. For instance: give John the job of monitoring the HR AI so it isn't racist. To do that he needs to do impossible task of checking 10,000 automated resume evaluation decisions per day. No one
215.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> From the blog post: >> In my dream world, the robots do all the boring jobs and humans spend all their time being creative, connecting with one another, learning about the universe, and sharing our ideas and creations in a great
216.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> A thinking press? Soon you won't be doing anything. At best you'll just be a bag of meat attached to automated processes you don't understand in order to take legal liability for it. Literally a scapegoat, except of a
217.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> It is difficult to think that someone who writes for pleasure would abandon it simply because of the exponential volume of AI-generated text. But the "exponential volume of AI-generated text" turns "writing for pleasure&
218.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> Huh that is an interesting metaphor. A next higher layer printing press? A printing press that does the thinking for you.
219.
by palmotea 3mo ago
>> Obviously they collect this information to be able to guide missiles and drones when GPS signal is jammed > Are there a lot of missiles that travel slowly enough to be able to guide themselves via watching for nearby wifi signal
220.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> And it is hard to get a read on exactly what is going on in that country but that seems to be despite heavy state intervention in the economy and without the benefits of political free speech. It's because the free market is not p
221.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> This is so important. I've seen so many fellow technologists (and I've skated this myself) obsess about their setup to the point that they're spending more time on that than the actual thing they're building. https
222.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> I'm not even talking about at work, I'm saying that a large majority of Americans are using AI of their own free will in situations where it's not required but is genuinely useful. Where is your data to back up such an a
223.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> Many of the anti-AI crowd use ChatGPT which kind of complicates the question of "do they REALLY dislike it?" Not more "revealed choice" BS. There's no free choice: even if someone doesn't want to use ChatG
224.
by palmotea 3mo ago
I was responding to the implied symmetry in the GP: the "employs" does not balance out the "unemploys", because the unemployment is likely permanent and the employment temporary. And then there's the fucked up resou
225.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> There's sort of no winning here! > AI unemploys middle-class workers: AI is stealing jobs from the middle class! > AI employs unionized middle-class workers: AI is stealing cheap labor from the rest of us! Come on, you'
226.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> North Dakota's unemployment rate is 2.3% So? What's your point? During the boom, laborers from all over went to North Dakota to work in the oil fields, and for the unemployment to say low there, most of them had to leave. And
227.
by palmotea 3mo ago
Yeah, it's exactly like that oil boom in North Dakota. There was a brief, massive increase in demand for construction labor to build oil rigs, and you had "man camps" an the like. Then once the rigs were built, the employment
228.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> AI investment will crash but AI itself (the technology) will continue thriving, learning, improving and there is absolutely no way to stop it. No, there's is a way to stop it. As obvious counterexample: go all Butlerian Jihad: dea
229.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> Ah, the newly popular "let's make the policy unusually broad and treat all foreign production as presumptively dangerous, regardless of country, manufacturer or security practices, this way we're more transparent about p
230.
by palmotea 3mo ago
Yeah, it's terrible. One of the things that struck me (in a bad way) when I visited the UK in my 20s was how there were so many bookies everywhere . Now were basically in the same place here. Organized gambling is a net-negative for
231.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> It's a huge time saver for learning something that you would have had to previously Google or wade through multiple pages of documentation for, as long as you develop an intuition for when to fact-check it. When you're learni
232.
by palmotea 3mo ago
Though newspapers are printed on some of the lowest quality paper possible, so they're probably suffering from other issues than just dryness.
233.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> The old timey ones were morons in every kind of human way, too. We know what dumb shit they thought and said. I'm not saying they were great. I'm just saying they probably spent more of their formative years interacting with
234.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> Fascinating to see how many tech people, as soon as they get rich, turn to extreme. Name them all - they mostly all are very active on X, and each new tweet pushes the limits of what was previously deemed unacceptable. They have the mo
235.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> ...vs. hedge fund managers or other super wealthy people who have structured their income in a way as to pay zero or near-zero income taxes? Would the latter be disincentivized from continuing those regimes? Oh, you know if something l
236.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> To address these concerns, I do support the following ~~three~~ four measures, which I and Anthropic have consistently advocated for: > ... 4. At the end of all this Dario Amodei must become a trillionare, for the good of all humani
237.
by palmotea 3mo ago
>> If I did that I'd seal them with silica gel to keep the humidity down. > I would think this totally dries the pages out and then they just turn to dust, from experience. They used to sell Boveda two-way humidity control pac
238.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> We reprint old books after checking out copyrights Who is we? > then store the pages in a sealed plastic bag which goes in the archives; they're stored there indefinitely Is that the best thing for archival storage? Like could
239.
by palmotea 3mo ago
The Internet Archive has a version from a few years before the deletion here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060716222727/https://en.wikipe...
240.
by palmotea 3mo ago
> A lot of engineer types forget that the law is not code, and reductionist arguments almost never actually work in practice because it's a human interpreting the law. It's worse than that: a lot of engineer types reason about

More ›