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It's surreal watching all the analysts stumble around trying to explain market behavior with half-baked explanations. One says it's tariffs, another says it's "uncertainty", a third worries about "recession&quo
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The "Take It Down" Act(eff.org)
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When a large number of super smart people with a strong track record of accomplishment do things that don't make sense to me, my first thought isn't that they obviously don't know what they're doing, my first thought is
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The fact that scammers, fraudsters, Ponzi schemers and extortion racketeers have run trillions of dollars of swindles using US dollars is not evidence that the US dollar is a scam, a fraud, a Ponzi scheme or an extortion racket.
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.mjs typically designates newer ECMAScript modules, contrasted with .js for older CommonJS.
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Exponential increases in inputs yield linear increases in intelligence. Linear increases in intelligence yield exponential increases in economic gains. Therefore, exponential increases in inputs yield exponential increases in economic gains
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Automatically inserting affiliate links into URLs when users visit certain e-commerce websites. Integration of Web3 features, including cryptocurrency wallets and NFT support. Inclusion of Brave News and sponsored images on the new tab page
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Because the question "does Diff A fix Vuln B" is not answered by the cosine distance between vector(Diff A) and vector(Vuln B).
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> nobody gives a flying fuck about the underlying technology That's the thing about money and value. Value is a social construct. Value is not created by the underlying technology. Value comes from collective agreement among human
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Say what you want about CBDCs, but they would fix this specific failure mode of digital assets where an enemy nation-state can steal $1.5 billion worth of the token.
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When you can't beat an authoritarian power while remaining democratic and peacefully supporting other nations in your region, the obvious next step is to discard those constraints.
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Cutting government isn't to save money, it's to evict ideologically non-aligned people who might impede the Red Hat agenda. Palantir is a force-multiplier that replaces a bureaucracy of people with raw data and AI agents. That&#x2
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Before it happens it's conspiracy thinking to go around connecting random dots. After it happens, everyone will say it was obvious all along, if only you could have connected the dots. Dots such as famously bragging about defaulting on
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> including all code in this manner will easily exceed context limitations The context window for Gemini 2.0 Flash can handle roughly 50000 lines of code, and 2.0 Pro can handle twice that.
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Because increasing investments and profits linearly would mean sub-linear growth in intelligence. Since Sam's only shot at immortality is reaching ASI in the next few years, sub-linear isn't fast enough. The purpose of ASI isn&#x2
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"cost to use" != "cost to train" Elsewhere he says that model intelligence is determined by the log of the resources used to train it, and this relationship has been constant for many orders of magnitude. The implication
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A better hedge might be private prison corporations and private military contractors.
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It's cheap because it's a Flash model, far smaller and much less compute for inference, runs on TPUs instead of GPUs.
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If you subscribe to Gemini the menu looks like this, with the addition of 2.0 Pro. https://imgur.com/a/xZ7hzag
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It loads the entire PDF into context, but then it would be my job to chunk the output for RAG, and just doing arbitrary fixed-size blocks, or breaking on sentences or paragraphs is not ideal. So I can ask Gemini to return chunks of variable
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This is a big aha moment for me. If Gemini can do semantic chunking at the same time as extraction, all for so cheap and with nearly perfect accuracy, and without brittle prompting incantation magic, this is huge.
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Fascism took over Germany not by foreign attack, not by domestic civil war, not by subversion or trickery. Fascism came with a whoop and a holler. It was what most Germans wanted, or came to want under pressure from both reality and illusio
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People also seem to think that an autocratic takeover can't happen if the autocrat was elected. In fact, most autocratic takeovers begin with a democratic election.
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When your bitcoiner friend told you something that's not true, that's a human who hallucinated, not an LLM. Maybe we're already at AGI and just don't know it because we overestimate the capabilities of most humans.
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Maybe they'll replace ACH with Tether. It would suck to extract even more public wealth to oligarchs, but no tears will be shed for ACH. Zoom out. If the goal is to stop cooperating with other nations to remove any restraint on oligarc
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I don't pretend to know their playbook. All I can see are the visible actions on the surface and try to infer from that what the underlying rationale and strategy are. But if a new regime took control in another nation and did everythi
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The WSJ says this is the "the dumbest trade war in history" because "when you tax something you get less of it". If the goal of the Red Hats was to get more goods from Canada and Mexico, then yes, tariffs would be a dumb
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"Even though that Airbus looks like it's flying it's really not because my personal definition of 'flying' requires feathers and flapping wings."
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> they are probabilistic language models This is like arguing an Airbus cannot possibly fly because it is 165 tonnes of aluminum, steel and plastic. The proof is in the fact that it flies, not what it is constructed from.
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Pretending to ignore politics is the most political act of all.

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