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by parineum 11mo ago
That seems counterintuitive to me. Electricity prices don't go up because you have access to expensive power, it goes up because you don't have enough cheap power so you have to buy the expensive power. It seems like Norway just w
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by parineum 11mo ago
I'm waiting for the disruptive startup that revolutionizes corporate heirarchy by getting rid of PMs since they're so useless. Since successful businesses continue to employ them, I'm going to err on the side of they do serve
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by parineum 11mo ago
> Fact on the ground is that they usually optimize the entirely wrong indicators and never ever optimize for avoiding future problems. Fact on the ground is they don't optimize for _your_ indicators and have to compromise on what pr
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by parineum 11mo ago
Debt and an inability to pay it by selling stock is why they received bailouts. Nvidia and Microsoft stand to make less money, not be in debt.
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by parineum 11mo ago
> Most PMs I've ever met had zero clue what they are doing. And no it's not only N=1 sample, same anecdote is heard from many, many other people. Most people say that because they have no idea what a PM's job is and are up
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by parineum 11mo ago
> Spit your drink out when you figure out that the shadows on the wall are all fake. The shadows on the wall aren't fake, they are just... shadows of real things. Plato's cave is about having an incomplete view of reality, not
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by parineum 11mo ago
> an opportunity which was all-but-explicitly created by Elon Musk's payout system. Nobody seems to remember it now because the narrative got shifted to "Russians manipulating the election" but, in 2015/16, the whole
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by parineum 11mo ago
The people that work there have shown a willingness to leak information in the past.
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by parineum 11mo ago
Because you're not the morality police and speech isn't violence.
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by parineum 11mo ago
Is there a reason not to think that, when "refining" the models they're using the benchmarks as the measure and it shows no fidelity loss but in some unbenchmarked ways, the performance is worse. "Once a measure becomes
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by parineum 11mo ago
Not all pictures of anatomy are pornography.
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by parineum 11mo ago
No, I got that point. I just find it funny that the article completely glosses over the reason why artists license their work in the first place. Because the company they license it to is far more capable of making money off of their work a
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by parineum 11mo ago
> This is a nightmare scenario for a creator: you make a piece of work that turns out to be incredibly popular, but you've licensed it to a kind of absentee landlord who owns the rights but refuses to exercise them. This nightmare s
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by parineum 11mo ago
The entire point of corporate personhood is to be able to hold corporations liable for their actions.
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by parineum 11mo ago
Chronological is an algorithm
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by parineum 11mo ago
First, someone has to develop those models and that's currently being done with VC backing. Second, running those models is still not profitable, even if you self host (obviously true because everything is self hosted eventually). Burn
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by parineum 11mo ago
If tekens aren't profitable then prices per token are likely to go up. If that's all these businesses are, they're all very sensitive to token prices.
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by parineum 11mo ago
It takes a good idea and a willingness to take a risk to start a business. I don't think that risk aversion is what's stopping new businesses, there are a lot of people who do a lot of what I consider too risky. Instead, what I wo
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by parineum 11mo ago
> And the costs go down once it's bootstrapped long enough to obtain the long-term economic benefits that grow the economy (which will take a while to materialize). This is hypothetical, isn't it?
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by parineum 11mo ago
Future generations can't consent to anything, even fields of solar panels and mining for battery materials.
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by parineum 11mo ago
> Nuclear accidents were common back then Name them
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by parineum 11mo ago
Cost of electricity and cost of energy should be considered in a conversation about renewables vs fossil fuels. Many of those other states avoid high electricity costs because they are cold states that don't use electricity for heat.
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by parineum 11mo ago
I think that's a huge stretch. "Your community" isn't your doctor. This annecdote, to me, is cleariy an attempt to blame modernity for depression.
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by parineum 11mo ago
> where resources can be massively misallocated It's a little ironic but to call this a market failure due to resource misalocation because prices are high when high prices is how misalocation is avoided. I'm a little suspiciou
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by parineum 11mo ago
> Europe conquered the world using central planning. Ah yes, I remember when the country of Europe conquered the world.
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by parineum 11mo ago
> And that should be the goal of rent control. Short term relief while doing the long term plan of building more housing. Even when there's a plan in place, it's unpopular to remove handouts like that. Any politician up for re
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by parineum 11mo ago
> LLMs understand text on a human level (even if they have other limitations). Limitations like understanding...
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by parineum 11mo ago
> It has a fixed capacity of how many different things it can pay close attention to Source, all the way down to the ability to "pay attention to" part.
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by parineum 1y ago
Sure. Building out renewables while still keeping their coal/methane plants running. Then again, with the abundance of rooftop solar where it's economical, there's really no need for utility level solar. Wind is good still bu
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by parineum 1y ago
I brought up the mirror plant because the molten salt crucible is an example of an attempt to make solar work after hours. It wasn't viable. Solar+storage is not a solved problem. The storage problem gets continually hand waived away i

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