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by pembrook 4mo ago
Yea I managed to cure cancer and build a global utopia with it! It wasn’t just 14% better at coding... /s
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by pembrook 4mo ago
I laughed out loud. Do you understand in the EU Anthropic wouldn’t even be possible? Why do you think Mistral is so far behind? Also, as a US citizen Dario is subject to US law regardless of where he lives. The US loves throwing its weight
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by pembrook 4mo ago
The point is it's irrational behavior. And we all do it. It's burning $5 in gas and $20 in time to go to a store further away and save $25 on a sale item. And then proudly bragging "I'm not like those idiots who pay full
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by pembrook 4mo ago
OP has a valid question though. If you think its insane to spend that amount of money on it (essentially: it's not worth that much to you ), then you holding onto it instead of having $1300 is pretty much the exact same scenario? By h
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by pembrook 4mo ago
I agree with this, in theory. But to loudly proclaim your love for this idea as most have here seems a bit premature given there are potentially massive downsides to applying legal liability to an AI model, if not done extremely carefully.
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by pembrook 4mo ago
You've formed a strawman out of my argument. My point is Germany further rejecting participation in the the next wave of technology (as they have done for 50 years) is going to NOT improve the trajectory they are currently on...which i
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by pembrook 4mo ago
My feelings about this rest of the scope of liability. From my understanding, Google is now liable if making false claims about a personal/business reputation. I like this idea in theory (key word). However, I can easily see the slippe
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by pembrook 4mo ago
> It gives us European some opportunities...Now I feel more relaxed as Siri isn’t coming anytime soon. We've had endless opportunities to compete during Apple's entire 50 year existence. As someone living in Europe I feel ash
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by pembrook 4mo ago
This garbage "research" being on the front page of HN without getting flagged is a good indication we've reached peak irrationality in the current smartphone moral panic. About time we revisted this: https://tylerv
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Sir, I commend you for your lack of taste for aesthetics, "coolness", and for maintaining the cynical, pessimistic Hackernews status quo. I've been worried this place has gotten eternal september'd full of redditors, AI
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Very true, I preemptively assumed someone would reply 'What about Spain?' but then whether you consider the civil war part of WW2 or not is irrelevant given it had the same effect. Ultimately, a company like Stripe sits on top of
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by pembrook 4mo ago
People will blame the EU’s nightmarish fragmentation and regulatory headaches (all true)…but ultimately all factors ladder up to one thing: the availability of risk capital to invest in new ventures. When Stripe was founded Venture Capital
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by pembrook 4mo ago
The problem isn’t public or private, it’s incentives. If the private company is granted a defacto monopoly, it doesn’t matter that they’re a “private” company, they will have the same incentive and accountability problem. What we know for c
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by pembrook 5mo ago
> Which countries do that? Every single one invests in government bonds with a large allocation. Aside from the pure ponzi scheme ones with no actual fund where its money in -> money out. Also, if Europe stopped investing in US equi
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Uhhh...what jobs do you think AI is going to be tasked with automating? The most valuable non-foundation-model AI companies are...legal apps. This means he was right, not wrong.
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Not true in the case of average social security payouts. But again, this argument is a total derailing of this thread and addresses none of my points. Explain to me how expanding US single payer healthcare suddenly makes the US a worse plac
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by pembrook 5mo ago
What? Yes, you absolutely can buy half an acre. You think in 1880 people went on Zillow to buy land? You're just going to have to do this the 1880 way. Knock on the door of a land owner and offer to buy/rent half an acre so you ca
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Was just driving around medium and small-ish towns in Bavaria. This was not my experience at all. The German speaking members of our group had to order food for us in most restaurants. And most locals aren’t waiters in restaurants.
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by pembrook 5mo ago
This has nothing to do with it. The US also has public pensions (social security payouts rival or beat many EU countries) with dramatically better tax free private options on top. Also, the US has free healthcare (Medicare and Medicaid) for
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Real example: 75% of the global workforce were farmers in 1880, most on a subsistence basis. The people who left the farm for the factories during that time period weren't forced to. They chose to, because working in a factory was bett
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by pembrook 5mo ago
> what is keeping them back, though: Money? Compute? Skills? Training data? All of the above and more. Everything holding Mistral back is the same thing that has held Europe back from competing in the entire digital revolution. See thi
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by pembrook 5mo ago
> Automation is a boon when it automates physical labor, not when it automates away knowledge work. Says the knowledge workers, who have collectively spent the last 50 years talking down to the physical laborers with a smug "shoul
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Ironically their tussle with the US federal government is what made them a household name [1] There's no better way to create awareness of a brand than to get it featured in the most popular reality TV show globally at the moment: &quo
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by pembrook 5mo ago
API pricing drops DRAMATICALLY in enterprise agreements. As with pretty much anything priced on volume/usage. Enterprise deals are negotiated ad-hoc, the listed pricing is simply a jumping off point for the final negotiated discount. I
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by pembrook 5mo ago
Yes, that's my point. Before mass production only the aristocrats and royalty could own a closet full of clothing and shoes. If we blocked the creation of the assembly line and factories, we would return to that state where everyone is
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by pembrook 5mo ago
I find it amusing you keep insulting me as "ignorant" of the past while all your points rest on the Golden Age Fallacy. You seem to have invented a fanciful storybook idea of how the average person lived before the industrial re
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by pembrook 5mo ago
There have been a million IP disputes over creative/artistic outputs going back hundreds of years. This is extremely well-tread territory. We don't need to re-invent IP law. As much as people would like to completely own and charg
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by pembrook 5mo ago
The only thing showing ignorance here is your ad hominem personal attack with zero logical rebuttal of the original ideas. Not only is it against the rules here, but if I’m so wrong and ignorant, you should be able to dismantle my argument
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by pembrook 5mo ago
I never thought I’d see the day when the open source “information wants to be free” crowd is complaining about intellectual property and “stylistic inspiration sources.” The courts have already ruled on this. Creative work that is inspired
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by pembrook 5mo ago
> it's looking more like less than 1% benefiting at the expense of 85%? Your model of the world is wrong. 85% (even 99%) of people do not create any art, software, music, etc. The vast majority of people are consumers of any given

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