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Eh, I'd say it's closer to something like internet + tulips. It's the total amount of money in the economy that's been invested toward a potential outcome. AI represents the largest amount of money, and largest fractiona
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They are very profitable when they win, what is the win rate of class action cases. Also what is the win rate of chosen class action cases versus all potential class action cases. Measurement matters here.
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There was no world in which driverless cars weren't the eventual outcome anyway. And, it's not exactly taking responsibility for the driver. It's taking responsibility for the safety of the passenger using their service. This
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Yes. More of, China is smart enough to use the benefits of both capitalism and authoritarianism to grow their country while western governments are busy stealing the furniture and fixtures off the walls.
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It seems unlikely as the entire machines with HBM on them are apt to be sold whole on the market and snapped up quickly. With how much demand is in the current market machines 3 years old may not be sold if they can't get newer faster
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Most likely the chip running at the core temperature of the sun. We'll have to figure out how to read and right to the surface of a black hole to get speeds that high.
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It's the hidden sociopath that's able to mirror a functional entity that I'd be a bit worried about in these cases. Damn thing would make CEO quick.
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The initial growth of the internet was a boom bust cycle, and as you see the internet is still here. This is more about the economic paradigm that is being used to grow a technology versus the economic paradigm the technologies rate of grow
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Nothing exists in the world that is not biased. The key to knowledge is understanding what those biases are.
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So China has similar family sizes as the US that had no one child policy. It's difficult to near impossible here to determine which counterfactuals would actually hold true. Based on other world wide trends it's very likely that C
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> then this proves wrong the hypothesis that modern hyper-development must inherently mean population collapse. Honestly you're reading the data completely wrong. You cannot look at it at the country level. In Israel for example the
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>They don't speak of "annihilating" other countries' industrial capacities. Why would they have to? When China talked about their 5 and 10 year plans on solar panels there was no need to talk about putting the rest of
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We are getting so many technologies like this that are so insanely specialized and require such deep knowledge of physical processes that some event like a 1918 flu that kills 10% of the population could take out enough people that we'
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The technical type tends to miss the power of the following algorithm. marketing > technical ability It's been this way ever since I've worked in the industry and will probably never change because of human behavior.
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Sounds like Apple hired some of the Microsoft project managers.
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It's pretty funny when you call something science fiction when you live in a world that for all intents and purposes is science fiction. The forum we're communicating on is science fiction. Getting in a car and traveling at 100 mp
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While working on a completely unrelated task and Alibaba AI in training started hacking its internal infrastructure and mining bitcoin, makes you wonder.
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Longevity decreases, cost of living increases on every metric, rampant inflation, ever increasing economic uncertainty, increases in mental health issues, increasingly unstable populism overturning long standing institutions. There is also
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There might be some confusion on your part on just how much AI compute has been installed in the past few years in relation to the total amount of CPU compute and the speed at which it was installed. If the CPUs life was an hour, the GPU AI
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Way to miss the point. VC is bad because of the concentration of power, same reason Walmart is.
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As another poster stated, Walmart and other large companies are already violating federal law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Patman_Act >And what happens if walmart closed up shop Everything explode
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>Like what? https://www.npr.org/2026/07/09/nx-s1-5885008/department-of-j... When consolidation happens collusion always follows, along with higher prices, and fines that are a tiny part of the total g
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> increasingly productive jobs. This needs to be defined a little bit better. If I own a hospital that makes infinite money and every patient that comes to it dies the economy measures this is infinite productivity. This is contrived, bu
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Quite a large amount of people have little empathy. Someone getting blown up somewhere else is a them problem. "I've never been blown up, they must have done something wrong to deserve it (I have heard things like this come out of
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>the claim is self-evident It seems like every day religious people claim their god is self evident too. Self evident claims are worth the proof they are written in.
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I am not sure why you came to this conclusion. Imagine we have all the worst people in history in a jail. Machiavellian murders that desire to kill as many as they can. Not only will they kill, they will manipulate as many other people as t
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For sure. I think what a lot of people miss when we talk about AI risk is there's just so many possible directions that it opens up. One could say it's a sign of having a lack of a scientifically based imagination, or maybe that&
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>Do books grieve? Is there any ordered state changes occurring in books? >they lack the minimum prerequisites. And these minimum prerequisites are? There are a number of scientists that would love your empirical evidence. >lack of
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This is too simple in itself. When your afraid you can choose to ignore the fear, but you are still afraid and it has physical effects that can be measured. There is at least a trinary state of possible outcomes and as the situation space b
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This is one of those things that really does need checked up on occasionally. For example, do video games not cause violence because of something like being on the wrong side of the uncanny valley. We know it's fake therefore its fake.
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