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by qarl 3y ago
> Consumers should have been limited to one vehicle during the reservation process. But that would bring down the numbers.
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by qarl 3y ago
LOL.
573.
by qarl 3y ago
We're just going to have to agree to disagree, friend. You take care now.
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by qarl 3y ago
I don't like being insulted and respond in kind. Tit-for-tat is a very effective game theory strategy.
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by qarl 3y ago
So... just how long did the NYT run crosswords without license of the inventor?
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by qarl 3y ago
Impressive that he waited until the second paragraph to talk about his own products.
577.
by qarl 3y ago
Cool. Send me a note when that happens.
578.
by qarl 3y ago
> Again you haven’t a clue of the point here I guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
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by qarl 3y ago
I think they're being extremely honest and transparent about needing money to continue to advance their work. I mean, that's the entire message of these emails they quote... right?
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by qarl 3y ago
> Not necessarily? Well then, I expect we'll see a bunch of small projects that beat the big players any day now. I won't hold my breath.
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by qarl 3y ago
GOOD GRIEF. You're right, AGI is not well defined. But it is perfectly well defined for the purposes of this conversation. Working in this space (however you want to say it) costs a lot of money. Everyone knows this. You nitpicking
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by qarl 3y ago
It means to run the back-prop algorithm to train neural networks to solve the problem(s) of AGI. Dude.
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by qarl 3y ago
But it does seem to be true in this case.
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by qarl 3y ago
Well, I don't think it's a maybe. From the emails it seems clear that even Elon thought the project would flop without a ton of money. It seems pretty clear that they felt they had to choose between chasing money and shutting dow
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by qarl 3y ago
I thought it was the fact that they needed a lot of money to train AGI. Everyone seems to agree that's the case. Do you have evidence that it's not?
586.
by qarl 3y ago
Right. But it seems like everyone agreed that they'd need a lot of money to train an AGI.
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by qarl 3y ago
> They are putting the company ahead of the goals of the company. I don't follow your reasoning. The goal of the company is AGI. To achieve AGI, they needed more money. What about that says the company comes before the goals?
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by qarl 3y ago
Yep.
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by qarl 3y ago
OMG you have NO idea how twisted it got in the end. I should write a book. Suffice it to say he died under mysterious circumstances in a foreign country and the state department never determined a cause of death.
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by qarl 3y ago
HEH - no worries. That was the arc of his life. I got one for my mom too, and then she moved to Switzerland and entirely re-invented herself at 50. Everyone has a different path.
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by qarl 3y ago
I bought a WebTV for my dad back in the late 90s to show him what the internet is. He went straight to a mail-order-bride website and destroyed his life.
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by qarl 3y ago
If you're not writing with a quill and ink, is it really writing?
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by qarl 3y ago
I think it's extremely telling that Elon is asking for a jury trial.
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by qarl 3y ago
Yes, I am aware. But presumably the similarly skyrocketing rates for autism aren't due to therapy (or vaccines, or...) but probably just normal phenomena that hasn't been carefully measured before. IMHO.
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by qarl 3y ago
There is every indication that the mechanism behind gender dysphoria is very similar to the mechanism behind homosexuality. Now ask yourself, in this day and age, is it appropriate to call homosexuality "dangerous"? So why are yo
596.
by qarl 3y ago
As someone who actually has a child going through therapy, I can assure you there is a strong emphasis on resiliency. There seems to be some kind of hysteria about kids therapy these days. Don't fall for it.
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by qarl 3y ago
Ah yes, the publication that argues in favor of telepathy. Definitely the kind of Hacker News we need. /s https://unherd.com/2021/11/rationalists-are-wrong-about-tele...
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by qarl 3y ago
Yes. I think an actual artist, if you simply requested "a horse in a space suit" would not think that you were worried about literally protecting a horse in space. Because, as I have repeatedly tried to explain to you, the idea o
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by qarl 3y ago
> If Tesla decided tomorrow that I can only charge at a Tesla charger I would consider that applicable for Monopoly purposes. Thank you for explaining that. When you said "Obviously not" above, I thought you meant that your de
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by qarl 3y ago
I'm afraid I don't follow. Are you saying it's a matter of absolute numbers (2.2 billion devices) and not percentage of market capture? As I understand it, McDonalds has sold over 99 billion Big Macs.

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