radu_floricica

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by radu_floricica 15d ago
I wouldn't mind having verified accounts _as an alternative_. Not enforced over existing SM. I'd like to know that when I'm reading a comment, it's written (or at least endorsed) by a human being. Currently that's..
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by radu_floricica 1mo ago
In the context of climate change, it is the opinion that more industrialization and technologization cannot help solving the problem, except in a few narrow acceptable directions (solar, wind, hydrogen etc). An example would be the european
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by radu_floricica 1mo ago
More like "it's not socially acceptable to discuss alternatives to orthodoxy", but yes.
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by radu_floricica 1mo ago
I'm mostly stopped feeling autistic since adolescence, but climate change is one of those times. It's obviously real, and it's also obvious that shuffling chairs in developing countries is rounding to zero effect. We're
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by radu_floricica 1mo ago
If you have an even modestly complex software: - start building an internal tool set with proper access rights - put an MCP over that tool set. You're very likely to use those tools for other things as well, so keep the MCP as just a l
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by radu_floricica 1mo ago
I'm in EU. But playing the blame game is not getting us anywhere. If you look at this legislation with the most favorable eyes, it still stopped short of making sure it's applicable, and refused to postpone its application as rece
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by radu_floricica 1mo ago
Civility should be on both sides. The level of "not giving a shit" on the other side is much more than a couple of bad words.
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by radu_floricica 1mo ago
1200 euro TVs don't really break after 5 years anymore, not in any meaningful numbers. I've played with entrepreneurship most of my life - I know how "a solution looking for a problem" looks like. Any VC would laugh them
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by radu_floricica 2mo ago
> somewhere were we can't access it By any metric imaginable, it's making the information more accessible, not less. First, it's taking a single copy of a 10k physical print and it's making it digital. Is it "loc
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by radu_floricica 2mo ago
Situation is quite different than the article paints it. The venture was risky to begin with, and already dead in 2026. Subsidies are gone, GE didn't produce their new 18MW turbine, interest rates and construction costs went up etc. St
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by radu_floricica 2mo ago
I was reading the post and thinking "wow, that's pretty clear for a smart man used to writing for other smart men. it'll be really difficult to misunderstand". I read the first couple of comments and stand corrected. A m
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by radu_floricica 2mo ago
I don't think it does? Nor is it trying to. LotR was something that happens once every 50 years - a movie series that's as good as the source material and holds quality over 3 movies (wonder why they didn't do the Hobbit as w
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by radu_floricica 2mo ago
Umbrella term for political opponents? Those always exist. Some variation of "jew puppet", if I had to guess.
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by radu_floricica 2mo ago
If it helps, the nazis themselves probably asked this very question before they started killing ... whatever the contemporary term for nazis was back than.
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by radu_floricica 3mo ago
What this does is make it harder for new AI companies to train from scratch. Anthropic should take it from its marketing/strategic budget. It just bought itself a 1.5B moat at exactly the time it can afford it.
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by radu_floricica 3mo ago
> To prevent misuse, businesses relying on these exemptions must provide proof (e.g. documents or test results) and publish annual reports on what they have discarded. I wonder if anybody is keeping track of everything a mid size busines
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by radu_floricica 3mo ago
> Is supression of opinions and emotions even a good idea? This is the wrong question. Having free opinions and emotions is such a basic and fundamental good, that any restriction needs to be a lot more than "a good idea" - it
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by radu_floricica 3mo ago
Ideally, one would have a meta cognitive toolkit and regularly retest their beliefs, sincerely. But that's unfortunately advanced technique, and likely requires the better part of a decade of reading and practicing. What helps most is
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by radu_floricica 3mo ago
What you're doing now is taking a reasonable standard when going 200 on the autobahn and applying it everywhere else. And you don't see any problem with this because... think of the kids? That's not how you optimize an import
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by radu_floricica 3mo ago
Considering how skewed tax participation is, this would be a very one sided view. Just tax the top 49% more, no matter what's their current level of taxation, and redistribute to the lower 51%. It'll always make this criteria look
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
Could just be infra. I'm betting Anthropic is much better prepared.
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
On the other hand, when I visit Venice - which is as tight a city as can be, small streets with stone in every direction except the sky - they somehow manage to drop trees in stone squares. Same shock, different direction, much nicer.
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
... carbon is fungible. Are they sure the effort of recycling them isn't higher than the effort of producing a single modern GPU?
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
Well, I'm pretty sure ambulances occasionally run people over. Doesn't mean we should ban them. Orders of magnitude matter.
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
My biggest problem with Fable is that it includes health into its biology restrictions. Which means half the use I'd get from it ... doesn't exist. I'm not as bitter as I could be. I'm actually quite surprised at the san
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
For consumer products, definitely. Any unreasonably large charge (with a comfortable margin, like 10x) should be waived by default, unless the client specifically requested the limit be removed.
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
A steelman of this would be that they left OpenAI to build a company more focused on safety, and they're doing exactly that.
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
Well, yeah, which is why it's evil. Socialism I mean. How else would you call failing to do basic utility math while insisting you should govern and shape society? My answer to the trolley problem is that you're allowed to not kil
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
Those who are excited are a lot less likely to be out of a job in a year. I'm not saying that's _why_ they're excited. But it's a great time to be a builder, and a terrible time to be a worker ant.
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by radu_floricica 4mo ago
> WTF is Africa doing? Exactly what Ukraine was doing before the war, only more of it. A mixture of low level corruption, kleptocracy and outright feudalism.

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