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by reducesuffering 3mo ago
> we’d be allowing a gap to open up that would make the difference between colonial europe and colonized Asia/Africa look trivial. An easy choice to make if the alternative is everyone dying instead.
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Interesting theory but doesn't really coincide with on the ground facts. We know there has been an increase in hormonal issues. We can barely even get anyone to stop heating up and microwaving plastic to be ingested, which we know caus
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by reducesuffering 3mo ago
identity pol: "people organize and advocate based on shared demographic characteristics" What in this post is possibly identity politics? It sounds like personal ethics to me. I don't appreciate identity politics, and when yo
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
From time to time? Lol you must realize, frontier lab eng are using Codex/Claude-Code 99% in loops, on models the public doesn't have access to. Why? Because it works. Just a matter of time before humans are out of the loop and wh
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
It's quite damning how much crypto bs YCombinator funded. At least 70+ companies. Their reputation has nosedived
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Yes all the F500 companies have been paying eye watering $$$ for Claude Code for half the year because “the king was naked” Those ruthless cost savings corporations, they surely never care about trimming extra spend
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
Claude Code has been out for just 1 year and has millions of users already, being a major contribution to roughly $40 billion in revenue. By any stretch it is one of the most extremely fast developed products driving the most important work
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
Not everyone, not even a majority, but many people would trade their ideal urban lifestyle for a different urban lifestyle if it came at a significant housing price discount. We already see this across the country, even in non-urban prefe
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
Housing in SF and NYC are on some level substitute goods. Many of the people living there are mobile and the ones deciding prices on the margin. If SF rent was $10k and NYC was $3k, many are going to leave SF to get a similar type of lifest
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
We've had the technology to build skyscrapers for over 100 years. They're illegal in 90% of the city
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
Anyone remember how immensely incorrect most of HN commenters were on Uber's eventual profitability? For years we heard endless admonishment of Uber being an unsound business model. They made $10b in profit last year, $150b company at
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
That's because one of the author's of AI 2027, Daniel Kokotajlo, an ex-OpenAI researcher, was the most prescient predictor of our modern situation from 2021: https://asteriskmag.substack.com/p/before-he-wrote-
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
People seem to oddly not care what Hinton thinks anymore after he hasn't aligned with the groupthink naysaying of AGI risks: 'Hinton said there was a “10% to 20%” chance that AI would lead to human extinction within the next three
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
This forum really needs to wake up to the fact that we are in the midst of the Manhattan Project 10x and we’re headed for Earth sized nukes
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
All of these negative comments are addressed by the blog post. What do you want them to say, that isn't better answered by the details in their existing communications. No negative comment here was really novel.
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
They literally just have. The ethos is explained here. If you don't bother to read or grapple with it that isn't on them. https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
They're not. They're in the eye of the storm and see what's going on the clearest. They were ahead of the curve to be where they're at now, and they're still ahead of the curve for where we're going. All the ot
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"This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t" https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
It's denialism, same as climate change, the subconscious fear to really grapple with the actual "what if" alternative scenario. Anthropic are true believers. They got to $1T in 5 years by being exceptionally smart and ahead o
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
Amazon's toxic culture finally caught up to them. Early on they nailed it with Retail and AWS. Since then, all that terrible cutthroat culture grinded the efficacy down into producing just abomination after abomination of any business
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The level of denialism when faced to confront hard realities of the world around us never ceases to surprise me. Alas AI capabilities continue to rip through expectations and the next goalposts are moved.
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People in the tech industry are totally ignorant of how capabilities will be within a year.
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But HN told me it’s just a marketing stunt
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Anthropic has finally come around to what others have already realized far sooner. Little time left now. Notice how shallow the arguments and consistently wrong the AGI naysayers have been year after year. https://intelligence.or
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“Better for you if you take me off.” The Whispering Earring: https://croissanthology.com/earring
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
So you'll be buying if it's at $5T market cap then? Because if not, you agree it's a matter of how much it's worth to pay for the wildly different ranges of future growth.
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It has been frequently discussed amongst Less-Wrong / "doomers", especially after the Sam Altman home attack, why violence won't solve the coming problem with unaligned ASI. If you're actually curious, here's a
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In the big 2026, everything certain people worried about with superintelligence came to fruition and they were vindicated. The people closest to ASI are indicating recursive self improvement is imminent, the smartest engineers in the labs t
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Atherton resident Marc Andreessen Apr 18th 2020: "It's Time To Build" "We can’t build nearly enough housing in our cities"[0] Andreessen family 2 years later: "IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development! I am wr
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by reducesuffering 4mo ago
> By early July, those strategic reserves will be empty The US SPR is at 365m barrels and has a max withdrawal rate of 4m bpd. Currently they’re withdrawing 9m/week. There is 0 chance reserves are gone by July, just incredibly incor

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