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by reticulates 3mo ago
You're just flat out wrong, it was not "basically inaccessible". Tens of millions of people had individual health insurance prior to the ACA, over 30 million in 2010, averaging 10% of all insured people from 2000 to 2010. The
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Democracy isn't to blame, capitalism is. The mega corps have every incentive to dodge the costs of their negative externalities and they have them money to lobby for that. The "reasonable" citizen supporting growth with cavea
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by reticulates 3mo ago
What are you basing that on? The ACA did not make individual insurance legal, it was already legal and widespread, it was not dependent on employment. The ACA made improvements, the ACA made individual insurance more accessible.
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Healthcare is "free" across Europe, including in The Netherlands. The choice of The Netherlands' to structure their system as mandatory insurance doesn't change the nature of it, it is free at the point of service with t
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by reticulates 3mo ago
The conclusion you're drawing does not follow. Canadians can be frustrated with the Canadian healthcare system and also believe it to be adequate when compared to the U.S. healthcare system. Canadians who are surveyed about healthcare
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by reticulates 3mo ago
The Dutch system and the U.S. system are not comparable. Health insurance in the U.S. is a “free market” that the government dabbles in with a little policy here and there. Health insurance in The Netherlands is controlled by the government
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by reticulates 3mo ago
The U.S. has waitlists too? The U.S. makes people wait based on how much money they have, socialized healthcare systems make people wait based on an assessment of need. The latter is obviously better, even though it is not perfect. You’ll f
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by reticulates 3mo ago
> Otherwise, you can go to healthcare.gov and buy it without an employer. using what money? Most people get their money from their employer.
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by reticulates 3mo ago
I think that is correct, and exactly why these purported margins are nonsensical. If Anthropic's reported $50 billion in revenue is majority per-token billing, and tokens have a margin of 80%, that would put Anthropic's profit at
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by reticulates 3mo ago
You’re missing the point. Anthropic are bringing more compute online by renting it and then they are creating the demand for it by increasing the limits on fixed cost plans. Anthropic are increasing their spend on compute without increasing
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by reticulates 3mo ago
A good manager doesn’t ask what you want to get better at, they ask what they can do for you. A manager who asks these sort of dumb questions is just going through the motions, you should do the same, say whatever they want to hear and then
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by reticulates 3mo ago
The entire economy could be entirely powered by AI and use less compute than is being used today. You're projecting the amount of compute used by coding while subsidized onto other industries, but that doesn't translate. Speak to
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by reticulates 3mo ago
but your contention is they are profitable on inference. Why would they need to raise money to get their hands on compute if they're making money on compute? There's no upfront costs for Anthropic, Anthropic don't own or buil
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by reticulates 3mo ago
How does future demand translate to spend? Anthropic aren't building out the data centres themselves, they're renting/leasing/borrowing from companies that are doing the actual spend on building out infrastructure. And t
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Your contention is they're spending it on what, exactly? Leaks put OpenAI's training spend at single-digit billions so that can't be the machines they're building, and they (OpenAI + Anthropic) are famously renting/
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Looks like it’s behind a paywall. I’ll take their word for it that semi analysis now estimate it to be 80%. That makes my point even stronger, if that number is true, where is the money? The report says that Anthropic generate over $50bn in
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by reticulates 3mo ago
We don’t “know” because they haven’t released any numbers but the most optimistic estimates (which many people believe are very very optimistic) put it at 60%: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-growth-and-
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Where are you getting that 80% figure from? Even semi analysis, the most aggressively optimistic analysts, put it at around 60%. https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-growth-and-b...
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by reticulates 3mo ago
You’re talking across the issue. The demand is real because it is cheap. The demand is being generated by OpenAI and Anthropic selling inference below cost on fixed price plans. If everyone was paying the actual costs then demand would fall
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by reticulates 3mo ago
no, even if we assume their margins are 90% (they are not) they are still losing money because the $200 plans allow for tens of thousands of dollars worth of inference and a huge number of users are milking every cent across multiple accoun
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Yes but how much of that compute shortage is from demand that is subsidized? We’ve seen companies like Uber drastically cut how much they are willing to spend on AI because they are paying actual usage costs, while at the same time OpenAI a
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by reticulates 3mo ago
The $200 you’re paying is heavily subsidized, you need to consider the real inference cost which could be closer to $10k if you’re using the maximum permitted by your plan.
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by reticulates 3mo ago
You’re back to the grandiose claims. The most important set of solutions in AI? Just as intercoin was the most important solution for money and qbix was the most important solution for community. You’ve been doing the same shtick for 20 yea
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Advice and information subreddits have gone to shit because of AI usage. A large number of people seem to think that when someone asks a question, what they really want is not someone with direct knowledge, but instead someone to relay the
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by reticulates 3mo ago
And yet your next comment after this was, once again, self promotion, proving my point. Safebots isn’t a contribution. You have just reinvented tools but bundled it with thousands of words of AI generated slop and terrible AI generated “ide
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by reticulates 3mo ago
The ego of America to think it is the only place where innovation can happen is pretty funny. Maybe America’s hubris and hostility towards talented foreigners is driving talent towards other countries? China doesn’t need to embed bad actors
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by reticulates 3mo ago
go back through all of your comments from the last decade, group them by comments that promote/mention one of your projects and comments that do not. I’d ballpark 95% of your comments have been self-aggrandizing self-promotion, it is e
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by reticulates 3mo ago
Read enough of EGreg’s posts and you’ll immediately recognize that this site is definitely his but at least LLMs stopped him posting about qbix all the time, a sweet mercy
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by reticulates 3mo ago
You said revolution, that’s barely incremental. If you had googled “apartment electricity usage calculator” you would find many options that provide exactly the information you want without risk of hallucination.
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by reticulates 3mo ago
> it’s definitely a revolution in access to information Did you mean: Google?

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