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by richardw 3y ago
I think the first and second derivative, and causes thereof, are crucial. There are continuous improvements and price reductions to renewables and storage, brought about by scale and innovation. Those affect demand - the speed at which the
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by richardw 3y ago
My memory of the early ish days is that Facebook heavily leveraged Google contacts (which was allowed by Google) to discover friends, and then blocked others from doing the same. Is that correct or can someone offer better info?
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It’s not like OpenAI trained their model using someone else’s and now won’t allow it done to them. This seems more like saying “get your own content and do the work like everyone else”.
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by richardw 3y ago
> 2% isn't a huge difference 2% per annum is a spectacular difference, compounded. Careers and fortunes are made of that.
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I'm super keen to at the very least keep an eye on this! Good luck. Question: the world is basically an RnD lab right now, with hourly releases of ideas, lots of cross-pollination, all focused on discovering value a bit behind the blee
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by richardw 3y ago
The relevant Darknet Diaries episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/29/
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by richardw 3y ago
I listened to a recent Guardian Australia podcast with a couple of journalists saying (without any awareness of the irony): a) AI is stealing our work, we’ll block it, b) we see the benefits of using AI for our work and we’ll continue to ex
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by richardw 3y ago
Good enough has crushed many pretenders over the decades. People would love to spin some JS microservice wizardry and lift the HN user base. Why it’s very hard if not impossible is worth multiple aha moments when considering “sustainable ad
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by richardw 3y ago
Aren’t they using guns to fight cheap drones, at least for cities in Ukraine ? Eg Gepard.
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I say some of A are good. You say B is bad to A. Those two statements can both be true.
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There are definitely times I’ll take on a personal cost because of my principles. But he’s pretty far removed from your actual life and there are other factors. There are good people in the company and it’s the best current shot at competin
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by richardw 3y ago
User management, documentation, distribution, UI’s, upgrades, high availability and clustering, backups, libraries, skills required to administer and therefore hire for. I’ve worked in companies where we grabbed any tech we want, and I’ve w
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by richardw 3y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response
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On backtracking, I thought tree-of-thought enabled that? "considering multiple different reasoning paths and self-evaluating choices to decide the next course of action, as well as looking ahead or backtracking when necessary to make g
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by richardw 3y ago
If bitcoin keeps the botnets away from world beating AI, worth it.
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Also steps up the economic benefit of, and therefore demand for, botnets. We really need a solution to bad actors controlling vast amounts of compute.
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by richardw 3y ago
Nukes and meteorites have very few components that are hard to predict. One goes bang almost entirely on command and the other follows Newton's laws of motion. Neither actively tries to effect any change in the world, so the risk is on
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OpenAI and the Biggest Threat in the History of Humanity(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
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This board doesn't own the global state of play. They own control over the decisions of one entity at a point in time. This thing moves too fast and fluidly, ideas spread, others compete, skills move. Too forceful a move could scatter
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by richardw 3y ago
The main question at this point should be whether Sam's model or Ilya's model is more likely to succeed in the primary goal of the teams, which is (and should be): how do we stay on the leading edge long enough to figure out safet
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by richardw 3y ago
Won’t argue. I had one car for 14 years. But if the car is likely to plunge in value, I might choose to move faster to offload it. People will either do that or keep it until it dies. Enthusiastic countries will accelerate the process by in
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by richardw 3y ago
When the costs of running those gas cars becomes irrational to continue, purchasing behaviour will accelerate. We keep being surprised how fast this transition is happening, those surprises are more likely to continue than not. 2035 is a lo
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by richardw 3y ago
Dec 25, so wouldn’t be animator of the year for 2023. Besides, celebrate rather than compare: "When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create.“
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by richardw 3y ago
Original, I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973907
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Thermal model in digital twin of vertical PV system explains yield gains(epj-pv.org)
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And ChatGPT can’t do the trade… until Tesla figures out the robots.
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It used to be incredibly civilised and while that has drifted it still has a memory. Plus amazing mod, who legend says can fork himself at will. Here is written the infinitely patient guidance of dang: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by richardw 3y ago
I’m surprised people admitted they hurt others. Could you explain more? I assume everyone I know would choose to help given it’s 5 minutes? I think one big reason we’re in trouble is that people would rather have a small benefit for themsel
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I guess by comparison to pure EV’s they’re in a good position in the hybrid market for anyone who needs longer range and quick gas refills. But their EV competitors are all currently moving down the experience curve and building scale and c
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That sounds very rational and I'd agree fully. I suppose the challenge is that the optimists think there is no chance it'll wipe out humanity so they place AI in the "move fast and break things" camp. Getting them to not

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