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by runako 1y ago
Destroying all copies of a critical biography is a recurring theme in the novel Trust. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(novel)
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by runako 1y ago
> expect the state with the largest concentration of energy tycoons and businessmen will figure out how to add grid robustness This reads like the energy tycoons and businessmen only recently moved to the state, and now they can fix the
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by runako 1y ago
> Police just don't do their jobs. So naturally, our police budgets increase every year.
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by runako 1y ago
As a person old enough to remember the War on Drugs, I can agree that people who think things are worse now must have spent the late '80s/early '90s sheltering in libraries or something.
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by runako 1y ago
Sigh. I really do not want to get into the politicized language around abortion. Especially in this specific case, where we do not know many relevant facts. Let's just use the language in the police report: > the abortion/misca
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by runako 1y ago
Huge disconnect between these narratives: - Crime is out of control, requiring deployment of active duty military to multiple cities. - Police are so bored they are sifting through security cameras on fishing expeditions to maybe find someo
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by runako 1y ago
Right, the model is a commodity to most users. So all things equal, a ChatGPT clone that costs (say) 70% less will steal share. Flipping it again: if the model is a commodity that lets one "use AI," why would anyone pay 2x or 3x a
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by runako 1y ago
The "hand wave" comment was more to preempt the common pushback that X has to get to scale for the economics to work. My contention is that 700m MAUs is "scale" so they need another lever to get to profit. > AI has go
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by runako 1y ago
I am not willing to render my personal verdict here yet. Yet it is certainly true that at ~700m MAUs it is hard to say the product has not reached scale yet. It's not mature, but it's sort of hard to hand wave and say they are goi
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by runako 1y ago
> If you discount R&D and "sales and marketing" If you discount sales & marketing, they will start losing enterprise deals (like the US government). The lack of a free tier will impact consumer/prosumer uptake (fre
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by runako 1y ago
> just a case of what you’re used to Also the reverse -- CarPlay knows where I have been, where I have searched, locations people have texted to me, locations in my calendar, etc. It's nice to not have to type in the address every t
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by runako 1y ago
Normally yes. However, it's worth noting that the last major economic legislation passed by the prior administration took effect over 3 years ago. Further, there is not a reading of that law that would predict a negative overall effect
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by runako 1y ago
Also worth noting that it's free to go see the shuttle now. The proposed location charges $30-40 for adults and $25-$35 for children. $150 for a family of 4 to see the shuttle[1] feels steep? But also somehow taking a thing that is fre
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by runako 1y ago
> you have to pay the $1400 to get Medicare This is a political non-starter as it opens the possibility that younger people could also just buy into Medicare instead of paying more for private insurance, something which has been declared
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by runako 1y ago
> the size of the government has vastly and consistently outgrown the private sector in both times of feast and famine The US government at the start of this administration was roughly the same as it was in 1970[1]. This, despite the add
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by runako 1y ago
One reason those programs are not means tested is because it means that everyone can depend on them. Once they are means-tested to only apply to poor/middle class people, they will begin to be aggressively cut like the other means-test
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by runako 1y ago
Yes, but then you still have to trust the counterparty enough to bother investing in anything like this. And so far, the main counterparties are demonstrating that they are not very trustworthy when it comes to paying for training data. May
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by runako 1y ago
One would have to be a special kind of fool to expect honest payments from the very same organizations that are currently doing everything possible to avoid paying for the original training data they stole.
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by runako 1y ago
In a search just now, Delta Main r/t from ATL-LAX is $337. Delta Comfort on the same flight is $727. (Yes, it's more than 2x the price.) Obviously Comfort boards earlier, but it's not unreasonable to attribute most of the far
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by runako 1y ago
> indirectly say that the person who wrote the piece is a bad writer or a good writer. A lot of the so-called tells are things that are more likely to be done by professional writers under the care of a professional editor. For example,
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by runako 1y ago
OpenAI yesterday announced[1] a partnership to deploy computer chips, but chose to denominate the size of the deal in gigawatts (instead of dollars, or some measure of computing capacity, or some measure of capability). They certainly seem
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by runako 1y ago
The median income in San Francisco is $69k. In New York City, it's $41k. Median household incomes are ~2x those numbers. A $120k job in any region of the country is 'high income'. You are feeling a different effect, which is
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by runako 1y ago
> To effect cuts, you can either cut the budget without improving efficiency, leading to a loss of scope (which is what the current administration is doing, and is not great), or you can keep your scope while improving your efficiency su
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by runako 1y ago
The primary point of distinction that allows AI generation to be inferred appears to be that the code is clean and well-structured. (Leave aside for a moment the oddity that this is all machines whose primary benchmarks are human-generated
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by runako 1y ago
In addition to the headline, this bill would also criminalize such popular movies as Hairspray, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Tootsie, for which Dustin Hoffman won a Golden Globe. (And quite obviously a fair bit of music videos and general entertainm
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by runako 1y ago
Absolutely. The catch is that when voters vote at all levels, they express by their choices that e.g. marijuana legalization is not a high priority. So voters might well vote to legalize if given that standalone choice, but it's not ob
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by runako 1y ago
We are constantly voting in primaries and general elections. We vote in federal elections every two years, state elections generally at least as frequently, though often not in federal election year. We vote for mayor and city council and i
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by runako 1y ago
Those are big percentages of export. You also raise the point that there are other categories of domestic use that also are not food (distillation, biofuels). But again, we're not necessarily talking about farms literally closing. This
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by runako 1y ago
Point taken. I think the "grain industry" has that problem, but no individual farmer is duty-bound to go 100% on grain for export every year. For example, they could grow grain crops intended for consumption in the US as a hedge a
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by runako 1y ago
> businesses that are trapped in that role None of them are trapped, there are bigger buyers that have capital and are willing to take them out. We don't have to subsidize millionaires with our taxes, especially if they don't w

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