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by senordevnyc 19d ago
I think what I'm most interested in knowing is whether she was like this before everything collapsed. Is it possible she's just super awkward or on the spectrum or something? No offense intended to folks on the spectrum!, just tha
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
I don't necessarily doubt that this happened, but it's worth pointing out that this anecdote is from Adam Fisher's 2018 report of what Charlie Ayers recounted that HR told him Brin said, twenty years after the fact. Maybe it
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
This explains nothing. Money buys a lot of power, and he could have easily just had both.
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
Via hyperloop
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
It hasn't even been four years since ChatGPT was released. Arguably coding agents didn't even get very useful until Opus 4.5, which was less than a year ago. Why would the bar for progress and usefulness be that a brand new techno
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
My understanding was that the effort level settings on models is essentially throwing more compute at CoT, and it's trivial to see that more inference-time compute on a task results in better results. Is that not accurate? Because if s
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
Altman was very wealthy before OpenAI, and he declined to take any equity in OpenAI. How does that fit your theory?
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
FWIW, I also think we should have sensible regulations, because the externalities are very real and damaging, etc. That said, I find a concerning and increasing number of people are fully focused on the negative externalities, and blind to
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
They're saying it's obviously valuable and useful now, but some people absolutely refuse to acknowledge it. And in 50 years, there will still be a contingent who insists that AI is useless garbage, even as it's responsible fo
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by senordevnyc 19d ago
So a brilliant young engineer takes a job and is given some virtual pieces of paper that later people would be willing to pay him billions for (because of the brilliant work he’s done), and so now we shouldn’t listen to him? Really? I think
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by senordevnyc 20d ago
Why zip code?
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by senordevnyc 20d ago
No, but someone yelling about data center water usage while clearly not giving a shit about the things that use way more water quickly make it clear that they’re either very ignorant, or this isn’t actually about water.
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by senordevnyc 20d ago
No one would give a shit about two hundred golf courses being constructed in Texas. Even with the massive data center build out, existing golf courses today use more water than all projected data centers globally are expected to use in 2030
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
Well said. At this point I’ve literally read many thousands of HN comments about climate change over the past two decades that boil down to “we just need magically overcome the unprecedented global scale of the collective action problem we
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
From my perspective, we simply didn’t evolve to have the kind of collective intelligence required. There’s no point in being angry about it, any more than it makes sense to be angry at any other animal for the abilities it hasn’t evolved to
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
Who is using the hyperscale data centers?
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
I think the difference is that smoking is also horrible for the smoker, and many want to quit, but can’t very easily. People don’t want to stop eating meat, driving their SUVs, buying cheap shit on Amazon, and flying to cool vacations. St
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
With respect, those examples are about tiny heterogeneous populations and do not involve tremendous sacrifice. The actions required to make meaningful difference for climate change are orders of magnitude larger. And your solutions are basi
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
Can you point to any examples where democratic populations have engaged in the kinds of sacrifice at scale needed to avert this problem? Do you have any specific, actionable proposals to solve this problem that don’t rely on us magically so
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
The only time I can think of that democratic populations have made large and sweeping sacrifices have been when they’re actively engaged in total war. And even then, it usually has to be mandated and enforced pretty ruthlessly by the govern
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by senordevnyc 21d ago
Not remotely what gaslighting means
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
It’s not just whataboutism, it’s pointing out that the people up in arms about data center water usage don’t even know about the long list of things that use way more water than data centers, and when told, they don’t care. I think it’s p
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
Were there significant API outages too? I didn’t notice any on my production workflows, and I’d assume what you’re implying would cover API routes too, otherwise it seems kinda pointless.
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
Does the NSA even have the ability to monitor all AI traffic like this? Wouldn’t that require tons of data centers that there literally hasn’t been time to build yet? I really have no idea, maybe the asymmetry of the compute required to mon
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
Then why are these companies seeing unprecedented revenue growth? Who is spending these tens of billions of dollars? Maybe it won’t last, but it’s already happening right now, driven largely by corporate America. So yeah, maybe the orgs don
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
There’s zero evidence that OpenAI or Anthropic has ever violated their enterprise agreements and trained on data they agreed not to, and that’s what these big companies care about. They don’t care that you hate Sam and Dario.
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
We need a few more of these so we can have the Awards Awards Awards.
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
I’ve read thousands of comments and posts about the Hugging Face incident and I don’t recall a single one characterizing this as cute or funny, other than you.
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
Sorry, I’m specifically talking about the claim that a cutting edge $10k system cost $1k just 24 months later (or less). The 386 and 486 were 3.5 years apart, weren’t they?
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by senordevnyc 22d ago
Yeah, but the claim was that the specs for a $10k system cost $1k in 24 months or less.

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