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talldayo
2y ago
> It's either going to 0 (highly unlikely) There are multiple scenarios where Bitcoin becomes valueless, especially if people continue building on L2 chains instead of working systems. 1. Difficulty spiral where miners protest due t
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talldayo
2y ago
A 15 trillion dollar boom prediction is the sort of thing that should end with an "or I'll castrate myself on live television" sort of collateral. Guess they all took notes from McAfee.
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2y ago
Anyone familiar with the past 10 years of "unicorn" startups or Sam Altman's business history is perfectly content saying that OpenAI has gone nowhere and cannot find a market fit for their paid products.
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talldayo
2y ago
> We can totally control an entity with 10^x faster and stronger intelligence than us. Unless you're referencing an unreleased model that can count the number of 'r' occurrences in "strawberry" then I don't
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2y ago
> I'm worried that one of the most visited sites in the US is actively radicalizing a good chunk of the population. Thank goodness they're an American site, where the precedent for persecuting websites for active radicalization
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talldayo
2y ago
> Apple turning our devices into jail cells. > These tech titans need to be regulated. You say this as though anyone buying a Macbook in the past decade reserves the right to be surprised. New Trump administration isn't going to
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2y ago
Mother Nature just got a call that her first check cleared, she's very excited for the future of Apple's courageous new direction for e-waste management.
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2y ago
> Apple is about the only company that allows you to run any decently sized LLMs on a laptop Comments like these make me wonder if people even use different computers anymore or if they just say stuff and hope that it's right.
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2y ago
I'd do that too if I held stock, and I think the guy is a borderline-vampire.
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2y ago
> Hunter Miller humanoids like Optimus and drones like Anduril will replace humans in war. You do not understand how war is fought if you sincerely believe this. Battles aren't won with price tags and marketing videos, they're
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2y ago
The fact that owning Twitter was worth half a Mars colony to him should give you an idea of how seriously he's taking this whole thing. It's up there next to "Full Self Driving" and "$25,000 EV" in the Big Jar
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2y ago
> One of these days if AGI ever does actually come about, we might very well have to go to war with them. And the same conditions of material wealth that dictate traditional warfare will not be changed by the ChatGPT for Warlords subsc
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2y ago
Being a scrabble champion is not mutually exclusive to real-world impact. If a Scrabble expert lived a day in our shoes as software developers, I bet they'd think we're a net drain on society too.
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2y ago
> Advice needed: How do we market the NFTs to secure the funding. You don't. All developers I know are both satisfied with their current licenses and convinced all cryptocurrency is a scam. You cannot penetrate this market because y
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talldayo
2y ago
Probably not, most software engineers don't want to pin their credibility on something that can be debunked by a script kiddie with traceroute.
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talldayo
2y ago
Removing someone as a maintainer is not equivalent to banning Russian contributions. Linux fundamentally cannot stop Russians from using, modifying, redistributing and upstreaming code to the Linux kernel.
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talldayo
2y ago
The US tech industry will still be in a recession. The war against Chinese offshoring will work, but at the cost of thousands of jobs in the American tech labor industry. American businesses will become more frugal as a result and invest he
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talldayo
2y ago
Stadia was a failure from the start. Microsoft and Nvidia are also laser-focused on this game streaming business, but I seriously doubt it will pan out ever . At least not in a profitable sense. In that regard, I think Google planned to be
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2y ago
> I'm sure that with Trump unsealing much of the anticipated documents around Epstein, Diddy, Kennedy, UFO/UAP I think the only cognitive dissonance is expecting Trump to unseal anything he didn't already unseal in his fir
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2y ago
Stop relying on remote AI then. Failing that, do your homework.
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2y ago
You send in a supersonic fighter because no conventional drone is going to escape it. Dogfighting it isn't necessary, it's doubtful they'd detect you at all if your fighter is loitering at 10,000ft. Eventually the drone is go
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2y ago
Quadcopters occupy the same flight regime as most clutter does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutter_(radar) Truth is, a Patriot system would probably also miss something like this unless it had special SHORAD or CIWS
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2y ago
Some action is already being taken; supposedly the GREMLIN program is being rolled out in areas where sightings are most common: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-ufo-gremlin/ > If no joy on ECW, disass
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2y ago
> Nvidia also need to invent smth then, as pumping mining (or giving good to gamers) again is not sexy. They do! Their research page is well worth checking out, they wrote a lot of the fundamental papers that people cite for machine lear
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2y ago
Maybe it won't - I say "time will tell" because we really do not know how much LLMs will be demanded in 10 years. Nvidia's stock skyrocketed because they were incidentally prepared for an enormous increase in demand the
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2y ago
> Nvidia’s moat doesn’t seem that big. Well, look at it this way. Nvidia played their cards so well that their competitors had to invent entirely new product categories to supplant their demand for Nvidia hardware. This new hardware isn&
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2y ago
I disagree - another way you could phrase this is that Google is presbyopic. They're very capable of thinking long-term (eg. Google Deepmind and AI as a whole, cloud, video, Drive/GSuite, etc.), but as a result they struggle to re
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talldayo
2y ago
It's Hacker News. I hate to say it, but this is all the website is known for at this point. Bring it up in passing conversation with the in-crowd and you'll get laughed out of the room for using "Orange Site" and fratern
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2y ago
BERT and Gemma 2B were both some of the highest-performing edge models of their time. Google does really well - in terms of pushing efficiency in the community they're second to none. They also don't need to rely on inordinate amo
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2y ago
DevRel never lived. It was a fancy title for "Technical Writer/Marketer" that got accidentally turned into a career in the same way Data Science did. As the article mentions, VC "long term" investment and the assump
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