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by tedggh 6d ago
Nuclear war is a civilization-ending tool that AI could realistically exploit. It would only need to hack a weaker nuclear nation to send a ICBM our way, sabotage communications and let our draconian nuclear war strategy do the rest. There’
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by tedggh 6d ago
It is possible that models are only the byproduct of what frontier labs are doing. In other words, what you call AI is just a log, a trace of what the real AI, for which only frontier labs have access to, did.
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by tedggh 6d ago
The US and particularly its armed forces don’t look at all like the 1800s, so another civil war of that nature is not possible. Sabotage, terrorism and political violence could be a new form of civil unrest, but full out civil war without a
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by tedggh 10d ago
“Higher rates means financing/borrowing is more expensive. Mortgage rates will go up,…” This is highly inaccurate. The 10 year US treasury is a better metric for predicting mortgage rates. We saw this during the past interest rate cuts
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by tedggh 10d ago
Yeah speaking of history. Let’s pretend that the US and Canada have never been in conflict before. We literally went to war, had multiple territorial disputes, plans of invasions, tariffs and trade wars, not to mention all the disagreements
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by tedggh 10d ago
The current regime is due 2028. For most of their history Canada and USA had cordial relations. This looks like a reactionary measure rather than a long term strategic one. Europe is in decline and facing political irrelevance, not the type
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by tedggh 13d ago
Not a fan of Amodei myself but calling Anthropic a scam is a bit of a stretch when their revenue growth is unprecedented in the history of tech. They are also technically a profitable business.
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by tedggh 19d ago
Switzerland was “neutral” not neutral. The Swiss certainly crossed into the complicit side quite often, profiting from the Nazi regime, laundering their looted gold and closing their borders to fleeing Jews.
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by tedggh 19d ago
I wound pay not to have TiVo at all.
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by tedggh 19d ago
Most people under 40, 30 and even 20 I know are on Instagram, and many under 40 and 30 are on Facebook. Maybe it varies with country, education level or some other factors.
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by tedggh 20d ago
It appears LLMs are much better at writing during a debate than when explicitly asked to write. The moment LLMs are tasked with composing a blog article or intro for a book they introduce all the nuances that identify the output as AI slop.
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by tedggh 22d ago
Humans think too highly about themselves particularly when judging other species. How can we judge something we can’t experience ourselves? like multiple distributed consciousness of octopuses or emergent descentralized logic of ants?Some s
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by tedggh 23d ago
“ Claude accurately remembered the first source when it was stolen during the training process” I see…
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by tedggh 23d ago
As a naturalized American who lived in 3 other countries including two in Europe and who travels often all over the world, married to a European, etc I must say the US has its perks and it’s definitely in my top 5 countries to live. I live
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by tedggh 23d ago
There’s plenty of ways to trust your very young kids and raise them to be independent. Allowing them to walk alone for half a mile crossing roads is not one of the them. Kids can behave very differently when they are with their parents or o
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by tedggh 23d ago
Downvoted for knowing how to read
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by tedggh 24d ago
Always assume and act as they won’t honor it.
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by tedggh 24d ago
You said it correctly, there’s no confusion.
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by tedggh 26d ago
Love this. Have you tried lighting at that scale? Would it be possible to simulate say candle light on a table? Or window light? I think with light sources the images would look more intimate.
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by tedggh 1mo ago
So harming kids has an official price tag now, $17B. That’s about $8 for every kid in the world.
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by tedggh 1mo ago
There were definitely horrible places on the internet pre Facebook that were popular among kids like Rotten and Ogrish. But there was not a trillion dollar company investing billions of dollars and hundreds of scientists on research to attr
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by tedggh 1mo ago
I have always been pro fundamentals. It caused me trouble early in my career with bosses that didn’t understand why I would spend time trying to understand how something worked at a low level if I was a high level user. But then knowing the
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by tedggh 1mo ago
How come Flock is not listed? That’s the most troubling company a16z has heavily invested on and supported.
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by tedggh 1mo ago
I feel I’ve been left behind because all I use is Agents.md / Claude.md and Project.md. No skills, no tools. Everything I want my agent to do is specified in those two files. I also have a particular directory and file structure for th
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by tedggh 1mo ago
My understanding is some of it about 20% is intragovernmental,like borrowed from SS. Not that it doesn’t matter, but the 100% left is what sets the interest rates. The other 20% will start moving into the 100% public debt at some point. So
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by tedggh 1mo ago
It just takes a bit of reading about American history to know that we have had authoritarian phases pretty much since our independence. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson policies against freedom of speech, native Americans and international t
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by tedggh 1mo ago
GenX/Millennial retirement communities abroad. There won’t be any SS funds left for that generation so they won’t be able to retire in the US.
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by tedggh 1mo ago
Commuting wears you out. The energy and stress saved from not having to drive in bumper to bumper traffic or ride public transportation can add a good deal of productivity.
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FTC Proposed Policy on Personalized Pricing(ftc.gov)
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by tedggh 1mo ago
In my experience having room in the house, not having to cook dinner, not having to go grocery shopping, never have to clean the house, travel comfortably and have a full time nanny, makes a lot of a difference. You save a lot of time that

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