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by toss1 4mo ago
That's an interesting and possibly useful distinction , but it seems unique to you. Spreading it as "We should categorize the AIs this way" would be a good argument. But the way SOTA is generally understood by other users o
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by toss1 4mo ago
Indeed most of them wont do it without threat OTOH, there are those, particularly those who actually get training and practice in the high-performance zone, who realize the physics of the situation, and feel positively naked driving out wit
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by toss1 4mo ago
Yup, but I'd bet the number who complained approached 1800 and the number of complaints that verbally threatened, or alluded to "having to reconsider whether we run it" vs making a specific written threat was much higher. An
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by toss1 4mo ago
>>quite stark Yes it is. If you are running a paper and are already under stress and trying to streamline operations and now some cartoonist demands you use a format that requires significant extra work, you'd probably complain t
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by toss1 4mo ago
Since Cursor is kind of a Select-Your-Model front end for various AI coding systems, how much of it could be to just make sure Grok gets to the top or default choice of that Select-Your-Model list?
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by toss1 4mo ago
>>This directly contradicts the first statement, does it not? It does not. The former was threats in the before times, the latter was the lackluster result after the dust had settled.
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by toss1 4mo ago
More accurately, they adwquately don't give politicians the money and exercise the power of wealth. An extensive study [0], showed "Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also wa
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by toss1 4mo ago
>>Many positives....buildings get to be maintained Sure, let's talk about second-order effects as if they somehow contradict the main issue of extracting all profit. Yes, to the extent there is investment that returns to the loca
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by toss1 4mo ago
"Efficient" for whom, over what time-frame, and by what definition? "Efficient capital allocation" is another hand-wavey concept with no clear definition which is far too often used to justify fundamentally evil results,
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by toss1 4mo ago
The short answer is this an exemplar of the distinction between generating income by producing vs generating income by rent-seeking. Producing something, goods, services, useful information, etc. is a net plus for society, adding value for
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by toss1 4mo ago
No, unless you can not count, it is entirely reasonable to discuss even in short-form forums like this. For a modern complex civilized society to continue to exist, everyone must make accommodations. Demanding absolute perfection and zero
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by toss1 4mo ago
>>when do we begin regulating other personal choices in the name of shared health care costs? It Is Easy: When those measures have been repeatedly and massively proven to be safe and effective to prevent both individual and especially
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by toss1 4mo ago
Same here, not n=3, plus the above 3 reporting, so n=6 and rising Fable was definitely better for a variety of tasks, even accounting for using 2X the token rate, like the way it used the tokens faster reduced the wasted tokens, as least fo
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by toss1 4mo ago
Add also the cost of healthcare when you do NOT die but are only severely injured. You cannot have any honest libertarian lifestyle à la carte. I'd be OK with libertarians opting out — but to be true they must opt out of EVERYTHING. Y
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by toss1 4mo ago
>>It looks like the Valley also got duped. The valley duped themselves the same way the German industrialists duped themselves by thinking they could control Hitler. Turned out they couldn't and a good number did not survive to 1
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by toss1 4mo ago
One of my favorite sayings: "Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement." I commend your excellent use of bad judgement there, WalterBright (despite your mom's lack of enthusiasm)!
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by toss1 4mo ago
Yup. The most concise version I've heard of this, which I find useful for many situations, is: "If it isn't important to you, it isn't important to me."
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by toss1 4mo ago
>>If you can, come show me, I'll gladly have you race against my Claude prompting capabilities. Sounds like we've nearly reached in coding the point where Paul Bunyan [0] has his epic competition with the chainsaw... and los
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by toss1 4mo ago
Yup, part of the problem is the City broke their agreement, but it seems no one with standing exists to legally protest. One way to do this sort of thing so that it works is not a deed restriction, but to donate the rights to a third party.
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by toss1 4mo ago
Ummm, not quite. An "estate" is a legal term for property, assets, and liabilities a person leaves behind upon their death. A family member is a top practitioner in the field of estate planning and resolution, and some of the mess
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by toss1 5mo ago
Turn One (companies use AI and fire workers), Turn Two (fired workers lack income and consumption slows to a trickle), and Turn Three (the companies using AI discover they just collectively killed their customer base). That is a classic Tra
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by toss1 5mo ago
If the morally bankrupt SV techs aren't careful, the line will be "Shoot the damn things on sight", and then there will be a bounty on them.
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by toss1 5mo ago
Or, more accurately, you are trying to falsify a repeatedly true story.
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by toss1 5mo ago
Well, businesses — and all parties — who will be affected by legislation should be able to provide input. Otherwise we too often get clueless legislation that is massively mocked and rightly bemoaned on this site — because the legislator
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by toss1 5mo ago
Not to be that guy ;-) , but the diameter of the golf ball dimples is ~4 mm or about 4,000 μm, whilst the diameter of the spheres is 38-53 μm, or about 0.04 mm. Diameter-to-diameter seems like about 100x or two orders of magnitude? Similarl
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by toss1 5mo ago
Yes, but this is not that. Golf ball dimples are about 4 mm across and 0.2mm or 200μm (micrometers). These features are several orders of magnitude smaller at 38 to 53μm diameter. >>the first in the world to demonstrate that aerodynam
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by toss1 5mo ago
>>sabotage every industrial build out Very few people are actually sabotaging industrial buildout (there are a few who want to end that, but most do not); they are only insisting that what CAN be done to mitigate the ill effects IS do
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by toss1 5mo ago
It may well have been an error, good catch. In any case, whatever the amount, it was a large enough quantity pulled — unpaid — to cause the pressure in the entire system to drop, and drop enough that everyone noticed, complained, and set of
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by toss1 5mo ago
>>For instance, new regulations require data centers to bring their own power, so they're not drawing on the grid. They are deployed off-grid. I see no national regulation of actual usage (the proposed Hawley-Warren act would r
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by toss1 5mo ago
This one https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/data-center-used... Not only that, while the closed-loop water-cooling systems are indeed a good idea, they do NOT solve the problem of water consumption d

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