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by trhway 6mo ago
that is today. The first cars - with steam engine, the very first in 1769! - and even the ones from the first half of 19th century also didn't look like an improvement. The AI today is more like the internal combustion engine toward t
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by trhway 6mo ago
our labor market is cyclic, relatively short busts and long initially-slow-and-faster-and-faster booms. We had busts of 2000-2003, 2008-2010(11?), 2022- i guess 2026. I wasn't in US in 199x, yet i guess beginning of the 199x also was a
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Of course making an actual bomb is extremely easy especially when you have Pu from the power plants. And Germany has great stealth cruise missiles which potentially can carry those warheads. Yet actually making and possessing a nuclear ars
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by trhway 6mo ago
now Germany has a choice - to spend hundreds of billions for conventionally armed military to defend itself and still face risks of war or just a few billions to develop and produce nukes (using already existing Pu from the power plants) an
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by trhway 6mo ago
On the other side AMZN could have hired several RC plane hobbyists, fly them Emirates business class, put them into Burj Khalifa suites, fund several beefy jet, nitro or EDF planes for them (with jet getting as expensive as $5K), and have
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by trhway 6mo ago
i think it is a very enriching experience for people to have contact with animals in the context where usually is none. The only way it could be cooler if the Duckmaster were a shepherd dog : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by trhway 6mo ago
Can i replace it by "I'm an FBI agent" or would it be a felony of impersonation of a federal officer?
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by trhway 6mo ago
sounds like a new chapter in Das Kapital.
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by trhway 6mo ago
A single Anthropic employee is valued at $200m. At PE of 10, ie. supposing one employee generates $20m/year, we can say that the employee’s time is $10K (that K !) per hour. Should they, or are we really expecting them to, attend to a
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... and the wisdom to distinguish between it.
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>The new handover was a four stage process. First, we asked the anaesthetist to fill in a standard form that detailed ... >The receiving doctor used an information transfer aide memoire, a form or checklist specifically designed for t
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by trhway 6mo ago
>So no one except them tells them what they can or cannot do. you're missing "laundering the responsibility" approach - find a lawyer who writes that the thing is legal in his opinion, and voila.
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Palantir: Why its political manifesto is causing a stir(dw.com)
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by trhway 6mo ago
>There’s just no reality where a bicycle can share the road unimpeded with a motor vehicle safely. that was among the promises of self-driving cars. Because of ultimately superior sensor suite and reaction time they can be safer than hum
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by trhway 6mo ago
there is a big difference between a theory/idea and espousing the theory/idea as an ideology.
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by trhway 6mo ago
there is even easier way to estimate the chances of time wasting - it is a "rationalist" website, an "effective altruism"-like version of rationality. wrt. original post - quickly googled, and that for example https:&#
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by trhway 6mo ago
Isn't that is the point of technological civilization development? People for example forgot how to weave on the handloom, or all the parts production and the maintenance for the watermills. And wooden sailships - top mastery of handli
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by trhway 6mo ago
As a civilization we went the left-brained/sequential/language based way of thinking (with computers and AI being the crown achievement of it). Personally i for example remember like around 3rd grade i switched from the whole-pag
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by trhway 6mo ago
IMF 94K https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPDPC@WEO/USA/DEU you're probably still in 2020 when it was 66K :) That is the real inflation here.
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by trhway 6mo ago
ideally we'd delegate all mindless/routine stuff to AI, and we'd dedicate ourselves to the higher creative and scientific pursuits. Somehow though i think that ideal will come with some adjustments/distortions/bugs
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by trhway 6mo ago
I use "super-baskets" like say US GDP per capita >The June 1940 photograph along Hwy 1 in Maryland had $0.05 hotdogs ($1.17) and $0.10 burgers ($2.34). 1940 $779 to today's $94K GDP per capita gives $6 for the 1940 $0.05 h
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by trhway 6mo ago
>Barely an hour goes by without a new 4-page document about something that that everyone is apparently ment to read, digest and respond to, despite its 'author' having done none of those steps, it's starting to feel active
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by trhway 6mo ago
>What is all this AI doing? People are spending 10’s to 100’s of billions and no service or technology seems better or cheaper. Everything is more expensive and worse. That "more expensive" is someone's revenue. May be AI
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by trhway 6mo ago
fast-forward 15-20 years. He has most probably paid out his mortgage (salary growth/inflation, etc. so most people i know paid their mortgages in about 15 years, and some by that time got second or even 3rd property - the observations
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by trhway 6mo ago
Thanks to the author and HN - it was posted here sometime ago, and being that impressive it naturally stuck in my memory like i'm sure now it will in yours :)
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>Yes, very different as in 'Our blessed homeland vs their barbarous wastes' meme. exactly. Iran's policy declaration of destroying whole countries (US and Israel in this case) and conducting of actual proxy-wars in order t
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by trhway 6mo ago
Herodotus' anecdotes vs. modern genetics: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5790555/#:~:text=Ex... "But recent genetic and archaeological discoveries indicate that cat domestication began in the F
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How it was (a great interactive 3d reconstruction) https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/
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the issue is remote control. Ground position means a lot of obstacles in addition to the widespread jamming. One can try to control the bot from the fiber-optic controlled drone hanging over, yet such complication has its own drawbacks. Tha
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The future of programming and IT tech - If you need a database, you just say to the model "you're a database". Or "you're a CRM", "you're a Doom game", "you're a Word processor",

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