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by vasco 6mo ago
The Gamestop CEO is an interesting character, he grew Chewy and sold it, did a massive play on Apple stock during the pandemic and used that to buy a 9% stake in Gamestop over time, rode the hype to accumulate $9B while turning the company
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by vasco 6mo ago
It's applied big brain memetics. k8s turned pet servers into cattle. People then do the next step and want to treat their clusters as cattle as well. Also it has a bit of the "can it run DOOM" vibe to treat whole k8s clusters
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by vasco 6mo ago
My doctor makes me wait for weeks, then googles my symptoms in front of me, asks me if I checked on the internet first before I came and then gives me the first google result as an answer, as well as suggests me to wait longer. He does this
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by vasco 6mo ago
I don't think you're correct. Just think of things like using any computer system in your business, like a spreadsheet to keep track of inventory. From the moment software for spreadsheets became available to most businesses using
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by vasco 6mo ago
That may be related or not to the article but Feynman for example wrote a lot about the miracles that the brain can do in the small moments between being awake and being asleep. He thought it unlocked some extra juice and tried to force him
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by vasco 6mo ago
Yes for sure, even if we stopped today the amount of almost free software that can be produced with current models will improve the world by a lot as the knowledge of how to use it propagates over more people.
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by vasco 6mo ago
3 fake comments in the thread also
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by vasco 6mo ago
They want them to be really silent. There's more details here: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/tech/nf-a12x25-technical-...
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by vasco 6mo ago
Would AGI start by hacking competing labs to hamper their progress?
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by vasco 6mo ago
This is a very naive take. It's so common to get big companies in as signal to others, or just match the current provider you have for X or offer you a cheap price to then hike it up next year, among many other sales tactics. It'
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by vasco 6mo ago
You have the vibes of people who think license plate numbers are private.
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by vasco 6mo ago
This was the entry level project we did in a hardware optimization course I took maybe 15 years ago, using SIMD instructions. Lots of things can be naively optimized by unrolling any loops like this. Compilers do some of this themselves.
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by vasco 6mo ago
The chief scientist of one of the companies with the most money invested in the world, who probably makes millions a year, requested a picture of a unicorn and got a picture of a gremlin. Science circa 2026.
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by vasco 6mo ago
That would require taste.
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by vasco 6mo ago
All that is needed is political will, if then all subdepartments implement the same thing you could even have practical policies be auto-flagged that need to be updated when a law changes with instant suggested updates to some form people n
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by vasco 6mo ago
I imagine if a new law is introduced or a change to an existing law is proposed it can auto-check for consistency, collisions with other laws, auto-flag laws that need to be amended together or things like that.
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by vasco 6mo ago
Yeah I just disagree immediately. Even having to mechanically traverse and move, each step you think way more than, "swipe". Plus all the things to look at all around you, being tired, etc.
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by vasco 6mo ago
I dunno I feel like brains are always going? It's not like if I'm staring at a wall my thoughts slow down vs if I'm watching a movie. If anything I'll be more "focused" on my thoughts so maybe they are more int
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by vasco 6mo ago
> A paper published in 2012 showed that in 2008 the average person was receiving 34 GB of information daily, with a daily information exposure growth rate of about 5.4% per year The paper linked to justify this just talks about media th
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by vasco 6mo ago
> I don't know how to do something so nobody else knows either
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by vasco 6mo ago
He also seems to be lying, he wrote on Twitter the agent was in plan mode. That part has to be exaggerated.
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by vasco 6mo ago
So that's why China still can't make ballpoint pens? /s
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by vasco 6mo ago
I've been alive long enough that my hometown was supposed to be underwater several times already. Climate change is real and predictions have also been very wrong.
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by vasco 6mo ago
> Since that I have also been in Dubai and Saudi Arabia as an entrepreneur and engineer. Why would we listen to anything related to right or wrong from you then if you don't care?
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by vasco 6mo ago
So make predictions about stuff that happens next year and be right about them. The problem is that strongly predicting what will happen in 30 years has always been wrong so far. My point is just focus on what you know. Anyone can say whate
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by vasco 6mo ago
The argument is that we didn't notice, not that it's a predictor or whatever. And we noticed, so the argument is not good.
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by vasco 6mo ago
Of course we do, you just gave an example. In fact if we truly didn't, then there would be no problem.
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by vasco 6mo ago
The next question is which traits to do you choose and the next question is which traits are better, because choices will imply ordering, and then you open a big can of worms that last time killed millions of people. So maybe there's o
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by vasco 6mo ago
Why put a number on it? Every number so far has been wrong. Can we agree on the negative impacts of humans on an environment conducive to humanity without putting obviously wrong timings on predictions? I bet your intention is to provoke ur
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by vasco 6mo ago
The majority of poetry is the equivalent of slop created to get into someone's pants. And then there's Pessoa.

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