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by veunes 2mo ago
If the city thinks data centers are incompatible with certain areas, it should encode that through zoning, permitting, utility pricing, noise limits, etc.
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by veunes 2mo ago
A data center can be a much quieter neighbor than a warehouse or shopping center. The catch is that most of its impact is pushed into less visible systems
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by veunes 2mo ago
Maybe, but "this would probably have been fine five years ago" is not a very reassuring standard. The physical impact matters more than whether the racks are running email servers or training models.
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by veunes 2mo ago
The real issue seems to be that local zoning and utility planning never caught up with the scale of modern data centers. If a project can consume huge amounts of power, generate constant noise, affect a neighboring zoo, those costs should b
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by veunes 3mo ago
Elegance may not remain exclusively human forever but usefulness probably requires more than correctness
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by veunes 3mo ago
Yes, especially when the counterexample is formally verified. It converts years of speculative effort into a definite answer almost immediately
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by veunes 3mo ago
I think the asymmetry depends on the representation
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by veunes 3mo ago
This is probably part of why machines are doing so well at counterexamples. They have no aesthetic commitment to the conjecture and no embarrassment about producing something ugly
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by veunes 3mo ago
Most of the cost is keeping crews, vehicles and equipment available for the call that may or may not come
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by veunes 3mo ago
Thin operating margins don't really settle the greed question when the ownership structure is complicated
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by veunes 3mo ago
This is exactly the part that makes "you can always refuse" feel a bit theoretical
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by veunes 3mo ago
I think your department is probably closer to what people imagine ambulance billing looks like
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by veunes 3mo ago
Yet "the payment model is broken" and "some prices are absurd" can both be true
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by veunes 4mo ago
Kids don't just get sick, they seem to turn the whole house into a slow-motion relay race of viruses
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by veunes 4mo ago
I guess it depends a lot on what they count as sick. I definitely don't spend 3 weeks a year in bed, but if you add up all the random sore throats, congestion, coughs that linger for a week and "not really sick but clearly fightin
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by veunes 4mo ago
It's strange how much we've normalized everyone being sick for weeks every year, even though the total cost is enormous
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by veunes 4mo ago
This is the kind of thing people miss when they say "it's just a cold". I really hope this work goes somewhere.
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by veunes 4mo ago
The tricky part is that the benefit is invisible. If it works, nothing happens: people just get sick less often. That is a hard thing to sell to building owners and employers unless the evidence and standards are really solid
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by veunes 4mo ago
Sending someone a dumb meme can also be a form of affection
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by veunes 4mo ago
I don't think the point of the strawberry example is that industrialization failed to make strawberries cheaper or more available. It obviously did the opposite in many places. The point is more about what gets selected for when the wh
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by veunes 4mo ago
When housing, healthcare, work, social life all feel unstable, the predictable option starts looking less like boring conformity and more like one less decision that can go wrong
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by veunes 4mo ago
Yeah, I think cities are probably the clearest physical-world version of this
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by veunes 4mo ago
This feels related to Goodhart's law, but applied to pleasure and culture
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by veunes 4mo ago
The uncomfortable part is that each step is usually justified by a real use case
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by veunes 4mo ago
The funny part is that "put your browser profile on a ramdisk" used to sound like an obsessive performance tweak, and now it starts to look like a privacy mitigation
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by veunes 5mo ago
What stood out to me is how little of this is really new to Silicon Valley
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by veunes 5mo ago
If a model like that exists behind closed doors, we're unlikely to know from press releases
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by veunes 5mo ago
The interesting failure mode here is that the defensive side needs access before the offensive side starts using the capability
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by veunes 5mo ago
The wholesale spread makes batteries look obvious, but I'd be careful about extrapolating from today's arbitrage. If enough batteries get built, the spread they rely on compresses
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by veunes 5mo ago
This sounds less like a dispute about "the mission" and more like a dispute about who should have controlled the mission. The nonprofit/for-profit structure is messy, but so is the idea that putting OpenAI under Tesla would s

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