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by worik 2mo ago
This report is about something completely different
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by worik 2mo ago
Good on them. More civilised than their northern neighbors
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by worik 2mo ago
Totally depends on what you define money as. If "money" is the some function of all outstanding credit, then yes, it is created (mostly) by bank lending If you define money as a web of trust then it is mostly created by those that
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by worik 2mo ago
> The airline industry since its birth has had a collective net loss True. But it has added enormous benefits to many other parts of the economy. Airlines do not capture that value. That is where the AI companies are. Adding value they c
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by worik 2mo ago
> As a retail investor, you should buy an index fund and then forget about it. That definitely was true. I am unsure it is still true. Index funds have taken so much of the trade volume the are becoming momentum strategies So long as you
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by worik 3mo ago
> unprecedented amounts of corruption... Yes I hear about that a lot. Yuk But I also hear that FIFA puts a lot of resources into developing the game in African countries. I am asking: Is that true in your experience?
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by worik 3mo ago
> To be fair, everything is Chinese made Yes. Chinese manufacturing is quite a phenomenon, useful and everywhere But to be completely fair, a $40 video projector has a warning label. The price
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by worik 3mo ago
> Of my non-tech friends and colleagues, everyone uses Google. Me, almost, too. I have some friends using duckduckgo - not many and only until Google is the default again...
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by worik 3mo ago
> If it is legal for a human to learn from a book... True, if the human's access to the book was legal A great deal of training was on the open web, no one should complain. But at least Meta and Anthropic were caught red handed taki
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by worik 3mo ago
We need more news like this. Congratulations Steve and Doris
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by worik 3mo ago
> This is certainly not a planned marketing stunt Evidence? The "Tech Bros" have shown such a lack of moral fiber and ethics the burden of proof is on you
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by worik 3mo ago
> Systems that rely on good people to work... ...are the only systems that are available for free, democratic societies (like what I want to live in) to function
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by worik 3mo ago
Open AI and Anthropic are in a battle of "scary press release" The warriors are PR people. They are desperate to generate as much fear as possible so AI is heavily regulated, so they are protected, from Chinese competition What a
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by worik 3mo ago
Capitalism, hoisted on its own petard So determined to own the means of production, enormous amounts of money have been poured into building the frontier models But there is not much special, except for capital density, about those very m
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by worik 3mo ago
We have been working hard on this in New Zealand, in the South Island We started in Tekapo ( https://www.darkskyproject.co.nz/ ) which being rural with a very low population density, and mountainous and with existing observat
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by worik 3mo ago
> The term neoliberalism has no meaning, it's purely used in a pejorative way by leftists. Wrong It is used pejorativly but that does not make it devoid of meaning It refers to the social policies instituted in the 1980s that (attem
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by worik 3mo ago
> China wants to deindustrialize non-Chinese industries for strategic and/or natsec reasons, No. Not even close China wants its place at the table. With Erope and USA People seem to think a developed China is a threat. But they are
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by worik 3mo ago
That is the strangest thing, to me
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by worik 3mo ago
What horrific distopian future you imagine
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by worik 3mo ago
Yes. It is useful for the scam artists: X, Open AI and Anthropic, to name three
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by worik 3mo ago
Interesting analogy, maybe a house cat? I think a better analogy is "The EU is like a lumbering elephant. You can steer it, but only if you know how. Otherwise it just keeps on lumbering" Airbus was a bureaucrats wet dream, and b
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by worik 3mo ago
This is very interesting. Facebook should be one of the biggest users of AI facing users, given its vast size, the industrial quantities of slop it produces and the tools it offers its users Because Open AI is so closed, and Anthropic not m
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by worik 3mo ago
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/16/business/truth-social-dat...
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If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame?(theguardian.com)
5 points by worik 3mo ago|0 comments
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by worik 3mo ago
Yes. "Closed AI" would be a better name
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Lawsuit Closes in on Exon Hackers(grist.org)
4 points by worik 3mo ago|0 comments
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by worik 3mo ago
"Monetization". What a horror. I pay for some software services. The services I pay for have a billing page (or a donation page) and I pay via the banking system I rigorously block every ad, every tracker, every thing that does &q
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by worik 3mo ago
> If somebody doesn't share the same passion, it's almost impossible for someone to take and carry it forward. True, five years ago. The advent of coding agents has changed everything, and often make modifying somebody else&#x2
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by worik 3mo ago
great???
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by worik 3mo ago
That is old news, Theo was harsh, arrogant and rude. He was not always right, but always RIGHT!! But ten years ago. What is the point now?

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