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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> We don't even know whether other human beings are conscious, man. This isnt an interesting path outside the paradox of proof. We are fine disregarding that there are truths that are unprovable in math... I think we need to make th
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
>> This will be near-post-scarcity society. Capitalism will soon have become so successful Not even close. Take something like the iPhone. Everyone will want a pro max latest version. Great we can make 8 billion of them. How do you ha
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> The definition OpenAI uses for AGI is being more economically valuable than most humans at most things. Then were already there. The web, amazon is already more valuable than sears and roebuck was as a paper catalog. All those people w
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
We will cull them like we did when we invented the sewing machine and the loom... them luddites were right then and they can be again /s
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
>> on the order of a couple years up to maybe 15 or 20 years Fusion, flying cars, AI in the 50's and in the 70's... Hell Hal was born in 97 and the film was in 68. For as impressive as LLM's are once you dig into them
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> Thinking bigger for a minute, what rights would a real AI have? None, and the court has already spoken on this. It's a pretty dead issue. > Can it be turned off? Yes it's a machine. Save state, power down. > Can it comm
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
I didn't say DEI for a reason, here is the other side talking rather overtly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhJWusyj4I ... Pick a topic and someone is gonna have a really bent take on how things would be... and keen
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> 1) AGI is not around the corner, so no worries I agree with this. I no longer agree that the "safety" people want the same things we do. I suspect after the bard debacle a bit back that "safety" looks a lot more lik
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
>> consultants I do this now for a living. Phased releases, change of scope means pay out the phase and start a new contract. I collected 75% of cost of ONE project 3 times from a single client... DO A, no do B, no do A... they cancel
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> After all, in business, excuses are never acceptable. Clearly your father never built software. This shit is why people make up dates and then expect miracles to happen and then wonder why the code base looks like we empty a portapoty
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
There are so many factors that drive this. I own, I have plenty of space, I would happily take on a roommate. But the tenancy laws make my life hell if that person turns into an asshole. I have not seen any stats on housing distribution. Ar
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> rolling blackouts each summer We haven't had a rolling blackout since the early 2000 and Enron. What we do have is decades of PGE not doing any work to maintain or upgrade their grid. Our power company is so incompetent it has a d
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
>> including the quantity needed Texas power has gone negative, CA has dropped to zero. That means power flowing on to the grid either has no where to go or is only being charged transmission fees (and those in CA are gonna be excessi
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
do you know how easy it is to get to a million bucks a year in revenue? Do you know how easy it is to have that pass 50% margin? 75? If you know how to build a stack, and have a useful service finding people to pay 20 bucks a month for it i
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
Their ONT terminates to 10gb copper. I bought a dual nic intel card off amazon (its from china) works a treat. There is an OK switch after that to get the network working... It's going to take me. a minute to build out the rest of the
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> I can’t even use that much bandwidth. I built an opnsense box (part of my proxmox cluster) and passed through a dual 10gbe nic. That whole PC was cheaper than any off the shelf routing solution I could find. The rest of the network is
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
I live in the bay area and just got sonic fiber to my house. 49 bucks a month for 10gbe. I have only seen it get up to 8gb in TESTING... I might be able to get to 9. That is a stupid amount of bandwidth. I give it 6 months before I get a ca
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
You missed a step: The average programmer in china makes less than half what their US counterpart makes. Cost of living far less than half of the us, pay for factory workers is far far less than the dollars to yuan conversion. It's far
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
Sam Altman superalinged them right out the door...
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
I read Sam's Tweet and see "I fired him cause he voted against me"... Im sorry but every time I see Sam speak, or read what he has to say all I can thing is "petulant man child". > ... Ilya is easily one of the g
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> "1 trillion facts" https://www.techdirt.com/2006/08/08/turns-out-major-league-b... You cant copyright facts. There is a legal argument to be made that an LLM is a reduction of copyright materia
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> It's the recruiters job to represent the company. Canceling a meeting with no notice and not replying to emails asking about it is not just unprofessional but negatively impacts brand perception. Candidly this isnt the way to look
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
There are a million reasons and ways this could happen. Reach out and confirm that you're not the one dropping the ball here, or that there isnt a technical issue. It's your job to get a job, this is part of a job. Dont foot gun y
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/04/11/unsold-chinese-evs-are-... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3253116/chinas-lithium... China gave out huge incentives in the last decad
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> Ford is accelerating the development of smaller electric vehicles, which are expected to debut in 2026. The first models are expected to be a smaller electric truck and SUV with a starting price of around $25,000. A small truck is what
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> His son would explain “Morse himself refused to attend the ceremonies of the unveiling of his counterfeit presentment, as being too great a strain on his innate modesty.” That is a hell of a way to bow out of an event you dont want to
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
>>> but there is little risk today to losing a village to barbarian incursions. Well shucks Bill the barbarians came in and raped and pillaged again. They did what to your wife... They took mine and the kids... Yea we should probab
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
This was my visceral reaction as well, but does it really make the change worse? There are tons of business that are private that are doing great. I host with OVH they are private, lots of the businesses I have worked for have been private.
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
20 odd years ago I worked for a bank. We were doing a focus group that went slightly off the rails and a room full of people all agreed that the bank must still have paper records. The bank had not had paper records for decades. Im not sure
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
Without the context of what is being built the answers are useless. A blog or shopping cart, in react would be worthless. You would have this massive up front page load while all the JS downloads that provides little benefit... you would ju

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