zhoBEENG

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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   According to SEC filings, the median yearly total compensation at Meta is $380,000. Median for the US in general is about $70,000.
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   I'm not sure I understand. How do you square "nobody prefers living in a deeply divided society" with "outrage drives engagement"? This is the hypocrisy I was describing. Aren't people, including you and I, cho
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   Certainly they do, but only until democracy forces the hemlock down their throat.
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   I think your supposition is correct. I think there is a common hypocrisy to the person craving democracy while showing revulsion at revealed preference. Many otherwise smart people can't seem to look at society without averting their e
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   Respectfully, it has been a failure, and I cannot square your assumptions about the situation with the reality of it. Demand for and production of meat has continually increased, as PaulHoule noted. Per Our Wold in Data, per capita meat con
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   I wouldn't try to directly fight the oligarchs; AI is naturally centralizing, even more so than most tech. State of the art requires massive scale. Local will always lag even if it eventually catches up. Edge compute will manage last m
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   I can't agree enough, and I am increasingly struggling to understand why people are not grasping this. It's just a matter of sensors in the right places and compute. sufficient telemetry + sufficient compute = AI solution to any p
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   I believe they are. At its core, Apple is a hardware company. They want to own the next platform that AI will be interacted through, not develop the killer app or inference distribution themselves. Their task for the next decade is to fight
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   by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

   It was when I first saw an LLM reliably make tool calls to bash.
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    by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

    This reads like marketing fluff, but I am reminded of John von Neumann's "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata"; that the very first people who worked on deductive machines immediately started thinking about machines building
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    by zhoBEENG 4mo ago

    The current astronomical valuations push even those people with the highest risk tolerances toward diversifying. Even if you assume with 100% certainty that the AI sector will be the end-game of capitalism, you can't assume that your c