I agree with you about the technology. It’s the most exciting thing to me since discovering the Internet in the early 1990s, or since the web.
Unfortunately the big AI companies seem to be run by showmen and weirdos whose brains have been sucked out by whatever that Rationalism / heterodox / NRx / effective altruism / Thielism / whatever the hell it is nexus of insane bullshit that sucked everyone’s brains out in the 20-teens.
I don’t even know how to describe “it” but I feel like a lot of people will know exactly what I mean.
So they did this crazy AI fear mongering thing, some cause they believed it and some cause they wanted regulatory capture, and now it’s backfiring.
They also cozied up to all the worst people and since they run the companies whose names are linked to AI they linked AI in peoples minds with those things.
Maybe AI should take over. It’s starting to look like an improvement over human leadership.
What I’ve seen over the last decade is a relatively spoiled and entitled asset owning class who expects there to be a financial class divide where they’re on the winning side by default.
Frankly, I haven’t seen rich people produce anything of value in a long time. They assert wealth, and print money (over $40T now), they don’t create value.
I see inflated valuations, free credit, millions and billions of dollars in value being asserted with nothing to actually back it up - few profitable startups, no real estate buyers (other than investors getting it at half), and all the value is being produced by an increasingly squeezed working class who does all the work but isn’t allowed to partake in the asset economy.
I can’t see how this works out for a financial super class that produces nothing of value.
> China is the most vulnerable
How? They produce everything. No, countries like China and Mexico are acting more how America used to act, and they will benefit from it long term as they continue to produce value and refine processes.
The wealth class of the West that produces nothing of value will continue to stagflate their economies, continue to price out workers, and will become totally left behind by an upswing in corporate wealth and individual wealth attainment through a global service economy.
What starts out as an entitled asset owning class producing nothing of value ends up as a debt class wondering how to keep up on all their payments as new companies founded out of desperation to serve them tighten grips, increase prices and find higher paying lower cost customers in expanded and emerging markets - including non-US dollar markets which may create a mess they can’t print themselves out of.
you're being deliberately daft. Its not the recording, its the surveillance dragnet with zero regulation or oversight that creates an instant dossier on whatever datapoints are searched for, by whomever decides to search for them who has paid for access.
Honestly the nuance isn't that intellectually taxing and having to explain it to people in the tech space is tiresome.
It might be fine for pure navigation to addresses but business addresses and other metadata are often missing or out of date because people only bother to update Google Maps. Also that’s where all the reviews are.
I don’t want to use two different apps for navigation vs finding businesses.
This is in the source article of this post:
"While Luanti is popular as an open-source alternative to Minecraft (as its roots are in blocky sandbox games), it also lowers barriers to bringing creative ideas to life."
The law being slow is exactly why a guy like Trump in power is dealing so much damage. Nearly everything he’s done has been illegal, but the decisions often take so long that they have no effect.
'urllib3' completely saved me once. We had to authenticate with the border proxy using a certificate, then make a request to a web service ... that needed authenticating with a certificate. Urllib3 was the only one that could do it.
I have no skin in this game, but just because they're doing it doesn't mean it's their focus, the EU is big enough to work on multiple 0.8%-size wins all over the place.
Not sure about "nonsensical calculation", but our brains perform computation (read: they transform information). In fact, that is what the brains are for (see: biology 101). As for mathematics, I am with Galileo: it is the language of the universe. Of course, we "invented" its silly glyphs and the like, but those are secondary. My 2 cents.
The site is very broken on my iPhone safari. If I click an an anchor reference at the very top (“LLM” let’s say) and try to scroll down because it doesnt link me to the content, it keeps snapping me back to the top after a second.
Only reason to spend a bunch of money on hardware to run LLMs locally is if it's a hobby to you to an extent that even renting the GPUs temporarily won't satisfy you.
I have a weird personal theory that whittling down the number of app vendors on your phone is just a good thing to do.
As a Pixel user, I've gotten my phone to just having four (4) third-party app vendors.
- Duolingo (I've never seen an app be so annoying in a positive way, I appreciate it)
- Nintendo (obvs)
- Caffeine (quick setting tile that keeps the screen on--should really be a native feature, and I hope that day comes soon so I can ditch this)
- Super Productivity (saved my life)
Having a banking app installed seems way riskier than using a website. If someone had access to my phone, the banking app stands out like a spotlight. But if it's not installed, they have to open the browser, guess which bank I'm using, and enter the right URL (possibly aided by autocomplete, possibly not).
It just feels like a safer, additional step. My bank's mobile website is junk but I'm not spending all day on it.
well, for the americans, the trump and bibi governments were hoping to ally themselves with kurdish terrorist groups to attack and overthrow the iranian government
properly kurdistan should exist, and turkey/syria/iran/iraq should lose territory to make it.
the list of states is arbitrary, and the kurds have just as much right as the turks to a state and government such their violence is consider state acts of war rather than terrorism.
> One speculative interpretation treats these numbers as a distorted memory of prehistory. Under this hypothesis, the reign boundaries encode real climate shifts...
"One theory" implies that someone somewhere has ever claimed this. But has anyone? TFA gives no source for the claim, AFAICT (although I skimmed a bit).
