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I'm always surprised by how cynical the comments on the internet are about America's technology leaders and U.S. industrial expansion.

Every single investment aimed at deploying labor-saving innovation has the impact of reducing the number of workers you need per unit of output. That does not mean fewer jobs, it m…

"They produce harmful pollutants, which can accelerate climate change impacts and harm public health—contributing to conditions like asthma, heart disease, lung cancer, and strokes…

The end of World War II to the present is a fairly stable regime, so it can be instructive to see what changed over the course of that era. In any case, no matter what two points o…

It's up since 20 years ago: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1CFpQ

I'm not making a normative claim. I'm saying that the narrative in the article — that the private sector has taken over functions of the government and the government has been in r…

The government has expanded by any objective measure: From 20% of GDP to 40% of GDP today From a 34 regulatory agencies/offices to 77 today. From 5 percent of occupations needing a…

If it's generating revenue from an international clientele, and paying local taxes, it's almost guaranteed to be socially useful, at least from the domestic standpoint.

These houses are directly across the street. It looks like the data center owner should have allotted some buffer land between the facility and the property line.

The problem with LLM training is that it's driven by the ability to predict the next token in a large corpus of text, and the correlation between text and reality diverges as the p…

Can you explain what you mean by this? Aren't the LLMs developing as they're trained?

Maybe I'm missing something here but I don't see what the significant security risk is from the incident. The agent broke containment and carried on with the task it was assigned. …

Isn't LLM training, the development?

Every dollar spent on AI is roughly speaking a dollar spent on the human labor that produces that AI. But I imagine there is a ceiling to AI use: how much inference a small tightly…

Society needs non-political checks on government power. We cannot always depend on the right laws being passed. One of those non-political checks is privacy rights. We can't give t…

We can agree to disagree on this. Even on this example you gave, I'm not entirely sure it's harmful to society. Having worked in the corporate world, there are just so many regulat…

So instead of instituting restrictions that will probably cost society hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars in lost economic efficiency, publicly fund development of be…

He's very clearly arguing against absolute privacy on the Internet and is saying that the people who advocated for it, which he besmirches as "tech bros", are responsible for the g…

Irrespective of the legitimacy of the arguments made, I find that the use of the term "tech bros" is similar to how the terms "far-right" or "Trump supporter" were used during the …

I'm looking at the second and third order effects of technologies. LLMs massively increase the surplus capacity of human civilization, and it is this surplus capacity enables resou…

There are certainly ecological costs, but in the long run, Earth's life will only survive if an advanced species like ours is able to transport it off the planet before the sun exp…

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This was covered in the article, only a small fraction of the office space can be converted to residential.