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>It seems like the purpose of humans isn't to keep machines busy. When our phone or laptop is idle, it's fine if it sleeps. And when we do want something, we'd rather not wait. I'm…

This is exactly the kind of sanitized hacking this article is talking about.

> Our mission is straightforward: we are building AI solutions that can automatically solve important problems in machine learning, science, and engineering. Genuinely curious whic…

> Bento is a discontinued database application for Mac OS X made by the former FileMaker Inc., since renamed to Claris.

Because you will get sued by openai/anthropic

> I know people gnash their teeth at that, but I'm pretty convinced the ass-pain associated with getting a data center constructed on the planet with all the NIMBY stuff will be wi…

Seems like the appropriate place for a non-violent offender.

I don't think viewing the night sky is necessary for "human flourishing"

> Perhaps the last event was one million years ago and we are now (proverbially) 'due'. Ironically this is a great example of the gambler's fallacy.

Who is going to invest in your company when they could invest in the company that just makes the drugs you invent without the overhead of R&D?

If Julian Assange had taken his privacy principles and built a social network instead of leaking government secrets things might have turned out differently.

Moore's law isn't as relevant with parallel workloads. If you can keep building more lanes you don't have to worry about making faster cars.

> LLMs don't get a free pass because they're also so good at writing typescript for beige CRUD apps and bedtime stories. Plenty of useful things get free passes to be dangerous. Tr…

I would go to this museum.

Surprising that there are still people who don't think LLMs qualify as AI

Pre-built PCs are the way to get a deal right now. The price of individual components is much more expensive than buying something from Micro Center or one of the Chinese integrato…

I'm not sure why you're setting slavery aside. It's my whole point. Do you think the Union should have conceded the civil war because "you can't force other people to change their …

The history of social pressure would disagree with you.

Having a libertarian stance on morality is great unless its actually important to take a stand. It's the difference between "I would never own slaves" and being an abolitionist. I …

I'm not going to watch a 3 hour video, but custom PCs are a tiny fraction of the consumer hardware market. Also, the custom PC market is struggling partly due to people overstating…

> They have literally destroyed markets that aren't coming back anytime soon (consumer hardware) Ram is more expensive it's not the apocalypse for consumer hardware. > "Oh well, th…

This really says something about society, can't even imagine leaving your house without a smartphone.

National success is about creating a nation of basketball players, not just a single all-star team.

How would they know you went out to the woods?