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bigbadfeline

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    Comment #49225834

    > Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy Sounds like the rambling of an extortionist. Totally expected from this bunch of crying clowns.

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    Comment #49200757

    "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

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    Comment #49199136

    > Why do you think Skynet (with its specific consequences) is a foregone conclusion? Because we see it happening in real time? Hardware hoarding, scalping and centralization. Gover…

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    Comment #49198977

    > Arming themsleves how? Good question. I hope, the parent doesn't mean literal arms, that would make him a willing or unwitting troll. Skynet was always a matter of time, it's sim…

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    Comment #49198441

    > I always forget about the explosive diarrhea lobby. I wish, this was just a joke.

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    Comment #49198042

    What a bunch of miserable clowns.

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    Comment #49184996

    > Warren Buffet and Peter Thiel... Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results > "Competition is for losers" That's how we got where we are, losing the global competition ga…

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    Comment #49184593

    > The hyperscalers would be fine... their model for cloud compute... is highly profitable. "fine" and "highly profitable" are doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here, actually mask…

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    Comment #49176537

    > 200 billion dollars a year on a 30 billion dollar a year business that is growing does not really sound as bad as the author makes it out to be How do you know it's not "as bad"?…

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    Comment #49163330

    > I'd be more concerned about private credit socializing losses and being bailed out, than bad AI loans leading to private credit problems which then lead to the bailout. A distinc…

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    Comment #49163126

    > That tax was a cost for the property owner. If the tax revenue goes away then there is a cost for no one. Wrong. The tax revenue "doesn't go away", it's shifted to the other taxp…

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    Comment #49136906

    Reddit problems aren't caused by AI, like at all. On the contrary, a good moderation policy would only gain value from AI and benefit users. However, the main business objective of…

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    Comment #49117833

    > The Chinese are currently building loads of EV car factories in Mexico in the hope they can export them North There's no reason to assume that China is looking North, in fact, th…

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    Comment #49117709

    > Treasury yields are basically a projection of future interest rates. Nope, treasury yields are in an inverse linear relationship with Fed's real interest rate. In the absence of …

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    Comment #49110464

    > AI juggernaut Ah, the spherical cow in vacuum at the event horizon is a scary sight indeed, everybody should be worried, the more the merrier.

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    Comment #49106708

    >> Same reason road vehicles haven't been banned despite killing hundreds of thousands every single year for over a century Whut? People and companies are always being sued and pun…

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    Comment #49106499

    > Do you want companies to have incentives to pay researchers even if NDAs and non competes are basically unenforceable? I thought "recursive self improvement" would bring an effec…

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    Comment #49106389

    > And this goes well beyond medicine. We fixate on AGI gods, while more mundane problems pile up unattended... People are de-skilling as they hand more thinking to machines. That's…

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    Comment #49102882

    > 'national security threat' is a right-wing dog-whistle for 'we have no actual proof, but we dislike it, so let's ban it'. The abuse of the term "National Security Threat' doesn't…

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    Comment #49102186

    > A super intelligence wouldn't be so obvious. Neither would a spherical cow in vacuum... arguing about something that exists only in agitated imaginations is pointless. > It would…

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    Comment #49101692

    Any "addition to tax" should still be a tax.

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    Comment #49101552

    > I know a lot more about chemistry and physics than I know about biology, so biological risk is still at least a "maybe" reason to be worried about model safety for me. This state…

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    Comment #49039126

    It's not worthless, you don't have to agree with P on everything, or make it personal - it works as strictly business - only where and when appropriate.

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