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I always thought I was a nerd, but I was never into super heroes or fantasy books/movies and I was never into playing Pokemon or Magic the Gathering. Star Wars didn't appeal to me …

This is actually at the core of our (EU) problem. Instead of thinking, "here is this new technology, how can we build new markets/products out of it", our industry leaders always t…

At the time it was a perfectly rational decision that followed the liberal foreign policy dogma of the time, which advocated that we tie up unstable countries with economic trade, …

That last graph is surely AI generated.

The abstraction is by necessity. Our puny brains have only a very small working memory. The only way we can reason about many problems is by creating multiple levels of hierarchy. …

It's an economic metric, not a political statement.

I find all this gender wars crap competely untrue in real life. I wouldn't be surprised if it was all due to sampling errors.

My parents bought their house cash. No they were not high earners and not even median income earners. Yes the house is now worth close to a million dollars.

Why should I not just port my kernel to Triton? What's the appeal of Scale?

Here's a thought: maybe liberal democracy was never very free.

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Corporate taxes don't work and taxing the rich is super hard. Could this be a way for the state to suplement tax revenue?

For the kids, sure. Incidentally, if you post anything political you must now do it with the knowledge that your identity is tied to your comment or opinion.

I'm excited for the opportunities that an abundance of compute brings, even in the absense of AI applications. Big compute is the right direction, if we can afford it. There are al…

My grandparents were all born in Europe between the two world wars. Actually, despite humble origins they all had a fairly prosperous life. Even though I have much more education t…

Maybe I'm weird, but does anyone else have worries about what future their prospective children would inherit? In particular things that worry me: 1. the growing geopolitcal turmoi…

I'm super excited to give this one a spin. It seems like a neat idea, Triton, but simpler and with automatic autotuning. My head is spinning with options right now. I love how ever…

The bubble will burst when all this agentic AI slop fails to deliver. Might take a while yet, because generative models are very good at aping competence and it's therefore easy to…

I love how they always style themselves experts on economics, as if there is one global economic policy that benefits everyone, equally. How cute.

Fair point, but here's my counter: consumers won't analyze the data but insurance companies will.

It's the British English equivalent.

Isn't the lesson from the success of TSLA, that you don't compete on price? That's what made Tesla the first successful EV. Because unlike the rest, they didn't try to compete on p…

You constructed a narrative and overlaid it over the facts. The facts are that for many decades past, it was possible for hopeful economic immigrants to abuse asylum laws, or the b…

If you think of hiring as trying to get the best deal: best candidate for the most discounted price, what you want to do is find the proverbial gem in the rough. But AI does precis…

He did a lecture. Not sure if you can still find it on Youtube, because IIRC, he published a paper and then redacted it. From what I can tell it was bits of old fashioned different…