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From Wikipedia: >After graduation, she worked on Wall Street, first at JPMorgan Chase and then Lehman Brothers. She later joined the United States Foreign Service. Looks pretty wal…

Also you regarding Claude usage limits: > Before the doomers come in, you get $200 in API credits every month for claude -p usage. Usage counts against those API credits. So which …

Inference might be unreasonable for a royalty agreement, but, in assessing damages, it is certainly relevant. "I made enough copies for everyone" isn't a valid defense for copyrigh…

You're misinterpreting the quote. Socrates is saying that being able to find a written quotation will replace fully understanding a concept. It's the difference between being able …

China is not the only nation that depends on Gulf oil, all of SEA does as well. If the strait remains closed it will destabilize the region and diminish the prestige of the US, and…

No one ever asks how much it costs Facebook or Uber to serve requests because it is irrelevant, they set prices to maximize their profit like any good monopolist. Similarly the fut…

If they have spare capacity then there is no opportunity cost to selling $100 subscriptions for exactly that reason. If they don’t have spare capacity then, at the margin, they cou…

You’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope. An investor is buying opportunity and it is a real cost to them.

If Anthropic's compute is fully saturated then the Claude code power users do represent an opportunity cost to Anthropic much closer to $5,000 then $500. Anthropic's models may be …

Anthropic knew they were going to lose this contract to OpenAI, and this is an attempt to salvage publicity from the loss. This administration is comfortable with blatantly picking…

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> The politicians' initial efforts caused a public outcry though, when they stipulated that all samples should be destroyed on a donor's death. Looks like you're right.

As an investor in Anthropic which pricing strategy would you support? That's the question you need to ask, not what there current pricing strategy in the win the market phase happe…

In my experience the most common use of this data is to build case for firing someone for cause when upper management wants them out. It's rarely used for actual security purposes.…

Capitalism is the only economic system that has the privilege of being evaluated outside of the context of the society in which it exists. When socialism is criticized the politica…

You're misinterpreting the quote. Socrates is saying that being able to find a written quotation will replace fully understanding a concept. It's the difference between being able …

All employees solve problems. Developers have benefited from the special techniques they have learned to solve problems. If these techniques are obsolete, or are largely replaced b…

Normal Erlang code has a fixed number of reductions (function calls) before it must yield to a scheduler. Processes also have their own stacks and heaps and run garbage collection …

Higher level abstractions are built on rational foundations, that is the distinction. I may not understand byte code generated by a compiler, but I could research the compiler and …

I don’t think the author is hiding his economic anxiety behind solipsism. He states plainly he doesn’t like the deskilling of work. My point is why are your economic motivations va…

If you dig deep enough isn’t the same thing true of people like yourself? Do you truly believe that the large language models we currently have, not some fantasy AI of the distant …

The primary harm of a bubble is *not* a crash in equity values, it is the misallocation of capital. The worst outcome would be for the misallocation to continue due to the interven…

It looks like security/surveillance play more than anything. Scale has strong relationships with the US MIC, the current administration (predating Zuck's rebranding), and gulf stat…

There is no meaningful discourse because there is no meaningful decision at stake. The owning class has decided that “AI” will be shoved into any plausible orifice and the “discour…

If we are going to have a general discussion about copyright reform at a national level, I'm all for it. If we are going to let billion dollar corporations break the law to make ev…