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{Black box} + {sunk financial/time cost} + {ambiguous rankings} + {marketing} = {irrational tribal loyalty} On reddit et al., people talk about LLM brands like their sports teams. …

Indeed. There's a reason the US government has historically stopped air traffic / railroad / longshore strikes: cascading effects. If memory is now upstream of so many companies, t…

Transitioning to a post scarcity society requires broad, accessible dissemination of post scarcity production methods. What was the first thing we did when we digitized media and t…

If humans could politically-economically deploy superintelligence safely, then we'd already have less extreme pain/suffering. Unless there are countervailing forces, it will be dep…

The problem at Google is their (lacking) process for Preview -> GA. Maybe it's a consequence of their rigorousness around SRE, but it doesn't seem like there's a plausible and effi…

One of the most corrosive effects of being large and old (and Google is old by this point) is institutional inertia and individual internal optimization. The former caused by the l…

140 characters was likely more efficient, in terms of forcing people to focus their thoughts. But it was unpopular, in that people don't like mental effort.

Who would have thought that making someone with Asperger's CEO and giving them carte blanche to decide public statements was a bad idea?

I'm struggling to imagine someone like that who also cares about the minutiae of this case. Or heck, who even knows this case exists. "OpenAI is so inept at system isolation that i…

Not to dismiss your point, but the US healthcare system has one meta problem. Complexity. There are too many parties. There are too many bespoke party-party contract. There are too…

Apple's always been ambivalent about big-E enterprise support. Probably a Jobs-era vibe about work-life unification.

Or as the point was made in The Big Short movie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCb3xjh-Kk&t=127s

Exactly. This reads like someone decided PR firms don't know what they're doing and decided to handle it themselves. But... it turns out that professional people and consulting com…

No. This is a fucking legal case. It will be decided in the courtroom, not on the internet. Posting this is insane in the sense of "What will posting this possibly improve for Open…

Not in the sense that there aren't enough people to work, because there are, but because there isn't enough human labor willing to work at economically sustainable prices. There ar…

> It's going to hurt when agriculture does not see the efficiency gains it has been receiving for the last century or so. Could go either way. Advanced robotics + AI could finally …

Luckily, the current technology equity market has sound fundamentals and lacks speculative opportunities.

Salary aside, I'd still have assumed Wikimedia would be able to find a CTO who wouldn't jump ship the next year. Either they're really bad at picking, or the job is really bad.

What's up with the continually revolving CTO chair? (under Executive)

And laws. The US Congress could pass updates to the Sherman or Clayton acts any time they want to. As soon as "selling the company to big tech" became more financially attractive t…

Google, culturally, seems very tone-deaf to market signals. Granted: historically they have often been the smartest person in the room (collectively speaking) But a consequence of …

This is one place I think the 00s did a disservice to security. It should have been apparent to anyone by that time that "someone malicious physically standing next to the box" is …

Nobody specified what game.

Imho, this is the crux of the debate. Of course Linus realizes linux development is political, because he's lived that, however he might phrase it. What I think both are actually s…

> largest build-out, which is in renewables Yes and... it's still a projected ~50/50 split of future datacenter energy growth being met by renewables or coal (China) + natural gas …