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Of course recordings are to be used against those that threaten the people in power, while those in power enjoy a cone of silence. Same as it ever was. Power is silencing other peo…

'you shall have no other gods before me'. operationally, a warning. false worship is dangerous. we get what we worship (value above all, orient towards, optimize for). heaven or he…

this is the business model bet. the codebase is a big ball of mud that only a superhuman ai can comprehend, therefore everyone must use superhuman ai make changes in the codebase. …

copyright laundering machine. which could poison the very notion of ip / copyright, either open or close source. the only code that can't be laundered becomes code hidden behind a …

> U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumpt…

Long term median purchasing power, especially of essentials eg housing / food / energy / education, matters more to the health of a nation than the price of hitech on open global m…

First, prices per se are irrelevant. The ratio of labor price to goods&services price is relevant. Second, the labor / goods&services price ratio itself is irrelevant, as measured …

"How do you make sure that a hotel room cannot be booked by more than one person at a time" Excellent question! You don't. Instead, assuming a globally consistent transaction order…

life is a game of balance in the sweet band between uninhabitable extremes. technology obeys the same law. both too little, and too much, are deadly.

What an awesome article. Kudos to the author! On the core observation "there are too many implementation choices", that is not quite right. True, the author mentions 4, and there a…

BigTech, which critically depends on hyper-targeted ads for the lion share of its revenue, is incapable of offering AI model outputs that are plausible given the location / languag…

The rationalization for injecting bias rests on two core ideas: A. It is claimed that all perspectives are 'inherently biased'. There is no objective truth. The bias the actor inje…

the building must make $10b/year in revenue, or else you are all fired.

the attitude of those that do it: "what are you going to do about it?". escalatory power games, not an ounce of caring for your fellow man, barely a veneer of. we have entered very…

"have scientific journals disappeared" -- ironically, in the AI field most of the action is on arxiv / github / twitter. journals have been obsolete for decades, and the '10s obsol…

fwiw, coca cola exists as a business in the attention space created (distorted?) through brand marketing

hahaha, what do you think mass media is?!

can photography be an art? all a photographer does is to run around the world with a camera and take snapshots. he has no creative control.

there must be a fallacy name for 'more of a good thing is always a good thing' line of reasoning. almost every good out there is good in a certain range. outside of that range it b…

at scale, delivering cost-effective infrastructure matters to the bottom line, even for seemingly unrelated cash cows like ads. the larger the infrastructure footprint, the better …

social media posting dynamics: * micro-dopamine hits from likes are the primary motivator * attention spans are wildly overtaxed * goal: maximize likes and minimize effort * maximi…

the search business has always been caught between delivering simple and to the point results to users and skewing results to generate return on investment to advertisers. in its e…

if you were to get me in a lab right now, i'd had absolutely zero clue on how to multiply a virus. perhaps i'm old and behind the times. thing is, i'm not sure about the lab access…

undergrad in molecular biology = 4k. assuming eg CS undergrads don't attend en-masse molecular biology classes and/or have lab access. edit: and one obvious error, it's graduates w…

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