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In theory is right. I've never seen a modern NVidia or AMD reset out of a failed state without a hardware reset. This was possible with old-school graphics cards in the nineties an…

You claimed without evidence, or more accurately, bad evidence, confusing RTOS with "reliability and security." And you were somehow confused that security mattered for systems wit…

At least for regulated applications I worked on, no one cared. The provider needs to comply with specific rules, have specific certifications, and sign specific agreements. You che…

Having worked in / adjacent several such industries, a lot of the question depends on scale. A trillion-dollar business can easily trade dollars for the privacy. A business with $1…

> What history? What proof? What evidence? ... > standard commercial monolithic kernels Note the path from A to B. Fully monolithic: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, …

> A GPU driver is unlikely to ever be bug free, but if the GPU is in an unstable state, because the keyboard should still be working fine, it should be easy to reset the GPU and co…

> Taking a helicopter to the top of Everest is not as rewarding as climbing the mountain. I don't think this is a fair comparison. New tools take you higher. I'll never climb Evere…

I think history has proven that this theory: > Better security, better reliability, better modularity. Better security because in a muicrokernel [sic] system a bug in one driver on…

... or someone who has a hard time seeing how most actual arts, music, and humanities college degrees have that impact. Examples of things with high-impact towards civics: - Philos…

I think the corollary is about taxpayer accountability. It's easy to make the argument: "If we invest $1M in education, we will have $10M in additional future economic output, $4M …

What IP is being stolen? IP is the code and possibly the weights. No one is stealing IP. And I don't think anyone in their right mind would argue the AI industry isn't being fairly…

> These kinds of countries are the only ones that matter, because they're the ones that have to answer about what people were thinking when they chose to make use of their power in…

I believe in good and bad. I don't believe in US good, non-US bad. I also don't believe the same about my religion or my political party, for that matter. How you measure depends o…

They're not "attacks." Anthropic calling them "attacks" doesn't make them attacks. Companies are collecting transcripts of conversations with Anthropic, and giving users a discount…

Ah yes. The exceptionalism argument. There's the good "us" and the bad "them."

It seems to go, actually quite well, and then... stop

s/all possibilities/all possibilities with odds greater than some threshold/g There's no reason to report on the odds of a meteor falling on my head tomorrow. There is every reason…

Be a Bayesian, and they'll stop annoying you. If you have a 5% chance of thermonuclear war each decade for 10 decades, you'll: - Hear similar annoying statements - They'll be true …

This was their prediction for 2026: "The bet of using AI to speed up AI research is starting to pay off. OpenBrain continues to deploy the iteratively improving Agent-1 internally …

Extreme competition and Safety Are opposites.

I think good governance would listen to polls over metrics. A good example of how this works is cocaine. Capitalism and competition isn't always good governance. It works brilliant…

It's very unclear to me. The key question is on direction of LLMs. Right now, LLMs are taking over human jobs. If the cost of silicon+power If this applies to SWEs, lawyers, busine…

This is not a tool which can be used to assume information is anonymized. The way OpenAI describes it is ... ... concerning. "Our goal is for models to learn about the world, not a…

I had a physics professor I worked with who had a Nobel Prize. He didn't win it. It was won by a team of students / collaborators / mentees, who felt he deserved it. I can't disagr…

This was painful to read. It become better and simpler with a basic signals & systems background: - His breaking up images into grids was a poor-man's convolution. Render each lett…