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The "most powerful man in the world" is an incompetent fucking clown unfit to run a local McDonalds franchise. That's the world we all live in.

> Why could he not speak to HIS ceo himself instead of asking Bob to You can't expect a founder/CEO to spend 2 minutes relaying an email with critical security information to his o…

> As someone who regularly reads things online, then wants to read them again like 3 years later, Google has been monotonically declining in quality. I generally agree, but I think…

I'm not convinced these two things (data centers vs apartment buildings) are that similar, though there is probably some overlap. People don't just hate the idea of data centers "i…

From a user perspective, Google search is the most useful it has been in years, though that doesn't feel entirely like intentional improvement, just a lucky side effect of the move…

> The description makes me think that it's targeted at the "screenless" trend. Especially among young people there is a trend to cut down on smartphone usage. Perhaps so, but I don…

To answer most of the questions above simultaneously (to some degree): I only care about the content of someone's character and how their actions impact the rest of the world, not …

> Are you, for example, wishing for the demise of the United States? Do you want to tear down the 1st Amendment and the Statue of Liberty? Are you against democracy? Do you want ou…

I'm a 52 year old natural born US citizen whose ancestors have been here for generations and I'm currently anti-American. Why wouldn't I be? We've never been the shining beacon of …

> I hope to see the day the perpetrators will punished. This is unfortunately incredibly unlikely, at least when it comes to the people who are really responsible. Some of the foot…

> Fair enough; pretend I said "a computer" instead. That's a better example, though the "continually better, faster & cheaper" days for computers (and consumer electronics broadly)…

> For every mars bar, there's a video game. The economics of software (including video games) are entirely different than candy bars or burgers as the marginal cost of each "unit" …

> In retrospect the timeline seems way too long, that scenario would play out much faster now, like 50 years instead of 500. Even 50 years is probably too long (but seems more reas…

Stopping US import of any of these technologies doesn't suddenly make them disappear. They still exist. You can't "ignore them and they'll go away", this is real life. And as an Am…

> For some reason, be aware or careful always gets compressed to avoidance The reason is legal liability, generally. If you sell Q-Tips and tell people to be careful when sticking …

> Yes. Meta is bad. Meta is both bad and incompetent. The world we live in is not a meritocracy. It never has been. You can be bad and incompetent and still be wildly successful. S…

> Kinda like nuclear bombs or similar. ...and AI progress is actually a much more difficult thing to control than nuclear proliferation... Unlike nuclear bombs there is no rare dif…

> im not sure why they would even bother with the cameras at that point. Lots of data to feed into their Palantir systems to keep track of l̵a̵w̵f̵u̵l̵ ̵p̵r̵o̵t̵e̵s̵t̵o̵r̵s̵ terror…

I'm sure there are various reasons why specific individual Americans hate data centers, but in the aggregate I think the main unifying force is that Americans hate the rapidly grow…

> Do you see any edge using LLMs that more traditional ML doesn't have? Depends upon whether you pay for early access to Trump's Truth social posts. Which, yes, is really a thing, …

> > Any insiders know how Muse Code is doing internally? > If there were, do you believe it would be in their interest to answer this publicly? If it were being adopted like gangbu…

> It's called the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect. The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect applies everywhere, but in my experience it is hyper-amplified on HN because of the fact that tech/softwa…

> working conditions and wages have pretty consistently improved over the past 200 years They've improved, but not consistently on human timescales. Being a worker in the pre-labor…