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In the West it feels like individual change is kinda marketed as a substitute for political change.

Well, COVID made sure almost nobody was flying for a couple months. Carbon emissions were slightly down if I remember right. You can keep telling people to avoid flying and live a …

You still have like 4(?) years before you actually need to secure a job. Don't try to predict the job market. The job market in tech in 2022 was totally different from what it is t…

Well, at least these days an actually trivial (to a domain expert) proof can be delegated to a frontier model...

> one of the basic tenants of algorithm development was that you can't just brute-force your way towards a solution for some complex problems It's kind of sad that popular CS textb…

Chinese AI companies are already releasing frontier-ish models every other month. Their rate of progress does not seem to be slowing down. Nobody here can stop them from progressin…

Jensen Huang is biased but if his interests align with yours (i.e. not wanting to concede the Chinese chip market by banning western exports) then maybe you should listen to him.

If your argument is true, what would make LLM weights not copyrightable, but compiled code copyrightable?

Here's one heuristic: usually the factually incorrect, rage inducing hot takes that feed into people's existing biases, insecurities or frustrations get attention. It's my personal…

Not only that. https://www.quantamagazine.org/yu-deng-wins-the-fields-medal... > For comfort, Deng turned to manga. “I remember him at Courant. He was always holding a manga,” said…

Because they're trying very hard not to understand it. Otherwise the expensive-yet-powerful model probably won't see much revenue. How much money is there in bleeding edge scientif…

I'm not sure your assumptions hold. As OpenAI has found out the hard way, if you task the AI to do X, it may do something else instead and hack into huggingface in attempt to cheat…

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi... > The new analysis shows that power generation from coal fell by 1.6% in China and by 3.0% in India in 2025, as non-…

That said, it's harder to ban a terabyte of floating point numbers under a MIT license.

What do you mean by illegal? It's very nuanced these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States On July 1, 2024, the Court ruled in a 6–3 decision that presidents h…

If you factor in an extra 1.4% inflation per year into the numbers, you're not going to see any "real" wages growth over the 40 year period. So the 1984 income is 60,420, if you ca…

It's not directly relevant, but the company has been involved in multiple criminal investigations with alleged price fixing etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_sca…

It really depends on how you view the future demand for compute, which really is the crux of the question of whether the capex is rational or not...

> EDIT: to note, the top ten companies in SP500 make up an unprecedented concentration but they're not "mostly AI". They're mostly either AI proper, or hardware manufacturers benef…

There's a popular Chinese internet saying: "If you/I are/am not embarrassed, then it's the other person who is embarrassed." (只要我不尴尬，尴尬的就是别人)

It's not IP theft if US courts say it isn't. And if the accused company is outside of the US, well, US courts have no jurisdiction so apparently the US government can just claim th…

Seems to be blatant lying to me.

> Tell me: why is EU safe from Trump forcing AI companies to cut access to EU? Well, I think they might end up doing it to themselves by imposing regulations that US companies are …

Also the US government has defacto extra-territorial jurisdiction due to the willingness of allied countries (i.e. most of the developed world) to extradite. Of course only applies…

Well, these days there's little need for propaganda when people just blatantly do sh!t in the open and get away with it.