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The OP is literally talking about “mass extinction”, it’s not a real concern that climate change will cause mass extinction in the next 5 years. It should absolutely be focused on …

The existential risk people are worried about a much shorter timeline - like the next 5-10 years. Climate change is serious but very unlikely to lead to anything like ending the An…

If your against on site natural gas I think there is real arguments there and maybe it should be banned. But there’s a difference to that and being just straight up against data ce…

The Olympics are seen as a net negative for local economies though because it requires tons of local investment for a temporary payoff so the juice (billions of dollars of infra) i…

> I mean, how do you explain the backlash then if their byproducts don't generally bother people? I think the general populace has pretty irrational political stances. For example …

Sure but progress over perfection right? More tax revenue puts you in a better spot to attack those problems than not having it. Even just doing what Northern Virginia does and low…

Data centers don’t cause water pollution generally or turn entire towns into industrial zones. There is more than enough room in rural WI towns for industrial and non industrial pa…

This is a needlessly low effort reply that hurts the discussion. Some data centers are paying lots of taxes and upgrading local grids, others are bribing local politicians or lobby…

We’re talking about rural Wisconsin - there is no world where you need to make a trade off between having school and a data center. Put a school in one field and a data center in a…

If the data center was paying a decent amount of taxes surely it would help though right? In theory the taxes would go towards pro social uses.

Is there any reason to think that training weights has peaked rather than is accelerating? It feels like now they are increasingly able to pick some low hanging fruit by using the …

I mean yeah its vacancy rate is like 20% in NYC… I asked for a source on buildings that are purposely vacant for advertising and it seems like that doesn’t actually exist

It feels like the real cost might be negative though.. They use frontier math as a way to test improvements in their model. So solving the problems is like a positive externality, …

They and Anthropic have indicated that the models are substantially augmenting the research and doing large amounts of work autonomously at this point. Here is one of the many blog…

He said there are several others like this which I think is false, TFA wouldn’t be relevant.

Source? My understanding is this is no longer true

Ok but bio weapons could theoretically kill everyone… so it’s not like a knife that could maybe kill a few people. It stands to reason you would regulate a knife differently than a…

I don’t know what you mean man people obviously don’t own personal tomahawk missiles and that sort of thing. If you have a Shahed loaded with explosives on your property you will p…

Meh you gotta go for progress over perfection. Screening model releases is progress, you know that companies aren't mass distributing dangerous releases. There might be some founda…

Sure nobody should. Still the comment says it wouldn't be better for the world when I would rather someone whose arrogant over a literal psycopath? And that comment just mentions t…

I think we probably have a lot more in common than you think man, I am deeply troubled by things happening in the country and the world right now. That said, during difficult times…

> Nonetheless, where the price does not matter much, like for supercomputers or military technology, China can afford to match or exceed the US capabilities with their internal pro…

> Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology. Its core features include a dictatorial leader, the complete suppression of opposition, and the be…

So do you consider everyone who works at defense primes like Raytheon fascists? How about people who work at Boeing on dual use technology? I’m in the camp that words have meanings…

On point 2 he talks about it being an area for them to collaborate on. I’d imagine he would be OK with them having input on the bio risk part but maybe not the “did Tianamen square…