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> I can see this kind of survival-bias stories distorting the reality. That was my take with the entire report which I think lends to an inherent bias within the data and stories. …

One of the things I found interesting was that you were contrasting the two sides as either/or. Like it were this meme: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTz2_fj…

They do need hosting and now they need a very particular hosting with very particular hardware which is the bottleneck. Now here is the trick - exporting the magic that makes LLM w…

>The real question is why would anyone want, or want to help build, such an obscenity. Power Saws and CNC mills have no autonomy. They have to be guided every inch or instruction b…

>A magpie is not provided food and shelter, it has to hunt, fight for territory, and build its nest. >Humans don't have some inalienable "worth". But if you can work, you might cho…

Alvin Toffler's book "Future Shock" describes what's going on within this thread. Toffler predicted that as change accelerated, we'd face the paradox of too many options (like a Ch…

>someone raised the question of “what would be the role of humans in an AI-first society”. Norbert Wiener, considered to be the father of Cybernetics, wrote a book back in the 1950…

You did get the memo from POTUS that loyalty is more important than intelligence, right? Un-bias intelligence in this operation is not welcomed. One is told what is "factual truth"…

I left my shocked face next to the mountain of documented government abuses... Why are people thinking this is new? Your data down to your current browser session and current locat…

Back in a time when you had to pay out the nose for long distance calling, you had outdial service through X.25 PSN or more often, as ARPANet turned into Internet, you had Telnet a…

>Got lots of server health messages and requests to call people back. And some more personal messages, too. That vibe is reflected in the 9/11 pager messages as well... https://911…

I'm sure the 5% employee tax in Seattle and the bill being introduced in Olympia will do more to smooth things over than some quirky blipvert will. I think most people in Seattle k…

I get the feeling that this is supposed to be about the economics of a fairly expensive city/state and that "six-figure salary", but you don't really call it out. If it was about t…

It depends on how AI affects your economy. If you are a writer or a painter or a developer - in a city as expensive as Seattle - then one may feel a little threatened. Then it beco…

206dev here... Oh yeah, call out a tech city and all the butt-hurt-ness comes out. Perfect example of "Rage Bait". People here aren't hurt because of AI - people here are hurt beca…

I see it like the hype of js/node and whatever module tech is glued to it when it was new from the perspective of someone who didn't code js. Sum of F's given is still zero. -206de…

After reading the article and the comments, here are a few points people are missing from their analysis: - OverUtilized/UnderCharged: doesn't matter because... - Lead Time vs. TCO…

CUDA isn't all that and a bag of chips. It just is the Facebook/Twitter of the data science and from that LLM space. There are Tensor processors and other ASIC processing for speci…

Often people are stopped using a premise of what's called a "Terry Stop" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_v._United_States ) which permits police to briefly detain a person ba…

Can't wait for them to reproduce Atari's "ET - the Extra-Terrestrial". When a game's value is worth more in the landfill than on shelves, you know you got something special.

Doesn't this increase opportunity for arbitrage as it's not likely exchanges are going to be perfectly synchronized to the overall market? Also doesn't this also offer opportunitie…

"...they called me 'Mr. Glass'" - Elijah (played by Samuel L. Jackson) from 'Unbreakable'

When it comes to meeting new people who present themselves as knowledgeable, I have a philosophy. I believe in giving them enough rope to hang themselves or parade themselves, espe…

It has slowed down some on the return call - last month out of the few dozen, about half came back stating they were reconsidering the role with a few interviews and a few more tha…

Uh... there is governance. >- Nuclear Weapons The several non-nuclear proliferation treaties and disarmament talks that have reduced the number of warheads down by about 2/3? Just …