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Is really a compete XOR lobby the government? The AI companies in the US do both, and nobody says "OpenAI can't compete so they do lobbying" or "Anthropoic can't compete so they do…

I was extremely surprised by this figure, so I checked the article and it's not "Renewables already surpass fossil fuel in the energy mix" but "Renewables already surpass fossil fu…

Rich people will consume most of the output. This is how life worked for most of the last 10k years, didn't it?

I never understood why they didn't use the Apple "UI". Where Apple presents fewer models (say N models), and when you select one, each is configurable for screen size/RAM/CPU/whate…

Some Americans think the "democracy" vs "republic" distinction is extremely important, and that "democracy" means something like "tyranny of the majority", hence why it is good tha…

Some people feel that mass surveillance is wrong whether it is domestic or not. For those people, being ok with mass surveillance as long that it is not done to your kind is a mora…

> What we have found: the model has strong internal constraints against harmful actions (consistently refuses things it flags as problematic), but the harder risk is subtler -- it …

It feels like people accept this criticism when it props up their position - for an American (software) engineer, companies run by _American engineers_ vs companies run by American…

Yes, but this is simply the remnants of the old tailor occupation, post automation. The talented old lady would have had a lot more business in clothes making in the past, no need …

There is no need for ordering right? All countries can start acting at the same time.

Being a tailor is scalable, that's way there are way, way more cheap machine produced clothes today than in the past. Surely he did not miss that the textile industry was at the co…

The college explanation cannot be the full or even the main driver, because countries with free college (+ scholarships) have the same issue. Same for daycare pricing.

Meh. A hundred years ago, TinkerNews commenters would have observed that Western cultures are obviously better at running manufacturing plants, because at the time the West were wh…

Don't they have a partnership with the French Armed Forces? I am sure they are interested in automating Russian Audio or Text (-> Russian Text) -> French text.

Definitely maybe - but then we are discussing (2), i.e. "what is the right technical solution to solve (1)". Your previous comment was arguing that (1) is great (which no one denie…

There are two different things: 1. a drone that you can talk to and fly on its own 2. a drone where the flying is controlled by an LLM (2) is a specific instance of the larger conc…

You could have a program, not LLM-based but could be ANN, for flying and an LLM for overseeing; the LLM could give the program instructions to the pilot program as a (x,y,z) direct…

Not German so I can only talk about how it is going in another country: - Massive change in the average household size: way fewer people live together now (delayed couple & family …

Here's a niche request: last year I stumbled upon a personal website on HN, for a topic related to tech. The website also had a section on NYC, mostly Asian, restaurants that was g…

Completely unrelated. Laffer curve is total tax returns as a function of tax rate (usually used to show that at some point T = t*Y(t), where t is the rate and Y is the taxe base, d…