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Do you hate joy? People like things. I’m more suspicious of someone who judges people for liking things.

Seems fine to me. If people like it why be a curmudgeon about it? The old company made a mistake by not rebuilding, there was demand for ice cream at that location and somebody met…

That’s already backfiring because high housing costs drive down the birth rate. If the next generation is smaller than the previous generation, housing prices will collapse.

We're talking about gaming here. What other goal is there than maximizing your subjective enjoyment of the game? Sure if you're a professional streamer, your feels are maybe less i…

China has surpassed the US in total energy generation, and the gap is growing in their favor every year. Japan never surpassed the US in power or industrial output. China is differ…

Teenagers and people in their 20 don’t need these drugs anyway, and they’re the ones who should be most concerned about long term effects. But people in their 50s and older? What l…

> The counter extermination was only 5% of Athens total population, or so historians say, so it seems like a lot of nuance was shown. That fact alone doesn't demonstrate nuance. It…

If one civilization is taking revenge on another I don’t think they would show that much nuance. For one thing, wouldn’t everyone claim they were against their old polis? How would…

This blog post feels really fishy to me. It's quite light on specifics. It should have been straightforward for the author to excerpt some of the prompts he was submitting, to show…

It depends on the county of course, but in my experience service workers at many “touristy” countries seem to benefit directly from tourism. For example, some of the workers at res…

I'm sorry to say you're very out of touch. This rosy picture is objectively wrong when it comes to housing. Start with the fundamentals - construction has gotten more expensive. Un…

Are you counting rent as a subscription fee? If yes, then conceptually we're on the same page, if no, then I think this is wildly off base. If rent is not a subscription fee, then …

It seems unlikely to me that they'll never have to retrain their model to account for new data. Is the assumption that their power usage drastically drops after 3 years? Unless the…

Their electricity costs are $10K per month or about $120K per year. At an interest rate of 7% that's $1.7M of capital tied up in power bills. At that rate I wonder if it makes sens…

Many human beings don’t match “human intelligence” in all areas. I think any definition of AGI has to be a test that 95% of humans pass (or you admit your definition is biased and …

That's moving the goalposts. ChatGPT would easily have passed any test in 1995 that programmers / philosophers would have set for AGI at that time. There was definitely no assumpti…

Can you be more specific? Which politician is using this fund in a corrupt fashion, to help which friend? Please provide names. Or are you simply expressing the same meaningless ge…

Sounds like a very strong incentive for us to find a way to leave the planet and settle elsewhere.

For physical materials, like gold, this applies because gold is useful other than as a medium of exchange. But ETH is a mathematical construct. It should be true in the limit up un…

Just to clarify, it’s good for cryptocurrency when a portion of that finite currency is irreversibly removed from circulation forever? In that case I assume it’s best if all ETH we…

Japan has said AI can train on copyrighted materials. https://www.privacyworld.blog/2024/03/japans-new-draft-guide... I imagine if copyright is a big issue for AI, Japanese startup…

> no sane nation ever will buy a US weapon I don’t think the US defense industry is worried. Do you know any sane nations around here? In general it’s not like war is about who’s r…

This is a general objection to AI responding to real world events in general : "What if something unexpected happens?" It comes up in self driving as well. Things like "What if som…