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> unless you consider that socialism = "social safety net measures", which it isn't I agree with you that socialism, properly understood, ought to mean something much broader than …

I think this is more about tribalism than conservatism. There's nothing inherently "conservative" about opposing renewable energy. The political movement that's currently leading t…

This is an important conversation to have and we should pretty clearly about what the issues are. I didn't see any objection to LLM assisted development in the abstract. The object…

> Hopefully a solution similar to what was done in Hong Kong can be found. Citizens of Hong Kong lost their right to free speech and their ability to select their own leaders. If y…

The short answer is no, it won't work on your home computer. In it's current form it needs something like 594 GB of memory, far outside what you can reasonably run on normal consum…

The employer selects a financial company to manage the 401k. When you switch jobs, you can roll the 401k from the previous employer into the new one, or into an IRA (Individual Ret…

Absolutely this. If you think about different types of objections to nearby data centers and do some pretty minimal research, you come up with a reasonable set of solutions that mo…

We also need immigration because it grows the GDP, makes for a dynamic and resilient economy, increases scientific and technological output and raises the standard of living. Immig…

Incidentally, here's a recent article about how the economics of ambulances are broken in the US: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are If municipal emergency se…

Agriculture uses orders of magnitudes more water than data centers. A 50% cut in water use by data centers will have nowhere near the impact of a 5% cut in water use by agriculture…

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It is common sense, and with literally any other administration in the past century it would seem like a good idea. I have zero confidence that this particular administration has a…

This is very exciting. Congrats to Tom on the accomplishment. To be clear, this is an attempt at a decipherment. This is not proven, and we shouldn't consider Linear A to be "solve…

Musk has more money than most of us would dream of, but the game isn't over until it's over. Speaking just for myself, I've lost respect from Elon Musk. I admire Musk's accomplishm…

That is ascribing far too much strategic thinking to this administration. They're just not capable of the kind of planning and foresight that would require. The administration's pl…

For me it was torrenting a 7G ball of weights leaked from Meta and running alpaca.cpp (an early variant of llama.cpp) on my desktop computer in early 2023. I started asking it ques…

The AI-driven data center roll out raises some legitimate concerns that really ought to be considered and discussed at the political level. I doubt that a blanket ban on data cente…

I'm very open to the idea that consciousness is substrate independent. I have a hard time seeing why molecules could produce consciousness from an electro-chemical path, but not fr…

My personal preference is Interstella 5555 is Daft Punk's best music video. Edit: Jinx! Gracana beat my reply to an 11 hour old comment by four minutes.

Being isolationist or global imperialist implies articulating different strategies and values. This is an administration that has neither of those.

Humans don't handle all corner cases. People can be slow to react to completely novel or surprising situations. There will be corner cases where humans generally do better than a m…

Ideally, robot drivers will some day be better drivers than humans in all road conditions. They'll be able to coordinate fast lane merges and busy intersections by subtly adjusting…

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While it's theoretically possible that this technology could work effectively, given the people involved, this project is probably a complete bamboozle that will divert funds away …

Author Philip Pullman published a version of the Grimm fairy tales in 2012. These stories are intended for a modern audience, but in my opinion, Pullman does a good job of preservi…