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I think those specific examples, they'd release them publicly because the benefits to humanity are so clear -- however, if they found some new option-pricing model or futures marke…

One other bit in support is that the person you’re replying to read “university student” but OP said “Post-Doc” which I guess technically is a student at a university but a post-do…

In 2025, Ad revenue was down 60% as compared to 2021.. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-approach-advertise...

In some number of cases, the business partner who would have passed you the requirements will just generate the code themselves.. I’m shocked shin some engineers don’t see a massiv…

Crank author at a crank “institution” - I can’t assess whether the OpenAI paper is accurate but I highly doubt this is going to be the paper to disprove it.

Even in the first option, it is so much easier to destroy something than to build it. This is causing damage that will take a generation to reverse. Why would any foreign students …

> If no images are released on the internet (and users consume them privately), no one is harmed in the process. Yikes. A. They were released all over the internet - from the artic…

> Optimal corporate taxes are zero (or close to it) anyway, same as tariffs. From a purely theoretical standpoint about the optimal allocation of private goods, that might be true …

My great annoyance with all this blather about UBI and post-scarcity and new economic models is that it relies on taxing and redistributing the ~infinite profits of the largest tec…

Not so.. He’s being sued personally as well. the lawsuit is Apple vs. “ CHANG LIU, TANG YEW TAN, OPENAI FOUNDATION f/k/a OPENAI, INC., OPENAI GROUP PBC, and IO PRODUCTS, LLC f/k/a …

I can't believe we need to rehash these tired arguments every time this is discussed. At this point, I'm convinced that some people are too jingoistic and simple-minded to believe …

Nuking international students and then making it so they can't stay after getting degrees here is one huge issue: https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/2026/class-d...

And far too people are aware that Xi is extraordinarily corrupt.. "Similarly, Xi’s siblings, nieces, and nephews held assets worth over $1 billion in business investments and real …

Sure but it’s like self driving vs piloted cars.. both are impressive in their own way but if someone proposes to sell 10 billion humanoid robots like Musk has, they obviously can’…

Nearly 50,000 Americans died of Covid in 2024… and 20% of those were under 65 years old. It’s thankfully much better now than at the peak but tens of thousands of people are still …

I’m confused because you said credible doctors and then linked to one of the biggest cranks on the internet.

Not CGI - just human-controlled: https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1ph3scw/tesla_opt... https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-optimus-robots-bartend...

They detail the work they did with that grant money here: https://www.journalismai.info/programmes/innovation/innovati... Looks like it built an AI editing assistant with Google Ne…

Yep - a very common view/philosophy outside the Valley. For whatever reason, that's not the culture at all in SV. Actually "vouching" for someone is still gated by people's reputat…

There is a really tremendous streak of people helping people with no strings attached that I hadn’t found anywhere else I’ve lived. Especially but not exclusively on the engineerin…

The problem with armchair back of the napkin math is that you make elementary mistakes like comparing the cost of a vaccine that provides decades of protection to the mortality sta…

You can have character and be loyal to Google (lol) or make $xx million… I’m not surprised when people choose the latter.

OpenAI pays for the earn out he would’ve otherwise received at Google + a new comp package. Made up numbers, if Google still owed him $10M for lasting the full two years, OpenAI ca…

Yeah, it's just nativist nonsense from completely the uninformed.

I think a big part of it was the Chinese element as well - the RISC-V Swiss reorg happened at the end of the first Trump term when the US was making a lot of noise about banning Ch…