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My uninformed hypothesis: Demis was gently pushed out. Gemini, while having made major strides over the last year, continues to lag behind Anthropic and OpenAI.

Doubtful. His destination is both funded by Google and has a compute deal with Google.

And yet: > Despite the July losses, Situational Awareness remains up about 80% on the year and holds a portfolio of investments in private companies including Anthropic. 80% return…

What is your theory of how the dominoes fall and why? My understanding of this situation (ahem) is that SI was highly leveraged and where tech (ai and adjacent) stock prices fell, …

There is quite a bit of information out there as to how Google is achieving short term growth in their core search business. And boy, it is ugly. It does not signal long term conti…

It tickles me greatly how much HN’ers are fascinated by dithering. It seems like a few times per year a post about dithering makes the front page.

You could replace “gesturing at” with “describing,” then explain why the description is technically wrong.

This is very obviously a countermeasure against distillers, illicit resellers, and the like. The scale and competence of the Chinese black (grey?) market has become a serious threa…

I think it is dead obvious to anyone willing to be honest that the value created by more satellites absolutely dwarfs the value of ground based telescopes.

Surely you don't think the two are equivalent, right? Biden was clearly experiencing major cognitive decline over the course of his presidency. Trump was/is not. I've not seen any …

Wait, what? People were offended by that? It seemed an apt cover in light of the situation. For those unaware, the economist ran this [1] image after Biden’s historically disastrou…

Fortunately, no one owns space, so we don’t have to listen to these decels.

It is a violation of their terms of service. There are plenty of good reasons to not use Anthropic's services. If you don't like their terms of service, do stop using them! I perso…

People keep throwing this idea around haphazardly, but U.S. courts have pretty consistently decided that training on copyrighted works falls under fair use. You may not like it, bu…

> Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it There are enough neuroscience experiments demonstrating how we creat…

Here is the abstract of the paper this article is about(Global Capital and Local Assets: House Prices, Quantities, and Elasticities): “”” We estimate price elasticities of housing …

4,000 employees (pre layoff). That’s quite large.

Sure. But if we have enough surveillance cameras, we can just trace the full path of the car from the moment of theft to now. I'm reminded of Gorgon Stare [1]. Stolen cars suck. Bu…

I'd love to know how the demographics of steam's actual users compare against those represented on the marketing page ( https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine ).

This is not true. Broadcom is a public company. It doesn't have a single or even majority owner.

From the article: > She wasn't saying, of course, that it's impossible to become a billionaire. Obviously that's possible. Nor was she talking about the distinction between income …

> this single deal boosts SpaceX's valuation by 94 x 11 billion = $1 trillion dollars That's not how valuations work. Also, it is not unlikely that SpaceX's valuation drops post-IP…

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Perhaps you could share what this person's history of unethical behavior is? Lasker is called a eugenicist by the GP and in the Wikipedia article, but when I read the cited sources…

Most public K-12 teachers teach 9 months out of the year. So annualizing that salary gets you to $64,149. Supposing a two income household of two teachers earning that amount ($128…