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About unmole
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Comment #49064559
> India is not what even the most casual racist would consider "third world". I don't follow. India was Third World in the original Cold War sense as a founder and leader of the No…
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Comment #49064284
> Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner! Perhaps the EU Commission could start by stopping the circus on its own website and killing its own cookie banner: https://commi…
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Comment #48704189
> Most of the article is a quote The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.
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Comment #48605292
> US ships What US ships?
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Comment #48512347
The cult GP is referring to is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Identity_Foundation Tone down the indignation.
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Comment #48499740
> you could argue that the AI is just a bunch of hired workers that built it for extremely low wages. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could p…
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Comment #48466469
> I think Bregman skirts close to the "Effective Altruism" movement and his work has similar problems of choosing flashy, exciting, elitist projects over boring, uncomfortable, pol…
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Comment #48431920
"Operation succesful, patient dead" is a common saying in India.
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Comment #48425186
> you may run some models locally if only from a cost perspective I have a hard time believing running a model on a laptop will be cheaper than running it in a datacenter. Why woul…
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Comment #48420225
This narrative simply doesn't hold up at the population level. If you just look at India, richer and more developed states have lower fertility compared to poorer, less developed s…
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Comment #48408635
Done.
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Comment #48406784
Invite sent.
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Comment #48402078
You could substitute the Galactic Empire with any generic dictatorship and Andor would still work.
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Comment #48378395
Ack.
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Comment #48365971
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Comment #48310056
You're describing The Hardware Lottery: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489
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Comment #48307291
I still don't understand why that means they need to make 5-10 trillion over the next 5 years.
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Comment #48303548
> They've got, ballpark, $5t to $10t What are you basing this on? For reference, Anthropic raised ~$70 billion in total and OpenAI ~$190 billion. Why do they need to make 20-40x th…
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Comment #48273673
> The computers were very old IBM PC compatible machines, mostly with monochrome cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors. They had no hard disks at all. They had a few hundred kilobytes of…
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Comment #48263417
Tata and ASML recently signed an agreement to build a fab in India: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/tata-electronics-asml-pa... The Indian Government is heavily pushing for dom…
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Comment #48244909
You should do a Michael Burry and go short. Clearly you seem to think you are much better informed, put your money where your mouth is.
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Comment #48244320
Yeah, institutional investors who plowed billions into them are unsophisticated rubes who got hoodwinked because they don't get GAAP. And it's not like both OpenAI and Anthropic ar…
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Comment #48216877
I can't tell if this is satire.
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Comment #48156291
> Accounts drop genuinely insightful takes on niche threads I thought the same about this account until I read multiple completely wrong takes on topics I actually know well and re…