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It doesn’t matter what the actual reality is. People think that data centers waste water, and they don’t like that. The beef from a single hamburger uses far more water than a year…

Those in power seem to think that a compute advantage is necessary to maintain economic advantage. Despite this, the voters universally hate data centers, so much so that both NY a…

> I don’t think there’s some practical way to force existing corporations to include something in their charter Laws are but a pen stroke away. No existing nor new C corp and their…

> a serious problem with standard corporations... immoral activities for profit A politician could trivially write a law to end this "problem", at any point. Or courts could start …

> Perhaps Gemini itself was resource-starved because Google liked to rent out TPUs to Anthropic instead. This was the core hypothesis.

I agree that other organizations can compete with few resources, but my hypothesis is that Gemini training specifically is being given nearly 0 resources, despite Google obviously …

The answer is far more benign. They getting a higher ROI renting their TPUs to Anthropic et al instead of performing training and serving their own models. Google cloud has insane …

> Injecting more money into the film industry would just lead it to the same people at the top of it where they'll produce the same mediocre output as they have for ages Not necess…

Goodwill is supposedly €1.504B.

> Are you trying to be sarcastic or funny? I can't tell. Take a liberal arts class and your reading comprehension may improve. > knows what a partial differential equation is. I’ve…

> You neither need not count on someone who wrote a thesis on 'feminist perspective of aztek dance' I like how we just make up fake arguments in incoherent grammar as a reason to c…

Did you read the article? As it highlights elegantly, "liberal arts" is about the educational methodology and structure, not the course material. You can learn STEM subjects in a l…

> The education was in learning how to learn, learning how to solve problems, and how to distinguish fact from fiction Sounds pretty close to a liberal arts education. That said, n…

> west points the wastefulness of western labs whether in terms of gpu clusters being ran, cost of inference. Can’t possibly be intentional media strategy by a geopolitical target,…

Great reading list! They’re honestly two stories that I reflect on constantly while thinking about AI lately. Player Piano, not to spoil anything, is about a world run by engineers…

Anyone who says that shit publicly says crazier shit privately. Half the quotes floating around came from his resume and courses he was selling. So presumably the more polished mat…

Billionaires use Gmail alongside impoverished people across the world.

Many tests penalize incorrect answers worse than blank answers. As a famous example, you were incentivized to leave questions blank on the American SATs (until somewhat recently).

They (OpenAI) also made many more deals to acquire compute before they actually had the revenue to support it. They paraded around the world making deals with everyone and anyone. …

Most of this hand-wringing on price will go away. My assumption is that Anthropic, OpenAI, Kimi, etc all have a similar cost structure when serving models. The same size model roug…

> How is the "world" model different from plain dependency injection? In addition to what the other comment said, this "world" model is great for hermetic testing of complex code, …

> I just want every medical service to have this exact type of breakdown Check out the "No Surprises Act" https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-pric...

The goal is not for meta to take their market, the goal would be for meta to damage their competitors. If meta releases an open-weight LLM that is not Chinese made, cheaper to run …

That's basically a variant of a subscription, but one where the end user churns aggressively. It's worse in many ways too - it's a lot harder to gauge interest as the developer to …