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> a defining characteristic of the Intelligence Age will be massive prosperity

That's the sales pitch, that this will benefit all.

I'm very pro-AI, but here's the only prediction for the future I would ever make: AI will accelerate, not minimize, inequality and thus injustice, because it removes the organizational limits previously imposed by bureaucracy/coordination costs of humans.

It's not AI's fault. It's not because people are evil or weak or mean, but because the system already does so, and the system has only been constrained by inability to scale people in organizations, which is now relieved by AI.

Virtually all the advances in technology and civilization have been aimed at people capturing resources, people, and value, and recent advances have only accelerated that trend. Broader distributions of value are incidental.

Yes, the U.S. had a middle class after the war, and yes, China has lifted rural people out of technical poverty. But those are the exceptions against the background of consolidation of wealth and power world wide. Not through ideology or avarice but through law and technology extending the reach of agency by amplifying transaction cost differences in market power, information asymmetry and risk burdens. The only thing that stops this is disasters like war and environmental collapse, and it's only slowed by recalcitrance of people.

E.g., now we are at a point were people's economic and online activity is pervasively tracked, but it's impossible to determine who's the owner of the vast majority of assets. That creates massive scale for getting customers, but impedes legal responsibility. Nothing in economic/market theory says that's how it should be; but transaction cost economics does make clear that the asymmetry can and will be exploited, so organizations will capture governance to do so.

It's not AI's job nor even AI's focus to correct injustice, and you can't blame AI for the damage it does. But like nuclear weapons, cluster munitions, party politics, (even software waivers of liability) etc., it creates moral hazards far beyond the ability of culture to accommodate.

(Don't get me started on how blockchain's promise of smart contracts scaling to address transaction risks has devolved into proliferating fraud schemes.)
Desalination releases brine, and would even if you had free energy.

It's a disaster for local sea life. You can either pump it back out to disperse it over a large area, or release it and kill all local marine life. Pumping it back out to disperse it is extremely expensive because the brine is corrosive. You could evaporate the brine but that takes land area plus you have to have the infra to actually use the salt, purify it, etc.

This all is a far bigger problem than the energy cost.
I would flag this because of this non-news. There's 10 people who died on the roads by car while writing this post.

You don't wanna minimise such accidents to 0, similar to how you can't do 0% credit card fraud.
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Right. Certain things cannot be proven until they arrive. Maybe sama is right, maybe not. But his certainty is misleading.
Yes they built a cool product! Actually, we aim to focus on companies feeding their LLMs by providing embeddings and chunkings out of the box on top of all the data we sync. We don't only help you connect with 3rd parties but also receive data that can be interpreted for AI use cases (e.g: RAG).
> You've taken my points backwards, again, for some reason.

Because your entire premise makes little sense to me. You're acting like these things save money somehow outside of shoplifting (which according to you just doesn't happen).

> They don't _experience_ competition so they feel _comfortable_ doing this.

But _why_ would they do it? You say "reducing customer service to it's bare minimum", but this increases customer service needs. Once again, why would they do this since it increases customer service needs and increases costs of managing the store?

Wouldn't it be cheaper to not have these cabinets and just have people check themselves out without having to interact with a store employee at all?

> You didn't bother to ask _when_ any of this happened.

It doesn't really matter in the end. New stores can be opened, clearly you feel there's a market need for those stores and obviously shoplifting just never happens, so there should be no problem for a new market entrant to move in there. If Walgreens left, CVS can go in there. If both left, well now the grocer nearby has more of a reason to build out their pharmacy.

> Obviously, yes, and I've suggested a reason

You haven't other than some weird conspiracy theory that it somehow reduces their customer service needs despite it obviously increasing their customer service needs. Before the cabinet I could just take the thing off the shelf and go to a self checkout. Now I have to have a customer service agent free in the store to come to the cabinet and unlock it to give it to me. Potentially also then having to have them either check me out or watch me check out. Customer service costs increase with the cabinets!
It isn’t necessarily an upper bound. The molecules might spread out more distant than their size.
The economy didn't sink under Khruschev. It just grew slower than capitalist nations (and public expectations of growth of QOL).

Over the decades, this difference in growth compounded, until you hit Brezhnev where growth in friction, inefficiency, and corruption exceeded growth in productivity.

And then you had a lot of, uh, degrowth with Yeltsin's shock therapy.
> Walmart charges everyone the same price

This... isn't true. The same item at a Walmart near San Francisco will have a different price than in nowhere, Kansas.

But the person I was responding to was saying that the reasons for a price need to be transparent, which I think is orthogonal to whether a company has universal same-price-for-everyone guarantees.

And most companies do not charge the same thing to everyone, even within a market. Think about AAA and senior discounts, loyalty programs, etc.
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How is what she is doing wrong?
Is this the hackernews comment section or luddite times? I think a lot of people here have not gotten a taste of level 2 self-driving. I will never buy a car without some sort of self-driving ever again. Being able to just supervise your car while it is driving in heavy traffic is so relaxing. Complete game changer.
Uhm shouldn't the rooms be rectangular? You don't see many polygonal rooms for obvious reasons...
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Related, I tongue-in-cheek believe that something analogous to the actual SCP object for a "reality distortion field" may in fact exist. There is zero good explanation for "Teflon Don" or the North Carolina Lieutenant Governor getting away with all the stuff they do while Al Franken got politically crucified.
> Creatine supplementation enhanced measures of memory performance in healthy individuals, especially in older adults (66–76 years).

Of course, it remains unknown if natural dietary improvements could have a similar effect without the need to use a chemical supplement where the long-term effects aren't well studied.
But they're registered in UAE (i think it's there).

They might get "visitors" from UK, but so do "coffeeshops" in amsterdam.
> If there is a single pothole unfilled anywhere in all of England, the Home Office has better things to do than asserting Disney's intellectual property rights for them on passport applications.

Any particular reason that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would have to suffer the potholes?
I think part of the reason, is a lot of western media has become very safe, and thus stale and repetitive.

Western (live action) movies are sequel after sequel of predictable plots. Western animation is relegated almost exclusively to children (and ocassionally raunchy adult comedy). The formula is stale, so other media is taking its place.
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Same here in the UK. Not a single sniff of anything anime at all in my day to day life, but I am bombarded by all sorts of other shite (Marvel and other comic-based movies etc) on billboards and the like. I've never seen it pushed to the top on any of the UK streaming services.

I know nothing of anime nor manga, apart from recognising the style. Never watched it - looks like kid stuff TBH.
You can run this fast. People likely died from being hit by runners. Or skaters, rollerbladers, segways, mobility scooters, walkers. Whats your suggestion for these?

With every new mode of transport is going to have some stats attributed to them. Do more people die on bikes or scooters or cars?
Another typo:

> ...no bad states to defend again.

Defend "against", I guess?
FRAM seems great and I wonder why it's not used more. TI has some MSP430 processors that include it, but when they went to the MSP432 (ARM architecture), they said something about a process incompatibility. Some ARM or Risc-V processors with FRAM would be great.

Any idea what the process issue is? Would you say FRAM is on the decline? Super low powered CMOS ram used to also be a thing, but I haven't seen that in a while either.

Added: article mentions flash memory is $15/gbit. I guess that is NOR flash? NAND is way way cheaper, more like $15/terabit.

Another question: is it reasonable to say that FRAM automatically implements secure erasure? Like if you overwrite a cell, can you be sure that the old contents are gone? With flash, you have to worry about stuff like sector remapping other the covers.

Here's a 4 mbit Adafruit FRAM breakout, out of stock but smaller sizes are available: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4719

TI MSP430FR5969 development board: https://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-EXP430FR5969
That is a fancy MSP430 processor with 64KB of FRAM and 2KB of regular ram. The board is $16. The regular ram is I think a little bit faster than the FRAM and good for "infinite" write cycles instead of mere trillions, so I guess you need both. They have a few more of these boards including one with 128KB of FRAM if I remember right.
outside of the actual pornography, more and more of anime is just emotional pornography for people with attachment troubles.

it can be a great art form. even some of the emotional pornography can have artistic merit (recently: Frieren). but increasingly, despite diversity in genre and visual presentation, all anime just tries to push the same emotional buttons of loneliness, belonging, connection, in a very heavy-handed way that is more about provoking the emotions in the body than about artistic expression.

not everyone has those buttons, which is why anime fans are a devoted minority, and why it seems like lonely, traumatized, and marginalized people are drawn to it.
I have limited time with my existing responsibilities, but with what little time I do have, I love investing it into a good movie or TV show. I don't mean whatever "binge-worthy" show is on the top 10 of Netflix. I like character development, good pacing, non-standard plots, etc. It's pretty much the opposite of what has come out in the West over the last five years.

So, I started investing more into anime, and I have had zero regrets. Sure, there's plenty of low-quality near-pornographic trash, but I've found far more diamonds in the rough than I was initially expecting.

Let me give a recent example: Kotaro Lives Alone. It's a story about a four-year-old who lives alone due to some extenuating circumstances I won't cover for the sake of spoilers. It's funny, heart-warming, cry-inducing, and overall, extremely entertaining for an otherwise outrageous plot. I've found dozens of gems like this in the past five years, and a lot of them are "recent" enough to give me hope that the Japanese haven't forgotten the art of making quality media.
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The US and France are the highest consumers of Anime content from what I recall
> so many of you are so eager to shout down what I'm saying

Because what you're saying makes little sense. Cabinets increase costs. Why would the retailer willingly increase their costs when they could just not have cabinets and enjoy a better margin and not risk losing customers to internet retailers?
Comparing a human brain in these terms makes it incredibly obvious how inefficient the human brain actually is. A 1.7T model can answer questions about practically anything. You say a human brain has 150T params. So what? It struggles to give masterful answers in even 1 domain, let alone dozens/hundreds. We need to stop comparing parameters and synapses as if they actually matter, because AFAIK, they really don't.
> For example, I might have a Widget that must always have an ID but when I am creating a new Widget I could just write "Widget - {.id}" rather than have to define an entire WidgetCreateDTO or some such.

In this case you're preferring terseness vs a true representation of the meaning of the type. Assuming that a Widget needs an ID, having another type to express a Widget creation data makes sense, it's more verbose but it does represent the actual functioning better, you pass data that will be used to create a valid Widget in its own type (your WidgetCreationDTO), getting a Widget as a result of the action.
Reference for that pricing?

Is that current homes that are selling[1]? Property tax estimates? Where *exactly* are you getting these numbers?

As it is, you're making an argument out of thin air. Please do better, else this is my final reply.

[1] Home sales and ALL homes in a market is not the same thing. Average? That means a $100,000 price and $3.9M price = $2M average? See the problem? Again, what's actively selling is not ALL homes. And outlying higher number tend to skew things. That's not me speaking. That's simply how the math works under these circumstances.

I don't make the math or the circumstance, I simply report them.
A couple of days.

I usually have to go through a withdrawal headache first.
And also that is why something which is so foundational should be allowed to spread out to all humans which means running local llm models on our machines instead of paying one or two companies to use it. Anthropic, open AI should not become the ones humanity has to go to to get such a resource. We didn't have fire as a service for humanity to master fire.
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Doug Englebart built upon it and gave the mothe of all demos. Watch it on YouTube. It took decades for the software industry to finally take much of his ideas.

Programming is a Balkanized state of NIH, ego and general ignorance of the past. The work at Xerox Park Place, Bell Labs, SRI were revolutionary. And ignored by the “mainstream”.

It is really sad.
Well I don’t think this is the case, typically people are told to eat low fat and high carb. And I agree to this sentiment, as long as your carbohydrate amount is high, it is better to avoid fat. However it seems to me that when reducing carbs way below 50%, to, let’s say, less than 5%, then it’s possible to increase fat.
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Proton came well after the steam machine failed. It was plan B.
Also that is why we should have some of these foundational models broken down and run at the per person level as a local large language model instead of paying some corporation to get access to it. We didn't have fire as a service back in the day and that is why humanity flourished.
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Too bad we don’t pump sea water to the desert, fill up a basin somewhere we don’t care so much about, let all the brine sit in evaporation pools, and power it all with local solar. Input from somewhere in Gulf of California and send the water to somewhere in imperial county away from the crops. We process Tijuana’s sewage free of charge so it seems reasonable we could ask Mexico to help us with a pipeline.
The Witcher books are great. A refreshing take on fantasy from an entirely different set of folklore, and the English translation was done so well that you can't even tell.

I also played the games (which take place after the books) and loved them - although despite having a great story, the first game was really rough. Witcher 3 is in my top 10 games of all time, and it rewards you for playing all three by letting you carry over your saves and seeing your impact on the world. I hear they're remaking the first game as well as a fourth, so there's a lot to look forward to there.
Yeah this is a good way of putting what I was trying to say.

Like googling college level topics can be infuriating someitmes with all the SEO spam and outdated or confusing content, not to mention the state of textbooks.

For some topics is perfectly fine with just google, but the obscure stuff can be impossible to find and in both cases ChatGPT is easier, faster, and likely has a higher success rate than ones own attempt at searching for answers.
Yeah it has been since the late 1990’s/early 2000’s. Audiences appreciate high concept and escalation of premise even if the themes and storytelling aren’t amazing.
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Your comment made me think of a blog written by Marc Andreessen at the beginning of Covid.

>It’s time for full-throated, unapologetic, uncompromised political support from the right for aggressive investment in new products, in new industries, in new factories, in new science, in big leaps forward.

He writes from the perspective of, "How are we having so many shortages during this global pandemic? We used to BUILD things, goddammit!" And now, fewer than 5 years later, a16z says:

> Yet, we believe that anime is just getting started – today, new technologies and business models are accelerating a once niche industry to even greater heights.

To the extent that anyone in power in tech claims to believe in the greater good, they are full of shit, a16z very much included. It's fun for CEOs and VCs to make grand proclamations about what's wrong in the world. But at the end of the day, they only care about making money.

Or maybe anime is one of those "new industries" Marc Andreessen said he was so excited about?

https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/
Honestly I feel a16z as a 'tech vc' firm is just getting weird now. It's like they're trying to be the de facto flag bearer for like weird crypto otaku types. And I say this as someone who has loved anime since the 90s, I don't think I want a16z getting their mits into my special interests. To see them talking about 'waifus' is just weird.
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I could see why this rubs you the wrong way.

I have never thought of its origins before, but I'd assume it's a short hand for "live-action anime adaptation". Maybe this makes it more palatable for you?

As for Animatrix, yes -- it really went full circle, considering how they pitched the original feature:

> When Larry and Andy Wachowski were pitching The Matrix to their producers, they played them a DVD of an 82-minute Japanese cartoon and said: "We wanna do that for real."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/19/hollywood-ghost...
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Anime seems to have a quality problem. Other than Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon's work, I can't say there's much that has resonated with me. Evangelion was interesting, but that was almost thirty years ago!
I don't think the distinction between indoors or outdoors usage is relevant, in the end we are still talking about the volume of drinkable water people use. Whether they use it for drinking, cooking, washing, or watering the lawn.
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I knew it would be that video.

His attitude really bugs me, and it’s on full display in this clip - everything about this to me says “I am so smart and you have asked me a question so dumb that I don’t know how to dumb down my answer for you, now I will show how smart I am in the course of explaining how dumb your question is in excruciating detail, so next time you’ll know not to waste my smart time with dumb questions.”

Instead of playing games and being evasive and ‘owning’ the interviewer, he could have just worked with the guy to clarify the question and to talk through the guy’s understanding - he didn’t try to do that, though, and you can tell how delighted he is for this chance to show the guy up. His autobiography is written the same way, it’s a series of anecdotes about times where he was smart and other people were dumb. Really rubs me the wrong way.
On the finishing:
“Of course because I 3D Printed it with a PLA filamanet, it's not as shiny and glossy compared to actuall electronic devices. People use acetone and various solutions to make it shiny.”

The acetone (vapour) approach only works on ABS and is pretty nasty. For PLA your best bet is sanding. You could add some putty to make it a bit easier and get better results. You will then also need to paint it. All in all if the print quality is good enough best stick with that.
I watched it when I was younger

Yeah, it hits different when you start at 35.
I'm not sure i agree. Yes there are exceptions, but they tend to be few and far between, and fairly niche themselves.

Most american animation seems to be: stuff aimed at young children (pixar type shows), super hero adjacent stuff, or adult commedy (like south park). A few exceptions here and there but on the whole there just isn't that much variety.
I too found this highly amusing
Capital has also employed anti-competitive actions to stifle, prevent, and kneecap "green" technology for the last century.

The death of passenger rail and the stifling of the electric car for 30 years come to mind.
But my crypto bro friends said they would only communicate by Telegram because it is 1000% secure!
> If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips). If we don’t build enough infrastructure, AI will be a very limited resource that wars get fought over and that becomes mostly a tool for rich people.

The mostly-open goal of every VC-funded startup is to become a monopoly. If a strong enough monopoly in AI hardware were to exist, then the issues he describes could become a problem.

Otherwise, what he is describing is just the ad absurdum of how capitalism works. Phrased differently it sounds like:

“If this extremely powerful and profitable product that depends on other products gets built, then if no one else builds the also profitable substrate that it operates on, terrible things will happen!”

Or again slightly differently:
“We need to be able to compete with our suppliers because our core business model might not be defensible unless we can also win in their space.”
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