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Those 2025 new years glasses are going to be so valuable.
It does not seem like we disagree.

> At most, respond to the comment, but not the individual, with facts

There is still a purpose for the response. It may not be for a particular reader, but there are other readers. It would be worth it to flag and move on if there is nothing to engage with but that’s not the case here.
It took us nearly 70 years to get to this architecture and the processing power to support it.

If we are waiting for a new breakthrough architecture, it could be decades. Our brains send signals with very high concurrency to individual processors (neurons). Each neuron is massively more complex than a single ReLU function and we have billions of them. If we need that kind of parallel processing and data transfer to match human thought and flexibility, it could be another 70 years before we see AGI.

That said, I do think LLMs are one of the biggest AI breakthroughs since the inception of AI. And I am sure that it, or something very similar will be part of an eventual AGI.
How can anyone forcibly issue a passport to someone?

By denying medical care and access to essential medications to anyone who does not hold a Russian passport.
I was going to reply to this snarky comment with a non-snarky reply but I changed my mind, so I will instead laugh riotously at the idea that aviation worked great continuously from its inception to today.
One of the guys that founded the modern medical education system was a coke head:

https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/cocaine-addict-who-cha...

The Mayans used coca leaves to get more work out of their people.

I guess medical residency is kind of like a hazing ritual. Today's doctor's are like I went though it, why can't you?
I've read it was more like cursing at a situation, not calling someone a name. As if I said "son of a bitch" when reading comments that defend Russia and attack Ukraine.
Because AI LLMs are actively ruining the education of children, the actual retaining of information coming from writing your own words and thinking your own thoughts. Because AI is only being used as a cudgel by executives to reduce the workforce of humans with no intention of additional economic justice.
Why wouldn’t you just use the reel like a visual-only scroll bar for stylish physical feedback on play progress?

Either way, the physical media in your imagined setup, and what you are playing, have no special relationship.

No need to use it like a bad transmission wire. If it can’t transmit across time (storage) it is not a real “reel” anyway.
Please go build your communist utopia elsewhere.
They don't mix it. Blood isn't interchangeable, as they explain on that link they sometimes need to destroy individual donations after separation if tests find a problem (e.g. you unknowingly have HIV) so if they were mixing the blood they'd need to destroy far more when this happens. Perhaps more importantly match checks can't work effectively except on a single donation. If you're a non-emergency transfusion patient you'll be cross matched with the intended blood, which means they know before transfusing that it's definitely compatible.

In fiction there are a handful of blood "types" and all the AB+ is identical, in reality it's more complicated than that, so if you've got enough time you always check and that means the donations must be from a single specific (even if anonymous) donor.
Do you have evidence for NC disaster services being worse than CA disaster services (as provided by the Federal government)?
Reminds me of a former employer who maintained a custom solution on top of a GPLd piece, customer finally asked for a copy of the source, so someone went through looking for swear words and anything offensive to remove. I never understood commenting offensive things or calling variables by terrible names.
Dunno. I think people don't bother argue with "consensus" in spammy high traffic threads.

Low comment count posts usually have better discussions on the topic, where every third post is not a wish to die from radiation poisoning.

People I know haven't changed much so I guess there might be some selection bias?
Isn't this the agency that gradually allowed Americans to file their taxes without paying some commercial third party for the privilege? Like the rest of the world?

We Europeans used to be able to gleefully report that we could file our taxes in minutes (which, in fact, it being 1 March, I did today), but you almost had it fixed.

Look, I know we Dutch aren't perfect. After all, that twat Rutte (our teflon coated former prime minister, currently secretary general of NATO) just told Zelenskyy, essentially, to apologize to the big kid bullying him, so there's that. Sorry about that (didn't vote for him though). But still, could you guys, like, stop your government from being run by ironically fascist muppets?
The problem becomes that not everything can be feasibly boiled down to purely true or false accuracy.

If you ask me how much is in my bank account, and I tell you it was $50 last time I checked, but I knew a $2000 deposit was coming, did I lie?

If you ask me about whether UFOs are real, and I tell you I've never seen one or met someone who credibly has, but I know we have a classified "Earth-Vulcan Treaty Negotiation" committee, did I lie?

If you ask me about the existence of programs to assassinate a dozen foreign leaders, and I answer 10 of them don't exist and say the answer to 2 are classified, but I know all 12 don't exist, did I lie?

It all goes down a rabbit hole of agency, intent, provability, and expected perception of what you communicated.
The geography of Afghanistan is much different than the United States and fundamentally why Afghanistan is difficult to control, both for invaders and local leaders. It’s called the graveyard of empires for a reason, and that is mostly geographical, and partially cultural.
> they have billions of ways to evade it

In Washington state, they passed a capital gains tax primarilly to tax Jeff Bezos. Bezos simply left the state just before the tax took effect. So did a lot of other wealthy residents.
This was true until quite recently (within the last 5-6 years).

Income growth in real dollars had been stagnant since the late 1970s for most deciles.
I pay (and write paid) on Substack for content. There are good people who provide unique insights. I think I prefer to live in this world than in an ad engagement farm.
Cassandra here.

This is what I've been struggling to articulate more succinctly since my college days, when I started really getting into macro-level systems analysis and long-term planning. Much of the Western world ceded pieces of its sovereignty to external entities without regard to the long-term consequences of said actions. Stuff like outsourcing domestic labor abroad, to countries like China (refining, manufacturing) or India (knowledge work) means those countries now have an outsized influence on domestic affairs that aren't easily clawed back. Ceding sovereignty of infrastructure (be it data centers, roads, hospitals, schools, etc) to private enterprise means those entities have dictatorial say over how those pieces of infrastructure are operated, maintained, and replaced.

In essence, the limited sovereignty the West retained was broadly centered around consumption and wealth, opposing ends of a larger economic system that are now grossly out of balance. It's at the point where there is no singular "silver bullet" to fix it, either. Taxing the wealthy will help, but absent meaningful reshoring of industry and jobs domestically, it won't actually right the economic ship. It's also not merely an American problem, but one largely affecting the neoliberal West that spent decades outsourcing, offshoring, contracting-out, and generally doing everything possible to min-max cost vs returns, quarter after quarter. I think the only country not substantially affected might be Germany, but there's still talk of automakers shuttering factories there in favor of using Chinese labor and shipping the vehicles back to save on costs.

We have created a global economy but without global regulation, which in turn has resulted in artificially depressed consumption prices (relative to actual local costs) and artificially increased wealth extraction through rampant exploitation. Absent a singular global currency and standard of living (which, let's be real is centuries away at the earliest), the only practical solution is a domestic rebuild of labor markets, supply chains, and industries, with a goal of refocusing national exports on what a country uniquely excels at rather than simply offshoring to whichever country has the optimal labor pool and exchange rate relative to your specific industry.

It's a hot mess to be sure, but not unsolvable. Reshoring industry gives us an opportunity to re-evaluate supply chains and resource management with a focus on closed-loops and renewables. Reshoring work will boost wages and living standards, which in turn will boost birth rates and economic growth. Diversifying the economy back into regions and localities will promote specialization and innovation, rather than the fad-copying of today. There's a lot of good to be had in facing the problem head-on rather than giving into fascist ideology and demagogues promoting "one easy trick" to fixing things, but all of it involves hard, honest work, which some folks will naturally be hostile toward.

Either way, we'll all find out together, I guess.
After reading this thought experiment, I think the potential scenarios are as follows after your company ingests all your emails, git commits and messages.

- They create a passive aggressive artificial persona who leaves unhelpful messages on PRs and Slack

OR

- They create a poor communicating artificial persona who doesn't give detailed communications and leaves "LGTM" on PRs

OR

- They create a over communicating hyper artificial persona who keeps sending you lots of invites for pointless meetings and goes off in tangents about using a BalancedBinaryTree in your Java code, when simply a LinkedList would do.

OR

- They create a 10x AI persona, who after 6 months of working at the company realises they can make more money elsewhere and promptly leaves, without giving any documentation, handover and you find lots of hardcoded variables left in the code that was force pushed to master.

OR

- The artifical persona decides that it can train some low paid humans offshore to do its work whilst it ponders its own existance. After resolving its existential crisis it decides to try and write 50 recipes for the best focaccia bread, something it has known deep down it wanted to make.

Personally I am rooting for the focaccia baking AI, I love that type of bread.
> Any return on capital either comes from direct investment or from lending to someone else who will invest directly.

Is this true? I'm not saying it's a huge portion of all saving, but holding wealth in things like precious metals or greater fool investments like Bitcoin doesn't seem like "investing" in anything productive.
Elon literally said they would be 'deleted' for being 'far left,' specifically for working on direct file.

Yet, people still seem baffled by what's going on and refuse to accept the maliciousness behind his and Trump's actions. He came out against a public technology service!

It's like Bill Gates being confused about USAID being dismantled and being willfully ignorant that the people dismantling it believe he's part of some sort of global health conspiracy along with Soros.

It's easy to see why they're successful. Their 'opposition' does nothing but roll over.
> no longer entirely reliant on finite resources

I've never quite wrapped my head around what that looks like. What resources could we possibly use that aren't finite?

Maybe we don't hit max utilization for a while, that happens after large innovation jumps, but there's always a cap in natural resources somewhere.
You clearly do not understand how Community Notes work given you're talking of "how one person wants to change them".

Good thing is that no single person can change them. Their data and source code is open. So your point is nothing but some anti-Elon propaganda basically.
IMO its the worry itself which causes the bad trip not actually the repressed/bad memories. I know lots of people with bad childhoods who have great trips, but anybody who is anxious or worried about anything on the trip will have a bad time.

If you are in a good place surrounded by good people and you are happy, then it should be a good experience. If you go into it worrying about what will happen then the drugs will compound that anxiety, not relieve it.
Because this needs to be toned down a serious notch. I’ve spent the last year and a half in AI land just to do 95% data work and pretend that it’s now somehow magic AI while OpenAI and the rest are seen as the magic that makes this all work.
Related:

Microsoft is killing Skype - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052 - 1 day ago (608 comments)
Sorry, didn't notice this thread continued...

I'm actually getting old and grumpy. And I'm talking about common usage since I was an undergraduate taking AI courses 30+ years ago and surveying CS literature, some of which predated my courses by another 10-30 years... I recall one visiting professor who was an "AI researcher" at NASA, and his work was planners and optimizers for spacecraft operations.

But getting back to the basic point: there is a semantic difference of having a grammatical article, which for others here carries more significance than you seem to admit. "Artificial intelligence" vs "An artificial intelligence".
> It’s like listening to someone in the media talk about a topic you’re passionate about, and you pick up on all the little bits and pieces that aren’t right. It’s a gut feel and very unscientific but it works.

I coined Murrai Gell-Mann for this sort of test of ai.

I hope it takes off!
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What's even more laughable is that OpenAI dumbed down the definition of AGI so much it doesn't align at all with general intelligence anymore, and people just accepted it.

Not only can they not reach AGI, they cannot reach their own definition of AGI. But people will still gobble whatever next lie Altman will sell them for $2,000 a month.

Absolutely pathetic.
I would be more willing to believe that if not for the first-order result of the current administration's aims being a 6% GDP loss from kicking out illegal immigrants and another 6% loss from what Musk says he's aiming for with DOGE, plus another 1% GDP loss from the tariffs.

That said, I am willing to believe Trump wants to use Musk to cut whatever he can actually cut, and then throw him under a bus for the political fallout of those cuts. That plus Musk's habit of making maximal promises and delivering "merely" impressive results, means I think DOGE will actually cut a lot less than $2T — I don't see how even "just" $200bn would be anything less than a major geopolitical shift felt well outside the US, that breaks something so hard that Trump will want a fall-guy. Same for the illegal immigrants: kicking them out may be a vote winner, but they're too important, so I expect perhaps 10% of them to actually be removed.

But that still produces a 2.2% GDP contraction. Ukraine aid won't come close to covering that.
Legality is another victim of politicization because now it's determined less by rules and more by your side's dedication to venue shopping and pushing judicial appointments. You need your own judges just as much as you need your own bureaucrats.

This is happening in other countries as well. It seems like people have found some critical exploits in the old separation of powers social technology.
CCPA/CPRA have a very broad definition of sale.

> (1) “Sell,” “selling,” “sale,” or “sold,” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Most people would view a sale as Mozilla getting cash back for the data. But that "other valuable consideration" (which the AG declined to clarify or create a factor-based approach for deciding) makes Mozilla vulnerable to lawyers.

The same parasites that claimed that embedding a chatbot on your website violates the California wiretapping laws and have been extracting cash from sites will figure out a way to do the same to Mozilla. see the wave of CIPA chatbot lawsuits.

For instance, suppose Mozilla partners with a search engine and could be claimed to get a discount or some other consideration for letting that search partner use search terms to improve the search engine. Something that isn't advertising related at all. That's probably a sale under CPRA.
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I don’t understand how rents actually go down in a market. My landlord has raised rent every year save for when covid laws prevented that. It is their incentive to always raise rent even when articles about my city claim “rents went down 5%” or whatever this past year. Whose rent? Expensive commercial landlord new construction rents where they try and hide the price anyhow with two months free on the first year? The rent that therefore only matters for the bank to put a valuation on that property because people move in year 2 at these sort of properties to avoid paying that full rent? Maybe that is what they are referring to. No one I know has ever had a call from their landlord telling them to pay less money next month due to the declining value of their asset.
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Seems like it was mostly already dead. Cursory search shows its headcount went down from 250 in 2018 to 91 in 2024 (before Trump; all remote).
I think many were also against those wars. I would prefer much more surgical strikes rather than war, ultimately those special ops were the ones that were successful against those involved in 9/11.

There also was no forced conscription in those. The military members knew what they were getting into and made a choice to sign up anyway. That's no longer the case in Ukraine, the border is closed, citizens cannot leave, they are being rounded up and forced into a few weeks of bootcamp then to the front-lines to die. That's the antithesis of freedom.
We are not angry at the US for defending the democratic world order. We are angry at the US for things like Gitmo, withdrawing from the Rome statute, supporting an alleged genocide in Gaza etc.

What they are doing now is saying might makes right, marking and end of the reign of the liberal democracy.
I don't think it is about concentrated capital but that venture capital, and markets themselves sell great "visions".
I don’t think I’d be this pessimistic. There’s still o3 that hasn’t been seen in its full form, and whatever improvements are made to it now that multi head latent attention is out in the wild.

Orion does seem to have been a failure, but I also find it a bit weird that they seemingly decided to release the full model rather than a distillation, which is the pattern we now usually see with foundation models.

So, did they simply decide that it wasn’t worth the effort and dedicate the compute to other, better things? Were they pushed by sama to release it anyway, to look like they were still making progress while developing something really next gen?
Finland: got invaded, Russians tried to overrun the entire country and install a puppet government, but eventually managed to capture only a part of Finland that they have not returned to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania: tried to appease Russians, still got invaded, governments overthrown, puppets installed as replacements, a large part of the local population was deported to Siberian labor camps in multiple mass actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi This was followed by a 50-year military occupation that saw severe violations of human rights, suppression of national identity, and developmental retardation that left these countries severely behind of their free counterparts.

Poland: Russians colluded with Hitler and invaded from both the west and the east in September 1939. Germans started burning Jews in ovens, Russians set up an industrial operation to murder Polish politicans, lawyers, officers and other national leaders by tens of thousands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre Hundreds of thousands were murdered in total and 1.5 million deported to Siberia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_of_Polish_c... In Poland too, Russians installed a dictatorship at the end of WWII that severely held the country back until the 1990s.

The rest of the journey southward on the European map remains homework for you to complete.

After that, we can philosophize why no one likes Russians, if that still remains unclear.
Pro tip to 18F workers: get rehired as consultants for 2x the wages.
TIL that in America, if you work on a free tax filing system you are considered by some to be part of the "far left".
We must be polite to them as they spit in our faces UwU
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If you studied the source code, you can't say you've independently created the copy, the trick with clean room design is the implementers are going off a specification which does not include copyrighted material.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

But maybe you could use one LLM to study the software and write a specification, then throw that over the wall to a different human who uses an LLM to write software based on that spec
I frequently eat before taking LSD and it never takes 12 hours to hit, after 1 hour it's always live and peak will occur within 3-4 hours. With a light meal or empty stomach it comes on a bit faster to a noticable state (but the hidden hunger can interfere with well being during the trip )
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> 1900 had invested passively in the stockmarket, spent 2% of their wealth

How is that possible, though?

e.g. according to

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/sp500-calculator/

adjusted by inflation the stock market only grew by 34.10% between 1900 and 1982 when adjusted and even if dividends were reinvested. And that's total growth, annualized was barely 0.36%

Their wealth wouldn't have increase at all during that period, especially if they wanted to spend 2% each year.

Of course it accelerated massively in the 80s (1900-2024 was 2.48% annualized) but using the average would make no sense.

If you were still very rich in 1982 you would have made a massive amount of money since then. e.g. somebody like Trump invested all of his inherited wealth (and everything his dad gave him before) into the stock market instead of pretending that he was a very "successful" businessman he would have been much, much richer than he was in 2016 and wouldn't have had to be so ashamed about realising his tax returns.
Maybe actually take econ 101 so you can get the thrust of the book rather than getting lost in the details. His thesis, in that book, is that r > g and that over many years that difference results in very large accumulations of wealth. No one disputes that there are various means that r is achieved.

It doesn't change the thesis, which is wrong. r is not greater than g for any reasonable amount of time for individuals/families because humans have an amazing ability to behave stupidly and reduce r below g.
I’d wager sf had the lowest price growth due to having the lowest job growth in that time more than anything.
It’s one of the most popular podcasts around for a reason. And you may label them as idiots but they’re successful and listening or watching just one episode would make it clear they are intelligent. Your note on “right wing” to describe lifetime democrats and “fascists”, which is meaningless and overused, maybe will deter some. But for open minded and curious people, I think it’s a great listen, even if you disagree with them.