amalcon

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by amalcon 2mo ago
So, you're postulating that there is something of a Simpson's paradox going on in NYC between two largely separate cultures -- that of people with college degrees, and that without? This is theoretically possible, but convenientl
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by amalcon 2mo ago
Most of the growth is. If we removed AI, the US would be in a severe recession right now. Most of the absolute market cap, employment, capital, and other metrics that are not directly coupled to growth paint a better distributed picture.
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by amalcon 2mo ago
So, "commoditize your complements". A big part of Microsoft's old playbook (and a smaller part of its current one), so we know it can work.
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by amalcon 2mo ago
You are simply incorrect about that. More people voted for Trump in NYC (the typical exemplar of "the northeast") than in SFO (the exemplar of the part of California that is more pro-AI than NYC).
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by amalcon 2mo ago
If you were in NYC, some of this may be a Boston/NYC difference. NYC is much more anti-Waymo (which I interpret mostly as an extension of being much more anti-car in general). There are also substantially different cultures between t
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by amalcon 2mo ago
You did claim that it was political: > Its just the thing that upsets me the most about your everyday liberal professional, how much they hate AI just because Trump is pro AI That's what I'm refuting here -- that people here
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by amalcon 2mo ago
That observation[0] isn't particularly useful for arguing that it's a political allegiance thing. A lower fraction of voters in the pro-tech part of California (SFO, roughly) voted for Trump than, say, in NYC. Your observation c
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by amalcon 2mo ago
I think "your everyday liberal professional" is more likely to be anti-AI because it is being advertised as a direct threat to their livelihoods, rather than for any more abstract reason. The latter includes both political allegi
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by amalcon 3mo ago
I don't think a bifurcation of cognition is necessary to explain this. You get both people who claim to always think with words (to the point where they don't understand how it's possible to think without one), and people wh
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by amalcon 3mo ago
The obvious solution to the problem of abuse of the asylum system (which is in fact a real problem) is to hire more immigration judges so that claims are processed in a timely manner. Apart from getting rid of the asylum process entirely
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by amalcon 3mo ago
I am not interested in being dragged into an argument about this, and of course the supreme court can try to calvinball whatever they want. That being said, your interpretation is at a minimum disputed by one of the largest law firms in th
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by amalcon 3mo ago
Congress has remained in technical session (by having one member open and close the House each day) constantly for decades. Actually ending the session would be a rather significant departure, and I've heard of no plans to do so.
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by amalcon 3mo ago
I know, right? It used to be easy: just look for writing in a very long-winded style, almost as if the author is being paid per word, in a place where that sort of writing didn't belong. I think it was because that type of writing r
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by amalcon 3mo ago
Making election day a (normal) national holiday would not help. The type of service sector or emergency service job that makes it a problem to vote needs to work more on a national holiday, not less. Making it a kind of super holiday where
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by amalcon 3mo ago
The goal is obviously to make US taxpayers pay for it, but give room for the admin to lie and say we aren't. Similar to how Mexico was going to pay for the useless border wall. Of course, point 1 (which includes immediate stoppage of
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by amalcon 3mo ago
I need to give them credit for one thing: the sheer chutzpah to claim that America will get Gulf allies to pay for it, thereby reminding everyone about the promise that Mexico will pay for the border wall.
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by amalcon 3mo ago
> The US should decouple the Hezbollah-Israel war from the Iranian one. Inclusion of Lebanon in the cease-fire is an Iranian condition, not an American one. Since Iran clearly has the leverage here, it's unclear what you expect t
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by amalcon 3mo ago
The most lucrative uses of deep neural networks today are ad targeting and recommendation algorithms. Those are other places.
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by amalcon 3mo ago
Yeah, they have gone up a lot since I bought mine too. I did get Qwen3.5-122b running on all-GPU (on a 128GB machine) under a minimal Arch Linux setup (I do my GUI work on a much cheaper box). It worked , but Qwen3.6-35b is performing al
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by amalcon 3mo ago
A Strix Halo with similar RAM is considerably cheaper. Still not cheap , mind, but performance is OK (not great) and it will run more or less the same models.
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by amalcon 3mo ago
I do find it hilarious that Asimov wrote many stories about how simple bright-line rule-based systems are ineffective for restricting agency. Those stories were first published in the 1940s. 80 years later, we have something approximating
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by amalcon 3mo ago
Haha. Reminds me of how volt-amperes are technically the same unit as watts, but if you see VA in an electrical specification you know it means a different thing than it would if you saw W.
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by amalcon 3mo ago
The issue is that this isn't even in Trump's top two cryptocurrency scandals since he became president for the second time. #1 is the access selling, #2 is the pardon of the Binance guy. Nobody seems to care about either of tho
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by amalcon 3mo ago
Not just recently. It's been that way for decades -- since at least the Reagan era, but arguably going back to the New Deal.
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by amalcon 4mo ago
So, there would now need to be new negotiations as to the future of the Iranian nuclear program? Except with Iran in a weaker position than they actually are today, due to a decade of no progress on enrichment. How is that worse than the c
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by amalcon 4mo ago
Rules of thumb: The more your toolchain (compilers, linters, etc) can statically verify, the better agents will do. The terser the code, the better agents will do. The more often similar problems have been solved in open source, the better
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by amalcon 4mo ago
His base is still with him. Frankly, I can't find a material distinction between the beliefs of his base and the belief that Trump is the physical embodiment of America (and therefore anyone who opposes him in any way is an enemy of A
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by amalcon 4mo ago
Wrong. Republicans have been nasty forever (e.g. calling Democratic voters baby-killers who hate America since at least Reagan, redoubling that under Bush, redoubling again under Trump). They still win elections, and Democrats responded
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by amalcon 4mo ago
What exactly do they have deep regrets about, though? Do they regret voting for someone with his style? Do they regret empowering an obvious corrupt liar? Do they regret supporting someone who focuses on who to blame and hurt, rather tha
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by amalcon 4mo ago
In legal terms, one would call this a "statement against interest". If a politician says he does not care one bit about the welfare his constituents, it is reasonable for those constituents to take him at his word no matter how u

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