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by atwrk 7d ago
I guess this was a heavily quantized version from openrouter? I've never had that experience in the last months of quite intensive use of the official deepseek api.
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X Corp blocks social media startup from using 'Twitter' name(reuters.com)
7 points by atwrk 12d ago|1 comments
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by atwrk 1mo ago
Most people want to live where other people live, for reasons ranging from social connections to access to services and infrastructure. I doubt broadband access access plays even a small role.
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by atwrk 1mo ago
Did you read beyond the headline? It's 1.65 trillion hidden and 1.35 trillion overt - which sums up to 3 trillion.
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by atwrk 1mo ago
Debt is at $3 trillion right now: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-cap... Interest alone, at assumed 5%, amounts to about $150 billions per year. That's probably higher than the c
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by atwrk 1mo ago
The big question is whether the demand will stay if the subsidized pricing ends . That's what the bubble talk is about. Right now all the players compete for market share and don't care about the losses (hence the debt). But what
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by atwrk 2mo ago
This is intended to drive you insane on purpose. It is just malicious compliance intended to make users blame the anti-monopoly regulators instead of the monopolists. This is a corporation with tens of thousands of software developers. If t
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by atwrk 2mo ago
IMO they hope to make AI a strongly regulated industry, with OpenAI (and Anthropic) becoming military suppliers with their stronger models, and everything Chinese or open-weight gets banned. The competition from the open models is so strong
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by atwrk 2mo ago
To anyone having read about Mussolini, Italy's economy and political landscape in the 20s onward, his model of corporatism etc, the answer is obviously clear: the US. China also is authoritarian, of course, but the societal structure s
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by atwrk 2mo ago
To add to that, to me it seems that the idea is that open weights vastly accelerate dissemination into and practical application in the wider economy, which seems to be the goal. They don't seem to subscribe to the AGI/singularity
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Google required to open up to AI, search engine rivals under EU-mandated changes(reuters.com)
8 points by atwrk 2mo ago|1 comments
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by atwrk 2mo ago
A bit late now, but thanks for this detailed breakdown!
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by atwrk 2mo ago
What makes you think Germany didn't do well with renewables? This almost looks like a hockey stick graph: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/rene...
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by atwrk 2mo ago
The no brain solution is to electrify everything and switch legacy infrastructure to renewables, just like China does. Gas usage is down in the EU anyway.
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by atwrk 2mo ago
You're right of course, but in this case the statement doesn't look that false. The source article [0] states that half of the assets is cash, so "assets" is defined a bit more freely here. If we assume a 2026 revenue of
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by atwrk 2mo ago
The Jack Ma story is that he tried to build a predatory peer to peer lending startup to profit off of working class people getting into high interest debt traps (because they aren't credit worthy for normal credit issued by regulated b
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by atwrk 2mo ago
He's quite literally responsible for more deaths than Pol Pot, there's a paper in the Lancet estimating the amount of casualities directly resulting from the sudden cancellation of USAID funds. Edit: Here it is: https:/&#x2F
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by atwrk 2mo ago
The owner of this LLM is sieg heiling around, openly supports extremists across the EU, actively helped Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. Someone pays for his product. What do you think, will this have political consequences or will giving
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by atwrk 3mo ago
Coal is already shrinking in the China (in absolute terms, not just as share of production) [1], and share of wind + solar is already larger than in the US [2], so I doubt China will ever reach US proportions in CO2 emissions per capita. An
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by atwrk 3mo ago
Well I guess reading the article could ease your confusion. Unsurprisingly it is a bit less generalized than your take.
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by atwrk 3mo ago
> Looking back, it's easy to say the German govt should have thrown them a billion or two to keep them afloat. However, state intervention was very unpopular at the time in economic circles, and there was much furor over bailouts fo
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by atwrk 3mo ago
People around me, outside the programmer bubble, hate OpenAI with a passion. It's the symbol of antidemocratic US corporations cuddling with Trump etc, right there with Tesla. And no one outside my tech bubble has ever heard of Anthrop
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by atwrk 3mo ago
No one is arguing that such a thing as wealth creation doesn't exist. The question is about who or what creates it. Which is a topic of intense discussion in economics over the last few hundred years, BTW, and the discussion here so fa
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by atwrk 3mo ago
Well that conveniently makes your assertion unfalsifiable, doesn't it?
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by atwrk 3mo ago
Those taxes are the necessary condition in silly essays like this one from pg. Or why do you think those billionaires miraculously mostly end up in the US and not in countries like Sudan or Peru? I mean if those billionaires would actua
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by atwrk 3mo ago
> George Lucas made a movie with a (small) group effort. But what made a billion dollars is his Star Wars universe which is almost entirely his creation. If that were actually true, how come we can't predict what the next Star War
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by atwrk 4mo ago
Pretty sure they'll offer them at least so long as it takes to bring OpenAI and Anthropic into insolvency. Why wouldn't they? The Chinese models are way more nimble to train and run, bring in a ton of goodwill globally, and put im
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by atwrk 4mo ago
That is not a contradiction. Just look at social media use where you can observe the same. People can hate on AI e.g. because they see it as a symbol of inequality and billionaires deciding important things over our heads and also actively
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by atwrk 4mo ago
They don't if you mean STEM and emancipation, quite the opposite, actually (compared to West Germany). In addition to the points of sibling comments, their respective starting posititions were drastically different: West Germany got th
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by atwrk 4mo ago
You think standing in for people's rights against the profit interests of transnational corporations means "making life difficult"? Whose life exactly? That of the CEO of Microsoft?

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