infamouscow

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by infamouscow 4d ago
If California stoped, I believe that would trigger red states to do similar in protest. I don't think Texas and Florida would be the only ones. It's a different situation entirely when one state stops vs when multiple states stop.
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by infamouscow 4d ago
This really ends one of two ways. Either California's defaults on it's unfunded pension liabilities and screws a whole generation of government workers, or there's a federal bailout and people in states like Texas and Florida
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by infamouscow 5d ago
I don't understand this fascination with Epstein, maybe someone can tell me what I'm missing. It's pretty clear Epstein was in involved with intelligence agencies. Which ones, or if he was acting independent isn't intere
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by infamouscow 6d ago
This is bad faith and not a serious position. During WW2, the Allies used flame throwers for goodness sake and killed a lot of innocent people taking Europe back from the Nazis. If you made this argument in the 1940s, you would've been
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by infamouscow 7d ago
Up until ~1800, the way societies handled this kind of depravity was to hit the bad actors with sticks or rocks until their skull opened up so the evil spirits could leave their bodies. It's unfortunate that most societies have outlawe
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by infamouscow 8d ago
The idea OpenAI or Anthropic won't train on your data—even with an enterprise contract—is a fantasy at best, and dilusion at worst.
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by infamouscow 10d ago
Most people assume the post-WW2 consensus is a permanent baseline. Historically, there's no evidence to support that expectation, but it's easy to see why the illusion persists. Acknowledging that the current order is temporary is
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by infamouscow 12d ago
IBM knows their customers very well, the additional context unlocks a lot of value.
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by infamouscow 15d ago
And then people are shocked when insurance executives are publicly slayed.
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by infamouscow 15d ago
Because of accounting tricks, quarterly financials don't accurately reflect the size of this fiery money pit. The datacenter build-outs are all majority (>50% ownership) financed by other companies, with a shell company owned by the
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by infamouscow 15d ago
I think a lot of CTOs that signed enterprise contracts with Anthropic are going to be in for a rude surprise. It's one thing to generate some code and ship it, but it's another when your developers don't understand said code
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by infamouscow 21d ago
The alternative is letting bad actors conquer and subjugate you. Unless you're a total pacifist, it's a genuinely stupid and unserious position that warrants invective ridicule and mockery. I mentioned this in another comment, but
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by infamouscow 22d ago
This is not a serious position. Just because you personally prefer to be subjugated doesn't mean anyone else does. That necessarily means being able to defend yourself from bad actors, and history has proven the best way to do that is
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by infamouscow 27d ago
Because it's preferable to what happens when the body politic decides they've had enough, particularly in the US.
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by infamouscow 28d ago
So how exactly are you supposed to distinguish needing to improve the documentation from the fact that half the population—through no fault of their own—might be fundemenetally incapable of understanding the documentation? You can only poli
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by infamouscow 29d ago
Another commenter replied, but was downvoted by angry employees of Microsoft for a fairly anodyne statement. Microsoft management knows this. It's not like there haven't been attempts to solve these core problems. The issue is Git
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by infamouscow 29d ago
OpenAI just needs to stay afloat a few quarters after Anthropic's IPO.
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by infamouscow 29d ago
I'd emphasize their practices as being the culprit. Migrating to different cloud vendors, while difficult, is something that people have done many times before. There's only finite number of incongruences that appear when moving c
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by infamouscow 1mo ago
TFA explains why sardines sourced from around USA, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco are harder to come by. Where are your sardines be sourced?
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by infamouscow 1mo ago
Prison is clearly not a deterrent to violent criminals. Let the psychopaths do whatever to them. 100% sure the rate of violent crime drops precipitously when medieval punishment is likely.
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by infamouscow 1mo ago
The scam is usually a phone call from a loved one in jail or the hospital. It immediately creates a sense of panic and fully explains the random phone number. The voice doesn't have to sound like you either.
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
Yes, but the strategy is a lost cause as we're seeing. In virtually any other situation, companies would be able to successfully grease politicians. The problem for AI companies is they spent the last several years broadcasting that th
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
This is what I voted for.
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
I wouldn't have known about them until reading your comment. Thank you, I now have some exploring to do :)
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
They want to be the successor to Enron.
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
If someone accuses you of using AI because of em-dashes, reply with something condescending like "I'm sorry you were poorly educated, but some of us can and do read books." It does wonders to put jackasses in their place.
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
Yes, had SCOTUS ruled differently in Citizens United, the scope of the ruling would have likely been narrowly focused. Every time SCOTUS makes a ruling, there are thousands of extremely talented activist lawyers that immediate begin working
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
The problem isn't so much investors losing money, it's if this kills the economy. A lot of elites are now unemployed with nothing better to do thanks to AI. Historically speaking, populist uprising are easily squashed except when
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
This would mean that all media companies in the US would be prevented from publishing anything that could be perceived as negative about any candidate running for elected office, regardless of factual basis and regardless of if it were
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by infamouscow 2mo ago
I don't think there will be any bailouts for these AI companies. There's no political will to do so in both parties. The grizzly alternative is a DeFlock movement, but instead of cutting down poles, it will be people's heads.

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