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by mondrian 9d ago
Europe is a different beast. They build and distribute rails, they don’t compete on frontier capabilities. When the civic benefits of AI become clear, EU is in a position to mandate their distribution. US develops capabilities that remain s
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by mondrian 21d ago
Switzerland still has parties and a senate but the people can veto any law and the people can amend the constitution. This arguably is a sensible balance as it’s probably not tenable for the people to legislate full-time. Representatives ca
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by mondrian 22d ago
Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Picasso were Europeans, and Europe is where art speculation and the "Art Market" was born, and where Art History became equated with Art Market History. Americans showed up with a 20 year lag and kept laggin
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by mondrian 1mo ago
This argument goes too far to the other end. Never name a group, cuz by golly you’re broad stroking. Only specific character assassination is allowed or keep quiet? Like a Cancel Culture Wittgenstein.
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by mondrian 2mo ago
Sought
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by mondrian 2mo ago
It sounds ‘the singularity is near’ not so much because AI is reaching escape velocity forward, but because we’re systematically pushing humans back beyond the threshold where computers are legible?
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by mondrian 2mo ago
Key word: perform, i.e. execute. Scale indeed comes by performing more things per unit time, things we understand, on execution engines we understand.
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by mondrian 2mo ago
Undecidability is a problem of answer-extraction from a process, it doesn’t preclude the process from executing deterministically. The universe could well be the live execution of a deterministic, even basic algorithm, with all kinds of que
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by mondrian 2mo ago
Guy made an account just to post that gem.
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by mondrian 2mo ago
One of the key points of that paper is that the body of written works is biased and those biases will be amplified by compressing that body into LLMs, with outlier data, with low coincidence rate, being suppressed as unreliable - data that
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by mondrian 3mo ago
Structurally speaking, being left and pro-open borders is incoherent. The left is about collective power controlling labor supply and using it to tamp down corporate overreach. Open borders and H1B that allow corporations to side-step local
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by mondrian 3mo ago
A better chart: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/f3fb/live/1ca3d...
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by mondrian 3mo ago
The index of your 20 line file is <20TB number>
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by mondrian 4mo ago
Of course native people didn’t call themselves Indian prior to settlers assigning them that name, with legal consequences. But native people usually refer to their tribe identity, like Diné or Lakota, rather than the generic term Indian.
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by mondrian 4mo ago
The irony in your example is the modern Pentagon is largely a collection of private companies.
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by mondrian 6mo ago
Let's get back to filling the front page with Web3, DeFi, NFTs. Oh the good ol' days.
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by mondrian 9mo ago
Sounds like this: https://solidproject.org/about But yea privacy is a silly thing to propose to a surveillance industry.
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by mondrian 9mo ago
Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)
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by mondrian 10mo ago
I was off by a zero, thanks! He sold about 100M of NVDA on 16B net worth which would be 6.25k on 1M.
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by mondrian 10mo ago
So this 'portfolio' is <200M on a net worth of 16B? This is like someone worth 1M selling $600 worth of stock.
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by mondrian 10mo ago
The parent comment is probably just talking about temporarily timing the bubble pop.
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by mondrian 11mo ago
How will the AI wealth get distributed to people at large?
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by mondrian 11mo ago
Bernie Sanders talks about a "robot tax" that is roughly what you're talking about. https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-robot-tax-ai-...
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by mondrian 1y ago
Comparing it to GDP doesn’t seem to make sense. Maybe to government revenue.
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by mondrian 1y ago
Good point. In the scenario I described, I'm assuming Stripe will launch their own stablecoin. I tend to think all major tech companies are incentivized to launch stablecoins and give you discounts and perks when you transact using the
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by mondrian 1y ago
Yeah and this is codified in the GENIUS act which passed recently. It enables tech companies to act like banks in certain dimensions, without being regulated like banks.
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by mondrian 1y ago
Yeah. Stablecoins create demand for Treasuries which drives the price of Treasuries up and interest rate down. So this pressure lowers debt servicing cost for the US government, and Stripe is the holder of those Treasuries and gets paid int
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by mondrian 1y ago
The GENIUS act enables tech companies to become reserve holders -- buy US Treasuries with customers' money. Stripe offers a "transactional ecosystem" to the customer in stablecoins, the customer gives USD to Stripe in exchang
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by mondrian 1y ago
Trying to make AIs more factually-accurate with more training is probably hopeless. Current events and encyclopedic knowledge will be provided by tools. The LLM's core job is to choose the right tools for the job and synthesize their o
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by mondrian 1y ago
Also in the vicinity: https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language... There's also distillation, where you can drastically improve a small model by training it on chains of thoughts of larger model

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