mynameisbilly

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by mynameisbilly 21d ago
The passing of Dolly Parton has really had me thinking how much good these unfathomably rich people and corporations could do. It enrages me to think of how many people $106 million could have helped.
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by mynameisbilly 2mo ago
Are you familiar with the flock camera situation in the States? The American surveillance state has rapidly been getting worse with the help of this technology.
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by mynameisbilly 2mo ago
The United States has propped up some pretty horrific, murderous, bloodthirsty regimes over the past century to ensure they maintain a proxy presence across the globe. If supporting or engaging in an "authoritarian" regime is your
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by mynameisbilly 2mo ago
This is an interesting comparison, but the resulting product of an LLM aren't deterministic in the same way machinery in an assembly line is. You typically expect to get the exact same thing every time as an assembly line worker, and i
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by mynameisbilly 2mo ago
Why is everyone still operating under the assumption the current token costs will remain so heavily subsidized? We could see $200-400/hr in token costs once these companies need to turn a profit
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
Right, except I acknowledged my initial statement was wrong because I was basing it off of household income when you were actually referring to personal income. So why did you spend the effort refuting that? Median personal income is per in
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
You're right, I was mixing up the related charts. Still, this makes my case even stronger since personal controls for adding more earners to a household. If real median personal income only rose from ~$28k in 1974 to ~45$k today, that&
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
That chart doesn't make the case you think it does. Real median household income rising can be explained by things like more dual earner households (more women working since the 70s), more hours worked, etc. The household income can ri
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
Obviously it's not. Would you like me to sit here and do the work of reading the article for you? Or are the numbers involved a bit too much for you to handle? Continue shoving your fingers in your ears and closing your eyes to the abs
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
I would assume being profitable constitutes as winning when you're throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at a technology. OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a very obvious path to profitability. The author is pretty obvious and ex
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
They also have to continuously train, forever, to avoid model drift. It's not a one and done thing as far as I'm aware.
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
I guess I'm just confused by this sentiment. Are you making these conclusions while considering the fact that AI is still heavily subsidized? The economics of AI isn't quite the same as other software/tech. I don't thi
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
I expect some form of UBI will be incorporated to placate the masses in the event of mass unemployment, but only after some serious unrest.
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
Imagine if we had a federal jobs program for building high speed rail all across the country. sigh
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
Human consciousness is dictated by their material conditions, not the other way around. If the material reality of many Americans is unhealthy foods and heavily car-centric urban design, where does the "decision" to walk and take
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
Walkable neighborhoods and cities that aren't car centric being a "dystopian vision" is laughable. Thankfully, the default for car brains across much of the globe is car centric urban design. You people never fail to be ridic
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
The isolation produced by centering our urban and suburban design around cars is pronounced. It cannot be understated how much damage cars have done to our sense of connectedness, community, walkability, and health.
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by mynameisbilly 3mo ago
Famously, the only way to transport humans are cars annnnnd, horse and cart!
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by mynameisbilly 4mo ago
You're describing the same alienation of labor Marx identified 150+ years ago. It was only a matter of time before it caught up with our field. Someone who used to make their own clothes, from planting the cotton, to picking it to turn
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by mynameisbilly 4mo ago
Do you still write assembly code?
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by mynameisbilly 4mo ago
The people who own the tools decide how the productivity gains are distributed. The workers could produce the same output in less same and go home earlier. Or the capitalists could keep the worker there the same (or more) hours per day and
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by mynameisbilly 4mo ago
Yeah, I prefer my data to be used and trained by the very trustworthy and benevolent tech oligarchs in my home country.
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by mynameisbilly 4mo ago
This is silly. Would you perform the same test against Western models in asking them whether Israel is a genocidal apartheid state? It'll give you the same roundabout explanations and "some say no some say yes" responses that
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by mynameisbilly 5mo ago
We did know in the 20s. We knew in the 30s. We knew in the 40s. We absolutely knew in the 50s (oil industry funded their own studies on this). We knew before we decided to direct billions into a federal interstate highway system that bulldo
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by mynameisbilly 5mo ago
We shouldn't have to completely upend our lives to move to the small handful of major cities that provide the infrastructure to exist comfortably without a car. At least in the US, your options are limited to NYC, Chicago, Boston, and