shuckles

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by shuckles 19d ago
Yes Anthropic’s chief compute officer said nice things about one of Anthropic’s chief providers of compute. Recall that compute constraints are one of their existential risks.
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by shuckles 23d ago
In particular, harvesting identities for online fraud is an industrial market for various criminal organizations.
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by shuckles 4mo ago
This is a superficial complaint. In practice, the US doles out enormous amounts of social assistance. Disability, social security, and healthcare are an enormous part of the federal budget. Maybe it will be gated behind make-work or some ot
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by shuckles 4mo ago
It’s kind of useless to argue through metaphors here. There are a hundred researchers with more significant contributions to theory and practice than Karpathy. If you disagree, I’d love to see what papers or implementations you think he’s o
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by shuckles 4mo ago
He can be at the frontier while just having a regular job. Every other option is a lot more work.
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by shuckles 4mo ago
GPT-1 presumably, which was released a year after he left. Prior to focusing on GPT, OpenAI was pursuing a lot of research directions.
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by shuckles 4mo ago
No it doesn’t? It matches his skills to the lab’s needs. Karpathy is a media personality, manager, and educator far more than he is a hands-on researcher.
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by shuckles 6mo ago
Average people don’t want to spend their lives managing permissions. You could go ahead and use Android or ChromeOS.
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by shuckles 6mo ago
No average person cares about your side project, and most people prefer Apple’s product decisions over the ones you’d like them to make. Based on your history with technology, you are a Windows developer who would like to distribute apps on
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by shuckles 6mo ago
Browser vendors have been able to ship their own engines in the EU for almost 2 years now. What great benefit to consumers has that enabled?
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by shuckles 7mo ago
You aren’t going to run a network connected 24/7 online agent from a laptop because it’s battery powered and portable.
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by shuckles 7mo ago
OpenAI did not "bet" on Jony Ive. They bought his company io Products.
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by shuckles 8mo ago
The people complaining about Safari often are running enterprise crapware that requires some esoteric Chrome API or bug to operate correctly and should actually be an app on iOS but cannot be funded as such because its creators don’t care a
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by shuckles 8mo ago
It’s also strange because I highly doubt Google has manufactured a billion physical units of anything. Most of their consumer hardware is designed and built by partners, including Pixel.
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by shuckles 9mo ago
In case of a natural disaster, it’s guaranteed that human drivers will abandon their cars on the road and cause gridlock. It happens all the time. Emergency vehicles are built to handle it.
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by shuckles 9mo ago
Waymo's performance in this outage was horrible. 6 hours into the blackout there were still many intersections where a Waymo was blocking traffic, unable to navigate out of the way. This should never happen again.
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by shuckles 9mo ago
It took me a while to realize you were using "$WORK" as a shell variable, not as a reference to Slack's stock ticker prior to its acquisition by $CRM.
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by shuckles 10mo ago
Great then you have even bigger problems to wrestle with regarding solvency. Americans won't choose cost effective treatments, and if you force them to pay out of pocket for experimental therapy you will be accused of running death pan
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by shuckles 10mo ago
> I'm saying "increased rents + rent control not applying = more people should want to build" This is false. People will want to build more on the margin, but that doesn't mean they want to build. If the profitability
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by shuckles 10mo ago
Surely you are capable of thinking there are tradeoffs here where one can set a level without dealing in absolutes. Put differently why not expand Medicaid to cover every American regardless of income? 400% is just as arbitrary as 1000000%.
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by shuckles 10mo ago
This is right. More supply is bad for landlords. In particular, housing developers and landlords are different economic actors!
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by shuckles 10mo ago
Central to the challenge of UBI and housing costs is the law of rent. UBI could work if all its redistribution was not immediately captured by landowners. There are ways to make that possible. Rent controlled apartments being held by tenant
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by shuckles 10mo ago
Casual is a perfectly reasonable descriptor of economic conclusions based on vibes and anecdotes about apartment building in Montreal. I don't think it's reasonable to read it as an insult.
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by shuckles 10mo ago
Income isn't wealth. Someone making $62,000/yr in income without working at 55 (i.e. no Social Security) is likely comfortable. That's >$1m in invested assets plus whatever is owed to them as retirement income when they re
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by shuckles 10mo ago
You've just listed a set of specific circumstances under which some number of people might find housing more affordable, but that's a lot more like "investment outperformance" driven affordability than "broad based
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by shuckles 10mo ago
Did you write an entire comment by misreading "casual", the word I used, with "causal"? Otherwise, I have no idea how your reply relates to mine, as I didn't make any claims about the existence of such research.
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by shuckles 10mo ago
Rent control absolutely causes a reduction in supply: there's a reason rent controlled buildings have apartments in poor condition that owners do not renovate (so a reduction in quality supplied) and many are held off market or convert
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by shuckles 10mo ago
This comment just indicates the difficulty of making accurate conclusions based on casual analysis like you're doing.
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by shuckles 10mo ago
No, because rent control isn't portable and most people's housing needs change over time. The person who can hold onto a house for 20 years straight is the outlier.
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by shuckles 10mo ago
People say this a lot, but it makes no sense to me. A recession comes with lower incomes and wealth for everyone, so affordability doesn't change for the average person. It only increases it for those who had a short position in their

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