> There is a general malaise at prices and a target is needed. Data centers and the Trump-Bibi-Iran War are currently those targets seen as the primary driver of high prices, Seen? They are the primary driver of high…
> I guess if you buy an entire house without checking We aren't talking about people buying hoses now, these fees weren't there before, so it becomes a typical bait and switch. "Congestion charge" means the starlink…
> the money printer can go brrrrr longer than everyone else can remain solvent. No, it can't. You and me may not matter but the big money printer in Asia prints better, faster and longer, and that's all that matters.…
> if a robber pulls a gun on me in the street and demands my wallet, You're jumping the gun here, and it's a bad habit, ask Putin about it. Framing consensual trade as armed robbery is exactly the self-righteous…
If banks view and treat their customers like spammers and random callers, banking regulations are fundamentally broken. It's even worse to see people who don't see the problem with such policies.
You have a lot to learn about the Orient, they're different, that doesn't mean they are worse, they're just different. One thing you can learn from them is to stop blaming others and look inside, find out how we can do…
> We learned that free trade has costs, and we're adjusting. I doubt it. Learning too slow is sometimes worse than not learning at all. During the heyday of globalization I was repeating a single message - this is going…
> a quarter of the traffic is propagandists trying to destroy western tech/infrastructure/society The most effective enemy propaganda is called "sticker shock". When the sticker goes up in a week, it's double…
> yet every third article posted to the front page is 800 comments beating off to a new Claude feature In addition to the bot farms, many in the AI related fields have plenty of perverse incentives to participate - for…
> I just said basic truth - majority of people won’t change mind under influence of online strangers > You could of course provide me with data that this is not true Actually, it's the other way around - you have to…
Babysitter? Lollypops? Lemonade stand? What that has to do with the price of tea in China? We're talking about capital, operating and interest expenses for the benefit of a single customer but paid for by all other…
> I am so tired of reading these stupid "why I am" Don't read them. The rest of us may actually gain from another perspective, different from corporate marketing.
If "passing those costs on to other rate payers" is "the normal process of purchasing things" then the "normal process" is thoroughly and completely FUBAR-ed. That's a lot worse than some single, isolated case.
> Nobody thinks this way about actual strong convictions they held like belief in god or abortion or polygamy. There's no need to change that kind of strong convictions, what needs to change is the desire to use such…
Fast neutron reactors can also "burn" waste from other reactors, the "ashes" are radioactive for only 300 years, there is no need for special storage after that. Untreated waste has to be kept in storage for around 100K…
> Honestly these political rants contribute very little, no offence. What do the other comments contribute? Do they solve inflation, wars, monopolization? Small-picture comments have small audience, like, how many…
"Information is nukes" is also a good excuse for getting rid of free speech. The "models" have no more information than what's already online or in whatever books they were trained on. AI is nukes to be funded by the…
> a far cry from the "this won't pencil out if we have go farther than across the street" that we're currently seeing. I'm not sure what crying has to do with it but the losses across two streets are double those…
Don't say it, do it - at an acceptable price. Then wake me up and take my money. Not before that though.
Sanders' bailout plan for the AI bubble, of course the top models will still be partly or fully inaccessible to the taxpayers providing the bailout - this will be the final text of the law by the time (and if) this…
There are better open source projects, why give prominence to bad projects under the control of bad actors? It would be an inexcusable waste of precious open source efforts.
> Given the constraints we operate under, the ideal number of unsolved crimes is not zero and the ideal number of crimes committed using state apparatus is also not zero. That statement doesn't make any sense. What's…
> This particular article is reported as 100% AI-generated by pangram Your pangram is wrong, most likely deliberately so, there's material interest to train LLM-detecotrs to reject and taint everything that doesn't…
Good writing, the thoughtful selection of facts and stats paints a clear picture, which in this case takes the form of a question, actually several questions. > “Middle class” stopped being an economic description a…
> I expect Cory to have skepticism about technology that can be exploited for dystopian purposes, but calling AI "the world's money-losingest technology" is out of touch. Since when stating facts is "out of touch"?…
> There is a general malaise at prices and a target is needed. Data centers and the Trump-Bibi-Iran War are currently those targets seen as the primary driver of high prices, Seen? They are the primary driver of high…
> I guess if you buy an entire house without checking We aren't talking about people buying hoses now, these fees weren't there before, so it becomes a typical bait and switch. "Congestion charge" means the starlink…
> the money printer can go brrrrr longer than everyone else can remain solvent. No, it can't. You and me may not matter but the big money printer in Asia prints better, faster and longer, and that's all that matters.…
> if a robber pulls a gun on me in the street and demands my wallet, You're jumping the gun here, and it's a bad habit, ask Putin about it. Framing consensual trade as armed robbery is exactly the self-righteous…
If banks view and treat their customers like spammers and random callers, banking regulations are fundamentally broken. It's even worse to see people who don't see the problem with such policies.
You have a lot to learn about the Orient, they're different, that doesn't mean they are worse, they're just different. One thing you can learn from them is to stop blaming others and look inside, find out how we can do…
> We learned that free trade has costs, and we're adjusting. I doubt it. Learning too slow is sometimes worse than not learning at all. During the heyday of globalization I was repeating a single message - this is going…
> a quarter of the traffic is propagandists trying to destroy western tech/infrastructure/society The most effective enemy propaganda is called "sticker shock". When the sticker goes up in a week, it's double…
> yet every third article posted to the front page is 800 comments beating off to a new Claude feature In addition to the bot farms, many in the AI related fields have plenty of perverse incentives to participate - for…
> I just said basic truth - majority of people won’t change mind under influence of online strangers > You could of course provide me with data that this is not true Actually, it's the other way around - you have to…
Babysitter? Lollypops? Lemonade stand? What that has to do with the price of tea in China? We're talking about capital, operating and interest expenses for the benefit of a single customer but paid for by all other…
> I am so tired of reading these stupid "why I am" Don't read them. The rest of us may actually gain from another perspective, different from corporate marketing.
If "passing those costs on to other rate payers" is "the normal process of purchasing things" then the "normal process" is thoroughly and completely FUBAR-ed. That's a lot worse than some single, isolated case.
> Nobody thinks this way about actual strong convictions they held like belief in god or abortion or polygamy. There's no need to change that kind of strong convictions, what needs to change is the desire to use such…
Fast neutron reactors can also "burn" waste from other reactors, the "ashes" are radioactive for only 300 years, there is no need for special storage after that. Untreated waste has to be kept in storage for around 100K…
> Honestly these political rants contribute very little, no offence. What do the other comments contribute? Do they solve inflation, wars, monopolization? Small-picture comments have small audience, like, how many…
"Information is nukes" is also a good excuse for getting rid of free speech. The "models" have no more information than what's already online or in whatever books they were trained on. AI is nukes to be funded by the…
> a far cry from the "this won't pencil out if we have go farther than across the street" that we're currently seeing. I'm not sure what crying has to do with it but the losses across two streets are double those…
Don't say it, do it - at an acceptable price. Then wake me up and take my money. Not before that though.
Sanders' bailout plan for the AI bubble, of course the top models will still be partly or fully inaccessible to the taxpayers providing the bailout - this will be the final text of the law by the time (and if) this…
There are better open source projects, why give prominence to bad projects under the control of bad actors? It would be an inexcusable waste of precious open source efforts.
> Given the constraints we operate under, the ideal number of unsolved crimes is not zero and the ideal number of crimes committed using state apparatus is also not zero. That statement doesn't make any sense. What's…
> This particular article is reported as 100% AI-generated by pangram Your pangram is wrong, most likely deliberately so, there's material interest to train LLM-detecotrs to reject and taint everything that doesn't…
Good writing, the thoughtful selection of facts and stats paints a clear picture, which in this case takes the form of a question, actually several questions. > “Middle class” stopped being an economic description a…
> I expect Cory to have skepticism about technology that can be exploited for dystopian purposes, but calling AI "the world's money-losingest technology" is out of touch. Since when stating facts is "out of touch"?…