Since we're already in the realm of far out engineering, you could get the energy from a laser beam from a source orbiting the sun. Your spaceship would have some kind of array to capture the energy beam. This gives you…
A (fairly obvious) historical analogy is how the Roman Empire survived the reigns of maniacs like Caligula and Commodus. It's hard to ascertain how reliable historical sources are, but as presented, both of these…
Part of the problem is surely that we know how milk should be produced and consumed safely, but we don't know how AI should be produced and made accessible safely. Should we be more concerned about malevolent humans…
I'd be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. "Infotainment" functions in that require interacting with a touch screen were bad ideas at the time and seem incomprehensibly bad in retrospect. It's a…
The data center thing is a complete red herring. Of course you wouldn't want a data center literally next to your house. Neither would you want to live next to a manufacturing plant making automobiles or batteries or…
You should feel angry, and you should be channeling that anger into constructive action. For now, this means voting Democrat and supporting Democrats for office. Donald Trump has turned the Republican party into a cult…
> unless you consider that socialism = "social safety net measures", which it isn't I agree with you that socialism, properly understood, ought to mean something much broader than a social safety net. But not everyone…
I think this is more about tribalism than conservatism. There's nothing inherently "conservative" about opposing renewable energy. The political movement that's currently leading the Republican party shouldn't be…
This is an important conversation to have and we should pretty clearly about what the issues are. I didn't see any objection to LLM assisted development in the abstract. The objection is to relying on proprietary AI…
> Hopefully a solution similar to what was done in Hong Kong can be found. Citizens of Hong Kong lost their right to free speech and their ability to select their own leaders. If you publicly criticize Xi Jinping in…
The short answer is no, it won't work on your home computer. In it's current form it needs something like 594 GB of memory, far outside what you can reasonably run on normal consumer hardware in 2026. If you have really…
The employer selects a financial company to manage the 401k. When you switch jobs, you can roll the 401k from the previous employer into the new one, or into an IRA (Individual Retirement Account). Usually the financial…
Absolutely this. If you think about different types of objections to nearby data centers and do some pretty minimal research, you come up with a reasonable set of solutions that most people would agree on. That's not…
We also need immigration because it grows the GDP, makes for a dynamic and resilient economy, increases scientific and technological output and raises the standard of living. Immigration is what made America great.
Incidentally, here's a recent article about how the economics of ambulances are broken in the US: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are If municipal emergency services in yout area don't cover…
Agriculture uses orders of magnitudes more water than data centers. A 50% cut in water use by data centers will have nowhere near the impact of a 5% cut in water use by agriculture. But data centers can generate orders…
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It is common sense, and with literally any other administration in the past century it would seem like a good idea. I have zero confidence that this particular administration has any interest in regulating the industry…
This is very exciting. Congrats to Tom on the accomplishment. To be clear, this is an attempt at a decipherment. This is not proven, and we shouldn't consider Linear A to be "solved" until experts in the field have…
Musk has more money than most of us would dream of, but the game isn't over until it's over. Speaking just for myself, I've lost respect from Elon Musk. I admire Musk's accomplishments, especially Starship and the…
That is ascribing far too much strategic thinking to this administration. They're just not capable of the kind of planning and foresight that would require. The administration's planning is much more along the lines of,…
For me it was torrenting a 7G ball of weights leaked from Meta and running alpaca.cpp (an early variant of llama.cpp) on my desktop computer in early 2023. I started asking it questions about the Roman empire and it…
The AI-driven data center roll out raises some legitimate concerns that really ought to be considered and discussed at the political level. I doubt that a blanket ban on data centers is the right approach. These are the…
I'm very open to the idea that consciousness is substrate independent. I have a hard time seeing why molecules could produce consciousness from an electro-chemical path, but not from a purely electrical path. Having…
My personal preference is Interstella 5555 is Daft Punk's best music video. Edit: Jinx! Gracana beat my reply to an 11 hour old comment by four minutes.
Since we're already in the realm of far out engineering, you could get the energy from a laser beam from a source orbiting the sun. Your spaceship would have some kind of array to capture the energy beam. This gives you…
A (fairly obvious) historical analogy is how the Roman Empire survived the reigns of maniacs like Caligula and Commodus. It's hard to ascertain how reliable historical sources are, but as presented, both of these…
Part of the problem is surely that we know how milk should be produced and consumed safely, but we don't know how AI should be produced and made accessible safely. Should we be more concerned about malevolent humans…
I'd be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. "Infotainment" functions in that require interacting with a touch screen were bad ideas at the time and seem incomprehensibly bad in retrospect. It's a…
The data center thing is a complete red herring. Of course you wouldn't want a data center literally next to your house. Neither would you want to live next to a manufacturing plant making automobiles or batteries or…
You should feel angry, and you should be channeling that anger into constructive action. For now, this means voting Democrat and supporting Democrats for office. Donald Trump has turned the Republican party into a cult…
> unless you consider that socialism = "social safety net measures", which it isn't I agree with you that socialism, properly understood, ought to mean something much broader than a social safety net. But not everyone…
I think this is more about tribalism than conservatism. There's nothing inherently "conservative" about opposing renewable energy. The political movement that's currently leading the Republican party shouldn't be…
This is an important conversation to have and we should pretty clearly about what the issues are. I didn't see any objection to LLM assisted development in the abstract. The objection is to relying on proprietary AI…
> Hopefully a solution similar to what was done in Hong Kong can be found. Citizens of Hong Kong lost their right to free speech and their ability to select their own leaders. If you publicly criticize Xi Jinping in…
The short answer is no, it won't work on your home computer. In it's current form it needs something like 594 GB of memory, far outside what you can reasonably run on normal consumer hardware in 2026. If you have really…
The employer selects a financial company to manage the 401k. When you switch jobs, you can roll the 401k from the previous employer into the new one, or into an IRA (Individual Retirement Account). Usually the financial…
Absolutely this. If you think about different types of objections to nearby data centers and do some pretty minimal research, you come up with a reasonable set of solutions that most people would agree on. That's not…
We also need immigration because it grows the GDP, makes for a dynamic and resilient economy, increases scientific and technological output and raises the standard of living. Immigration is what made America great.
Incidentally, here's a recent article about how the economics of ambulances are broken in the US: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are If municipal emergency services in yout area don't cover…
Agriculture uses orders of magnitudes more water than data centers. A 50% cut in water use by data centers will have nowhere near the impact of a 5% cut in water use by agriculture. But data centers can generate orders…
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It is common sense, and with literally any other administration in the past century it would seem like a good idea. I have zero confidence that this particular administration has any interest in regulating the industry…
This is very exciting. Congrats to Tom on the accomplishment. To be clear, this is an attempt at a decipherment. This is not proven, and we shouldn't consider Linear A to be "solved" until experts in the field have…
Musk has more money than most of us would dream of, but the game isn't over until it's over. Speaking just for myself, I've lost respect from Elon Musk. I admire Musk's accomplishments, especially Starship and the…
That is ascribing far too much strategic thinking to this administration. They're just not capable of the kind of planning and foresight that would require. The administration's planning is much more along the lines of,…
For me it was torrenting a 7G ball of weights leaked from Meta and running alpaca.cpp (an early variant of llama.cpp) on my desktop computer in early 2023. I started asking it questions about the Roman empire and it…
The AI-driven data center roll out raises some legitimate concerns that really ought to be considered and discussed at the political level. I doubt that a blanket ban on data centers is the right approach. These are the…
I'm very open to the idea that consciousness is substrate independent. I have a hard time seeing why molecules could produce consciousness from an electro-chemical path, but not from a purely electrical path. Having…
My personal preference is Interstella 5555 is Daft Punk's best music video. Edit: Jinx! Gracana beat my reply to an 11 hour old comment by four minutes.