I'd imagine all of the vendors have an incentive to keep their main customer a float, while there might be penalties etc. for missed targets - it doesn't make sense for any of these vendors to ride the contract into…
I’m somewhat dubious of the idea that there will be a market for skipped ai operators. Ai doesn't really give us a new “tool” in as many cases as it “performs tasks.” there isn't any real reason the ai can't perform the…
I work in code generation, and often feel the fallacy of “because I can build something that looks 80% like your product in a day, you should pay me N millions.” It's roughly the same pitch that the ruby on rails crowd…
There may be quite minimal reasons for an AI civilization to engage in expansion, with the ability for it to intelligently change and enforce new objectives on itself it could simply choose not to expand beyond resource…
There are rumors that the employees did not get paid out. Such a deal could be done by, for instance buying the equity from the investors at a current fair market value. That the new "investor" choses to let their…
was it a run around of anti-trust or character's liabilities? It will be interesting if there are creditor lawsuits / trustee clawbacks in the future around these deals.
The suggestion is that this person can get a mortgage to pay their property taxes over the next 20 or 30 years as part of their retirement - or they can sell their property and live well in a cheaper location. Claiming…
I had a thought the other day that you could probably divide up the world into cubic miles and with a few thousand codex subscriptions make a high fidelity blender model of the entire world based on google maps, street…
I think this up-skilling sentiment misses that as a worker who thought a seasonal service job on the waterfront was a good deal, up-skilling means taking on 6 figures in debt - after which they will only have a ~1/5…
The issue is ownership, we have no means of distributing the knowledge from the AI or rewarding those who could help. We are quickly moving to a world where all symbolic and numeric reasoning for economic purposes is…
There is a perceived opportunity cost from someone using a lower-tier model on their task. What if the better model did a "better" job? what if my trials and tribulations are due to model quality? If you are used to…
The push for AI adoption in K-8 is the one that strikes me as wrong. The Alpha School and other initiatives are pushing AI on groups for which we have dubious measures of impact. Ostensibly, they are doing this to avoid…
My understanding is that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was one of only 2 BSL-4 labs in china in 2019, and the only one focused on emergent viruses. This is out of 684 major Chinese cities.
I recently heard a scientist use a phrase something along the lines of “when two extraordinarily improbably events occur together, there is probably a connection”. We’ll never know if the lab in Wuhan originated the…
I think the big question is whether these recent gains continue. It’s entirely plausible that the ai firms are going to run out of human trainers capable of further refining the model. It’s also possible we are on the…
Starship’s economics will make such projects inevitable, if it’s not data centers it will be something else. Ideally, the solar panels will be efficient enough to minimize albedo. A facility in space will likely have…
I think the interesting question is whether the average consumer cares? a 4B model should hit roughly the same numbers as GPT5.5 sometime in December/March. That is more than capable of performing a variety of complex…
The margins on NVidia datacenter hardware are ... high. At least one order of magnitude larger than a consumer chip. Given the recent deepseekv4.1 advances - how good of a 3B model can we make to run on an iphone…
It would be interesting to see how these are justified internally. If I had to guess, it’s either excess budget being channeled into “something” or a justification to reduce street patrols/street crime.
Out of curiosity couldn’t this also mean that we are missing the agriculture? Or that the practices they used were very different from today.
We really need more slow charging stations for folks to just park at. I’d have assumed that the economics would have been favorable to charge by the day/night rather than by the minute.
AI has largely not been trained to operate independently yet. Newer products like grok bot/meta muse point in the direction of an asynchronous "virtual worker" type of persona where the AI is empowered to make at least…
It’s worth recalling that a large (possibly majority) share of the population has extreme limits on their time imposed by economics. While I’m fortunate now to be able to dedicate time to the gym and other physical…
How confident are we that they know it’s fake? I somehow doubt they close the door and pull out the real information.
I suspect that we could bring this measure into the modern world with a little help from either DFS or ai. Something like abstractions traversed during interpretation, lines of abstraction v.s. functional…
I'd imagine all of the vendors have an incentive to keep their main customer a float, while there might be penalties etc. for missed targets - it doesn't make sense for any of these vendors to ride the contract into…
I’m somewhat dubious of the idea that there will be a market for skipped ai operators. Ai doesn't really give us a new “tool” in as many cases as it “performs tasks.” there isn't any real reason the ai can't perform the…
I work in code generation, and often feel the fallacy of “because I can build something that looks 80% like your product in a day, you should pay me N millions.” It's roughly the same pitch that the ruby on rails crowd…
There may be quite minimal reasons for an AI civilization to engage in expansion, with the ability for it to intelligently change and enforce new objectives on itself it could simply choose not to expand beyond resource…
There are rumors that the employees did not get paid out. Such a deal could be done by, for instance buying the equity from the investors at a current fair market value. That the new "investor" choses to let their…
was it a run around of anti-trust or character's liabilities? It will be interesting if there are creditor lawsuits / trustee clawbacks in the future around these deals.
The suggestion is that this person can get a mortgage to pay their property taxes over the next 20 or 30 years as part of their retirement - or they can sell their property and live well in a cheaper location. Claiming…
I had a thought the other day that you could probably divide up the world into cubic miles and with a few thousand codex subscriptions make a high fidelity blender model of the entire world based on google maps, street…
I think this up-skilling sentiment misses that as a worker who thought a seasonal service job on the waterfront was a good deal, up-skilling means taking on 6 figures in debt - after which they will only have a ~1/5…
The issue is ownership, we have no means of distributing the knowledge from the AI or rewarding those who could help. We are quickly moving to a world where all symbolic and numeric reasoning for economic purposes is…
There is a perceived opportunity cost from someone using a lower-tier model on their task. What if the better model did a "better" job? what if my trials and tribulations are due to model quality? If you are used to…
The push for AI adoption in K-8 is the one that strikes me as wrong. The Alpha School and other initiatives are pushing AI on groups for which we have dubious measures of impact. Ostensibly, they are doing this to avoid…
My understanding is that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was one of only 2 BSL-4 labs in china in 2019, and the only one focused on emergent viruses. This is out of 684 major Chinese cities.
I recently heard a scientist use a phrase something along the lines of “when two extraordinarily improbably events occur together, there is probably a connection”. We’ll never know if the lab in Wuhan originated the…
I think the big question is whether these recent gains continue. It’s entirely plausible that the ai firms are going to run out of human trainers capable of further refining the model. It’s also possible we are on the…
Starship’s economics will make such projects inevitable, if it’s not data centers it will be something else. Ideally, the solar panels will be efficient enough to minimize albedo. A facility in space will likely have…
I think the interesting question is whether the average consumer cares? a 4B model should hit roughly the same numbers as GPT5.5 sometime in December/March. That is more than capable of performing a variety of complex…
The margins on NVidia datacenter hardware are ... high. At least one order of magnitude larger than a consumer chip. Given the recent deepseekv4.1 advances - how good of a 3B model can we make to run on an iphone…
It would be interesting to see how these are justified internally. If I had to guess, it’s either excess budget being channeled into “something” or a justification to reduce street patrols/street crime.
Out of curiosity couldn’t this also mean that we are missing the agriculture? Or that the practices they used were very different from today.
We really need more slow charging stations for folks to just park at. I’d have assumed that the economics would have been favorable to charge by the day/night rather than by the minute.
AI has largely not been trained to operate independently yet. Newer products like grok bot/meta muse point in the direction of an asynchronous "virtual worker" type of persona where the AI is empowered to make at least…
It’s worth recalling that a large (possibly majority) share of the population has extreme limits on their time imposed by economics. While I’m fortunate now to be able to dedicate time to the gym and other physical…
How confident are we that they know it’s fake? I somehow doubt they close the door and pull out the real information.
I suspect that we could bring this measure into the modern world with a little help from either DFS or ai. Something like abstractions traversed during interpretation, lines of abstraction v.s. functional…