Volkswagen could’ve bought Tesla for the cost of the dieselgate fines, at the time of fining
Would you say the same thing about Anthropic defining the terms of use of its technology to the military?
You can think of them as the equivalent of the DNC-preferred wing of the democrats
This philosophy is why Windows on ARM is a shitshow and Mac on ARM is a mostly seamless user experience. Microsoft refuses to kick developers to get with the times, whereas Apple doesn’t hesitate to do so, and Windows…
The US ideological push for homeownership is what eventually led to the housing shortage that we’re in now. If we tie up a big chunk of the majority’s net worth in their house, of course they’re going to vote for their…
Why do you believe that you should be allowed to preserve your present lifestyle in amber at a (very minor incremental) cost to economic prosperity for all of society?
Practically, at the current rate of CO2 emissions we’re going to be needing that electricity to do carbon capture eventually
The buses in SF and NYC suck because of this bipartisan belief of public transit as social welfare rather than a means for the bulk of society to get to their destination. This leads to things like far too many bus…
Will the government pay OpenAI to run an ad-free free tier?
Apple used to do the same thing with TSMC’s newer process nodes, and nobody really complained because people were getting superior products. I happen to like US antitrust enforcement that considers consumer benefit…
Personally, I would not like judgment proof people, who won’t be able to pay the medical bills of anyone they hit, on the roads at all
> but the world has finite resources we pay our government to point guns at other people, so that resources become their problem and not ours
If we let China dump solar panels and batteries on us, we would be able to afford burning electricity for much more worthless things than training LLMs
If we didn’t have stupid regulatory bullshit and protectionism, it would be cheaper to run a data center on solar and batteries in bumfuck Nevada
It should be mind numbingly trivial to stand up a solar farm and ram through some transmission lines in the desert, and mind numbingly hard to set up a temporary gas generator. We needed regulatory exemptions yesterday…
We should have tap in/out in NYC too, it gives another opportunity to catch a fare evader
I chose a MacBook as my laptop last job because my Nvidia drivers kept breaking on my Linux laptop
The pressing issue for mankind is CO2 in particular and not this abstract notion that we ought to be noble savages
No, we will not get to a post oil society by self flagellating like Europe, but by making sustainable options so cheap and plentiful that they displace unsustainable options. (Of course there’s some market intervention…
If ai helping normal people use rich people loopholes cause a government system to collapse, the system deserved to collapse
China prevented the founders from leaving the country
Modern incinerators still get a bad rap even compared to landfill
You can’t reform it because of the immense job loss that would result from an efficiently run public healthcare system. Think about all the useless paper pushers that are allowed to vote
The US could achieve the same thing with a proper migrant labour program
I wish the US could also use migrant labour like Singapore instead of the current system of turning a blind eye to illegal immigration out of necessity
Volkswagen could’ve bought Tesla for the cost of the dieselgate fines, at the time of fining
Would you say the same thing about Anthropic defining the terms of use of its technology to the military?
You can think of them as the equivalent of the DNC-preferred wing of the democrats
This philosophy is why Windows on ARM is a shitshow and Mac on ARM is a mostly seamless user experience. Microsoft refuses to kick developers to get with the times, whereas Apple doesn’t hesitate to do so, and Windows…
The US ideological push for homeownership is what eventually led to the housing shortage that we’re in now. If we tie up a big chunk of the majority’s net worth in their house, of course they’re going to vote for their…
Why do you believe that you should be allowed to preserve your present lifestyle in amber at a (very minor incremental) cost to economic prosperity for all of society?
Practically, at the current rate of CO2 emissions we’re going to be needing that electricity to do carbon capture eventually
The buses in SF and NYC suck because of this bipartisan belief of public transit as social welfare rather than a means for the bulk of society to get to their destination. This leads to things like far too many bus…
Will the government pay OpenAI to run an ad-free free tier?
Apple used to do the same thing with TSMC’s newer process nodes, and nobody really complained because people were getting superior products. I happen to like US antitrust enforcement that considers consumer benefit…
Personally, I would not like judgment proof people, who won’t be able to pay the medical bills of anyone they hit, on the roads at all
> but the world has finite resources we pay our government to point guns at other people, so that resources become their problem and not ours
If we let China dump solar panels and batteries on us, we would be able to afford burning electricity for much more worthless things than training LLMs
If we didn’t have stupid regulatory bullshit and protectionism, it would be cheaper to run a data center on solar and batteries in bumfuck Nevada
It should be mind numbingly trivial to stand up a solar farm and ram through some transmission lines in the desert, and mind numbingly hard to set up a temporary gas generator. We needed regulatory exemptions yesterday…
We should have tap in/out in NYC too, it gives another opportunity to catch a fare evader
I chose a MacBook as my laptop last job because my Nvidia drivers kept breaking on my Linux laptop
The pressing issue for mankind is CO2 in particular and not this abstract notion that we ought to be noble savages
No, we will not get to a post oil society by self flagellating like Europe, but by making sustainable options so cheap and plentiful that they displace unsustainable options. (Of course there’s some market intervention…
If ai helping normal people use rich people loopholes cause a government system to collapse, the system deserved to collapse
China prevented the founders from leaving the country
Modern incinerators still get a bad rap even compared to landfill
You can’t reform it because of the immense job loss that would result from an efficiently run public healthcare system. Think about all the useless paper pushers that are allowed to vote
The US could achieve the same thing with a proper migrant labour program
I wish the US could also use migrant labour like Singapore instead of the current system of turning a blind eye to illegal immigration out of necessity