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It’s kind of crazy really. Before LLMs, any type of world scale disaster you’d hope for what? Wikipedia backups? Now, a single LLM ran locally would be much more effective. Imagine the local models in 5 years!

What was interesting to me was how expensive this thing was, I wonder how much of that cost came from the software. Elon mentioned how they're trying to create a "world model" for their Tesla FSD, which has enabled them to use the same software for Optimus.

I'd imagine the future will be large "ready to go" Ai packages, which companies would tweak to their liking.

Nothing you wrote has a spec of evidence. The current administration has been clearly targeting Elon Musk and Tesla/SpaceX, so why on earth wouldn't Elon support their opponents?

I wonder if the real killer app is Googles hardware scale verses OpenAi' s(or what Microsoft gives them). Seems like nothing Google's done has been particular surprising to OpenAi's team, it's just they have such huge scale maybe they can iterate faster.

I hope the government regulations don’t just end at stopping the merger, but also disallowing these financial institutes from banning users for speech they deem harmful. Actual illegal use, sure, but im not sure how or why it’s legal for them to ban and remove banking abilities from someone for their political views no matter how “abhorrent”.

Good riddance. Journalists and the media have abandoned their roles as truthful arbiters forcing everyone into their biased corners (msnbc, Fox News, etc).

I want non sensationalized, truthful reporting and it’s clear only Ai can get me that. Human reporters are too emotional and it’s shown during the Trump era, and continued now.

The underlying problem is energy creation, not usage. If we had nuclear power plants everywhere and energy "too cheap to meter", no one would bat an eye at BTC energy usage. We need to stop thinking energy conservation, and start thinking on how we can GROW sustainable energy usage. People live better with more energy.

Of course psyops exist, but allowing tax-funded government agencies to decide what's a psyop and what isn't sounds even goofier. If a countries citizenry can't figure this out themselves, the solution isn't having the government decide for them, it's to fix the critical thinking problem.

It seems fairly obvious you need these standardized tests, especially when GPA inflation would be incentivized otherwise, but the SAT and ACT drive some very uncomfortable discussions involving intelligence, primarily on its hereditary nature and the possibility of "group-differences". Gets even more uncomfortable since we're talking about children. If "group-differences" exist at the genetic level for example, why shouldn't affirmative action be required since disadvantaged groups also pay taxes to these schools.

Same here for physical "ideas"/ecommerce stuff. By constantly "failing", I've gotten very efficient at knowing whether an idea or product is worth attempting.

I will say there is a certain charm to being ignorant that I've seen bring people success (including myself). I've attempted ambitious SEO projects when I was less experienced and succeeded, and looking back in hindsight they were pretty crazy given the success odds.

The WSJ frames this software update on the frontpage as:

"Millions of Teslas Recalled Over Latest Safety Fix The affected vehicles will receive an over-the-air software remedy, Tesla said, the latest in a series of setbacks to hit the automaker."

I wonder if the journalists writing that know how much they're "stretching the truth". I imagine a spectrum of truth, a movable gauge. I'd be curious to see where people would place a title such as that given the reality of the "recall". The people writing the titles, owners of teslas, liberals, conservatives, etc.

23andMe's Fall 2 years ago

So what happens to my DNA data if they go bankrupt and start auctioning "assets"?