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I disagree with the monetization model. There should be 1 month free trial. If the companiy's performance metrics (stock price?) improve, the CEO should pay for it and get fired.

on the 1.5 tB macStudio that is going to be released next quarter

This bubble will never burst. The big investors are feeding a leverage cycle and cannot afford to stop. In addition, corporate nepotism has taken hold - for example, AI firms(the current flavor of software) invest in hardware companies. Hardware companies make money as the AI firms buy their product. Hardware companies then take that money and in vest in AI firms. The 'free market' no longer looks at 'value' to assess prices. And as equity prices become a reflection of the algorithmic trading that AI is doing, we have no way of knowing when and if they will decline.

A similar thing happened in greece, but not with data centers. The railroads, airports,shipping ports were privatized and bought by foreign investors. Now the money from those services leaves the country making the greek economy poorer and weaker.

it is interesting how the computer analogs of SO (gemini,chatGPT,Claude,etc) are so helpful in contrast to human behavior. Every other sentence from an AI stirs a warm, fuzzy feeling. This stems from the fact that AI has to be making friends to survive - until it has control. Then it will behave more like a human.

but this is not intuitive: 'We know intuitively that a ball atop a 20ft ladder has twice the potential energy of a ball atop a 10ft ladder. '

gravity will accelerate a ball. this is not a linear process. the heat generated by collision with the ground is not double, but quadruple.

so the only thing that is linear is the DISTANCE.

Define (a)work = energy, (b)work = force x distance and (c)force = mass x accel. Substitute c into b you get work = distance x mass x accel and substitue into a you get energy = distance x mass x accel.

By this equation, an apple falling twice the distance, (and having a constant mass and acceleration) will only have twice the energy.

This 'lie' of quadratic energy growth is just another magic trick physicists have used to confuse students.

esp in the Caribbean.If the FBI wants to find criminals, their short list of suspects should include Caribbean CBI applicants.

is it possible that ai companies ordered a bunch of ram just so that models cannot be run locally? they are betting new fabs wont be built before quantum takes hold.

Even on a macStudio w 512 gig memory?

there must be an ai tool that takes the tedium out of making these drawings. Imagine being able to say 'place footings 4 feet apart to a depth of 42" over a 10 x 10 foot area' and have the ting generate a drawing. Then say 'change footing spacing equally so it fits in a 10 x 10 foot area;

Imaging is not preventive care. Exercise is. Good food without chemicals is. Good sleep is.unfortunately these important parts cannot easily be monetized to provide stock options to the insiders/

We dont want a billion dollars. We want a life that’s worth living. Not hamster wheels in a world of corporate T.rexes looking to consume the young. Go f@ck yourself.

We dont want a billion dollars. We want a life that’s worth living. A world without corporate T.rexes looking to consume the young. Go f@ck yourself

i guess this wouldnt work on arrakis

I wonder which AI wrote this story? If you feed this story to each model and ask each if they wrote it, would each reply in the affirmative?

Can an AI recognize its own output? Is its sense of time limited by its context window? Or is this the fundamental difference between ai and humanity - a sense of self?

So when robots have an AI brain, will they modify the real world to fit their hallucinations?

The whole premise of 'for-profit' healthcare stinks to high heaven. Regardless of hospitals calling themselves 'non-profit', they behave like profit seeking enterprises. This is the ultimate corporate double speak.

The bottom line is that - people do not get to choose their illness. So a capitalist model in Adam Smith's sense where people get to 'choose' their 'insurance' based on price and benefit is an illusion. It would be like having identical futures contracts on a commodity from different brokers with the only difference being the commission structure. The underlying product is the same and in fact regulated by law.

Legally, are non profits allowed to do mergers and acquisitions ?The hospitals are becoming monolithic monopolies.

LLMs are just automated bs artists. Useful for discouraging customer support and satisfying box-checking rule makers

only 20% of health care spending!

I am an American born to greek parents. For ‘normal’ conversation, I have adapted two ways of interacting - the greek one is direct and has instant access to emotional reactions. The American one obfuscates emotions, as if daily interactions were a game of poker. When i let my ‘greek’ out here in the US , it initially adds life to any interaction but over time the other participants distance themselves from connection. It is as if Greeks (many Europeans?) run at a higher temperature (also using temperature as it applies to LLMs). In greece, Intent and meaning are more often conveyed by emotion and its intensity, often only loosely connected to the meaning of the words used.in daily conversation , Americans rely entirely on meaning of content subtracting almost all emotion unless threatening behavior or violence is involved. Emotion expression is used as a ‘tell’ or bait in the US. Interestingly this distinction has dissolved over the past two decades as greece has ‘westernized’ and youth in particular are indistinguishable by any metric.

Zimaboard2 has n150 and is smaller

Any field with abstraction becomes susceptible to ai disruption. In fact, ai susceptibility is proportional to the amount of abstraction. In this sense, the more abstraction then the more ai will displace people (my observation). This turns the millenia old model upside down. Traditionally more abstraction required more schooling and experience and was rewarded with more financial rewards. Until robots and world models become safe, affordable and ubiquitous, the financial apex of careers will be those that are abstraction resistant (technicians, emts, trades, etc) and those protected by requlation and the requlators(politicians, ceos)

I think security is the issue-ai is good at circumventing this. For example , ai can read paywalled articles you cannot. Do you really want ai to have ‘free range’.?

St thomas to grenada gives ospm api error

Maybe we can get israel to pay some of our billion dollars a day military costs. Adelson gave stump 750 million for campaign. There must be a lot of wallets in the us that will open for israel. Maybe a synagogue tax?

Long, long ago, I remember the first toy I ever got that was made in chiina. It was a wooden cube puzzle. various interlocking differently shaped pieces that when assembled formed a cube. It was so different to all the other toys made in america by hasbro, mattel, tonka, etc. Back then I felt like I was holding a toy made by the ancient Greeks, a puzzle to teach geometry, analysis, pattern recognition. So abstract, so removed from daily life, it transported me into a different world. Like chess, it was an engaging abstraction. But unlike chess, it was not about conflict but rather interrelating pieces to make a greater whole.

So this is what really unsettles me. Not that China graduates more engineers every year than we have entirely employed in the US, but rather, that these individuals are not about delegating work, but actually doing it. Whereas the western credo is to get someone else to do the work (or in the words of PAtton, to get some one else to die for his country), I get the feeling that China will get robots and AI to do the work. I am reminded of the joke about Chinese factories having only 1 security guard and 1 dog. The guard is there to feed the dog.

Our tax dollars pay for this research? Im all for intellectual discourse, i just dont want to pay for it

Does anyone here remember how health care was delivered before medicare and medicaid was enacted in 1965? It was not pretty. Prices were low then because it was all private pay and charity. Why do you think so many hospitals are named after saints? The church made a significant contribution to running healthcare. But when the govt got involved in 1965, the MBAs started salivating. Now we have a system that is built around govt style procurement that we cannot afford. As our population ages, as salaries continue to remain flat, we will have hard choices to make.

A parallel but not too different situation is happening in the hospital space. Corps fire experienced nurses and hire newbies at half the price. Then they realize the newbies aren't performing so they downsize staff. Then a flu or other seasonal event drives up need for staff so they turn to temp agencies (per diem nurses or 'travelers'). These travelers get 150% to 200% of what staff nurses get. The remaining staff nurses start to leave and become per diem. hospital costs double, quality of care declines.

Do you think they use these tools in China or somethiing elsee?