bpodgursky

You can't simultaneously believe China is only ~6 months behind (true), and that US buildouts are vastly accelerating AI. If China is only a little bit behind, US labs halting changes nothing except puts the power in the hands of Chinese labs (realistically, the Chinese government)

What are you on about? Literally drive north a bit towards Whistler, you can get out of the light pollution in an hour or two

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Yes it has negative consequences for wildlife, which is why it is FAR BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT to put all the agriculture in one place at high efficiency rather than spread farmland out over otherwise virgin wilderness.

Would you rather have 2x the wilderness 80% degraded or 1x the wilderness 90% degraded? Unless your plan is to decide who starves to death, it's far better to have greenhouses where we already have farms!

Yes we also had a population of 50 million and 10% of them starved to death every time a volcano burped, they were great times.

I mean it's not easy to have greenhouse walls that let sunlight in but don't let grow light out. You can direct the light but you are going to have loss.

Dude your country is 98% desolate and unsuited to agriculture. If you want night sky go to a cabin literally anywhere in your unending and cold mountains instead of shutting down agriculture in the only marginal spot on the west coast you can grow food.

Most serious projects are building onsite power generation using natural gas to avoid this.

Are you under the impression people are not compensated by eminent domain?

In fact, a huge portion of the sentimental press stores over eminent domain are attempts by homeowners not to cancel the project, but to increase the payouts. Often the homeowners would be quite sad to see the project cancelled, they just want to milk the settlement via litigation.

Yes the amount of credulity here is laughable. This is like when cop and teacher unions complain about being evaluated on outcomes.

An obvious point, but if Europe wants sovereign onshore AI, they have to get these people under control. It's easy for Microsoft to simply build EU-serving datacenters elsewhere.

Elon (in)famously put gas turbines on pickup trucks to power the Colossus 1/2 datacenters because connecting to the grid was incredibly slow and there was limited supply. And got sued to remove them.

Absent regulation, every operator would happily do the same thing to make the problem go away.

Every tech company building out datacenters would pay in a heartbeat to add commensurate power to the grid. The cost is not an objection.

The problem is, there are insane and dumb regulatory barriers to adding power plants or interconnects. THESE ARE THE SAME PROBLEMS FACTORIES FACE WHEN RESHORING PRODUCTION, you should treat datacenters as the face of reindustrialization. Instead of complaining about using resources, we need to focus on solving our inability to provide infrastructure needed to support economic growth.

If they wanted to play games with sub tiers they would just change the rate limits rather than wasting inference.

In the US it's legal-sorta but the NIH can't fund it and the FDA is not allowed to approve treatments based on it. So someone could do it in a research setting but there's not a pathway to market in the US (in practice people will do the first ones in a friendly legal climate like Peru).

OK and we aren't going to stop China from doing it. They do what they want. So there's nothing to fuss about.

This article mentions SpaceX 7 times and China once incidentally, they want to nag SpaceX into doing things that don't matter when China's launches do matter and nobody is going to nag them into decelerating.

Do you have a brain tumor or something? I genuinely don't understand what point you are trying to make.

Do you think the US could have negotiated the New START treaty to get Russia to reduce their nuclear arms stockpile, if the US did not have parity in nukes?

Unilateral ceasefires while your opponents are at full throttle are the dumbest imaginable response.

I do not work at an AI company. If you gave me a magic button, I would press it to halt all frontier AI development globally.

But, I do not have that button, and I believe the thesis that for the US to thrive, or even survive, we have to win at AI. So, until we get a multinational pact to pause AI (which I would support), it needs to be all gas, all the time.

The federal government believes that the US will be locked out of the future forever if we are not first, or at least at parity, on AI with adversaries. They believe it is not a normal technology, but a singularly important one which will define national capacity.

The federal government believes that if China achieves AI dominance and we are not competitive on either the industrial or cognitive stacks, the people and planet will be at the whim of China and will not do better anyway (and come on — look at how China's fishing fleets treat the parts of the world they have unrestricted access to).

You can disbelieve it, but that is a perfectly valid thesis.

That... was exactly the deal he had and didn't like.

Under the agreements, Mora was to pay Giumarra a royalty of $2.50 per tree and a 4% production royalty based off the gross sales of the fruit the trees produced, as well as a sales commission.

Yes, I assumed that was common knowledge. 20 years is pretty reasonable.

This is so simplistic.

They made a new varietal. Nobody is saying he can't plant any of the standard heirloom Nectarines. The patent will expire in a while, and then anyone can do it.

Honestly, how are you proposing incentivizing developing new varietals if nobody can have patents on any breeds at all? This is how it has worked for half a century and mild gripes aside, the quality of the produce in stores is WAY WAY BETTER than it was before (seriously, what is the last time you ate a Red Delicious apple?)

Have like... some awareness of the large functioning important system you are mindlessly breaking with throwaway comments.

Can you at least pretend to have read the article in question?

i'm sorry but you're wrong and the only person you're hurting with your delusions is yourself. it doesn't change reality to pretend the world isn't changing under your feet.

i'm not going to argue about this but for your own career etc i truly hope you evaluate your epistemics.

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They won the contract, the military wants to keep it, the politicians are threatening to blanket kill all palantir contracts.

AI is a junior to mid-level engineer

This is not true anymore and you aren't helping yourself by deluding yourself about it.

It's something, nobody quite knows what, but it's NOT a junior or mid level engineer, it's a nuclear powered staff engineer living in a cardboard box who lacks domain context and wakes up with no memories ever 5 hours.

You have this backwards then, the chiefs of staff of the military are career roles, they are petitioning the minister of defense, which is a political position (PSOE), to keep Palantir.

Your argument is that the Spanish military is run by the mafia?

The firm holds a €16.5 million contract signed in 2023 with the Armed Forces Intelligence Center (CIFAS), which is scheduled to expire this upcoming November.

Military leadership, including the Chiefs of Staff of the Army and Navy, has lobbied Defense Minister Margarita Robles to renew the contract, citing the platform's operational superiority.

Palantir wins contracts because they are better at what they do. If Europe wants to maintain digital sovereignty while not being left behind they need to have a heart-to-heart conversation about how to fix that.

Not really, the genetic contribution of Danes to modern English DNA is somewhere 0-10%. There was some merging but pretty marginal.