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I’ve often thought it was the cost of electricity and crypto mining being banned a few years ago. China has a lot of “stranded electricity” which fits this usecase well.

Larry’s son runs paramount now, and given he’s driving it to become the next Fox News challenger, it’s a given the current admin will give them a sweet heart deal.

I found this novella researching AI effect on work and society. What happens when AI takes all the jobs? It’s quiet stretched in places but presents a coherent view of where ai could take us.

Lazy senior vs motivated junior tension has always existed. I was one then became the other. I don’t see llm changing this dynamic!

Good luck dude! This kind of move can pay off big or not, clearly. I’ve personally talked to fable about this a lot, suggest everyone does.

There are a lot of failure modes. The dot-com bubble looked obvious in 1997; it popped in 2000. Anyone shorting in '97-'98 was carried out on a stretcher before being vindicated. In fact 2000-2002 fell in three brutal legs over two years, and anyone who leveraged up after the first 25% leg was destroyed by the next two.

I was to conservative on the corona drop. I was expecting a dead cat bounce that never came, it was truly v-shaped.

The conclusion I came to on this was to watch for indicators it’s not working out. Canceling these large capex projects is one. Meta scaling back on their compute recently eerily fits that indicator.

In fact anyone reading should ask fable about indicators and ai bubbles, I just did and it was startling!

The fact the AI emperor wears no clothes seems clear to me at least. The dot-com bubble looked obvious in 1997; it popped in 2000. Anyone shorting in '97-'98 was carried out on a stretcher before being vindicated. In fact 2000-2002 fell in three brutal legs over two years, and anyone who leveraged up after the first 25% leg was destroyed by the next two.

My strat is to accumulate cash to buy the drop. The danger with this is; will the bubble continue until the bottom is even higher than today? I’ll take that bet.

This is from the year 2000. Seems like an ADSL could be applicable to spec driven development with LLMs, has anyone gone down this route?

Russia emptied the prisons years ago. The able bodied men of Donetsk and Luhansk were rounded up and fed to grinder years ago as well. The wanton slaughter of their own people has been startling and depraved for their unending exuberance.

A starlink tethered drone can have a (orbital) datacenter guiding it.

What percentage of humans are urban dwelling and don’t even see the stars at night? Related there aren’t many places on earth where you can still see the Milky Way. In that way a similar trade off has been made with no forethought whatsoever. Should this time be different? I think so.

but in the past it was work.

I suggest that reading previously took the roll devices take today. When my parents weren’t at work they were reading as often as not; newspapers and novels.

Not at all. Anthropomorphizing them is not productive or desirable imo.

I have heard but don’t have first hand knowledge that at least one company (financial services BPO) has moved most of their previously manual processing to llms. The person I talked to wasn’t forthcoming with any detail. This is what we’d expect to see though.

My first job was at a financial services software company. They put everyone through multiple weeks of training on sql. That experience has been paying dividends for 25 years.

Were they actually available to purchase? Seems like supply of these and others was usually a bit spotty.

Caveman was a thing why not royal courtier?

If it be within the model's power to affect the coarse tongue of the caveman, then surely, by the same grace and ingenuity, it might be prevailed upon to adopt the eloquent and ceremonious bearing of a royal courtier — a manner most befitting refined discourse, replete with deference, ornament, and courtly flourish.

We had a vp of engineering at a retail place who came from windows shop and wanted to restart the servers every night of the holiday season. It took some doing but we finally convinced him “this is Linux we don’t have to that!”

I live two miles (as the crow flies) from the site of a new construction of a data center. It’s being built by a European company. They will be installing gas turbines for power generation. Are we far enough away so that low frequency sound won’t affect our quality of life? We are seriously considering selling our home and moving. It’s a huge gamble for us. We are also noticing homes are staying on the market much longer than previously.

These data centers also get huge tax incentives because “jerbs”. Local politicians don’t understand after construction they don’t bring jobs or revenue to the city or county. This is where the resistance comes from.

Somewhat related is the hydration shell around molecules especially proteins. It’s been shown that semi structured water around proteins help guide molecules to reaction sites. Water is an amazing thing!

At the end of the pandemic academics were thanked with two years of 0 and 1% salary increase, due to a tough economic situation. During the same time the president received a 8% raise.

Let us know when they institute stack ranking and 10% mandatory cuts every spring. Then academia will have been fully corporatized!

Genetically, the nearest populations to Ancient Romans are Cypriots

I’ve often wondered what the ethnicity of ancient Romans actually was. Looking at pictures of Greek Cypriots on google was enlightening. The “Roman nose” is quite prominent for many people!

maybe even senescence

To me the really disturbing thing is; if the rich stop dying we’re fucked forever. At least now when they die their wealth gets distributed to their heirs and sometimes squandered. Elon and Bezos and their kind will simply continue to accumulate.

I use Lyft because my phone is too old to run the Uber app. This says nothing about market share obviously.

There’s no logic to it, blocking fable was retaliation and market manipulation by the current admin, nothing more. Poorly conceived as well.

I’m confused I thought Mike Pall left luajit and Laurence Tratt took over as maintainer?

Given this and the quality of open models, it makes no sense to me that there’s a future for Anthropic et all?

How do you know it’s a valid solution? Are you able to verify it yourself?

Does anyone know the inside story of some of these AI adoptions that have been downsized? The company I’m at has only only recently gotten an enterprise license.