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Most of the article is a quote

The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.

US ships

What US ships?

The cult GP is referring to is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Identity_Foundation

Tone down the indignation.

you could argue that the AI is just a bunch of hired workers that built it for extremely low wages.

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an assertion.

With apologies to Mr. Charles Babbage.

No.

I think Bregman skirts close to the "Effective Altruism" movement and his work has similar problems of choosing flashy, exciting, elitist projects over boring, uncomfortable, policy changes.

I'm sorry, but what? The most prominent EA projects focus on cost effective interventions that save and improve lives.

Give Well's current top recommendations are medicines and nets to prevent malaria, vitamin A supplements and promoting regular childhood vaccinations. None of them are flashy or elitist.

"Operation succesful, patient dead" is a common saying in India.

you may run some models locally if only from a cost perspective

I have a hard time believing running a model on a laptop will be cheaper than running it in a datacenter. Why wouldn't economies of scale apply here as with every other computation?

This narrative simply doesn't hold up at the population level.

If you just look at India, richer and more developed states have lower fertility compared to poorer, less developed states.

Within states, richer and more educated couples have fewer children compared to poorer less educated children.

These patterns are pretty much universal.

Done.

Invite sent.

You could substitute the Galactic Empire with any generic dictatorship and Andor would still work.

Ack.

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You're describing The Hardware Lottery: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489

I still don't understand why that means they need to make 5-10 trillion over the next 5 years.

They've got, ballpark, $5t to $10t

What are you basing this on? For reference, Anthropic raised ~$70 billion in total and OpenAI ~$190 billion. Why do they need to make 20-40x that?

The computers were very old IBM PC compatible machines, mostly with monochrome cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors. They had no hard disks at all. They had a few hundred kilobytes of RAM. Every time, we performed the same ritual. Insert a 5¼-inch floppy disk to load MS-DOS into memory. Then insert another disk to load LOGO.COM. Then write small Logo programs and watch the turtle move.

I'm a few years younger than OP and grew up in a large Indian city, but this matches my earliest experience exactly, right down to having to take our shoes off before entering the computer lab.

Tata and ASML recently signed an agreement to build a fab in India: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/tata-electronics-asml-pa...

The Indian Government is heavily pushing for domestic capabilities.

To understand why India failed to replicate the Chinese or East Asian model, I recommend A Sixth of Humanity by Devesh Kapoor and Aravind Subramanian.

You should do a Michael Burry and go short. Clearly you seem to think you are much better informed, put your money where your mouth is.

Yeah, institutional investors who plowed billions into them are unsophisticated rubes who got hoodwinked because they don't get GAAP. And it's not like both OpenAI and Anthropic are both going to IPO soon which would require disclosures far beyond GAAP numbers. /s

I can't tell if this is satire.

Accounts drop genuinely insightful takes on niche threads

I thought the same about this account until I read multiple completely wrong takes on topics I actually know well and realised they were just making up plausible sounding nonsense. After that, I started disregarding or outright ignoring their comments altogether. Almost like the of reverse Gell-Mann amnesia.

one random thread reveals they're absolutely batshit crazy

I still can't tell whether this is continued LARPing or a genuinely tenuous grasp on reality.

Why would an individual buy stocks other than to make money? Certainly not for charity. And if it's just virtue signalling, there are far cheaper ways to feel morally superior.

Singapore says hi.

openSUSE with snapper does this automatically. It's far more mainstream than FreeBSD.

The UX and feature set of WhatsApp is much better than SMS. India has practically free SMS but WhatsApp remains pervasive.

You say "people tend to get cause and effect confused" and then unironically follow that up with:

What makes the dollar strong? The US military

The US military and the dollar are strong because the US economy is strong.

I’ve developed a simple heuristic: If someone unironically invokes petrodollar as an explanation for anything in 2026, they’re probably not worth taking seriously.

I don't think NIMBY capture and restrictive zoning regulations are popular distopian SciFi tropes.