sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
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21hr ago
Doesn't sound like it.
He gave "co-scientist" - a tool made by Google - a short prompt asking it about the core problem he had been investigating and it reached the same conclusion in 48 hours.
sarker
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1d ago
he loves China and wants them to defeat the US.
Seems pretty uncharitable. Why do you think he wants China to defeat the US?
I doubt this is an assimilation story. Hsu's dad was born in pre-revolutionary China and Hsu's granddad was a KMT general, so he'd have little familial reason to hold red China in high regard. Hsu himself was born in Iowa and has worked exclusively in American institutions - if he really loved China so much he could certainly move there.
sarker
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1d ago
The Gen 2 will forever be my favorite Prius. That car had an unbelievable amount of cargo space. The newer models have much less, unfortunately.
On the other hand, the gen 2 is basically begging to have its catalytic converter stolen. This isn't an issue on the newer models.
Toyota warranties the hybrid battery for 10 years, so you can buy a used one without worrying that it's going to crap out on you soon after.
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2d ago
I always liked the harpsichord intro in planisphere part 2.
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3d ago
How much of that success is just being willing to license your product, though? Apple won't let you make a phone that runs iOS at all.
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3d ago
Lmsys ranking is not nothing, but we are getting to the point where most models are "good enough" from the perspective of the average lmsys rater and most of the interesting differentiation between models is going on in benchmarks that test specialized skill and knowledge that's not necessarily common among lmsys raters.
I couldn't be bothered to click through the tweets (I don't have a Twitter account) so I don't know if they published other benchmarks too.
sarker
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4d ago
A TOW needs to explode a tank. If you need to explode a temu special, you can probably cut some corners.
sarker
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4d ago
You'll probably be better off with non-alcoholic beer.
sarker
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4d ago
slow and exhausting to drive
This is basically a feature, people should be driving slow in neighborhoods.
sarker
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4d ago
The fatal flaw of the American suburb for kids is the total lack of mobility. About a quarter of the drivers in my area drive trucks with lift kits that have enormous front blind spots. The roads don't have bike lanes and most are too busy to ride on the road. I live on a quiet street and kids play here sometimes with their parents supervising, but they have no ability to go anywhere outside the neighborhood and they can't even get to a park without crossing a five lane arterial and walking another mile through another neighborhood. The only thing they can do is wait until they turn 16 and get a license.
sarker
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4d ago
There are some plans along those lines. Presumably you can't turn it into salt palaces because you're gonna run out of land to stack the salt.
sarker
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5d ago
"I don't deny myself to women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence."
sarker
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5d ago
Pastures and croplands account for two of the three biggest land usage categories. It's not clear what the marginal benefit of adding even more is.
sarker
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5d ago
I don't know enough to steelman, but the usual concern is what you do with all the high salinity effluent. Opponents claim that dumping it in the ocean raises the salinity and kills marine life in the area.
sarker
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5d ago
sarker
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5d ago
Not run by people like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Thiel-acolytes.
Yes, run by people like them too. Megalomania is not a trait in short supply among businessmen.
And let's not forget that Tesla is below NVidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta in market cap (and also has a tiny revenue compared to these companies).
Do you think those companies are also run like monarchies? Trust me, I can tell you from personal experience that they aren't.
On top of that, Jobs died 14 years ago and Apple has continued to prosper despite a decidedly non-monarchial government structure. Tim Cook is not running the company like Jobs did, not even close.
I won't even touch Trump because his firm makes just $600M in revenue which is way, way down the leaderboard of American companies (the 100th highest revenue company is fucking best buy at $43 billion with a B). I don't think any of the biggest companies are run by Thiel acolytes at all.
You're repeating a just-so story that explains one success without considering the other successes that work differently or the failures that work the same way. On top of that, you're under the impression that all companies run like this are the most successful in the country, which really isn't even close to true. Even Best Buy can out-earn one of your central examples of monarchical companies. Or should the country be run by Corie Barry?
sarker
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5d ago
And who made a better product: Steve Job’s at Apple with his monarchical approach, or the bureaucratic IBM / BlackBerry / Xerox?
Regardless of the governance of a firm, firms are subject to market discipline both on the demand side (who buys their product?) and on the supply side (who is willing to work for them?) in a way that states are not. Pretending that Apple is successful because it was a monarchy is to completely miss the fact that there's a million bankrupt firms with the same governance structure. The fact is that Apple's success is made possible by the competitive, decidedly non-monarchial conditions of the market.
Yes, cities are blue, this is a fact.
Nevertheless, it's obviously false that presidential candidates are elected by the coastal elites or that candidates spend most of their energy on California and New York.
The majority of ad dollars and pandering do not go to convincing the coastal elites. The coastal elite vote is, as they say, priced in.
At best you can say that the coastal elite in California mean that the rest of the votes in the state don't matter. Of course, this is simply a popular vote, so it's a little strange to call them an elite when they apparently have the majority opinion in the state.
if you removed those few locked in states, the country is actually far redder than most people actually believe.
I agree, if you remove all the democrat voters the country would be red like you wouldn't believe.
sarker
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7d ago
Efforts to drive down Sub-Saharan African fertility cannot be conducted openly and for explicitly eugenic/racialist reasons.
They can be and are conducted openly. Yes, they don't openly do this because they think subsaharans are inferior, but that's because they don't and I don't see why that's a bad thing.
sarker
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7d ago
The military presumably wastes money on slow rolling procurement and other things of that nature. A full quarter of defense spending is salaries, and perhaps there are people drawing a salary that don't need to be there.
SS is a cash transfer program that spends less than one percent on administrative overhead, so savings from firing useless employees would be minimal. The only possible avenue for waste would be actual fraud on the part of the recipients. I doubt that this is anywhere near 30%, but I don't expect either of us could convince the other on this point. However, the longer DOGE goes on without announcing finding this fraud, the more skeptical we should be.
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7d ago
Who is spending money on winning California or New York? Republicans haven't broken 40% in 20 years in California, and except for the last election, ny is the same.
In fact the classic criticism of the electoral college is that if you live in CA or NY then your vote doesn't matter. The ad spending bears this out. And this isn't a new trend - twenty years ago candidates were also focusing little on California and New York and way way more on Ohio.
That's not relevant to what 2rafa said. Her point is that coscientist may have taken two days to serve earlier queries and only then gotten to this query.
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