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Comment · 3 months ago
This is called moral hazard, and people love to worry about it. Usually though (the relevant example here is PrEP, or birth control) it's fine and enables people to live their lives with fewer risks to their, and others, wellbeing
Comment · 3 months ago
> A war with large geographic scope has been independently modeled as having a high probability of occurring circa 2030 by major governments for a decade or more

Do you have more information about this, or a source?

Comment · 5 months ago
Kind of like keeping a certain plane model number the same, and claiming that re-training isn't needed even when it clearly is
Comment · 5 months ago
> But if someone invents super intelligence, they can dominate new AI research, control global economies, fight much better, and all very quickly.

After reading "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" I think this is not the correct take. If anyone creates ASI, it just means it's going to wipe everyone out, and it doesn't matter if China or the US do it first

Comment · 10 months ago
Supply-chain attacks aren't really a property of the dependency management system

Not having a dependency management system isn't a solution to supply chain attacks, auditing your dependencies is

Comment · 1 year ago
Ironically the same argument applies
Comment · 1 year ago
The gang learns what an oligopoly is
Comment · 1 year ago
And in tank warfare this is called spalling

A projectile hits the armor and doesn't penetrate it, but the armor inside still fragments and injured the operators

Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed. There's also getting a hexadollar from Donald Knuth for finding errors in The Art of Computer Programming

I've never done either, so I'm not bragging or anything

Comment · 1 year ago
Look I love giving people the benefit of the doubt, but that's not why this pricing model exits. It's because they want to capture a percentage of the value delivered, and the easiest way to do that it to charge by executions
Comment · 1 year ago
What's a good organization to donate to which would oppose this?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Even being generous, and saying it's a year, most capital expenditures depreciate over a period of 5-7 years. To state the obvious, training one model a year is not a saving grace
Comment · 1 year ago
Not necessarily though, it depends on where you got the book from (Amazon, the library?), and what your question is
Comment · 1 year ago
This is always true though. Any data that a cloud company has against you can be subpoenad

It would be weird for him not to be transparent about that

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