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> 1. Local inference can cause a large under-utilization of resources from users that do not run local inference hardware at capacity over the hardwares lifespan. This is under-utilization and under-utilization is not optimal from an economics perspective.

Under utilization is not optimal only in one perspective. Maximum utilization of resources. That does not mean it’s not optimal economically.

This kind of underutilization has many other economic benefits. - Decentralization - Separation of ownership - Redundancy - Hedging against certain risks (such as the internet going down)

Economic value is more than just maximum utilization in the minimum amount of time.

Given that FTX declared bankruptcy before any criminal proceedings were initiated against them, the correct answer is 0.

I’m more sympathetic to the idea that the crimes SBF was a convicted of only became crimes because of bad luck, and many people do similar stuff and don’t get unlucky with market crashes, etc for them to become crimes.

But that doesn’t change the fact that whether it was bad luck or not, FTX failed financially.

Even if we count AI, how’s that Big Tech?

Google and Meta are the only Big Tech companies that even have a presence in AI and it’s being led by Anthropic and OpenAI, neither of which were Big Tech.

I think it’s more likely AI will treat us as industrial livestock than we will it.

Which is a good enough reason to admit that torturing conscious being, including cows, pigs, chicken, fish, is an ethical atrocity, so that’s what AI learns from us, and doesn’t treat us the way we treat weaker species.

Why would the thinking need to be identical?

It’s likely thinking can work in many different ways. It’s likely consciousness can also arise through many different pathways, even if evolution led to biological animals having similar consciousness/thinking pathways. But that would be the result of a common ancestor and the tremendous evolutionary advantage thinking and consciousness gave the specific species.

It wouldn’t indicate that’s the only way thinking and consciousness can occur.

Some of these issues came up with the Australian prisoner who was denied vegemite, and while Australia is different, there are similar questions involved because secular western societies are all moving in the same direction.

The fundamental issue is that historically only religious belief, that actually subscribed to a religion with a god, was considered sincere. But since then it’s become clear that many non religious people hold equally sincere ethical beliefs. The current standard being converged upon by courts, as mentioned in the article is:

> “It has to be a deeply held ethical commitment that’s analogous to a religious commitment,”

Because no one wants to go and change all the laws to replace religious belief with the above, wherever a court sees religious belief they can essentially sub in the above language.

But this has led to awful articles where media will often, after a ruling in favor of a secular belief which the courts will rule as a religious belief as a shorthand, announce that the secular belief itself is considered a religion.

This misunderstanding reached its apotheosis, perhaps, in the Alabama case mentioned in the article, where a federal judge fell for the semantic mislabeling and declared humanism to be a religion, which it isn’t.

However, that legal standard gives humanists a whole lot of newfound rights, so I don’t see anyone pushing back against it.

When, in the history of the U.S., have police forces ever been on the left?

Heck, historically the cops have even broken up peaceful union protests, despite being in unions themselves, throwing away all class solidarity in favor of their right wing leanings.

And the police unions have uniquely been extremely right wing, other than during rare highly localized conditions (often involving the democratic candidate being center right at least).

It has always been obvious since ICE’s budget was raised over 10x what it used to be, even though ICE was already struggling to find enough people with criminal records to deport, that ICE was intended to be far more than an immigration enforcement agency.

How reliable are Israeli exit polls generally?

They’ve not asked for a burden of proof standard.

They’ve asked for “proper foundations”.

Being “gray” is an aesthetic preference.

It’s hard to determine what was aesthetically good from a different time because tastes change.

But there’s nothing wrong with small buttons when your only input tool is a pixel accurate mouse. Arguably what’s worse is too large a button.

But what’s inarguably worse are things like window corners where the click zone extends far beyond the actual window, and parts of the window are not click zones.

Those aren’t consumer software though.

What software today matches the incredible look and feel of say Delicious Library?

What popular consumer software today matches the incredible extensibility of Winamp?

Who is developing fun tools like Coverflow, which was popular enough that Apple incorporated it into iTunes.

You actually do see some of this today but it’s almost entirely limited to software tools, because software devs are willing to spend a little more effort on the tools they use because they know their users can just develop an alternative otherwise.

AI might change this, but well crafted software was genuinely disappearing for the past decade and a half.