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Comment · 16 days ago
The important part is the trend. US is a great country today but it was greater a decade ago.

As someone who worked in US and left it long time back, last year was the first time I could hear ambivalent views on US from my friends who work there. They are still in US as they make a lot of money but have started to consider the alternatives.

Comment · 24 days ago
I disagree. Not counting employees as shareholders was the main kicker. There was a reason Google and Meta went public so early in their growth story.
Comment · 24 days ago
Comment · 27 days ago
Never happened. Zuck considering running for president was just hearsay.

Surprised that people are still quoting a decade old rumor.

Comment · 1 month ago
The irony of your comment is that these chinese evs are made by some of the most heavily automated manufacturing lines. (Not disputing that there are exploited workers here)

But I hope you aren't buying any phones, laptops which indeed have lot of exploitation and sometimes even slave labour (see cobalt mining in DRC). Or not buying any supermarket meat, eggs or milk. It is incredibly easy to pass a moralistic judgement.

Comment · 1 month ago
Probably tells us that without labs explicitly training/tuning the models or designing the harness (with fast oracle) the LLMs aren't going to get good at those areas.
Comment · 1 month ago
Double if you include the family
Comment · 2 months ago
Article says that there is an increase of 40% from 2024 to 2026 for political donations.

Interestingly, the NASDAQ over the same time has also grown 40%.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think the opposite. AI Companies use the term collaborate to increase the trust in the LLM output.

I trust the output of colleagues I am collaborating with and have an assumption of some shared responsibility. But if I use a tool like numpy/matplotlib then I am accountable for the conclusions I come up with. I can't make an excuse that "matplotlib" created a plot so my decisions were incorrect and not due to my own negligence.

Comment · 2 months ago
I don't think we should assume that there is a universal law of gravity that will automatically swing this pendulum in other direction.
Comment · 3 months ago
All human-caused fires aren't arson, most of these are usually negligence (source: worked in operations at fire service). Not discounting the risk of arson but I find it is used a lot to distract from conditions making the forests a tinder box.
Comment · 3 months ago
The immigration policies (or mass-deportations) that Mullvad co-CEO is supporting with political donations cannot be achieved without mass surveillance and secret police.

It is really not difficult to draw this line to spot contradiction between co-CEO's personal stance and the company's mission.

Comment · 3 months ago
I assume advertising. But I'd claim that the money is actually going to anthropic and to a lesser extent openai

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