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Bonds. If you don’t think bond prices have any relation to the economy you don’t understand basic economics. Gas prices. If you don’t think a hike in oil is a leading indicator, you don’t understand economics. Debt. If you don’t see the fiscal health of the government, including its debt level as part of the economy then you probably don’t understand macro. The economy has not been well for years. Arguably a decade of zero out interest rates that exploded into sustained inflation that continues intentionally to this day.

Making comparisons to Reddit commentary violates the hn guidelines.

Maybe it’s easier to outsource.

Taxpayers have a right to scrutinize how their tax dollars are getting spent. When the government acts like it doesn’t derive its power from the citizens, people will revolt. It’s what DOGE was all about, the resistance.

The set of all ip hardware and software is much much larger than just what currently exists, as it includes all hardware and software that is yet to be produced. Said another way, it’s a foolish consistency.

So it’s clearly an industry wide problem then. The more I read the more thankful I am California can’t build high speed rail.

Has there ever been a case where two self driving cars collide with each other? I hate to be part of the peanut gallery, but as a totally naive person when it comes to railway safety research it really does seem amazing train collisions can’t be easily prevented with gps, lasers, sonar or various other trivial ways. Even the crash in question seems like it might have been easily prevented by having a second human in the loop. Maybe I and others just suspect the difficulty isn’t so much technological as it is financial.

Featured article says they are looking into “environmental chemical exposures as a possible culprit”. A rise since 2019 due to “chemical exposure” make food and water pollution, and thus diet, plausible explanations no?

You do Israel a big disservice honestly. If you are going to defend them, try to do it well. Israel has a PR problem right now, and it’s because discussions are shut down or subverted. Please don’t be a part of that.

It’s always been like this in reality. Managers matter, engineers do not.

So we need abliterated models just so we can test them out and compare them to the original? Sounds like a solution in search of a problem and a problem you believe people have even if people disagree with you about that.

I think we live in an age where programming mistakes should be attributed to llm by default. In the old days, it was just the coder and stack overflow to blame, now its layer on layer of ai assisted work, from ceo level on down. Something we haven’t perfected yet: how to prove 0 ai use in a product. Until we get there, we have to assume llm are everywhere and that their use carries liability risk.

India is a place not a race though. They have an entire caste system built around that fact.

AI isn’t used on the battlefield? War cannot be won against an enemy who uses ai, unless you also use ai. Ai progress/escalation is nuclear escalation, just as ai progress is now the driver of progress in medicine, math, science, law, ….

If people were empathetic then they would realize we’re all in this together. Where was the outcry in the academic community when graphic designers got replaced? I’m not experiencing schadenfreud mind you, it’s peculiar to me how narrow the scope of concern many academics have, but I suppose it’s the end result of hyper specialization and credentialiam that has come to “legitimize” the middle and upper class over the past century or so. Still strange to see.