tsunamifury

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Guy who helped computers predict your next word
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Comment · 17 hours ago
I think you know that the mentality of a company like this is “security is a risk but not a reward and whoever captures the reward kills everyone else”
Comment · 1 day ago
So you are saying an order was established...

I think you're the type of person that when wrong sorta talks about a bunch of adjacent topics to try to avoid the point of admiting that you were wrong.

The Sino-Soviet bloc and the Warsaw Pact controlled roughly a third of the world's population, an immense percentage of the Earth's landmass, and practically every natural resource required for autarky. They had nuclear parity, massive industrial bases, and their own closed global trading network (COMECON). If a system with that level of geographic, demographic, and military shielding cannot sustain itself, it is not due to a lack of opportunity.

It is prima-facie absurd to claim "it just wasn't given a chance"

Comment · 2 days ago
I can understand your perspective here, and argue that, ultimately a market order was imposed on the world by America (and England) -- even when America interefered, removed, or otherwise altered democratic trajectories still resulted in a sort of networked world order. I'll not argue that they were not done, or even that they were done to benefit those targeted.

Simply that a type of order was enforced to build a global money-ist theory of society and and market + trade platform.

I might, wrongly, argue that many of these regions both would have continued in the chaos and death they otherwise were already participating in, but i'd also accept that the Dutch in Africa, English in the Caribbean and China, etc all introduced net new outside chaotic aspects on purpose. I'd also accept that attempts at order by the American's ultimately resulted in chaos, especially of course in the middle east.

As to south america, this I'll acknowledge of course was an history of interference, one that is hard to argue the contra-positive since communism in almost all regions of the world failed to develope a long term stable order which was both culturally, trade, and fiscally sustainable, with many falling to a worse state after these outcomes.

Comment · 2 days ago
What?!

This is the most isane nonse I’ve ever heard. Heat cpu control has nowhere near the accuracy or speed to communicate anything meaningful without a predefined code, sensors system, and of course the accuracy noise of the signal would deeply be in question.

Who wrote this. This is prima-facie bullshit.

Comment · 2 days ago
I don’t think you need to be so gentle with us.

We, as Americans have had our “mask off” moment now and are openly declaring ourselves the preeminent empire on the planet. It’s simply that we are withdrawing from our globalist support structures due to a wide variety of forecast reasons along side that, which is confusing to many.

It was our liberal values and performance internally by the Democrats that gave our people as sort of comforting story before. We do it for the good of others we give we topple dictators etc.

I am a deeply “real politik” person and I don’t think you average right leaning American ever thought otherwise. It was somewhat ironically the hope yet no-change left Americans (who i have counted myself among) who tried to give it the thinnest veneer of responsibility.

The greatest thing we provided the world was order, for a time. That seems true of almost any mature empire.

Comment · 4 days ago
People do it in all forms of “cinematic world building” including amusement parks, vacations, games books movies etc.

Reality is very much blurry

Comment · 4 days ago
Ultra nerdy point: in the matrix it’s revealed that humans did in fact choose to join it. And the meta point was that most of them still would choose it over reality [1] every day.

[1] reality is also somewhat in question in the films universe

Comment · 5 days ago
They could. Let’s see if they do. I’m just saying it ytd if they are yahoo or google.
Comment · 5 days ago
If you'd ever worked for Google, you'd know how insanely you're missing the point. There have been probably over 1000 self disrupting changes to google search as it continued to stay on top.
Comment · 5 days ago
either ... portability is nearly instant except for KV Cache, which is extrodinarily expensive to store.
Comment · 5 days ago
"Yahoo! is the best search engine, and I cant imagine anyone making anything better."
Comment · 5 days ago
So far anthropic can't 1) grow food 2) build things 3) do anything physical. Software engineers often fatally misunderstand that their code does nothing, it just coordinates.

You might lose your value, others might gain.

Comment · 5 days ago
No, they specifically are not sticky at all. Thats the whole problem.
Comment · 5 days ago
This IPO, if successful, will complete rewrite the standing rules of the stock market in ways incredibly harmful to the future of American style capitalism:

1. The Separation of Economic Value and Corporate Governance creating The Multi-Class Autocracy

2. Institutionalizing the "Off-Market Vault" that can manipulate stock price at any time

3. The "Vendor-Financed" Public Offering (Circular Balance-Sheet Refinancing)

4. Monetizing Non-Cash Derivative Liabilities as "Losses" Without Cash Burn

Comment · 7 days ago
Plenty of small companies do 1-4. Its customer oriented for profit vs hobbyists and zealots

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