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You can totally say Texas should be independent. A lot of Texans have.

You can’t be against the Ukraine war in Russia because Putin is an evil dictator

A huge chunk of activism is pointless and annoying. Especially when every cause is lumped together into Activism (TM) and the Omnicause.

I don’t agree with them and I don’t think they should be in my software, or dealing with anything they don’t understand (for instance crime, homeless people, geopolitics, or really anything outside of overpriced vegan coffee shops). All they really do is end up getting Fox News people to vote for fascists like Trump out of spite

The thing about this business model is that it inevitably falls apart when things break.

Bending Spoons doesn’t care (yet), but they’re not at the point where stuff has proven unsustainable

Why would that ever happen? Software is too important for people to not sell outside of communism and free software people aren’t as good as making consumer products as capitalists

Whose victory over the “empire”? I think you will find whatever empire comes next will be worse

A similar thing seems responsible for signalgate. The NSA needs better tech tbh

Rhis raises it back to the original level (although entirely based off the absurdly overinflated value of Grok at $80 billion. VCs…)

BlackBerry was a huge player. They declined, as with Nokia, entirely because they didn’t use a platform

Honestly using it for actual serious violent crimes is way better than speeding

Also there are way more women applying, to the point where you’re more than double as likely to get in as a man than as a woman. There’s a huge argument about this but no one actually looked up the data for some reason: https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/how-to-get-into-ca...

It seems like there is actually some affirmative action for men going on at Caltech, the exact opposite of what he claimed. Check out the acceptance rates, it’s double for men

https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/how-to-get-into-ca...

Actually it’s the opposite, it’s harder for women to get into college. 4.5 vs 1.9% for Caltech lmao

https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/how-to-get-into-ca....

They can just date down? A lot of the times those degrees don’t pay better anyway

AI safety people literally want the world to be a Fisher-Price version of 1984. It’s the gun emoji writ large

We don't know tons of stuff about history because of lost information. The Library of Alexandria had tons of valuable information. The internet should be a way to get around that but...

> "AI risk is a concern because less intelligent entities are not usually able to constrain the behavior of more intelligent entities" - A coarse and imperfect model indeed, but certainly a model based on observations of interactions in the real world.

Donald Trump was the president of the United States. FDR was a very smart man but Oppenheimer was smarter and FDR had him build the atomic bomb. This is just wrong, and ChatGPT is nowhere near as intelligent than a five year old (intelligence is not knowing facts)

The power grid itself

All of Uber's investors made money, their market cap is $124 billion. Terrible ROI but higher than all of their rounds

Processing coffee yourself takes skill that gangsters who take over a government don't have. The most successful countries after decolonization are meritocracies

Colonialism does not justify genocide

This thread is about China?

he's also probably watched like a hawk in russia. Who knows if that's even still his opinions

Academia pays absolutely terribly for an elite job, it's all status. You could make more than 90% of tenured professors as a manager of Buc-ee's

> we should just shut up and be content with modern tech automating our creative abilities instead of assisting us with menial tasks

This isn’t true. Dalle and ChatGPT are assists, they don’t really replace anything and make being creative more accessible. AI also helps with tons of menial tasks like code syntax

It could theoretically be possible, but it's not gonna happen from training a machine learning model off Reddit.

SolidGoldMagikarp is the canary in the coal mine if you doubt it's Reddit

Anthropic is very addicted to AI safety to the point where it's bureaucratic and boring, and when you dig too deep it starts showing badly here

Yeah, that's how corporate tax work

This is the general problem with AI safety, it babysits the user. AI is literally just computers, no one babysits Word

Twitter Blue was a total flop before Musk. I'd bet Twitter's subscription revenue has grown astronomically (although not nearly enough to make up for $1.3 billion in stupid debt payments and a $3 billion shortfall in advertising revenue)

YouTube and Hulu did it very successfully. Twitter has just done it in a really stupid way, because their management values politics over the actual business of running a social media platform (moreso now than before, but still very much before)