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MrMan··on Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
Being anti globalization means everyone loses which you will find out more about soon
MrMan··on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
I never heard of the ACE score, I just took a quiz and I would score a 6. I am a failure since high school, never went to college and had a period of 12 years of scraping the bottom of the barrel but I got a tech support job through a friend after not touching a computer for 15 years and then retaught myself programming after not doing any since middle school. managed to leverage that into a job at a quant trading firm by luck. I am still a failure but I have used my ability to learn and absorb information to build a stable life. success is always just beyond arms reach but luckily success doesnt matter I am just happy to be alive able to keep learning and making things. and now I have LLMs to help me
MrMan··on A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Bitcoin Mines Across the U.S.
The carbon tax we should have started 20 years ago how about
MrMan··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
I am sure Sutskever knows openai as an economically competitive entity has been living on borrowed time. this is a global arms race and this tech will bleed out everywhere. implementing LLMs is not rocket science per se and there are multiple places in the world this work can be done.

the bottleneck right now is mostly compute I think, and openai does not have the resources or expertise to allieviate that bottleneck on a timescale that can save them.

MrMan··on The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
We need immigrants in North America, why send them somewhere else
MrMan··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)
why is promiscuity a bad thing? this sounds very old fashioned to me
MrMan··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)
yeah this is a very bad incel kind of view by the GP. I want my sexual partners to have had as much experience as they wish, I dont have some weird virgin fetish.
MrMan··on Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin
I just downloaded llama2 - what more do I need to access it from the command line than the code and the weights?
MrMan··on New York City will charge drivers going downtown
yeah this fact alone is so mind-bending. imagine if that waterfront on both sides of Manhattan you could just easily walk to with out the freeways! very sad.
MrMan··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
I use the browser on my phone
MrMan··on Ask HN: What happened to fuzzy logic?
and rice cookers. fuzzy logic was not speculative it founds its way into a fair number of real world control applications
MrMan··on The NIH has poured $1B into long Covid research, with little to show for it
the only people I know with long anything are people who had chronic fatigue and long lyme disease but these two or three people are all wealthy neurotics
MrMan··on SVB was particularly poorly run
yes its the inverted power law thing - the same dynamics that make 1/n approach work in a VC equity portfolio seems like poison in a debt portfolio - only one company out of n survives? fine if that company pops on the equity side, that pays for all the other losers. but on the debt side, it seems like a bad idea lol.
MrMan··on How Silicon Valley Bank Avoided Oversight
by tech savvy do you mean javascript?
MrMan··on Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money
do you know what you are talking about or are you just being dramatic
MrMan··on Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros
its impossible to guarantee all deposits
MrMan··on Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros
that money will be stolen from all the other banks customers. this is not a case of "hypocrisy" its theft.
MrMan··on Credit Suisse finds ‘material weakness’ in reporting, scraps exec bonuses
If there is any bank that should be dismantled it’s CSFB but it’s survived this long by getting big enough that regulators are afraid to break it up
MrMan··on Moody's downgrades US banking: ‘rapidly deteriorating operating environment’
SVB was insolvent your statement is false
MrMan··on SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole
from the comments on HN it seems well-nigh universal.
MrMan··on SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole
it will directly cost all of us, except those who have no bank account. its unsustainable and wrong.
MrMan··on SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole
this is a lie - they were insolvent and their assets were worth less than their liabilities.
MrMan··on SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole
the assets certainly do not exceed their liabilities. stop spreading this lie!
MrMan··on SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole
this is a lie, you are trying to deflect blame on to the Fed to cover for the incompetence of the VCs their companies and the SVB bank. and the upvotes show how all your stupid peers in the tech world would rather tell themselves these lies than face up to their collective ignorance and hubris.
MrMan··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
False
MrMan··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
This is False. They had the assets, but they declined in value until they were worth less than liabilities. Insolvency.
MrMan··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
SVB was insolvent
MrMan··on Federal Reserve Path Is Murkier After Bank Blowup
tech / venture capital and other models that rely on ZIRP need to naturally die back and then re-emerge when the environment is more favorable for them.
MrMan··on Federal Reserve Path Is Murkier After Bank Blowup
that is a lie - the value of their assets is far below their liabilities. mods here need to somehow crack down on outright falsehoods
MrMan··on US regulators bail out SVB customers, who can access all their money Monday
these VCs and tech billionaires increasingly show themselves to be the enemies of the rest of us. they will control the AI, and will become increasingly brazen in their efforts to enslave those who are not in YC or open AI or which ever cliques the cartels maintain. this is real survival stuff, but the people who need to regulate SV and tech are asleep at the switch and dont understand how dangerous the SV people are. if you work for them, good for you, but this is the beginning of a very bad chapter for the US.
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