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construction productivity is actually down since the 60s!

I definitely agree with this, but the transition is gonna suck for some.

it doesn't require nearly as much compute as normal LLMs. anything depending on increased datacenter and compute spending would be threatened.

This makes me kind of nervous for the whole AI thing now. Are people gonna lose their jobs, etc.? so much of the economy is now built on top of LLMs.

> Do not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and crack down on chip smuggling operations and remote access to data centers outside China. Chips will be the main determinant of China’s AI strength.

> If we execute these measures well, I believe they would slow China’s progress enough to widen America’s lead significantly over the next 3–5 years — the window when AI becomes geopolitically most important.

china is literally making their own ASICs now, not sure that this is the silver bullet he proposes.

https://www.silicon.co.uk/ai-2/huawei-cambricon-ai-630499/am...

what exactly is the solution?

pacing between the us labs? what does that do for china?

the solutions just aren’t realistic here, nations are treating ai like a nuclear arms race. at this point the cats out of the bag and we need to figure out how to live in this reality and get the best possible outcome. it’s not slowing down or stopping ever.

and yes, i’m still optimistic. our economy sucks for the majority, our infrastructure is crumbling and major US cities are in a huge housing shortage. Maybe we should put more effort and think about the possibility of AI fixing things like extreme poverty and world hunger and actual real world problems instead of coming up with math proofs and slop apps if it’s so superintelligent.

spending taxpayer money on buying the taxpayers data from credit card companies.

imagine paying someone to buy your own information to spy on you, pretty incredible system that we've come up with

I mean honestly anything is taste and art. People care about very different things. Some people see their clothes as the biggest expression of themselves, whereas others don't care about their clothing but see their cars as art and a special experience thats separate from the purpose.

But yeah, I think a lot of food is just practicing. And if possible, learn from someone who's food you do really like, and experiment. Just try making some dish you really liked, you'll be surprised at how far you can get.

wasn’t there a moral panic in the 18th and 19th that kids were reading too much? that books would rot the minds of the newest generation. i’d like to see that history addressed a little better. Part of me is sympathetic to this, I do agree that movies, media has gotten painfully simple. But at the same time, young people are working incredibly hard, richer than older generations were at their age, and technology and culture is definitely moving incredibly fast from my POV.

f folding clothes, i wanna just have a robot be my personal chef. the amount of different tasks and capabilities a robot will need to make any meal that I can in my kitchen is huge and i feel like it’s still a while from being solved.

radial spokes on the back wheel is not a thing irl. i wonder if any model has gotten that right?

leave no trace is insane.

look at the overflowing dumpsters and abandoned bikes in reno. even some people just dumping trash at random peoples homes. think of the amount of diesel burned in generators, trucks hauling tons of steel, shipping containers for camps, just so people can party in the middle of nowhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Reno/comments/1n5z9kc/burning_man_t...

apple has ads in the os. that seems deeply anticompetitive

AI can do this shit but can't do the dishes

the other problem is if it’s stolen or damaged.

they literally say you will pay large fees in those cases. it’s basically self insuring.

cooking one or two portions at home using quality ingredients from stores in SF is literally as pricey as eating out nowadays.

doesn't surprise me that people are trying to get their dollars to stretch further by buying in bulk, planning ahead more consciously, etc.

standardize parental controls on devices, have a new browser api to access that information. no privacy implications.

automating repetitive physical work doesn’t appeal to you?

they’re selling a diy wrap. in other words, you get a large flat colored sticker (maybe pre-cut if you’re lucky, but these actually fit worse). wrapping your car and making it look good is NOT diy friendly, it’s a pain in the ass. you need special equipment, space to do it, etc.

it’s actually incredibly disappointing, because 99% of people are just gonna get the gray, and will be unhappy because it’s super boring.

real manufactures like porsche or bmw offer a ton of shades too, it just costs a lot, but they are very popular.

the economy sucks. the fact that cars cost 30k. the fact that morrocco has high speed rail and california doesn’t. the fact that practically no new housing gets built in san francisco.

the economy needs to get a whole lot better before i would even consider something like this looking true. human demands are wildly elastic, which is why we’re not all farmers riding around in horse drawn carriages still.

whats the huge sports chrono looking thing on the dash? wonder if thats the origin of the modern option

google: we are commited to carbon free data centers by 2030 (https://sustainability.google/reports/247-carbon-free-energy...)

also google: renting capacity from a data center powered by 27 methane gas turbines on trailers

https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2026/4/whitehous...

This comment sounds like someone whos never driven manual before

I don’t know if the authors framing that the comments got duped is exactly right. I think most of the comments are upset that kids are addicted to vaping nicotine which is definitely true.

also, the first reader comment literally says:

“Vaping hasn’t been shown to be unsafe scientifically“

so how does llm moderation work now on all the major chatbots? they refuse prompts that are against their guidelines right?

the problem in sf is building is incredibly expensive, and projects that have been planned, land acquired, are simply sitting as empty lots because developers don’t have the money.

interest rates for construction loans, reduced funding, labor and material costs, all contribute to the amount of housing built.

there is a bond being debated in the ca senate now that will help by giving loans for construction.

https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/01/2026-housing-agenda/

I agree. congress actually caps the number of residency slots, which is agreed by many to be the ultimate bottleneck for the amount of doctors produced each year. There are plenty of people willing and well-qualified to go through medical school and become a doctor.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12256077/

i downloaded because it looked cool. but yeah paying for this is very disappointing when any ios dev knows that they could make this in a couple hours with claude.

But i respect the idea and it seems to be executed decently well

i don’t understand. all models are local models, they’re just not running on your machine.

definitely not right now. but I believe sometime the progress of models will plateau while hardware continues to get better. and maybe it would be cheaper, especially if you have solar.

3. this is like saying the average person doesn’t have the skill to run gta over wine on their linux box. gaming consoles exist.