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sgustard··on When did Google get so weird?
If you further type "its an NBA meme", Google AI correctly responds: "The origin of the phrase "Dario is never coming over" dates back to a classic Joel Embiid meme from the peak "Trust the Process" era of the Philadelphia 76ers."
sgustard··on When did Google get so weird?
97% score on Charity Navigator.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/453236734

sgustard··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Reagan and Gorbachev came within inches of abolishing nuclear weapons, but the sticking point was the US would not back away from building space weapons. As long as warmongers are in control we will continue to live in danger and fear.
sgustard··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
What's "obvious" is she was chief ethicist at the most unethical companies on the planet - it's like being a lawyer for the mafia - doesn't inspire longevity, either via scapegoating or preservation of one's own sanity.
sgustard··on Waymo in Dallas
Exactly, imagine the huge sums of liability insurance Google is carrying to make payouts when the worst-case scenario happens. That financial burden is a prime driver of their operational safety record.
sgustard··on Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts
Mostly I found it odd to open with a comparison of hobbit to human ages when it's well known that hobbits can live to 130.
sgustard··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
"best not to blame the students"

There are dozens for every one who didn't get the opportunity to attend an Ivy. The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. I'll note as a hiring manager the college degree won't be worth shit unless the school can show their students have any integrity.

sgustard··on Midjourney Medical
"Blindly trusting" is not the same as "learning some new questions to ask about the validity of the given claims". The Midjourney announcement is not providing detailed medical credentials either.
sgustard··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> never been so much backlash against data centers

Backlash against the proliferation of space junk still has plenty of room to grow.

sgustard··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> explain the thesis

It's all laid out in this insufferable a16z piece if you can see past the ego-stroking.

https://www.a16z.news/p/spacex-and-the-sentient-sun

sgustard··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Acyclica_...
sgustard··on macOS needs its grid back
Tried this? defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock
sgustard··on Debug Project
Original Singapore results from Debug in 2019 - "greater than 90% reduction in release areas":

https://blog.debug.com/2019/11/singapore-collaboration-achie...

sgustard··on The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
Well, making throw-away things you never use could also be the definition of a hobby ... and hobbies are arguably good, and differ from "work" in that your goal is not to ship a product, but to scratch an itch. For some people AI assisted vibe coding scratches an itch. For others, not. Of course some hobbies turn into an unhealthy obsession, but that's not a new phenomenon.
sgustard··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
I used to drive a 2001 S-class ... easily counted nearly 100 physical buttons within reach of the driver. In theory you could use the 10-digit keypad like an old flip phone to enter a physical address into the navigation, but is that really what people want to go back to?
sgustard··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
I've definitely worked places where I used the company Xerox machine to print up 50,000 "Unionize Now" fliers.
sgustard··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
Yep, I've co-founded several companies and sold them for near $1B in aggregate. My investors and customers are on there, sometimes posting nice things about us. So I give it a thumbs-up and move on. Nothing worth rage-bating about. Mostly I go there to play linkedin.com/games.
sgustard··on iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
See also Asimov's The Last Question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

sgustard··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
I have been to Rome and Taipei and Johannesburg, and crossing the road is terrifying lots of places.
sgustard··on Where things stand with the Department of War
Would love to enumerate those commonalities. Run by a psychopath? Commitment to violent lethality? Burning billions of dollars for uncertain goals? (ok there's one)
sgustard··on Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
Here's the extracted text https://pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7
sgustard··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
The old argument for being locked in to legacy software costing 6-8 figures a year was that you had no choice. Now you have a choice! Clearly that is better, and everyone should evaluate that choice on its merits, and the stock market sees that people are voting with their dollars. If your whole sales pitch is "good luck when it breaks!" you might want to reevaluate your business model.
sgustard··on Heathrow drops the liquids rule
Blatant AI author. Here's a better article by humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o
sgustard··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
Sounds like it's not unheard of in the UK: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1fabd0c/how_does_you...
sgustard··on Proof of Corn
I have more confidence that if I reply "never contact me again" to AI it might actually obey, unlike any people that have spammed me.
sgustard··on Apple Creator Studio
At least in the screenshots I did not notice absurdly large window corner radii.
sgustard··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
I just Googled "kids magic show in Durban" and his ad showed up in the top slot (sorry if this post has swamped your ad bill); and as a bonus, the Gemini AI blurb also touted him: "For kids' magic shows in Durban, look for local entertainers like Big Top Entertainment..."

Doesn't seem like the issue is he's being outbid by international conglomerates with million dollar budgets. Maybe the kids magic show market has cooled in South Africa? Or users have left Google? Curious what we are to conclude here.

sgustard··on Christmas Tree Exec
I really thought this would be about our company CFO who appears once every winter season, gets all lit up at the holiday party and then disappears until next year.
sgustard··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
SAE automation levels are the industry standard, not FSD (which is a brand name), and FSD is clearly Level 2 (driver is always responsible and must be engaged, at least in consumer teslas, I don't know about robotaxis). The question is if "AGI" is as well defined as "Level 5" as an independent standard.
sgustard··on California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
CAISO's own documents quote battery capacity in MW. So I don't think you can just blame journalists.

"Battery storage capacity grew from about 500 MW in 2020 to 13,000 MW in December 2024"

https://www.caiso.com/documents/2024-special-report-on-batte...

As another commenter notes, utilities are interested in "capacity on call" i.e. instant power generation.

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