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from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-countries-that-consume-... top 10 coal burning nations:
Consumption in exajoules ranked by 2025 use
1 China 92.24 55.6%
2 India 23.07 13.9%
3 US 8.73 5.3%
4 Indon 5.15 3.1%
5 Japan 4.36 2.6%
6 SA 3.65 2.2%
7 Russia 3.56 2.1%
8 S.Korea 2.86 1.7%
9 Vietnam 2.57 1.5%
10 Türkiye 1.79 1.1%Water filtration / sewage management in a city
Electric illumination transformed everyday life, improved working conditions, etc..
I think you are ignoring technology as infrastructure having a transformative impact on life expectancy and quality of life.
fire suppression: alarms, sprinklers, halon, fireproof and fire resistant materials
agricultural breakthroughs (e.g. Green Revolution)
life support (e.g. oxygen, anesthetic, NICU, insulin)
low cost clothing (compared to pre-Industrial Revolution) unlocked a lot of possibilities for people.
The "we help you fire your people" messaging has been a catastrophe but there have clearly been breakthroughs in code generation with more to be discovered.
I suspect AI becomes more like the steam engine, the railroads, or electricity, transforming society but leaving it fundamentally recognizable. Reasonable men may differ.
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80% Of OpenAI And Anthropic’s Enterprise Revenues Come From 1% Of Its Customers, Which Skew Heavily Toward AI Startups Subsidized By Venture Capital
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Dependent On Artificial Revenue Driven By Unprofitable Venture-Backed AI Startups For Billions Of Dollars Of Revenue
"There is plenty of international talent that can and should be leveraged in the appropriate places and the proper ways. There are many instances where you’re going to want to hire a leading expert in a technical field. But most jobs, the qualifications are a core technical and subject competency combined with diligence and a willingness to learn. [..]
We need to encourage a corporate mindset that believes in the importance of building up the American talent pool to tackle not only the challenge in front of them but the array of challenges that the future will bring."
Related earlier post by Mark Atwood: https://markatwood.substack.com/p/america-is-an-idea-not-an-...
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Gupta, a distinguished computer scientist from Harvard, is a serial entrepreneur and currently a partner of Y Combinator. Before joining YC, he was the co-founder and CTO of Reveries Labs. The controversy that he landed in stemmed from his comment on JD Vance's post."If an American corporation needs workers, it should hire and train Americans," Vice President JD Vance wrote on X, reacting to the Donald Trump administration's new H-1B visa fee.
"in a win for the woke left DEI is back," Ankit Gupta commented, suggesting that if Americans have to be hired because they are Americans and not because of their skill, then it is DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inlcusion) only.
As Gupta defended the H-1B hiring by Silicon Valley, he asked one commentator: 'what elements of H-1B immigrant culture do you not like? is it the willingness to work long hours? Or perhaps the education focus of their children?"
Gupta has locked down his tweets so the his remarks and the replies are no longer available.
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Semiconductors following Moore's Law increased their density, which is a reasonable metric for effectiveness, by 40% a year for several decades. Leaving aside projections of AGI in two years, it's still a substantial impact if we can figure out how to increase coding productivity by 40% a year for two or three decades. I don't think that gets us to AGI or the Singularity, but it's similar to the impact of the steam engine, steel, or electricity.
These are "normal technologies" that were transformational, and that may be the path we are on with LLMs.
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1. You are not making real offers that include a price, delivery date, and a promised result.
2. You rely on a spouse, significant other, inheritance, savings, or a tolerable day job for support, but you have not shared a credible plan for reaching break-even and then profitability.
3. You have not defined working hours, milestones, and what you expect to accomplish in a specific timeframe.
4. You are only getting feedback from people you already know.
5. You have not set up a separate bank account, business structure, and expense log.
Tim Kersjes, the publisher’s head of research integrity, explained that the “decision to retract the papers was a human error and we can confirm that no software or ‘bot’ would have been involved in the process. Unfortunately, our records are limited, as the retractions occurred in 2011, the individuals involved have mostly left the company and the systems by which we record integrity matters have since changed.”"
related https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-...
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