experimental economist
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9999999333 retweeted
theres a billion dollars in someone else’s computer, you just have to click the right buttons to get it out
the obvious answer to this is that the GPUs won't be sitting there inactive 95% of the time. like bitcoin mining, as long as the margin between electricity and inference isn't zero, compute will be sold on the market.
sam is either being dishonest or deluded himself to ignore the free market (or regulate it away).
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
Billions (in property damage)
If you think tides are high in Southern California now, just wait until king tides arrive from November to January.
LA and San Diego just saw their highest tides on record Tuesday, but the Christmas Eve king tide will likely run about half a foot higher, and that's without a storm. Add a storm and water levels could break yesterday's record by 1-2 feet. Then, factor in potentially large surf, and that's why we're very concerned about severe coastal flooding and erosion on California's coast this winter.
9999999333 retweeted
Matt Walsh has no idea what he’s watching when it comes to Trump’s Super Intelligence rebrand.
As everyone knows, Artificial intelligence is strongly associated with old, outdated technology. The name “Artificial Intelligence” was also hijacked by the AI doomsday psychological operation, which was designed to hurt Trump and slow down innovation.
Trump needed to create a counterforce to this psychological operation in order to continue accelerating AI and win the AI race.
The super intelligence rebrand plays a big role in all of this.
There were many components to the AI doomsday psy-op: data centers, whistleblowers, CEOs wanting regulation.
Trump could have tried to explain all of the concerns about these components away, but that would be ineffective.
Instead, Trump rolled all of these components and details into a single ball and branded them as a hoax. This was brilliant.
Hoaxes are a familiar reference point for most of the country. People know what to do with hoaxes— they disregard them because they know they are designed to hurt the country.
This and the SI name change creates a very strong counterforce to the AI doomsday psychological operation-op.
The rebranding of AI as SI also plays a big role psychologically in creating a new positive association with the technology instead of the negative association that it had thanks to the AI doomsday psychological operation.
Now the conversation around AI mostly revolves around a name change, as Matt Walsh demonstrates, instead of discussions that would lead to second place in the AI race.
The most skilled persuaders and hypnotists on the planet are nodding along with me.
I have no idea why renaming AI is so bizarrely important to Trump. Nobody cares about the name he chose. Nobody is using it or will use it. And it’s not even technically accurate because “super intelligence” already had an agreed upon, widely adopted definition. This is the weirdest political hill to die on. It gains you nothing. Not a single ordinary American in the country, anywhere, cares deeply about making sure people say “SI” instead of “AI.” We are days away from a major election and this bullshit is the focus? Just baffling.
nobody has been more vindicated than @soupydev who 2 years ago told me "never trust an external software package"
9999999333 retweeted
Yeah this meta is so fucking stupid
The idea of anyone wanting to be a "celebrity" as we progress towards a surveillance state is also a complete honeypot.
Rising economic inequality + constant data breaches. Really could not be a worse time to be a public figure flexing wealth
9999999333 retweeted
Idk man but this whole narrative that crypto traders are the new “celebrities” might genuinely be the most embarrassing thing this industry has ever produced
Not a single soul outside this terminally online bubble knows who any of your so called “goats” are and I can assure you nobody is lining up to become their next exit liquidity
You have to be operating with a medically concerning number of brain cells to worship a bunch of glorified internet grifters who would sell you into financial ruin for an extra SOL
The collective IQ in this space has fallen so catastrophically low that the psych ward is starting to look like an institution of higher learning
At some point this entire circus is going to face a reckoning of biblical proportions and while it’s going to be painful, it might be the only thing capable of restoring a shred of sanity to this industry
Some of you have spent so much time worshipping these losers that you’ve completely forgotten they’re getting rich at your expense
Wake the fuck up
9999999333 retweeted
Crypto grew up in the Dark Forest, and the entire world is about to find itself there
this is why @OnlyMemes_OS requires a membership pass
i wish we could open up the site for free to everyone, but unfortunately the internet does not work like this anymore
