It’s lib because the article’s gripe is how only the founders become millionaires, asking for mild reforms to the current system rather than a new one. The general message is arguing for other important startup employees to also get more venture capital funds. It’s less of “hey this whole startup scene is corrupt” and more of “hey it’s kind of shady that founders get this much money please also give engineers that much money”.

wow check out this fun genocide travel vlog in Xinjiang ✌️🤪! watch to see ebil ccp oppress the poor yogurt people ☹️. did you know westerners can just go there and see for themselves without any special permit? This guy is German and went visa-free. Cw: mosques, halal food, bazaars

I think this kind of meme is the best for lib agitation. Most don’t need to be convinced that people are more important than profits. Now we just need to find a way to insert the idea about just what kind of economic system prioritizes people over profits…

• this is a small fraction of her wealth
• the non-profits just launder her money, in return she gets positive public image, tax benefits, and power
• it’s insanity that progress on unprofitable ventures is dictated by billionaires

a real comment on this article, written by a purportedly real human:

The free and open internet as we know it is threatened by a growing digital authoritarianism. That’s why it’s so critical that the U.S., led by its private sector innovators, win the tech race, especially in AI, quantum, chips, and setting global standards.

a little on the nose, isn’t it? i honestly don’t think this person has considered why they want the outcome they do other than “USA Good”

This is especially crazy because chinese international students have literal social media posts outlining the best strategies to avoid arbitrary detention. Most of them are doing everything in their power to avoid shenanigans like this.

seems like this is a photonic computer? wild

Aren’t those articles dragging Russia for conscripting prisoners still hot off the press? lol

Sounds like it. The stats for the poorest americans can drag the whole thing down too since the bottom percentiles are all negative net worth

ok nyt did cover it but it’s not even on the main page - I had to use a search engine

There’s some thick irony here that the literal NYTimes did not cover this story. It’s a metaphor for how NYC systemically neglects the bronx. There’s no shortage of horror stories about buildings like this that have been defunded: 20+ stories with no working elevator or heat, which is illegal, but there’s no money or political will to fix it. It can get dire, and this story is a symptom of a broader problem, as usual.

good source on how LLMs can’t really reason

I disagree. It is able to come up with something that “sounds right” based on what it’s been trained on, and it can be transferred to specific domains. LLMs are mimicking “fast” human thinking. It’s like the world’s smartest BS-ing alien trying to say things at a cocktail party to convince the guests that it is human despite not knowing anything and just repeating sounds that seem to please the audience. Humans have similar “off-the-cuff” automatic behaviors. However, LLMs seem to have no capability to mimick human “slow” critical thinking, and there is no real internal representation of the world to speak of. There is nothing I know about on the AI research roadmap to overcome these limitations because right now we’re taking neural networks and throwing them into GPUs until investor money comes raining from the sky.

Even if these technical limitations were miraculously overcome within 10 years, the biggest problem by far is that the energy consumption is basically uneconomical. A full-fledged human AGI takes tens of watts, whereas a silicon AGI takes orders and orders of magnitude more.

Yes, it is well-known in tech land that OpenAI’s entire modus operandi is to just throw everything at the wall to try to build AGI. The company has a cult-like reputation filled with AI zealots. It’s an incredibly dangerous organization. The only good news is that they almost certainly won’t succeed. The current tech seems to be basically half of an AGI, and an incredibly expensive one, at that.

here’s the paper in the ‘70s that set off this quest for the holy grail. many have tried but we’ll see if this one sticks

memristors are a pretty old idea. they mathematically complete electronics and solve some fundamental computing problems. it will be a long road to take advantage of this though because memristors require a different architecture than the Von Neumann one that basically every current computing device has.

the next video recommended: “why China’s absolutely guaranteed to COLLAPSE yesterday”

Great read - I can’t believe how quickly AlphaFold is enabling science like this

link?

Play stupid games…

This will be an incredible development when they pull it off. It seems murky to me how semiconductor shrinks will be pulled of after the next few, but this could really change things.