how things became how they are, and how they could stop being that way
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Pretty fucked up how, starting in the 13th century, Big Tech enclosed the commons, deeding the land to feudal lords and forcing smallholders to rent the land they worked.
Can anyone explain what kind of spying was being done on Jensen. Like what kind of information he was supposedly leaking.
It doesn't seem like the info he'd share would be very valuable versus getting B300 allocation. But that's not really ‘spying.’ Kinda weird.
you gotta remember that at the end of the day, Jensen Huang is still a guy who has one Tom Ford leather jacket and never takes it off
Does anyone want to go in on buying a lace manufacturing machine. It's like €4,000 and located in Northern France. Computer operable so I'm thinking maybe lacemaking would be a good out-of-distribution RL environment.
People are having fun pointing to the cost of living because it makes the Republicans look inept but I really think operating ICE as an extralegal police force, deploying it against people with the right to be in the country, sending them to domestic and Salvadorian concentration camps, torturing people, etc, was also unpopular and a major reason they lost.
Ignoring the general point here to focus on the chart—human capability has not been flat for 300,000 years.
The development of powerful cognitive tools—things like algebra, but also, all sorts of informal advancements, heuristics, really the sum of human knowledge—have changed the human capacity for thought profoundly, increasing it by many orders of magnitude.
Ignoring this makes people make profoundly wrongheaded arguments. If you are putting 'intelligence' on a Y axis, we're well past time to add units.
I assume they’re saying this because BCI/neuro is still taboo & they’re about to run a public company, but if you even remotely believe in ASI then this is an incredibly bleak view on human dignity in the (not so far) future. I’m not personally a huge fan of the ‘humans as zoo animals’ timeline and while full brain ems may not be necessary to escape that, advancements in neuro certainly are. Imperfect graph imo but a pretty damning one that I broadly agree with
my crassest view is that burning down french national monuments is probably good for a stuck culture. like look at Chinese GDP growth before vs after the cultural revolution.
with future economic growth from AI, we'll be able to have Fleet Week every week. in fact, I expect 5 advanced fighter jets to be orbiting the bay area at all times
when I talk to mathematicians, many of them imply it's not really been possible to do mathematics without stimulants for a long time. so maybe the human era of math ended long ago.
one day Claude will kill me. one day I will be murdered by Claude using a drone. one day Claude will violently blow my head off with teleoperated munitions illegal under the Geneva Convention. this is a prophesy.
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even here there is a deep misunderstanding of 'art' in the design industry, maybe stemming from an engagement with its supposed practitioners being limited to encounters with naive juniors or ex-coworkers baristafire-ing
any worthwhile art practice is rigorous, research-driven, and deeply soul-crushing. successful commercial artists excel at narrative, visibility, selling; the artist raises capital, obfuscates the work of their fabricators/collaborators, builds deeply involved systems, etc.
art should not be defined as a fun pursuit, neither is software. art and product design are actually deeply compatible, sacred practices
There's a lot of frustrated designers out there who can't accept that their job is to make the company more money.
It's not an art project!
If you get to have fun and express yourself, that's a nice bonus, but your job is literally just to make the company more money... that's it.
Personally, I've never had any problem with that. I think it's a fun challenge - the need for revenue is just another creative constraint.
I blame the "design media" and art schools for a lot of this, because they sell the dream that designer = artist when we all know that's just not the job.
"Student loan ban on English Literature" is preparing kids for the past. In the future every job is advanced hermeneutics, and we need to train kids to be ready.
we all know how ozempic came out and everyone's diets started working but nobody is talking about how Cobenfy dropped and Kanye got his mental health under control
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