we hear it over and over and yet. no exit.

I guess because they've made them available to run locally (where OpenAI models might not in fact be heavier, their nonavailability makes them seem infinitely heavy, you can't run them yourself), and because their API pricing is much cheaper.

Good luck finding a way!

(can you donate 100%? i think there may be a 50% cap, maybe increasing to 60% for 2024? www.irs.gov/charities-no... www.stjude.org/give/giving-... regardless, i applaud the middle finger!)

as long as it is not also preclusory.

yes. that’s i guess the kind of thing i’m trying to think through. like the association with surpluses would be productivity > wages *not matched* by “democratization of credit” style welcoming of inflows as private consumer debt or welfare state consumption financed by public debt.

“What sort of libertarian is so angry about enforced mask-wearing, but so relaxed about other, greater, infringements of liberty? …What [putative right-wing libertarians] are doing is not asserting liberty so much as denying the existence of collective action problems.”

(i’m responding to this thread in the bad place attributing surpluses to productivity > wages x.com/michaelxpett... i guess the question is to what do you attribute productivity > wages not leading to surpluses, instead to those net inflows, in the US?)

@michaelpettis.bsky.social hasn’t the US also chronically kept wage growth lower than productivity? but the result has hardly been balance of payments surpluses. to what do you attribute that? nonwage compensation costs? “capital” inflows financing excess consumption?

in my dream, once you ran AI software on a microchip it didn’t matter what you ran afterwards. the microchip had become sentient.

might one think that precisely because it solves only the most obviously egregious sliver of much larger real problems, passing it might render it politically more difficult to solve the more pressing rest, and so be counterproductive?

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at least it looks like he’s trying to do it by Constitutional amendment, the legitimate but also in this case an unlikely result.

soon… soon…

a bit more seriously, though yes it’d take some work to get the apparent quality high, make sure the citations are real, etc, would this be so different than the role of a think tank?

a great thing about LLMs, if there’s not already a literature that supports your position, there can be one pretty quickly!

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in business and in France, ROI is king.