I can’t say for sure! But it sure does seem like cope. Maybe demand increases with efficiency here, maybe not. No one has any kind of model of the relationship between AI demand and price.

Sputnik, except our rival player published rather than classified all their tech specs. Maybe zero-sum national rivalry is not the best way to think about this? I’m pretty glad the prospect of oligarchical dominance has diminished, even if the oligarchs in question are American.

instead of helping people rebuild what it makes no sense to build, what if we eminent-domain burnt-out neighborhoods, compensate generously, modify laws as necessary to ensure cash settlements of insurance contracts, and build anew, on less, more defensible land, at much higher density?

bring it!

it’s a paradox, but ads subtract.

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How expensive would it be to run a full-size DeepSeek-R1 on ones own hardware or rented server? Instead of paying giant service providers, could small communities of people affordably run their own, for privacy and ideally customization?

you know you are strong when everybody hates you.

“After an initial denial, the patient’s appeal for the scan was ultimately approved six months later. By that the time, the patient had died.”

did China choose a domestic political party it disliked, in order to blame it specifically for the pressure it imposed? China is often thin-skinned and overbearing in international affairs, not trying to make any defense of its behavior whatsoever. but playing favorites in domestic politics is icky.

I mean, that's the sense u get? But I don't know? Showboating cld happen from the other side too, you cld imagine some ordinary clearance procedure + then Columbia's President rescinding it, turning the plans back. But absent evidence, I'd place my bets on sloppiness by a suddenly improvisational US

You'd think before sending repatriation flights, someone would make a phone call? It wouldn't be, like, "Hi! We're here! Can we come in?"

the best minds of our generation are now sleeping under their desks working to invent vegan fake eggs!

abundance is awesome and i support it, but presuming abundance will overwhelm distributional concerns is a bet we’ve already taken that works out poorly, both from an abundance and distributional perspective. i am radically for the equitable abundance agenda!

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The American consumer looks forward to valuable innovations.

#relatable

potentially dangerous criminal aliens are mostly very nice people.