Why there's a backlash against AI/ Silicon Vally in a nutshell:
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"It seems many Canadians have simply not adjusted to the fact that they live next to a fascist state whose president has imperial designs on Canada."
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accountants will determine whether AI really is a bubble:
"A key element here is depreciation... Tech giants have lengthened server lifespans on the books to six years. Yet Nvidia's product cycles run every year now, making older chips functionally obsolete... long before they've been written down"
There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
Will “world models” (a machine-learning approach to sorting information that is inspired by how humans learn) leave LLMs in the dust. Some of AIs' greatest minds think so:
Behind the AI bubble, another tech revolution could be brewing - on.ft.com/3LYi26n via @FT
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Don't know if this happens to other writers, but when you write of the global north as "Europe and the United States", I always think of this.
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our YouTube channel.
The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.
"We're creating a new man-made ecological disaster: enormous data centres in remote places like deserts, that will be rusting away and leaching bad things into the environment, with no one left to hold accountable because the builders and investors will be long gone"
"...hardly a good sign that the people I've spoken to keep bringing up Nortel - the Canadian telecom equipment-maker that borrowed prolifically to help finance deals for their customers (and thereby artificially boost demand for their wares)"
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Besides: there are about 15-20 major automotive companies/ groups that dominate ICE production worldwide...
This isn't surprising - part of the industrial strategy playbook. Govts often back rapid sector growth, expecting many firms to fail; the shakeout creates stronger “national champions” that emerge globally competitive.
China’s EV sector is following this playbook.
It's estimated that "...only about 15 percent of the 129 brands full or partial electric vehicle brands recorded in China last year will still be making money in 2030."
".. three and a half billion dollars in Presidential profits — even though my accounting is necessarily approximate — is a dizzying sum. .. he treats his public office as personal property, as an asset that is his to exploit as if he owned it."
Samuel L Jackson said this Two
Years ago........
Motherfucking wind farms…
The march of AI progress is unrelenting:
Sam should talk to the people in charge of AI
Public concern over what AI will mean for society runs very deep:
"For the first time, this report reveals emerging tensions in the narrative around AI. People are beginning to see it as something that could make their lives worse in deeply personal ways."
this is so ridiculous.
written by an LLM or an alien?
