i would react the same way, but I'm not a politician

that's basically how big shopping malls work in comparison to strip malls right?

obviously the desirability depends on what you are walking through

transit involves more walking at the ends though

and I don't know exactly how compute-intensive this stuff actually is, a cynical theory would be that they only need like 10% of their millions of GPUs to do the recommenders and the revenue growth gives Zuckerberg a leash to do a giant superintelligence vanity project

bsky.app/profile/epoc...

AI Is Accelerating Tech Giants’ Dominance of the Ad Market An increase in targeted ads is helping to fuel revenue growth and easing some concern about the technology’s impact.

I think finance types tend to buy this story because Meta is in fact growing its ad revenue pretty quickly from a very high baseline. And seems like a similar case for Google.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

Meta likes to talk up AI's impact on its ad revenue. Unclear to me exactly what a rigorous counterfactual analysis would say.

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I think Meta very plausibly makes more money from AI than either OpenAI or Anthropic at the moment due to whatever multiplier on ad revenue they're getting from transformer-based recommender systems (only needs to be 10-15%). But doubt that scales forever with growing model capabilities/compute.

"make commoditized open models to boost FB/Insta engagement slightly" looks like a less plausible business model to stay on the frontier as costs escalate

Nvidia has a ton of money in a way that will predictably scale with the frontier model business. So maybe they can keep up somewhat though I doubt making (open) models will ever be a huge priority for them

yeah it's possible open/closed model compute will diverge.

in 2024 a tech giant like Meta could train a frontier scale model kinda just for fun

when you need a huge, AI-specific business model to afford to be on/near the frontier, question is what are the returns to open models

i'm not sure if "the flashbacks are happening in real time" was clear

yes

When I started reading the book someone told me there was a super shocking plot twist. When I got to it, I thought "wow that was a great plot twist". It was obvious which scene they meant. If you've only seen the movie, can you guess which scene this was?

Project Hail Mary was a great movie but the most dramatic moment in the book didn't translate well to the adaptation, maybe due to the constraints of the medium.

I hereby request that Attie do this

YOU'RE NOT THE SAME YOU'VE CHANGED I DON'T NEED YOU ANYWAY

:( that's rough

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

presumably because they're Chinese. so some question of whether they'd be able to carefully vet the wording of the response.

I think it's very funny that he calls him "Jeff Epstein".

maybe DoD uses Sonnet 4.5 on a secure AWS cloud, and Sonnet 3.5 or 3.6 running on DoD servers for higher classification levels.

Josh You on X: "the pentagon is still on sonnet 4.5 BTW https://t.co/7wDGwOxTNi" / X the pentagon is still on sonnet 4.5 BTW https://t.co/7wDGwOxTNi

Anthropic says Claude Gov primarily runs on Sonnet 4.5. Pentagon specifically could be using an older model but Anthropic explicitly describes Gov with 4.5 as a national security product.

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it was supposed to come out on lunar new year!

US natgas prices climb 3% on big storage withdrawal, US-Iran war energy supply concerns U.S. natural gas futures climbed about 3% on Thursday on a bigger-than-expected storage withdrawal, forecasts for higher demand this week than previously expected, and soaring global energy prices as ...

US gas is up 3%

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

would it affect domestic power prices? i thought US LNG exports were constrained by infrastructure not global demand.

also this is on the second floor of an apartment building

i'm curious about the resulting ecosystem, such as it were. I asked them if there were any earthworms and they said no but they have centipedes.

I've decided to commit to memory the square roots of the human population of the United States (~18,000) and of the world (~90,000). This will come in handy.... I think