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Mark Cuban?

Or they'll just GPL the rewrite? I don't see how this really deters anyone.

API credits yes, subscription no. And the subscription is much better value (per token).

Maybe the biggest ever, though?

Yes, if two 9.8 kernel CVEs come out two days apart, then yes, everyone should be rebooting their prod systems two days apart.

If the planning-for-a-$2T-IPO company shuts down overnight, unexpectedly, you might want to do some actual doomsday prepping (like, canned food).

> now that SpaceX and Tesla are the 'same' company

Did I miss something big on the stock market or are these actually still two different public companies? How do the shareholders of both of these (ostensibly different, kind of unrelated) large publicly-held companies feel about them being conflated like this? Is there any historical precedent for this situation?

We should regulate data centers to require fully renewable power (solar/wind/hydro + battery).

Depending on whether we're talking about studying-for-the-test or studying (education) generally:

> Studying and formal education can improve an IQ score by 1 to 5 points per additional year of schooling, while direct practice and familiarity with test formats can bump scores temporarily by 5 to 15 points.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6088505/

If you include education generally, this gives a swing of up to 80 points between someone who goes to school K-12 and then studies for the IQ test, vs. someone who doesn't do any of that.

Given that 80 points is many standard deviations on the IQ scale, it kind of seems like it's mostly measuring education/studying rather than something innate like "intelligence".

Fair, maybe "long term" wasn't the right choice of words, I meant more like "indefinitely"? But I guess that's not really fair either since nothing lasts forever.

Employers have tried this and there is no possible wage that satisfies the supply/demand curve and doesn't use immigrant labor for some jobs. Not sure about cleaning mall bathrooms, but this has already been demonstrated for many crops: strawberries will rot in fields rather than American-born workers picking them, for any price.

I think this is largely a function of when those waves of immigration happened, and how long ago it was. In another hundred years we'll see the Bangladeshi-American descendants having a fully superficial, historical curiosity type of connection to their heritage, like you describe for the Swedish-Americans. It just takes a few generations.

I guess we'll see if RAM prices come down any time soon. At current price increase rates I think no console stands a chance in the next few years.

To be fair it kind of remains to be seen how successful all of those are, long-term (I kind of expect Microsoft to exit the hardware console business at this point).

Except every single Ralph ends up curled up in the fetal position having accomplished nothing?

Several companies (I believe at least Apple and Costco) still have DEI programs internally, if you count that as saying no to Trump. Though it's still crazy to me that most companies killed those programs voluntarily because Trump and Republicans don't like them, not because of any real law or contractual obligations.

But the main reason I wanted to reply was just to say -- saying no to Trump, by itself, does not mean that one is not evil. Not all evil in the world is Trump's evil.

I was going to say, why System 6 and not 7?

For the commercial flight industry this is very easy to calculate: zero deaths are acceptable. This is not like car manufacturer recall calculations (famously, referenced in Fight Club: if the lawsuit costs the manufacturer less than the recall, they don't recall). The airline industry is built different thanks to heavy regulation.

You could ask: is it _worth_ making it that safe? But we don't ask that. We just make it that safe.

I think there is a good point to be made that this level of safety (it costs what it costs) is probably not worth it for cybersecurity, in general, even if it's largely considered worth it for commercial aviation.

My 2019 iMac is actually great with Linux on it. It had some issues (built-in WiFi not working, sleep resume bugs) but Claude fixed them for me.

They dropped it before the switch from Intel chips; my 2015 iMac could do it (I think) but my 2019 Intel iMac can't.

Don't use the only platforms that have millions of people on them to organize millions of people in the future?

As far as I know at least Anthropic also rents space in Musk's gas generator powered data centers.

I didn't even realize attention was a biological thing! I thought it was more metaphysical.

Only if you don't go back to retrieve it on camera.

On the other hand, he gets to go to prison now for sure, which was only slightly likely if he just kept working there as an employee.

Perforce can amortize the cost of Claude, but Anthropic can just use idle Claude-hours for free. They're already renting the datacenter capacity.

In the age of AI writing code, maybe the question flips from "why not license it" to "why not reimplement it"?

It's called "alignment". It's just as impossible for humans as for computers, it turns out.

I think we learned the wrong lesson from Clever Hans, which is that animals don't communicate and it's always the human handler doing it.

The real lesson we should have learned is that horses are stupid and we should have been testing a Border Collie.