may_mccheese

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the solution is people will figure how to burn their models onto ASICs cheaply. apple model on iphone, google model on android, etc. This is tantalizing to businesses (1) you have YOUR company's model on lockdown as you see fit (2) iterations or improvements to the model mean you'll need to buy buy buy

may_mccheese

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I don't think we're "really close" insofar as I feel that's been side continuously since the 1600s say. Always another thing comes.

People say "everyone is richer" because the cost "nice things" generally drops with time due to efficiency. So nobody is in fact financially richer, just richness from a quality of life perspective versus someone living in a cave - it's kind of a cop-out and a twist on words.

Indeed the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% of the US holds over 95% of the wealth, it's actually completely insane. most people are poor, relatively and comparatively. A common sense wealth / net worth tax, 5% per year for 5 years, 2% per year thereafter, would ameloriate this.

may_mccheese

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if you're a fan of DEFCON it has been found that there are weirdo instructions on an unnamed x86 CPU that activate some sort of secondary RISC core with completely different instructions. it's not unreasanable to hypotheticate that such secret cores may exist on modern processors, and may be hidden by more than some weirdo instruction i.e. run these 18 instructions in a row with these register values and these memory values at these addresses and this timing, and then and only then will the suber secret risc core activate

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20pre...

may_mccheese

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The person who did this study is actually YC '2025! Developing what is called "smart pipes" to trace these types of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

may_mccheese

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may_mccheese

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It's a flawed premise, the whole thing, worthless. In like any science, even half-baked science, there's a case and a control. Every drug, treatment, test you're given by the doctor... there was a phase trial, cases and controls, outcomes, statistics, etc

Here we're saying "okay, our case is n=1 samples, no control, we're going to need to lean on our gestalt experience and knowledge based on the virtues of this company saying we're good at managing and/or our HR credentials" (this type of thinking also exists in medicine and is equally unsettling - usually wielded by people with experience AND power so it's difficult to disrupt due to the latter)

The lack of control means you can't compare Peter to Paul because maybe Peter likes to stick his neck out and/or take one for the team as a show of teamwork and humility, maybe Paul is cautious and wants to maximize revenue from this position and loves to play politics. Peter is willing to go the extra mile for the company, but Paul will be the one with the perfect record. Now, if there were decent controls for either, they would show Peter is outperforming a control given challenging tasks, and Paul is underperforming by minimizing work done.

may_mccheese

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In medical school we were taught that basically everyone gets alzheimers, or would get it if aged up to a certain age (200, 300, etc). You could make the same argument for cancer - actually in that vein prostate cancer is a big one people die with but not of. When you study the body enough you realize that every system at every micro/macro level is failing slowly with age, but we can only pick on one of them as the cause of death.

Re: citation needed : failed literature search link needed as pre-requisite

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