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Considering how to deal with people brandishing weapons in a Waymo is not just imagining a scenario, since it has already actually happened.

I also grew up in the 90s and did things like throw eggs out of cars. We wouldn't have done it from a taxi or Uber. Your comment really makes no sense.


AI slop.

>Nvidia’s financial engineering is partly a response to its biggest customers’ transformation into rivals. “Hyperscalers”, tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, account for roughly half of Nvidia’s revenue

i don't think Nvidia is the central bank of AI. Companies just don't want to pay Jensen's tax. Hyperscalers might still pay Jensen's tax for LLM training but for inference. you don't have to. they are also betting on their own chip for training to replace Nvidia.

this is Nvidia panicing and doing vendor fiance to Neocloud and buying Hugging Face. even none hyperscalers like Meta is betting on its own chip for AI inference.


> I always see these LinkedIn or X guys making $500k ARR or $1m ARR within months; how the fkk do they get that many customers without spending on ads?

First, as others have pointed out, that ARR is an amplification number.

Second, if it is not, then they may have spent $1m in marketing for a $500k revenue.

You never know, they aren't going to let anyone see poverty, they're only going to project success.


> Does Waymo benefit society enough to carry the tradeoffs?

1000x


"greatly accelerate economic growth rates" - I always wonder about this goal. I understand increasing economic efficiency. But what do we as a species gain from global economy growth.

When we say the world's GDP grew by X%, what is the point of that growth? Inflation? If the economy grows as a direct effect of humanity growing, I get that. If the economy becomes more efficient and we can not get more with less, I also get that.

But what is the point of just growth, if not simply to show others that I am growing faster than you? At which point this is a meaningless number. What am I missing?


Exactly. This is far outside my professional field, but lately I've found that one of the better ways to read the tea leaves of the next decade is to look at the boring 3GPP/ETSI material rather than the consumer-facing "6G/7G" discussion.

The interesting part of 6G doesn't seem to be faster downloads so much as sensing. ISAC is basically about making the network capable of sensing the physical environment as well as communicating.

Some of the current work is already discussing the "six sensing modes", involving different combinations of the network and UEs transmitting and receiving signals reflected from objects, and even how users might be incentivized to let their devices participate

That feels potentially much more consequential than another speed bump. 3G/4G didn't just make phones faster; they enabled an entire ecosystem that was hard to predict beforehand. My guess is that sensing could be a similar pivot for 6G.


Same here. Loved hacking on things from all angles, still do. The only thing lost to me now is the yak shaving, and good riddance. I want to think in systems, solutions, integration, and first and foremost the higher level problem, not nitty gritty implementation details.

Ever since Fable and Sol level LLMs/agents came online, I have ceased to look at the code. I recently launched a project for a client that integrated many many systems, has considerable traffic with low latency requirements and everything just.. works. I've never had to do this little firefighting when launching a project of that complexity and scale. It's been liberating and I was able to focus mostly on polish and QoL improvements of the stack and systems. What a time to be alive for a technical builder.


I'm pretty sure a human started watching live video from the car as soon as the AI flagged a gun. I doubt that Waymo is willing to have their system automatically call cops.

Seems kind of outrageous you had to agree to any terms, even minimal ones. TVs existed for many decades without needing terms.

How are they supposed to drive themselves without monitoring whats going on outside the vehicle?

I actually think we agree. My point isn't that "we're all screwed". I do use and like AI, and I don't want to go backwards. My point is that every bubble in the Venn diagram is changing.

You're absolutely right about how each bubble is still there. But they are a different shape now, and the intersection isn't where it used to be. Some of us are still in the intersection; others are not.


"LG Says We're Fake News" - Gamers Nexus https://youtu.be/ToP9xfLDSME

First time hearing of this

Anthropic could serve Opus 4.5 from a year ago under opus:latest and most heavy users would probably have no idea. Some of them would probably even prefer it.

Yes, I do use them, quite heavily. The only difference at this point is in benchmarks that can't be trusted (see: artificial analysis on Astra), or in the way models communicate.

Most gains are now from RL, which for some reason is hyperfocused on improving cyber capabilities, and harnesses. Raw intelligence gains of base models is absolutely slowing down.


Doing that would negate productivity gains for the users that prompt it for things outside their expertise.

By the same logic, suppose that Dario/Altman/Jensen accumulate all capital because they are the only one that have access to AGI and end up controlling democracy, turning the world into technofeudalism or whatever you want to call it. How is that better than an opensource Anthropic. At least an open source anthropic would allow to join economic forces to try to combat that situation, for example. But there are other more clear, less distopian benefits.

> That...doesn't seem plausible.

In what way? Dramatically lower processing and signature complexity. Audio signature matching is trivial and extremely well known. I see absolutely nothing implausible about this, and it seems a robust, viable solution.

> This paper from 2024 investigated both Samsung and LG and found that they both capture screen images for ACR, and send the resulting hash (not the raw content) back to the manufacturer for identification.

That paper found no such thing. That paper actually demonstrated that they have no clue how the ACR happened, they just demonstrated that playing content yielded content IDs. It is more likely they were witnessing audio ACR happening, exactly as LG described.


It's a dumb thing to do too. If you have a website, you control what it says. For a shop or restaurant it's totally fine to just show a nice photo with your name, opening hours, address, and contact details, and just link to whatever social media accounts and reservation/delivery ordering platform you use.

It's also the place that will allow you to inform your patrons when big tech deletes your heavily invested in social media account for some reason.

Not having a normal website means that potential customers who search for you get hit by login-walls for Instagram and Facebook if they're not on it, or 'you need an app for this' with crap like TikTok. It also makes my (volunteer) job of mapping the area around me harder, because I'm most certainly not going to bother to enter any additional info about your business if I have to go to Instagram or Facebook (and in the OpenStreetMap community I'm not alone in that).


This seems like a credulous argument based on no facts you have provided.

If you explained how the box was hooked up, it would be easier to judge whether there was a chance you were correct.

As it is, your description isn’t even clear whether or not the box contains a microphone.


> but it is undoubtedly and objectively accelerating research.

Part of the point of the letter is that it is quite possible to act in a way that is a net negative to research. The most obvious case is when the companies violate ethical standards in research.

The subtler case, the one for maths in particular, is what happens when you fail to follow well-established patterns for making maths research productive. Tao himself spelled out how that can look in https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117207856734787448 (which notably came before any of the news on Navier–Stokes).


But "sentient" does not mean the same thing as "human". It can be a property of other things, the way "flight" can be.

No problem- I'll clarify this in an edit later today. Thanks for the feedback!

Any good reasons, why not do our first edits around the place you live ? Privacy issue ?

Gemini Flash is a joke for coding. If you can get the same output as you can get with Sol/Astra I'm impressed. Not to mention that Antigravity is awful.

It is not a universal opinion at all that general coding ability has plateaued.


Are you sure about that?

when I checked a few weeks ago I did not really find anything competing per value with a 20x Codex subscription.


Curious what type of production triage are you using AI for? Incidents or bugs or both?

Why would you bring sea water if you're hundreds of km away from the sea?

Either the entire world is stupid and has been for decades and you're a genius. Or your 5 minutes take on the subject is completely unrealistic and you're missing half of the story ?


It can be quite eddyfying

I think you’re misreading. No worship here.

Just pointing out that it’s foolish to think anyone in the position is even remotely thinking about anyone but themselves.


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