oh no, this whole server rack is pentafected with daemons
istewart
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$14,000 could probably still buy you a lesser Porsche in decent shape, but we should praise this brave pioneer for valuing experiences over things, especially at the all-important boundary of human/machine integration!
(no, I'm not bitter at missing the depreciation nadir for 996-era 911s, what are you talking about)
You don’t have endless agency over your impact on the world. Actually, you have vanishingly little control here, and not much more over the contents of your inner life.
That whole paragraph is on the money, really. It dovetails with my perspective that EA, even though it's billed as a higher calling, is just an extension and redirection of consumerism. As it's a libertarian ideology, it assumes the primacy and pursuit of more satisfactory "customer service" as the only effective model for societal adaptation. And that carries an implicit demand for an engineered control and feedback loop. It seems to me that EAs like to think they're avoiding top-down social engineering by states, but really...
Top-tier from Willison himself:
The learning isn’t in studying the finished product, it’s in watching how it gets there.
Mate, if that's true, my years of Gentoo experience watching compiler commands fly past in the terminal means I'm a senior operating system architect.
Oh, it's a CXL board, Compute Express Link. Basically a way to attach DRAM to PCI Express. I know some people working on this stuff for one of the big vendors, but in that context it was a rack-scale box capable of handling multiple terabytes' worth of DIMMs. Having this as a desktop expansion card seems like a bit of a marginal application, but Gigabyte's done weird shit before. For instance, I have an AMD-compatible Thunderbolt 3 card that was only made in limited quantities by them and ASRock.
I'm fighting an uphill battle, but people in general still need to see it
your periodic reminder: don't listen to Garry Tan, unless maybe he's doing a tequila review
"Classical liberal" usually registers to me as a libertarian/paleoconservative trying to mainstream themselves.
Only had to scroll about halfway through the replies before I found somebody suggesting an SPAC
Puts their being a Thiel media op in an even more pathetic light.
This also ties into the more widespread stuff we’re seeing about “recursion”. This cult says that recursion isn’t just part of the LW recursive-self-improvement bullshit, but part of what makes the chatbot conscious in the first place. Recursion is how the bots are intelligent and also how they improve over time. More recursion means more intelligence.
Hmm, is it better or worse that they're now officially treating SICP as a literal holy book?
Pretty easy to look at actually-existing instances and note just how laughable "traders trusted us enough for the market to be liquid” is.
This is just another data point begging what I believe to be the most important question an American can ask themselves right now: why be a sucker?