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Comment Re: Heh (Score 1) 96

Capitalism was never about âoeyou or me.â It was and still is all about accumulation of assets, wealth, and power and the expense of the working class. The layman boomer worldview of capitalism oddly shaped by a gentler and kinder state capitalism checked by a functional welfare state. Somewhere along the way people forgot the âoestateâ part and the âoewelfareâ part, which leaves us with this late-stage capitalist hellscape controlled by the geriatric class.

Comment Re:Fear is the appropriate response. (Score 1) 89

The hallucination problem _cannot_ be fixed. It is a fundamental part of the mathematical model.

I think it can. I've been working on getting an LLM (Claude Sonnet 3.7) to add missing type annotations to python code. When I naively ask it "please add types" then like you said it has about a 60% success rate and 40% hallucination rate as measured by "would an expert human have come up with the same type annotations and did they pass the typechecker".

But when I have a much more careful use of the LLM, micromanaging what sub-tasks it does, then it has a 70% success rate, and 30% rate of declining because it didn't have confidence to come up with an answer. Effectively there were no more hallucinations. (I got these numbers by spot-checking 200 cases).

So I think hallucination can be solved for some tasks, by the right kind of task-specific micromanagement and feedback loops.

Comment Re: Where does all this money come from? (Score 1) 19

OpenAI has $12bn annual revenue, about 3% that of Apple, about $3million per employees per year (compared to $2 million per employee per year at Apple).

I think OpenAI has a huge amount of growth potential even just from predictable growth over the next several years, even if steep changes towards AGI don't come.

Comment Re:why (Score 1) 70

All good in theory, except that you likely need something like a 200" TV so actually tell the difference between 8k and 16k.

Like I said, I figured 8k would be enough resolution for soccer. As for 16k, I imagine that something with bandwidth for 16k would translate that bandwidth into twice the frequency for 8k, which would be ideal for soccer.

[Lawrence of Arabia] Let me guess, you are watching these classics at 1080p, or at best 4k.

I watched Lawrence of Arabia on a Cinerama screen. It was breathtaking. I expect that the higher resolutions described here will help more places (like movie theaters) display higher quality prints. I suspect they'll open up new avenues like fake windows or full-wall screens in residences.

Comment Re:why (Score 2) 70

Do you watch soccer? 4k resolution means a player's head is about 14 pixels high, not enough to make out much beyond a blob of color; their jersey is 60 pixels high, enough to make out the number but not much more. Doubling the vertical resolution (i.e. going to 8k) would likely be enough to let you make out similar detail to what you'd see in real life. (Frame rate is another issue: HDMI 2.0 allows 4k at 60hz which is too slow when panning in a soccer game; HDMI 2.1 allows 4k at 120hz which is probably enough). I think that 16k is probably the right bandwidth to get soccer looking good.

Do you do VR? 4k per eye isn't good enough for VR yet. It's possible that 16k will be, but we might still need more.

Do you watch the gorgeous film classics like Lawrence of Arabia? One of the (many) things that make it look great is that it was shot on 65mm, equivalent to about 12k resolution.

Comment Re: They make chips. (Score 1) 57

Accenture digital marketing business is one of the biggest digital marketing providers in the world. Intel is in an aggressive cost out transformation so if they are going with a premium rate card service provider like Accenture, that tells me their existing cost base is insanely bloated or low quality.

Comment Re: the right time (Score 2) 155

US has shifted its production from domestic shores to Chinese shores. CO2 generated from American consumption of Chinese goods needs to be reallocated to America to understand who and what is driving CO2 in aggregate. If America were to reshore all Chinese production with our current infrastructure, CO2 would go through the roof because of our inefficient infrastructure

Comment Insulation (Score 3, Informative) 79

Indian homes are not usually insulated well or at all and are typically very exposed to elements in key areas with sub par windows and doors. This is why homes quickly heat up again after switching off the AC. Leakage is real. Not just true for Indian but for so many countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, America.

Insulate like you live in Scotland, then no problems

Comment Re: The party of small government (Score 2) 108

It's easy to regulate AI art the state level.

"Any job offer for a job based in California must adhere to the following AI disclosure".

"Any mortgage offered in a Californian property must satisfy the following AI disclosure"

etc.

AI regulation need not be about regulating AI innovation; it's enough merely to make sure it's applied fairly. And almost all real-world applications are indeed local.

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