Matthew Zeitlin
@MattZeitlin
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apparently you'll be able to satisfy medicaid work requirements in a lot of states with *gross* gambling winings of $580 every six months, meaning you could take offsetting bets, pay the vig, and be employed
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so it seems like the people whose job is public policy in the national interest want some kind of AI regulatory push from the white house and those who would profit from that not happening do not
"warsh will lose control of the committe" "warsh won't be independent" "trump will order rate cuts"
i think a good comparison is mythos, which generated a lot of coverage because of what industry and government did in response to it, at least so far, we're not seeing the same scale of movement in response to hugging face
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there's a certain melancholy to being a "read lots of books" guy, you can read five good books on a subject and probably be in the at least 90th percentile of knowledge on it, but compared to a real expert, you might as well have read zero
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"Dwarkesh is inappropriately anthropomorphizing AI systems"
reading a history book that's genuinely "a bunch of facts in chronological order" and it's a thriling experience, akin to one of those art films that's boring that it becomes sublime
It's very very hot in Texas.
But the grid is fine.
Electricity prices are manageable.
What happened?
🔋🔋🔋🔋BATTERIES!!! 🔋🔋🔋
there's nothing wrong with being a middle class revolutionary, but the prevalence of them should make you at least a little skeptical of theories of political change that revolve around the working class and make you think more expansively about what working class politics are
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great pod for learning how this kind of testing actually works, also miles made a really good point that it may be hard to "pull the plug" on a data center or whatever to prevent AI from doing something bad if you're already using AI throughout a bunch of critical systems
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@TheStalwart @HDP1995 ken griffin is the reason robinhood exists (you need payment for order flow to have no commission tarding), meanwhile there's literally no evidence of malfeasance in the robinhood saga. ken griffin wants nothing more than people to trade all the time.
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when godel said he found a loophole to the constitution he was talking about the DOJ Judgment Fund
