Big Jim
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Big Jim
@_jmwebb
Building Sidecar, data noob
Costa Mesa, CA Katılım Şubat 2022
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I've been praying the past few weeks. Unsure why.
There's good evidence behind prayer. It mimics breathwork, calming the nervous system, dropping cortisol, and quieting the brain. Daily prayers show lower depression, anxiety, and pain.
I'd like to develop a prayer practice. Growing up, the protocol was written for me. Explaining whom to pray to, the structure of the prayer, and the boundary conditions.
I don't really know how to pray now.
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Ahhh yes, the ((Jews)) are mobilizing their giant diaspora to game the Eurovision voting!! Just look at all these countries where Israel won the popular vote, like Albania, Finland and Portugal - all known for their thriving Jewish communities.
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@yacineMTB @lumpenspace How do you explain the creation of new knowledge?
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people are still convinced that llms are, even primarily, next token predictors?
fascinating
Lain on the Blockchain@CryptoCyberia
LLMs are basically a pile of linear algebra predicting what word is most likely to follow the words you gave. That is NOT how human brains work, and they can't be alive or conscious. If you start flirting with the idea that maybe it could be someday, you're mentally ill.
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Outside a restaurant, I see a young man in cook's clothing squatting, scrolling his phone. Not too long ago, it would have been a cigarette break instead of a phone break
Why is this stuff not heavily controlled? It is retinal fentanyl on tap. Our society is sick. Our children!
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The lack of NBA playoff action tonight forced me to watch the Freeway Series, and now I’m thinking about blaming my father for choosing the Angels when he moved to Long Beach in 1964.
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@hamilt73000 @Noahpinion I must be looking at different charts. These ones all have steeper rates of decline well prior to the shaded region.
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@_jmwebb @Noahpinion Every graph shows a steeper decline from 2010, when smartphones started to become ubiquitous.
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The smartphone destroyed our civilization, and we're just playing out the tragic denouement
Holger Zschaepitz@Schuldensuehner
The birth-rate collapse isn’t just about money, housing, or women choosing careers. The sharper diagnosis: fewer couples. Across the world, young people still say they want kids. But they socialize less, partner less, commit less – and become parents less. Smartphones didn’t make us infertile. They may have made us lonelier. The fertility crisis is really a bonding crisis. ft.com/content/fba35e…
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@KatzD @Noahpinion If you look closely, there are steeper rates on all the charts prior to the shaded region.
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Received my first issue of @tabletmag today. Beautiful print production worthy of its contents. Kudos to @alananewhouse and the whole Tablet team.
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@jeremymstamper @mcuban It’s confounding. His take is “add this completely random tax”, and his defense is:
1. It will raise revenue (duh)
2. It will get companies to focus on cost?
So incoherent.
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These companies already have enormous financial incentives to reduce inference costs because compute is their single largest expense. A tax of less than fifty cents per million tokens is trivial compared to GPU costs, datacenter build‑outs, and electricity bills. It’s unlikely to change engineering priorities that are already intensely focused on efficiency. And as models evolve toward multimodal architectures and continuous representations, the importance of tokenization itself is diminishing. The lever simply doesn’t connect to the behavior it’s meant to influence.
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We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level.
Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens.
It will accomplish 4 things (at least )
1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization
Which will
2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption
Which will
3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x
Which will
4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like
At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally.
Thoughts ?
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Student funding in California is now a RECORD HIGH! Since Governor Newsom took office, it’s increased 66%— reaching $28,282 per student as the state makes historic investments in public education.
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Mogul is just a word journalists use. I’ve never heard someone normal use it
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we have over 130 users now, definitely not a lot but we keep steady growing and working on the product, i think it's really good considering 0 VC money
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a lot of our traffic to clanker cloud is people googling clanker cloud now
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@AlecStapp @cafreiman Error correction is always the limiting factor in knowledge creation, rather than information.
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Subtle but deep point here:
Capitalism is driven more by the entry/exit of small central planners than it is by markets & prices.
Ben Southwood@bswud
I wrote an incredibly navel-gazing essay for the Institute of Economic Affairs about what I think, where my views come from, and how they have developed over time. I actually wrote it a year ago, but it has come out today and I am so old that I have barely changed in that 12 months. Learn: - How I became a wild-eyed obsessive as a teen - What ideology I consider myself to have - Why I don't think that the difference between 'state' and 'market' matters all that much - The reason I am obsessed with the infrastructure delivery mechanisms of the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s insider.iea.org.uk/p/millenial-li…
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