Michael Gummelt
458 posts
@bitcloud @ManbearpigAus @tszzl The Internet is a bad analogy for open source AI. Open source makes centralized intelligence more accessible, but does not decentralize it. The models, wherever they run, introduce a central source of previously disparate intelligence found on the open web.
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@ManbearpigAus @bitcloud @tszzl That's incorrect, but even if it were correct, open source AI still represents a centralization of intelligence.
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@michaelgummelt @bitcloud @tszzl no one’s using closed source in serious companies. Every companies wants proprietary control of their software
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Am I going to be totally debunked here?
Sam D'Amico@sdamico
@PhilHedayatnia The elephant in the room is that Bitcoin going 200K+ will take double digit percentages of all latest node semiconductor capacity + US base load electricity demand. The whole “it will take unused capacity” statement isn’t accurate as hashrate doesn’t follow the duck curve.
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If you have a choice between being kind and being clever, be kind.
roon@tszzl
corporate hit job in 2024 cyberpunk is so back.
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@NotThatTimD @alexrkonrad The big tech cos are the startups of yore (much younger than their predecessors were at the time). I think thats why there’s such a shift
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Feels like a major wave of turnover is happening at big VC firms right now. Obviously, each partner departure is different, but I'm wondering if there are any macro through lines connecting them... DMs open 👀
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@breakfastbybill @tszzl How is BTC more centralized than USD?
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@ArtisanGrowth @tszzl Depends what you mean by worked, but the best example is probably paleolithic tribes -> city states.
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@tszzl What are some examples where decentralization "worked" and then it became more powerfully centralized?
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@tszzl Not strictly true. Free markets are a durable net decentralizing force. But yes, mostly true.
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How can an app that is a database of messages and a timeline displaying messages sorted chronologically or algorithmically require 13k people to run. There have been zero inventions at Twitter in ~10yrs. Before covid Twitter was a dud. Implementing an edit button took years of death by committee meetings. Twitter had more employees than SpaceX. For what?
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Elon's secret is that he just picks the institutional and organizational low-hanging fruit that everyone else is too blind or apathetic to pick. Taking a personal org census of 5 minutes per employee or asking what parts cost to build from first principles—everyone can do this.
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@tszzl @neilthawani > social welfare can be objectively described
Jeez even the utilitarians would have the sense to hedge their bets here
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@neilthawani ok but social welfare can be objectively described and efficiently pursued
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no major tech ceo is unaware of unintended consequences or complicated objective functions
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital
Important to remember what Obama had to say about Silicon Valley getting involved in government
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@IanRountree @zebulgar Even easier is just to look at median income instead. West Virginia ($29k) vs. Japan ($36k)
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@ArmandDoma It's not wrong, or at least not ipso facto wrong. Housing can increase supply, but also demand.
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“building housing causes gentrification” is the stupidest brain worm to infect the left
Toby Muresianu 🇺🇦@tobyhardtospell
On a hearing where "progressive" activists are speaking in opposition to union workers on the false grounds them building housing on a cold storage facility will cause gentrification 🫠🫠🫠
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@Noahpinion I still don't understand how he was popular / a "king maker" in the elections.
He's in good shape for 70 and has a famous name, but how was he even an option for president? How did he have so much influence Trump had to cut him a deal with this much influence?
It's very strange
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