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"Empire of AI" is wildly misleading about AI water use

andymasley.substack.com
2 points·by Tycho·7 mesi fa·2 comments

Ask HN: Do we see LLMs having a big impact on OSS?

1 points·by Tycho·9 mesi fa·1 comments

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Tycho
·mese scorso·discuss
The idea is that eventually the power demand for AI compute will be too great to satisfy by terrestrial means.
Tycho
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Just use an LLM to make a good knowledge base for the databases. Based on schema info and production queries. An agent can use that to write queries that work.
Tycho
·5 mesi fa·discuss
When people put together memos or decks in the last, even if that weren’t read very carefully, at least they reassured management that someone had actually things through. But that is no longer a reliable signal.
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
> “deeply off the rails”

How sheltered are you people? Scott Adams was a pretty standard non-woke boomer. Do you think that just because you don’t hear certain opinions in the workplace or the faculty or the Atlantic podcast, that they aren’t widely held by members of the public? Do you think everyone’s into DEI, BLM, trans-rights, multi-culturalism etc?
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I kept meaning to tune in again to his livestream before the end. It was always a good listen as he went over the news with his dry sense of humour and judgment on fact vs fiction.I liked how he kept going after they cancelled all the Dilbert syndication - good lesson in resilience. RIP.
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
But the driver isn’t reacting to any of the LiDAR readings, only what they can see, so what is the point?
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
How do you train a model to drive with LiDAR when the human drivers who generate the training data don’t use LiDAR?
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
According to the paper you posted (interesting analysis), it’s not just low-vol assets, but good quality ones. Also, they would no doubt do a lot more buying of undervalued (good quality) companies if they weren’t by this point “too big to care”, so to speak.
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
When people say undervalued in this context, they usually mean it has a low price to earnings ratio. Intel is definitely not that - although it could still be a good bet if you have reason to believe their fortunes will greatly improve in the future. But it wouldn’t be a Buffett target in its current state.
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
So, best investor ever? (Not counting people who built enterprises, just people whose trade was to invest.)

I plan to buy some BRK stock. I’m sure it will be a good investment. But also, somewhat sentimentally, just to own a part of a financial masterpiece.
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Not quite right. The pivot was from good companies at a great price to great companies at a good price (unless you can get a great price, but that’s unlikely).

Over the long run the latter is a better and more scalable strategy.
Tycho
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Think of Tesla as a well-funded pharmaceutical company that has invented a cure for a widespread ailment (call it “driving”) and now is waiting on regulatory approval.
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
The elegant syntax that is close to plain English sets it apart.

(It’s not so pretty these days though with all these type hints and other cruft that’s been added in the last ten years.)
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Maybe it’s only visible to me https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_5a484c29-ec2d-47e1-977e-c300...
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I posted something similar from Grok 9 months ago, although it was “flagged” for some reason. the link still works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260083
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Sold most of my BTC off at $120k, but kept a chunk not as an investment but as a sort of emergency fund that could be useful if for some reason I ever find myself needing to transact without using cash, bank accounts or credit cards.
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
The contract would obviously not be no strings attached.
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Yes. The capital is not needed immediately, but they have agreed to provide it if/when called upon in future.
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
They integrated it into Google search immediately so I think a lot of people will bother less with ChatGPT when a google search is just as effective.
Tycho
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Commitments here means money that people have agreed to lend them in future.