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I imagine that there's a lot of variance there based on what frontier model you want to run. Besides that, there's probably economies of scale that make it difficult to really ask how much it costs to run a single instance.

This has long been an issue with open source projects.[0] If it were up to me, the government (any government) would fund every important project out there. It would be very cheap, and the payoff will be enormous.

[0]https://www.fordfoundation.org/learning/library/research-rep...

Anti-monopoly laws would make this very difficult.

It's very rare for the senate to kill a bill. I would say that we alreadt ran out of time.

>it has an extremely distinct culture that's quite alien to much of the rest of the world.

It's not that distinct. Their language has heavy Chinese influence, their religion originated in India, their cuisine has heavy Portuguese influence, and that isn't even getting into the massive amount of influence that America has had on Japanese culture. Besides, cultures always change over time, with or without immigration.

The problem is is that whatever party does this will never win again, at any level of government.

He's a neo-nazi that killed millions with his illegal USAID cuts. That qualification is the bare minimum.

I wrote an article about youth mental health for my substack recently that touched on this. The suicide rate for the 50-59 demographic is far higher than the general population, but it collapses once you hit retirement age. If I had to guess, social supports for seniors plays a role.

AGI isn't magic. Not even an excellent oncologist can reliably diagnose you without actually looking at you first.

I'm liking and commenting under my real name. Fuck ICE.

That was unexpected. He was so young, too. RIP.

I wouldn't be upset, actually.

>While that may be useful, there should never be a necessity to move out of a house you’ve paid off

This line of logic doesn't follow. There's plenty of old people who need to move out for non-financial reasons (e.g. can't live independently anymore), and it doesn't really make sense to me that having to move out because you can't afford your mortgage is okay while not being able to afford your taxes isn't. In any case, we can have our cake and eat it too by building more housing. Homes become affordable for young people if supply increases and the tax base broadens enough that taxes go down for established homeowners.

>Surely the state can throw some weight around to say enough is enough?

How do you know that it's enough? Baby boomers are old now, which means demand for healthcare has skyrocketed. There's an odd thing I've noticed in political commentary where nobody really thinks that healthcare is expensive, but it absolutely costs a ton to keep people alive. America might have problems with too much overhead, but even here in Ontario, healthcare is by far the province's biggest expense.

What? Lobbyists in Brussels have spent over 300 million euros just in 2024[0].

[0]https://www.protothema.gr/files/2025-03-06/ekthesi-lobbying....

This is very lazy slopulism, but I'll take a stab at defending lobbying. Lobbying is a way for relevant stakeholders to make their issues known. Are there problems with lobbying? Absolutely, but it's not bribery.

I honestly hate the IoT so much. Why should a coffee machine of all things use data? Just make the coffee.

Is it common for family names in Japan to be this rare? Like, collectively, is the percentage of Japanese people with rare family names greater than 1%? I ask because I know that many Italian people (myself included) have rare last names that are almost exclusively found in the city their family is from.

Yes it is. Do you not know how RLVF works? The AI tries on a task, comes up with a potential solution, and is trained based on whether the solution is valid or not. If proving a previously unproven theorem and then using that information to solve even more theorems doesn't count as creating new information, then literally everything a mathematician does is just recycling what they've been taught.

>It cant "invent new things". It can only reuse what it already knows about.

This is outdated. With RLVF, LLMs can create their own training data instead of relying on what it's been fed.

It's not just that we don't have a lot of data, it's that the only area about youth mental health that we actually do have a lot o data about is the suicide rate, which is decreasing. It's increasing in America, but it's increasing for everybody, not just young people. There's no clear youth-specific decline in mental health except a vague increase in teens that report feeling that their mental health is poor, but this is plagued by bias. I don't think the problem is that we don't have enough data to say if the youth mental health crisis is real, it's that I think we have enough to say that it isn't.

My substack is called The Canadian Observer. I would greatly appreciate it if you subscribed.

I'm actually writin an article about youth mental health for my substack. I'll post it on HN when it's done, but the tl;dr is that the evidence for the youth mental health crisis is very thin at best. Despite what this article says, the youth suicide rate in Canada is near its all-time low. Self-reported youth distress is up, but our only 2 datapoints are 2012 and 2022 (middle of the pandemic). Every group has also reported worsening mental health, and the adult suicide rate is (and always has been) much worse than the youth suicide rate. I don't think mental health isn't a serious concern, but I don't buy the idea that young people specifically have some major crisis while everybody else is doing fine.

What? I follow him on Twitter, and he's pretty open worried about AI existental risk. He just wants accurate reporting about the situation.

If that were true, the Republicans would implement a VAT. Trump is legitimately just a moron with a cult of personality.

PE exists because a lot of companies are poorly managed. It's better for your local hospital to be taken over by a PE firm than to go out of business. You can say that it would be even better if the government ran the hospital, and you would be right, but that would require a radical overhaul of the American healthcare system. Until that happens, PE plays a major role in keeping things working.

This is pointless if the failed Prop 13 amendment doesn't get repealed. Start with the major issues first, and then see if the tax system needs to be changed.

It's crazy just how bullshit this war has been. At least with Iraq, you can argue that Saddam Hussein used to own WMDs in the 90s. What the hell is America doing in Iran?

This is an argument for why it's usefult to assume that AI aren't sentient, but it does a very poor job at actually justifying that they aren't sentient. I'm on the fence, but I think it's plausible that they have certain qualia, although probably not in the same way that humans do.