I really liked this show. Ultimately it was very formulaic and could have done a lot more with the concepts it revealed. It painted a future where ai (along with total surveillance) could benefit people in deeply meaningful ways; matchmaker, fulfilling work and daily task, coordination, purpose and guidance. And the dangers of all those used for control.
It was six months last year, it’s on the order of weeks now. Presumably they have unreleased models that are a step ahead still. The moat is capacity and how much of an ecosystem the can build around the llms; eg anthropic figma tool.
How much easier my life would be if Chinese open models were even just 1 year behind outside of X posts and one-shots.
My easy litmus test is would the year old model (Opus 4.5) being open sourced today would eat the traffic of every single Chinese model... and the answer is pretty much yes.
Every Chinese model would throw away their work just to post-train or distill Opus 4.5 and get a more reliable model.
I’m probably too old to see any benefit from the coming anti aging treatments and societal turmoil. I’m ok with that. Getting old does suck though. The proteins in question are piezo1 and pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF).
There are some signs that heat stress hormones may protect against Alzheimer’s.
They studied a family in which early onset Alzheimer’s was strongly prevalent. In the subject’s family tree, 32 cases, but he was older than his deceased relatives at the time they developed symptoms, despite carrying the markers. The only thing they could track down was that he had an elevated level of heat stress proteins in his blood and brain, and they seemed to be slowing down plaque buildup. More study needed.
The brain is meant to flush fluids during the night and they think that system isn’t working properly in some patients. So as a treatment that makes some sense.
Uber checked the first few digits of your debit card to filter out police officer credit unions to evade taxi regulation enforcement. They use your phone’s battery level as one factor to estimate your elasticity of demand. They have teams of economists to adjust personalized prices to as high as you can bear and pay for drivers as low as possible.
Some trucking is warehouse to warehouse, but a lot of trucking is warehouse to point or point to point where the points are building without a loading dock, or specialized equipment is required to load unload; fork lifts, conveyer systems etc. ok your truck can drive, if 50% of deliveries or pickup’s require a human, what is the gain? Surely there are workarounds like Uber for forklifts, but that’s “extra” capability that doesn’t exist yet.
> Using taxes on AI revenue to facilitate
This why Altman et al talk about taxing ai agents. Then they aren’t paying for it, but their customers are. We should all keep in mind that the oligarchs have never willing shared the benefit of decades of productivity gains. Why would they now?
It seems like truck drivers don’t do the unloading job you’re talking about. The receiving company does it.
That’s not always the case, I know that small trucks like plumbing supply houses, hardware stores, and sod companies will pull the pallet from the truck for you, but I would guess that isn’t typically for your average 18-wheeler.
On the contrary, since truckers also mostly all own guns, they have a lot of political leverage. Everyone knows this; in the US at least. Andrew Wang stated as much in a cnbc interview a few months ago.
If humans lost economic leverage (no jobs) but kept military leverage (usefulness as soldiers), that'd probably be utopia. We could all be a leisure class like the aristocrats of the past, and could defend that state of affairs.
Unfortunately we aren't in that world. AI+robots will deprive humans of both economic and military leverage. Most likely, powerful "blobs" of a few owner humans + a lot of automation will inherit the Earth and kick most humans to the curb.
>On the contrary, since truckers also mostly all own guns, they have a lot of political leverage. Everyone knows this; in the US at least.
What everyone knows is that American gun owners voted in the system that's eating them alive and that they don't care as long as that system doesn't touch their guns.
So they can just keep shooting watermelons in their backyards and being keyboard warriors on the internet, for as much as their "leverage" matters.
He cites a few cases where letting the llm do the writing are acceptable. If someone has a disease such his friend with Parkinson’s. If you’re not a native English speaker (or writing/translating in anyones non native language we may presume) then it’s ok. Finally if it’s something no one will ever read such as a form letter or report.
Those all sound reasonable to me. What he staunchly ignores is that coding is essentially writing, but that ship has already sailed!
I’ve been waiting for this. Given llm aptitude for offensive security hacks it was just a matter of time. I wager most alt coins are compromised at this point.
A lot of altcoins were forks of popular code bases. ie btc and eth. Some code bases pulled in bug fixes from upstream, others drifted or were not maintained. Others were greenfield projects without as many eyes. A lot of targets imo.
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