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Theo Jaffee
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Theo Jaffee
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chronicling the singularity @MTSlive
- Google buying DeepMind in 2014 for $400-650 million might have been the greatest acquisition of all time
- Grok 4, likely the largest publicly released model ever trained, required less water than a square mile of farmland uses in a year "Exaggerated" doesn't even begin to describe how unfounded the AI water usage concerns are
- Do people really want high-speed rail or do they want airports that they can get to 15 minutes before the flight leaves
- Society's inability to deal with people who are not themselves violent but can only be stopped with violence - squatters, homeless people, road-blocking protesters - is a civilizational bug.Squatters should be as hated as landlords
- Somehow nobody had booked my school's Bloomberg terminal on the most interesting trading day in history You can just do things I guess
- Actually insane The market cap of Ford is $37BOpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32B tcrn.ch/42JAzJu
- I have never in my life seen such open hatred of a group of people solely due to their ethnic/national origin so normalized as the current hatred brought against Israelis by the far left
- Hacker News thread on the founding of OpenAI, December 11, 2015
