Not more than 1 unit an hour, don’t average more than 2 units a day over a week, and never exceed 3 units a day.

The caveat here is that a unit is much less than a regular serving size. A pint of beer is usually closer to 2 units.

So the recommendation was to not average more than a pint of beer a day, and to never drink more than about 1.5 pints in a day.

It’s much more stringent than people imagine.

Many countries have far more corrupt administrations than the current U.S. one, but even in the most degenerate ones none of them are as open about it.

And it’s not just a political thing.

Consider how the Chinese owned Smithfield’s is polluting lakes and land all over the Midwest with their highly intensive (and incredibly cruel) pig farming that is causing high cancer and mortality rates for the people living there, and yet the locals tend to support whatever Smithfield wants.

We have the best medicines we’ve ever had, and yet life expectancy is down in many countries.

We have more wealth as a globe and yet we are fighting more wars than in generations.

We have more automation than ever and yet people are working harder for less.

We have more capability for democratization of knowledge and capital and yet inequality is higher than ever.

The list goes on. Technology/science are not ends in themselves, and the positive ends they allow are going in reverse.

There are several confounding factors.

We’ve seen massive inflation since then. So some growth in cost was expected.

More importantly, the current Tech industry almost always starts by selling things at a loss. The increased cost could simply be the industry choosing to not subsidize that particular service anymore.

But also, I don’t think that’s a realistic comparison. Rented out GPUs are likely not a similar use profile as compute used for training LLMs. The latter is likely closer to the cryptocurrency GPUs that are running at full tilt 24/7.

And those things physically burn out.

Clearly the H1B has been devastating to American workers unlike all those other industries which haven’t seen an influx of a capped number of H1B workers every year.

And that’s even before we get to how the U.S. software industry remains one of a handful of industries where the U.S. is the leader in the world and has generated trillions in wealth, and is largely responsible for the US’s continuing dominance in the world today.

They complain about things their competitors are able to implement with no problems at all, and then once their tantrums are not sustainable anymore, they’re apparently able to solve all the problems as well.

For a company that sells itself as a design + engineering firm, they seem to have very little confidence in their ability to design or engineer their ways around constraints pretty much everyone else is able to.

I want to make a comparison with a car rental business and say that it would be like valuing Hertz entirely on the basis of the number of cars they own, as opposed to how many they rent out, but cars have a much longer depreciation period, if there are no customers they’re not costing you more money, unlike your computer which you are using for training and sucking up massive amounts of energy, and those cars do maintain decent value even after they’re of little use to the car rental company, unlike the compute here.

Right before the baby boomers are fully retired is a heckuva time America decided it wants to contract its population by prioritizing keeping the working adult out.

Why wouldn’t they have standing on an action by their government?

(This is a genuine question, not a rhetorical one).

While I agree with you, I think even the controlled audience mattered.

The audience, even if they were largely Apple employees + journalists, did not know what was gonna be revealed. And there weren’t literal cue cards.

So you would never see the audience boo, but there were several situations where the Apple presenters expected cheering but got polite clapping instead, or cheering which was very evidently just the sycophantic employees (or the team that worked on something).

When something was truly exciting, the cheering reflected that in a way it didn’t when the announcement wasn’t.

Two very different examples of this were the Snow Leopard reveal, where the excitement could be felt throughout the presentation, culminating with the $29 price, and the iPhone reveal with the 3 devices in 1 gimmick.

One can see where a valuation dependent on monopolizing commerce across the universe might turn off institutional investors just a little bit.

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or delaying standard approvals

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The idea that we should be considerate of AI’s happiness seems even more ridiculous given that we breed, imprison, torture and kill tens if not hundreds of billions of beings we know are conscious and suffer every year for trivial reasons.

Maybe we should consider our moral responsibility with how we treat sentient bejngs we are sure are conscious before we worry about the consciousness of AI.

Given that we don’t know how consciousness works how have you concluded that it’s certainly not an emergent property of something like a highly trained LLM?

- This is a situation they’ve never faced before. It’s hard to simulate and betting on high prices may not be a great bet. Especially given that oil futures aren’t like buying options. You actually have to take delivery.

- They’re expecting a recession.

- They don’t want to invest the money In aggregate that they’d have to in futures to raise the price above certain levels.

- They suspect a lot of oil consumers will simply shut shop and end demand since those prices won’t be sustainable for many businesses. Airlines are already canceling flights.

- They expect the blockades to end sooner rather than later.

Whether it’s misanthropic or not has no bearing on whether that’s true. That’s basically saying you don’t like a truth therefore anyone who claims that that truth is true is a bad person.

> so obviously incorrect

It should be easy enough to explain why that’s incorrect then

The key with Linux was giving them an LTS Ubuntu but not messing with it at all.

The problem with macOS recently has been that it keeps changing how things work which would result in the relatives messing around and messing up the system.

Ubuntu has been pretty rock solid and reliable, while not changing anything drastically enough to lead them to try and mess with it.

India didn’t fight a “war of independence”, but India fought for its independence. Lots of Indians died in that fight for Independence.

This article also ignores the massive transfer of wealth, and resources from India to the UK during WW2 (and before).

And the author seems to forget entirely about the existence of Pakistan with which India fought multiple wars, engaged in a war to liberate Bangladesh, and also has been in a state of essentially a Cold War ever since.

History would have liked very different if the Indian government had not kicked out US companies and nationalized them while they were looking for cheaper manufacturing destinations. So they chose China instead, brought a tremendous amount of knowledge and expertise.

The differing geopolitical starting points of India and China is most evident by the fact that China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council while India isn’t.

In reality, someone who was actually in 1950 and not someone who was pretending to be in 1950, would not have expected India to survive another 75 years, never mind compete with China.

Unfortunately, I’m not up for learning a completely new set of keyboard shortcuts anymore and alot doesn’t provide a nice interface either, so i don’t use it much more.

But the enshittification of mail is dismaying.

And we haven’t even gotten to the impacts of fertilizer shortages during growing season.

And either way, how is replacing the leader of a terrible regime, with his even more hardline son, help with the killing in any ways?

The pro Democracy forces in Iran have been completely discredited and the one best opportunity they would have had to reclaim their country, during what was likely to be a contested transfer of power if the 80+ year old Ayatollah had passed naturally, has been lost. Instead the U.S. allowed the Iranian regime to transfer power without any challenges, transfer power to a guy who is the son of the old Ayatollah and even more close aligned with the IRGC, and has destroyed the pro-Democracy bases in Iran while strengthening the orthodoxy because the U.S. has been blowing up cities, where the anti-regime forces live, while the rural areas, where the regime’s supporters live, have been largely untouched.