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New comment by greenmilk in "Allow Carriers on Planes"

greenmilk — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:38:00 +0000

What happens when you factor in the downstream effects of carbon emissions (based on whatever the best projects are right now)?

New comment by greenmilk in "AI Protest in Montreal"

greenmilk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:34:20 +0000

Is it surprising that people who get most of their information from algorithms tailored by the industry they are protesting are ill-informed about the actual problems those companies are creating?

People can feel the misalignment, but they don't understand it. That's the future we are accelerating towards

New comment by greenmilk in "OpenAI's Misalignment Framework: A Tactical Bid to Preempt Global AI Governance"

greenmilk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:22:35 +0000

a maliciously engineered dichotomy

New comment by greenmilk in "If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one"

greenmilk — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:56:15 +0000

Hertz infamously came out of bankruptcy guns-blazing and purchased 100k cars for $4.2 billion and helped drive Tesla's market cap above $1 trillion in 2021

By 2024 they had begun dumping the EVs and reported a $2Bn loss as a result.[0]

The HTZ stock price has fallen 90%.[1]

Somehow TSLA is still trading in the neighborhood of that 2021 peak. Currently trading at a PE ratio of over 300, despite declining revenues[2].

Really wish I understood the Elon Musk voodoo.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/14/hertz-makes-agile-decision-t...

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HTZ/

[2] https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/tsla/revenue/

New comment by greenmilk in "Haters (2020)"

greenmilk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:22:15 +0000

I guess the fact that Paul Graham felt the urge to write and publish this in 2020 is indicative of the toxic relationship that was developing between silicon valley and the rest of the world.

Unfortunately, this essay exhibits the hallmark lack of empathy and self-awareness that perpetuate the toxic dynamic.

Sure, there are "haters", but the mirror effect is equal: powerful people often end up inside of bubbles that shield them from negative criticism, and often become blind to the legitimate criticisms people have of them.

These decisionmakers often have to make difficult decisions with powerful tradeoffs. It's more comfortable to cast those with values differences or who are on the wrong end of that decisionmaker's tradeoffs as "haters".

New comment by greenmilk in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

greenmilk — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:06:05 +0000

The Chinese gov't and also the rest of humanity...

I'm not sure how everyone in the US forgot that monopolies are bad

New comment by greenmilk in "The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It"

greenmilk — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:38:57 +0000

We have an entire generation of technologists convinced that you need a monopoly for a business to be viable, so every tech company is either trying to subsidize its way into a monopoly or running a deadweight loss.

Unsurprisingly, the resulting economy in aggregate is non-competitive, as it relies entirely on supply chains from competitive marketplaces.

New comment by greenmilk in "The current AI pricing was always going to go away"

greenmilk — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:48:23 +0000

> The state of the art models are going to get better and more expensive and smaller models are going to get cheaper.

Why do you think this will be true?

Right now I see the major US labs betting on gaining an advantage from having way more compute, and I see Chinese labs competing with one another in a resource-scarce environment, so they place much more emphasis on compute-efficiency.

But the supply chains that feed into the massive data center growth in the US are strained; there are energy, memory, and logistical bottlenecks to name a few.

In the medium-long run, compute capacity will not grow exponentially forever. Somehow it has for decades, but there can be no infinite exponential growth, and that point may be when the planet really starts to cook itself.

Maybe the US labs will become more compute-constrained, and then have to compete on efficiency.

Or maybe things change fundamentally in some other way I'm not thinking of.

New comment by greenmilk in "Don't answer the first question"

greenmilk — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:04:41 +0000

I believe this is the process that defines Julia Evans' writing (and cartooning)!

New comment by greenmilk in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

greenmilk — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:14:43 +0000

Is there any country where it is?

New comment by greenmilk in "Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries"

greenmilk — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:31:33 +0000

I've got news for you there. The Biden administration tried to take the first real antitrust action in decades and then suddenly a bunch of tech oligarchs switched from supporting Democrats to supporting a convicted felon

New comment by greenmilk in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

greenmilk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:53:28 +0000

To me the biggest (but not only) issue is that blindly connecting sensitive tools to 3rd party services has been normalized. Every time I hear the word "claw" I cringe...

New comment by greenmilk in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

greenmilk — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:59:51 +0000

They could be VC-backed and selling at a loss to grow market share

New comment by greenmilk in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

greenmilk — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:26:40 +0000

Are any inference providers currently making profit (on inference, I know google makes money)?