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Convincing / coercing a bunch of slaves to build a pyramid takes a leader.

But no amount of politics and charisma will calculate the motions of the planets or put satellites in orbit.

A nation needs more than just influencers and charlatans.


> But no amount of politics and charisma will calculate the motions of the planets or put satellites in orbit.

the government invented computers. you need politics to fund all of this. you are talking about triumphs of politics as much as invention. i don't know why you think i am pro influencer or charlatan...


Jobs is one facet. But I’d curious to know about inputs and outputs.

Is the US producing more or fewer widgets? Are we generating and consuming more or less energy? How are imports and exports?

If inputs and outputs are staying the same then it would support the narrative of increased efficiency and elimination of BS jobs.


And because they lied about Biden’s mental faculties - only forced by a horrible debate to put Kamala on the presidential ticket.

It was a disgusting self own. I wish the Democratic Party would accept responsibility for that duplicity.


Oh you’ll still work. As a supplicant on your hands and knees for your capitalist overlords.

This is nonsense, you can’t fire an AI and an AI will never take credit nor will it take responsibility. Humans will always be in charge, because you will never be able to completely trust an AI, because it has no skin in the game, literally.

If we could move past the empty rhetoric?

It turns out a working economy requires well paid workers because somebody needs to buy shit

Even "capitalist overlords" (why not "evil bourgeois swine", while we're here) realize that. The "all SWE replaced" jabbering is a sales pitch to the uninformed. I.e. it's more P.T. Barnum than Jay Gould.


People need to buy food. Are farmers well paid?

Which feels nice for the one doing it!

That was a prolix and meandering essay. Next time I’d rather just look at the prompts and hand edits that went into writing it rather than the final artifact; much like reviewing the documentation, spec, and proof over the generated code as extolled by the article.

If we already have access the machinery of the fundamental theorem of algebra then the invertibility of the Vandermonde Matrix follows as a corollary.

I have a lenovo workstation with 256GB ram but a weak sauce 12GB VRAM GPU. Is there any DMA trick to improve offload performance?

Things such as AirLLM, or good old llama.cpp.

use llama.cpp, you will be surprised how fast a model like qwen3.5-35b-a3b will run. that a3b means only 3B active parameter, so while infering the entire 3B will be in your GPU and you will get amazing performance. for your system, you should use the -cmoe option

Please, can the administration do something useful for America instead of… whatever this is?

Can we follow the age old adage WWJD?

What would (Xi) Jinping do?


> What would (Xi) Jinping do?

Make himself dictator for life and purge his party of dissenters?


But also expand through trade and renewables, rather than war and oil.

Much nuance, wow.


Luckily that can never happen in America.

Sure it can’t. History suggests democracy is fleeting and unusual.

Yes and then what? Bankrupt his empire by getting into global wars? Yeah sure.

You mean, stole it from Google’s internal labs.

Google is the Xerox Parc of AI, but unlike Xerox they decided to enter the ring with Gemini which is now quite good.

(For those who don't know the history, Xerox Parc and SRI before them invented the modern PC GUI and a lot of other modern PC stuff in the late 70s and early 80s, which Apple copied and then everyone else copied from Apple. Xerox paid a lot for R&D but never used it at all since it would cannibalize their copier business, classic innovators dilemma.)


Meanwhile Google is murdering their websearch business with chatbots. Rightly so, as that business needs to die, or at least materially transform.

Lol remember BARD? or no?

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