For FSD to really get to the promised land the data needs to be centralized. I believe in 15 years literally every vehicle will be able to be put into a Robotaxi network, either Waymo, Zoox, Tesla, and maybe Uber if it survives. All of which need central data to optimize
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China’s State Grants Strategy: Competition to Industrial Consolidation
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Great article. Shows how state grants in China are not “additional boost” but intentional hunger games. Incentivize 500 companies to start. Put money in supply chain to force competition. Dog eat dog until its 1-4 mega corps. Meanwhile you get whole industrial infrastructure
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Centenarians as Norm: Societal Implications of Cognitive Enhancement
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Centenarians who are sharp and still running things is already happening without any of the upgrades. The interesting question is what happens when that becomes the norm rather than the exception.
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CS Education Cost Problem More Critical Than Quality Issues
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The $100k question is legitimate but the target is probably wrong. The problem isn't CS education, it's the price of CS education relative to what it delivers.
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AI Job Impact: Transparency and Safety Concerns
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I have a feeling it will get worse until we have a real answer for jobs. Real transparency about why so many believe AI will kill us all. And people start seeing the real benefits of AI. That and we need to throw the book against people who use violence to get their way
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Gradual AI improvements cause discrete jumps in economically important areas
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Soon, at each gradual improvement level of AI, you will start to see large discrete jumps in ability in economically important areas, because the previous AI ability level in some aspect of the job bottlenecked progress. When bottlenecks are released, it looks like a leap forward
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AI Transforms Software Engineering in Compute-Powered Economy
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The world is transitioning to a compute-powered economy. The field of software engineering is currently undergoing a renaissance, with AI having dramatically sped up software engineering even over just the past six months. AI is now on track to bring this same transformation to
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Marketplace Validation: The Ultimate Business Success Metric
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Marketplace is the best validation.
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Datacenters on Indian Reservations: Tech and Tribal Economic Development
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I have an idea: we build datacenter on Indian reservations. It's a win-win. Tech companies don't have to deal with increasingly polarized anti-tech politics. Native tribes get a way better financing option than casinos. What's there not to like.