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orclev

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  • Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

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  • Sure it's a useful skill but not one in significant demand. We have an absolute glut of MBAs and a desperate need for anything but an MBA so why are we paying people to get more MBAs?

  • Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

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  • The point is we don't need more MBAs, we need people educated in useful skills. Should every MBA program be closed? No probably not, but we definitely have way more than we need. Cutting funding for things like MBA scholarships and closing down the majority of those programs will go a long way towards moving the majority of potential future MBA students into useful programs. We need less managers and more engineers, fewer CEOs and more chemists, hell fewer analysts and more plumbers.

    There are many problems with modern capitalism and even if we never handed out another MBA degree again that would not even remotely solve everything, but the MBAs are making the problem worse. It's a minor thing but it's an easy thing to do and it would make a difference small as it is.

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    Why not ditch voting altogether, and embrace sortition?

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  • Pretty sure it would be legal. The number of representatives is defined, but each state is free to decide however they like who they're sending. The only real sticking point would be the absolute hissy fit the two main political parties would throw. It would be somewhat hilarious though to see the kinds of knots the lobbyists would tie themselves into if they suddenly had to handle a mob of random citizens instead of the professional leaches they normally work with.

  • Trump creates his own UN: countries must pay US$1bn to join his "Board of Peace" – Bloomberg

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  • This isn't his own UN, this is just a blatant way to bribe Trump in the hopes that you'll get something out of it. Like all Trump cons the only ones who will be paying into this are suckers or people that already have leverage on Trump and can guarantee compliance (in which case this is just an extra money laundering step).

  • RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

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  • China is pushing hard to make their domestic brands the new standard world wide so they're not worried about whether the bubble pops or not. They want to drive prices down even if that means selling at a loss because they know that's what it's going to take to dislodge the entrenched players. For better or worse it's likely a winning strategy because the existing players are more concerned with maximizing their quarterly profits rather than meeting any kind of consumer demand or indeed even selling to consumers at all.

  • RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

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  • I doubt it will take a couple years. They're burning through so much cash right now that they'll be bankrupt in a couple years and despite sunk cost fallacy they won't let it get that bad. At some point they'll cut their losses and pivot to some other new fad. The small handful of uses that make sense will stick around and a few companies will be in just the right place to make it turn a profit but the vast majority won't. Some will go bankrupt (if we're lucky Meta and/or X will be one of them) and some will just write it off as a failed experiment. Either way just as hard as prices spiked we'll see them cratering before they rebound back to normal. Six months would be highly optimistic, but a year probably isn't out of the question.

    Of course all of this might be moot if Shitler manages to start WW3 by attacking Greenland. If that happens RAM prices will be the least of everyone's worries.

  • Device that may be tied to Havana Syndrome obtained by U.S. government

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  • It was in the news sometime around the middle of Biden's term. At the time there was a lot of discussion about if it was real or not, some kind of disease or being caused by something, environmental or some kind of weapon, etc. There were a lot of people reporting symptoms and very little common between them all except for a lot of them having worked in the same regions/buildings.

  • AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds

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  • Don't even need to turn it off, it literally can't do anything without somebody telling it to so you could just stop using it. It's incapable of independent action. The only danger it poses is that it will tell you to do something dangerous and you actually do it.

  • Senator Elissa Slotkin Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders

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  • I prefer the archive.

  • House Republican introduces bill to let Trump annex Greenland

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  • Isn't that the exact opposite of what they had been talking about doing?

    Edit: also it's not a question of US law, by attempting to "annex" foreign territory you're committing an act of war no matter what your domestic laws say.

  • Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

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  • The Nvidia PR team. They keep trying to spin more data centers and even more of the US GDP being gobbled up by slop generation as some kind of consumer win but nobody is buying it and their whining is starting to annoy Jensen.

  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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  • In the late 90s I saw a piece demonstrating an optical 3d storage system that had a capacity about an order of magnitude greater than the at the time brand new HD DVD and Bluray discs. I assumed this clearly superior format that already had a working demo would obviously kill other optical media. Turns out nobody could figure out how to manufacture one at a price anybody was willing to spend.

  • Why the white America Trump dreams of is just a fantasy

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  • Entirely not the point.

  • Why the white America Trump dreams of is just a fantasy

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  • Be careful with this statement, there's two very different ways this could be interpreted. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you're alluding to the end of WWII and how Hitler chose to leave it, but it could also be interpreted to refer to the start of WWII.

  • Church Called

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  • Churches need to lose the blanket tax exempt status. If they want to be tax exempt they should file as a non-profit like all the other tax exempt non-profits. Of course they would never do that because it would mean actually functioning as a non-profit.

  • State investigators say they are off the case, FBI solely in charge

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  • The problem is it doesn't have anything to do with how strong or weak the federal government is right now. Trump literally does not care what he's "allowed" to do as part of the federal government, he just does what he wants and then dares anybody to stop him and so far everyone else has blinked. Half the things he's done he's not actually legally allowed to, so removing even more powers from the federal government won't stop him and it will just further empower the bad actors at the state level.

    The primary argument for state vs. federal isn't about someone having "too much power", it's about having the option to experiment with different ideas. If there's no clear consensus about something and a bunch of different ways you can go about handling it that all seem equally valid that's a pretty good argument for leaving it up to the states to hammer out. If it's something basic that everyone should be on board with like basic human rights, that's a good argument for federal control.

  • The US Is a Rogue State That Deserves to Be Sanctioned

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  • I guess the flip side of that though is that you could feasibly have one hell of a guerilla war since a decent chunk of the population would help you. It would really come down to how willing the US military would be to bomb their own citizens. This would be one of the few situations where the lack of clear sides in the US would actually be somewhat beneficial (unlike the previous civil war where there was a fairly stark North/South divide, the split this time tends to fall along rural/urban with suburbs being fairly evenly mixed).

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    ‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections

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  • Pretty much just embarrassment, although it could also be to prevent having to testify. He of course knew the kinds of things he and his goons (many of whom coincidentally also work or worked for Trump) got up to and in an impeachment a lot of that would potentially become public. He was likely done either way and at least this way nobody would ever know exactly how bad it really was.

    There have been three distinct turning points for the Republican party. The first was Nixon which marked the point at which Republicans stopped trying to compete on good policy and started trying to weaponize hate and fear as well as went all in on dirty tricks. The second turning point was Reagan which was when they cemented their messaging around trickle down economics (formerly known as horse and sparrow theory) and really began pushing hard for late stage capitalism. The third was the election of Trump which is when the party abandoned all pretense of decorum and went full mask off on their greed and corruption.

  • China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal

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  • Maybe you should stop assuming things before commenting. And in general. You might also want to reread the article you seem to have skipped some important details.