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Everything relevant to the thought... Yes, I know the HODLers see it as a buying opportunity, and they could be right — not doing price predictions, just trying to think this through 1/ First: crypto faithful comparing this to "crypto winter" of 2017-18, which was comparable in percentage terms. ...
... . $1.5 trillion is about 7% of US GDP, and many of the losses falling on residents of other countries 3/ For comparison, post-2006 housing bust wiped out wealth = ~60 percent of US GDP 4/ https://t.co/2lYIqfPSt9 Also, coin mining, although environmentally destructive and a big stress on some national ...
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... We do so by examining the cognitive abilities associated with three contemporary theories of conscious function: Global Workspace Theory (GWT), Information Generation Theory (IGT), and Attention Schema Theory (AST). ...
... With this insight, we turn to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and find that, while still far from demonstrating general intelligence, many state-of-the-art deep learning methods have begun to incorporate key aspects of each of the three functional theories. ...
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... Spending on durables can't keep growing at this pace. https://t.co/1ezz6V9lAU On the other hand, companies that make durable goods know how to make more of them! It takes a year or two to spin up the capacity, but it's not rocket science. ...
... It might take another year or two, especially for car companies waiting for computer chips. But they'll get there. And when they do we should see durables prices start to trend back down again. A bunch more charts that explain the economy here. https://t.co/gtVBWwesGH ...
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... But if you think through the alternatives it does seem like the least-bad option. Just throwing home prices into the basket is weird because most homeowners don't buy a home every year. It also doesn't account for the fact that mortgage rates change over time. ...
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... As an example, 9/11 seemed like (and was) a really big deal for those of us who lived through it but today the long-term consequences, either for the us or the Middle East, aren’t very obvious. The taliban are even back in charge of Afghanistan! I think 2008 will be similar. ...
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... I think people mostly still think about the changes of the last 30 years in terms of the tone of political arguments getting nastier: annoying but ultimately not that important. But I think the governments ability to deal proactively with emerging problems has been degraded significantly. ...
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... Even if that spending is restored later, that's several years when you don't have scientists and engineers working on important problems. Presumably that translates to lost inventions. ...
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... The only other company with a commitment to AI at a similar level was FB. Its pivot to Metaverse means that AI will not be (and probably never has been) its core strategy. Microsoft is never about cutting-edge innovation. Apple has never obtained a deep understanding of AI. ...
... Amazon is too pragmatic and revenue-driven for making AI it's core. ...
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... Unlike the Internet era, AI R&D requires much larger capital expenditures. This gives tech giants an advantage. ...
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... Alternative: a dedicated user page where other users can search for content authored by that user. ...
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... Major disruptions in businesses will start to appear around 2024 - i.e. profitable (by free cash flow) and hyper-growth companies relying on large-scale neural networks as their main tech strength. ...
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... thanks to the inflow of investment, as during the internet bubble. ...
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... In contrast Open AI focus on understanding (or the appearance of it depending on how you define "understand".) ...
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... In the Internet age, Twitter and other social media provide new ways to perform such conversations multilaterally, but they are not well structured. ...
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